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Curioser and curiouser
By Ahchay
No, I have no idea who Professor Layton is supposed to be. He appears to be a sort of smug Sherlock Holmes chap who, for reasons which I hope are never explained, travels the back streets of France or Belgium or somewhere with a ten year old boy.
I won't dwell on the plot, partially because I haven't really been paying attention, but mostly because it doesn't really matter. It's just sort of there, things happen, then other things happen and different people show up and even more things happen, and for whatever misguided reason, these things only happen when you solve puzzles.
I know what you're thinking now. Point 'n Click adventure, right?
Wrong.
These aren't puzzles of the "Insert the bent paper clip into the butler's ear to extract the earwax to feed to the cat" variety, these are an altogether simpler, but also trickier, proposition. These are the sort of thing that they used to call parlour puzzles - move coins, snap matchsticks, fold napkins, get various animals across rivers - wordplay and logic puzzles are the order of the day here.
And it's brilliant.
Sure, you'll have seen a lot of these puzzles - in one form or another - before, but that doesn't matter. It's the perfect DS game - rattle through the plot, get a new puzzle, spend a couple of minutes working through it and you're done. Lovely.
March 2008
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