Just completed
Professor Layton and the Curious Village. It was pretty good. The story was interesting and it had quite a good twist at the end which I wasn't expecting at all.
For what seems like a children's game it's completely the opposite. The game requires you to solve a murder case, there is lots of reading to do and the puzzles are insanely hard.
It essentially a puzzle game set around a stoyline and a village. The only bad thing is is that the story has an incredibly slow pace to it and doesn't pick up until it's near the end of the game. Starting the game the puzzles were fun and nice and simple although it wasn't long before they got really difficult and you ended up using coins you collect throughout the game to get hints on the answers. Then they get so hard that even with the hints you still have no idea what the answer is. Even myself (who is usually very good at solving puzzles,riddles and brain teasers) ended up looking up the solutions on the internet to some of the puzzles. :lol:
The soundtrack for the game is quite good although there are only a few songs so you find it rotating through the tracks before long. The graphics are also good. The game is set in a cartoon world, but the cut-scenes look the best and plays like a real cartoon on the telly. Although these fully animated cut-scenes rarely appear.
The game is worth getting if you like any sort of puzzles, brain teasers and riddles. It has a great variety of them (120 to be exact - plus a new puzzle comes out each week which you can download by connecting your DS to WiFi) so there's plenty to keep you going although it can become frustrating quickly if you don't know the answer, as some of the questions require use of maths such as Pythagoras, angles and percentages.
The game lasts a long time, I've been playing it solid since yesterday evening and completed it in just under 11 hours of gameplay. Although like I said earlier the story goes at an incredibly slow pace. And even after I've just completed it there are still plenty of puzzles and extras that I have to go back to to complete the game 100%.
I'm not sure how to rate this as I think it'll only appeal to a certain range of people. Although I would recommend playing it as there are two more in the series due to come out in the future.
8/10 but only if you're into puzzle games
Here's a professional review of the game:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PSSNUUqluc
and also a trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_Q4k-k ... re=related
