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Professor Layton and the Curious Village
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Overall Critic Score:3.4501
Professor Layton and the Curious Village Critic Reviews
Ten years ago, the PC gaming landscape was completely different than it is now. Before the arrival of World of Warcraft and shooters like Call of Duty, a different genre attracted thousands of gamers to the whimsical world of adventure gaming. Beyond...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Gaming Target
When Professor Layton and the Curious Village hit my desk I didn’t have a clue what the game was about. However, thanks to the power of the internet I have come to learn that this game is a very popular series in Japan that has already spawned a total o...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Da GameBoyz
Level 5 is a video game developer that should be familiar to RPGFan readers. Level 5 is responsible for Playstation 2 RPG epics such as Dark Cloud 2, Rogue Galaxy, and the award-winning Dragon Quest VIII. It is safe to say that Level 5 does quality work...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at RPG Fan
Professor Layton and the Curious Village is Level-5's first foray into handheld territory, and what a way to make an entrance it is. In a stark contrast to their previous titles (Dark Cloud, Dragon Quest VIII, Rogue Galaxy), Layton is a puzzle-centric...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Kombo
Engaging, entertaining, elaborate, enigmatic - these are but a few words that describe Professor Layton and the Curious Village and they all happen to start with the letter "E" - how extraordinary)....read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Deeko
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Riddle me this: Why is Professor Layton and the Curious Village the smartest DS game ever? If you answered, "Because it's packed with tricky puzzles," sorry! You're wrong. Good guess,...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at 1UP
The easy-to-use touch screen controls of the Nintendo DS have worked wonders with Nintendo in their goal of expanding their gaming audience, and it has also made significant contributions in reviving puzzle games played for leisure. Titles such as Brain...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Gamer 2.0
To be honest, I still have no idea why these newfangled Brain Training games sell. They are interesting for about 5 minutes, and then repeat the same laborious task into infinity again and again. They have not made me smarter in any way – don’t laugh....read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at DarkZero
"Would you like to read my review of Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the Nintendo DS? Well then to prove your interest, you'll have to solve this puzzle for...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at GamerNode
At their core, videogames are all about puzzle-solving in some form or another. Whether you're trying to defeat the Flood in Halo 3 or you're playing the drums in Rock Band, you're confronting a type of puzzle and working out a solution. Professor Layton...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at GameTap
Professor Layton and the Curious Village is not your usual handheld game. This original title lets you know right from the start just how different a DS experience is going to be. The game opens with one of the most impressive introduction animations...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at IGN
Similar to Nintendo's under-hyped Hotel Dusk: Room 215, Professor Layton and the Curious Village tasks you with solving a mystery by interrogating townsfolk, except instead of rummaging through closets, you complete 130 imaginative puzzles that'll...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at GameDaily
I am not sure what drew me to Professor Layton and the Curious Village at first. To be honest, I bought it without even knowing what it was. Maybe it was because it was published by Nintendo and already sold nearly a million copies in Japan, maybe it was...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Gamervision
Professor Layton and the Curious Village looks like a calculatedly quaint throwback to the heyday of point-and-click adventures, thoroughly peppered with one brain teaser after another. Closer inspection reveals it to be exactly that (sometimes, things...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Game Revolution
I'll admit to being a bit of a fiend for puzzles. When a gamer hears the word "puzzle", the first thing that usually comes to mind is the by-now cliche and played-out "hit the switches" standby that's made its appearance in countless games ranging from...read the complete Professor Layton and the Curious Village review at Netjak
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