Professor Layton and the Curious Village Review

By Chris Hudak

Everything you know is wrong.

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 are what they seem…but as you’ll soon see, only sometimes).

Based on the

  • Adventure-styled puzzle game
  • Superbly localized
  • Charming 'Olde-World' presentation
  • Downloadable new puzzles
  • Good range of challenges
  • Some vague and subjective puzzles
  • Some flat-out poor puzzles
  • Near-zero replay value
  • Some puzzle 'retreading'

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Chris Hudak
Chris Hudak

Chris Hudak is a writer, former San Francisco Zoo penguin recorder, frequent-flyer junkie, self-proclaimed lucid dream expert, poolshark-in-minnow’s-clothing, “student” of all things Japanese, borderline alcoholic (see “writer”), video-gamer-with-a-life, and moonlighting, kinda-sorta actor in his copious spare time.  He writes weird fiction, and contributes articles to Playboy, Wired, The Toronto Star, and whoever else has money.  Chris is the protagonist of the Harlan Ellison short story “Keyboard”—no, really—and someday wants a house in Walt Disney World.

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