345: Professor Layton and the Curious Village

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Leisure, Comedy, Video Games

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2022

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Summary

This game reminds me of a puzzle. About 120 of them, to be exact. You could be forgiven for thinking that Professor Layton existed before his debut game on the Nintendo DS. The whole series has such a strong aesthetic and vibe that it feels like a European cartoon that you just never heard about.

But no, this was created whole cloth as a way to adapt a series of Japanese brain teaser books into video game form. While the story beats are ludicrous, and not all of the puzzles work, it's hard to be entirely mad at this quaint and amusing DS game.

Thanks to William for executive producing this episode!

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0:00.0	Hello, I would like to present you with some clues. These are five names. Mike Susky,
0:06.0	Tomato, Michael Vought, Matthew Wilson, and Peter Roberts. What is the solution to this puzzle?
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0:19.2	slash duckfeed tv and kicked us some money and helped make this show and all of the other shows
0:25.3	on the network possible. Once again, that is patreon.com slash duckfeed tv. Thank you.
1:26.0	My name is Gary Butterfield. My name is Cole Ross. And you're listening to Watch Out for Fireballs
1:37.4	that is a games club podcast. And this week, we are talking about Professor Layton and the
1:42.7	Curious Village, which is a puzzle adventure game developed by level five, published by Nintendo
1:49.3	for the DS in 2007. Yeah. And this episode was executed produced by William. Thank you, William.
1:56.7	Thank you, William. We, yeah, we've been meaning to do one of these for a while. Yeah. Yeah,
2:02.4	part just to kind of see if we can do it. Yeah. It's a, it's a, it's a, it was a pretty big
2:07.5	franchise on the original DS. Yeah, continues to this day. Yeah. Part of the, uh,
2:13.6	arcade entry. Oh, yeah, there's that outbar arcade entry. I just, I kind of fell off of it,
2:20.3	a fell off of keeping track of it. After that, they left the original DS as it were. They got into
2:25.0	like prequels and stuff. Yeah, that gets a little lower heavy. This brain age sequel, spiritual
2:32.8	successor gets a little lower heavy. Yeah. Yeah. Uh, so this is, if you, if you don't know the,
2:40.0	the concept, which maybe you don't, these haven't been as, as in the limelight for a while. No.
2:45.4	Well, you, you, you kind of play as both of them. You do play, you play as the dual,
2:50.1	duology, the dramaturgical dyad of Herschel Layton, who is a professor of archaeology, but is also
2:56.9	a detective. Uh, he says he's not what he is. Who knows puzzles. He very quickly jumps on to
3:03.2	murder cases. And then his, uh, not son. Yes. His, his, his nerd, his slave. I, I don't know
3:12.6	his property. I don't know what relationship. It's, it's, it's his, it's his riddle son. I think,
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