Review Taffer 3/5 · Oct 9, 2023
Other than general recommendations and reading the title I had no idea what to expect going into this one, so diet Layton with a bunch of short rhythm games with varied gameplay was a surprise that was probably for the better. The brassy big band/aggressively french themes that color the most prominent musical motifs of the game weren't a particularly …
Read moreOther than general recommendations and reading the title I had no idea what to expect going into this one, so diet Layton with a bunch of short rhythm games with varied gameplay was a surprise that was probably for the better. The brassy big band/aggressively french themes that color the most prominent musical motifs of the game weren't a particularly big standout for me, but I did like a handful of other songs that depart from that. The storytelling felt pretty lackluster overall with some plot threads left unresolved at the end and unlike Layton I really don't know if this is ever getting a sequel to address them. Gameplay wise I mostly enjoyed it even if there were some minigames that were just painful, and I'm not even talking about the motion control ones which mostly worked fine for me, but ones where the visuals were really non indicative of what the right timing/action was supposed to be even though that's meant to be a big thing for this game. Football kicking/dogs eating bread instantly come to mind, definitely made me go "fuck that" when I saw that the requirement to unlock the last bonus chapter was to get an A on everything. Even for a few of the others since you get one sentence's worth of explanation at most it can take a few tries just to be able to pass them, but other than those I found most of them easy to get used to. One thing that pleasantly surprised me and that I probably should've seen coming were the tribute stages to Space Channel 5 and Samba de Amigo (even if I've never actually played the latter).
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