Professor Layton and the Curious Village (2007)
Android · Nintendo DS · iOS
4.01 from 1392 ratings
2899 members have it in their collection · 88 playing now · 469 backlogged · 364 wish listed
How long? Main story 15h · with extras 14h · 100% 13h (from 35 logged playthroughs)
Details
- Developers
- LEVEL-5
- Publishers
- LEVEL-5, Nintendo
- Genres
- Point-and-click, Puzzle, Visual Novel
- Themes
- Mystery
- Franchises
- Professor Layton
- Series
- Professor Layton
Release dates
- Feb 15, 2007 (Japan) Nintendo DS
- Feb 10, 2008 (North_America) Nintendo DS
- Apr 10, 2008 (Australia) Nintendo DS
- Nov 07, 2008 (Europe) Nintendo DS
- Jun 08, 2018 (Japan) Android, iOS
- Sep 25, 2018 (Worldwide) Android, iOS
Related
Remasters
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Rating distribution
5 stars
387
4 stars
679
3 stars
291
2 stars
29
1 star
6
Community All Reviews Statuses
Status grok Aug 24, 2022
I started this game after the New Game Plus podcast raved about it. It's not in my usual style, but I am really liking it. I'm not a huge puzzle gamer, so when I get stumped I tend to look up the answer, but that keeps the story flowing. I'm having a blast with it, and impressed it's visually so …
Read moreI started this game after the New Game Plus podcast raved about it. It's not in my usual style, but I am really liking it. I'm not a huge puzzle gamer, so when I get stumped I tend to look up the answer, but that keeps the story flowing. I'm having a blast with it, and impressed it's visually so solid on the DS.
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Status SunBr0ther Feb 10, 2022
I loved Diabolical Box and hadn't played CV. CV is cute but doesn't quite have the quality of puzzles. Can't recommend it at full price. The android port is very good quality, at least.
There's a few puzzles that are legitimately challenging in a cool way, but the difficulty is very inconsistent and sometimes the story is gated behind rather …
I loved Diabolical Box and hadn't played CV. CV is cute but doesn't quite have the quality of puzzles. Can't recommend it at full price. The android port is very good quality, at least.
There's a few puzzles that are legitimately challenging in a cool way, but the difficulty is very inconsistent and sometimes the story is gated behind rather challenging puzzles.
Some of the puzzles are utter nonsense. The matchstick puzzles should just be deleted. A lot of the word puzzles are really unclear. I like math puzzles, but the game doesn't provide a good way to draft calculations for the more challenging ones, so you either need to play the game next to a pad of paper (defeats the purpose) or you just need to experiment with trial and error (very frustrating.)
There's 129 puzzles in the game, plus a few bonuses, and I think it would be great if games like this traded quantity for quality.
Also, at the end of the game, I didn't actually have any use for the Picarat currency? It seems to just be a high score system?
Status Reset_Tears Aug 22, 2021
Finally playing this, after meaning to for like two decades
It's super charming, I'm really liking it. But man... I always thought of the Layton games as primarily aimed at younger kids...
These puzzles are rocking my damn world!!! Are little kids just a hundred times smarter than I thought they were, or am I just a complete dumbass
Status Pale Aug 14, 2020
I finished off Layton and I honestly can't really decide if I want to try the next game in the series. There were some things I really liked about it but some things I thought were kind of a complete waste, most notably the pixel hunting...
I'll throw the next one on my wishlist and continue to debate I guess.
