After logging almost 200 hours on Pokemon, and still not catching the Legedary Birds, I decided to play a new game. Originally, I was going to buy The World Ends With You, but a glitch on Amazon was only showing the really expensive copies, so after recommendation of a friend, I decided to get Professor Layton and the Curious Village.

Follow up:

Some of you might be asking, wait, what happened to Kingdom Hearts RE: Chain of Memories, or Final Fantasy 7 for that matter? Well, the answer is when you live in a house with one other occupant and one TV, and said occupant doesn't like waiting for you to finish playing your game, you spend yourself playing far more handhelds than TV console games.

Anyhoo. I've never really played a puzzle game before (my bread and butter is RPGs), but it's funny I've never before. I'm a huge fan of puzzles and brain teasers and do things like crossword puzzles and mystery books all the time. Professor Layton is really impressive so far. The graphics are really amazing and the puzzles are really challenging. They are a cool combination logic puzzles, 3d visualization puzzles and math. The math ones are particularly hard because math and I are not on speaking terms. The graphics are really awesome. The character designs are really unique, the colors are so cheerful and the cut scenes look almost like a Studio Ghibli cartoon (though as far I as researched, the animation isn't done by Ghibli). The storyline is also very interesting and I love how much there is to do. So far the only thing I'm not loving is the background music. It unfortunately, doesn't change. So you could be doing a puzzle that takes over half an hour of thinking, and the same tune loops over and over again, to a point I have to shut the music off. The other thing that bothers me is Luke's voice, it's a really fake accent. Layton's voice is perfect, but Luke's is painful to listen to.

It's very hard to describe the story without giving most of it away, since you really don't know what's happening until you play very far in. A couple of the puzzles are quite frustrating, but it's more my own shortcomings than the games.