Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

[Toaster]

All we have is Curious Village, while Japan has at least three of them. Did none of you yankees like this game?

Also, this.

[marcus]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

waiting for the level 5 + studio ghibli team up game that will never be released stateside despite having some of the best packaging i've seen for a console game.

le sigh

[Magus]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

The puzzles.

[Chrono]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

I did, and the game makes me feel really dumb when I play it. But otherwise it's a great game that I intend to finish one day.

[John Mora]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

I didn't buy it because, yeah, puzzles can make me too frustrated to want to continue.

[marcus]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

I didn't buy it because, yeah, puzzles can make me too frustrated to want to continue.

I have 12 matchsticks.

[John Mora]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

Exactly. It's not gameplay mechanics puzzles. It's SH-esque bull**** puzzles.

[Vonwert]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

I really enjoyed the game and managed to beat it. Why we haven't gotten the second by now is a mystery.

[Toaster]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

Also, this.

I have 12 matchsticks.

:V

[BeeZee]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

I really liked Professor Layton. It was one of the more charming games I've played in recent memory, with the accordion-filled, soundtrack, the hand-drawn backdrops, and the surprisingly engaging dialogue. I even enjoyed the gameplay; it reminded me of these books full of logic puzzles I used to read as a child. I'd totally play the others.

[John Mora]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

What if you didn't like logic puzzles as a child or adult?

[BeeZee]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

O hai Mora!

[Perversion]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

What if you didn't like logic puzzles as a child or adult?

Are you insinuating that you're an adult? Hell, are ANY of us adults? Most of us seem like kids who don't want to grow up.

As for the topic at hand, I've heard good things, but it would just be one more DS game I'd never play.

[marcus]

Re: Why does Japan get all the Layton love?

Are you insinuating that you're an adult? Hell, are ANY of us adults? Most of us seem like kids who don't want to grow up.

As for the topic at hand, I've heard good things, but it would just be one more DS game I'd never play.

“Critics who treat "adult" as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adults themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence....When I was ten, I read fairytales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
- --C. S. Lewis, On Three Ways of Writing for Children