Professor Layton and the Emotional Trauma - A Lost/ Unwound Future Retrospective

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  @jacobmiller2008 · 3 years ago

  You never touched on my favorite part, just as they turn the car into a flying machine and Luke says “professor, I didn’t know you could fly a plane?” And Layton replies “A plane? This is an automobile”. Great line, even greater delivery.

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• SM

  @smeebythesea · 3 years ago

  Bill Hawk wanting to use his lab assistant as the subject of an extremely dangerous and volatile experiment and taking advantage of Dmitri but facing no consequences for his actions and becoming prime minister is exactly what I'd expect from UK politics

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• CA

  @CatalinaLinal7710 · 2 years ago (edited)

  I will never get over that in the flashback where Dimitri finds Claire's body after the explosion you can actually see her wearing her Celeste outfit. They deadass showed us mid-game what followed after Claire vanished in the end. The scene is already made to make you FEEL that she returned back into her time to die only for you to notice upon replaying that they already SHOWED IT!

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• LI

  @LimeadeRaimi · 3 years ago

  I think it's funny how NOBODY questions the clock shop owners. It's specifically said that THEY are the only ones who can work the elevator with the reveal scene literally showing them using it. They are literally the ONLY PEOPLE that know about Dimitri's plan aside from Layton and not a single person cares about them.

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• DA

  @darkdetective1939 · 3 years ago

  You realise how traumatised Layton was by Claire's death when you notice that he never brings up Claire's death until it becomes absolutely necessary. Sure early in the game he tells Luke about 'somebody he used to know', but he never mentions she's dead. And when they start investigating the lab explosion ten years ago Layton doesn't mention Claire directly, he just says that 'though many perished in the accident'. Poor guy was so emotionally damaged by her death he doesn't bring it up until Luke asks when they exit the Towering Pagoda in Chapter 8 or 9, I think it is (when they start working with Don Paolo).

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• JA

  @jasminelaw6226 · 2 years ago

  The moment the professor cried BROKE ME I SOBBED FOR LITERAL DAYS AS A CHILD

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• AN

  @Anonymous_Individual · 3 years ago

  I named the parrot tiny Luke so that we could have three Lukes at once.

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• CA

  @cannonballking7 · 3 years ago

  The game which taught me at an early age the true, most reprehensible villains are not those placed in bad situations. But those in high places, able change the courses of so many lives for personal gain and never think on it again. <br>Bill Hawks is the villain of of every character within Lost Future, and when faced head on with that idea, pays it no mind. Easily the most hate-able character in the series, without much competition.

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• SN

  @snowmanwithasunhat7585 · 3 years ago

  This dude really made an hour long retrospective for this game and didn’t even MENTION Beasly… easily the most emotional part 🥺

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• AD

  @adamdonnelly6470 · 3 years ago (edited)

  It’s been said so many times before but Layton’s outward distress over losing Claire again is just supremely good character development. Layton is a thoroughly likeable and charming protagonist but he always has his shit so uncannily together that he seems almost inhuman. Letting all the emotion and vulnerability out in one shocking burst has embedded him and this game in my memory for over a decade and likely for the rest of my gaming life.

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• MI

  @misteryA555 · 3 years ago

  I was so in love with older Luke when I first played this as a kid, man

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• TU

  @tuvillo · 3 years ago

  &quot;I&apos;m glad my Layton content keeps aging poorly&quot; is such a fan statement

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