Professor Layton and the Curious Village - A Retrospective

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  @guardiegirl5365 · 2 years ago (edited)

  Thank you for the video. It&apos;s always a blessing to hear someone talk about this series with as much love as I have for it.<br>I&apos;m in the exact same boat as you; I absolutely fell in LOVE with the Layton series. When I got my DS, most of the games I played were gifts bought by my mom. Because I was considered an &quot;academically gifted&quot; kid, my mom saw the cover of Curious Village and thought it&apos;d be a good &apos;edu-tainment&apos; game for me to play. I didn&apos;t have a ton of thoughts on the game when she first gave it to me, but hey, a new DS game to play is a new DS game to play.<br>But...holy crap. The puzzles, the characters, the story, the animation, the atmosphere, the MUSIC. Everything about the game gripped me by the soul, and I ate it up like candy. I replayed this game so, so many times. I have a core memory of keeping a save file set to right before the Werris Wheel cutscene so I could always watch it whenever I wanted. And when the sequels came out, I played them even more than this one. The announcement of New World of Steam, a full decade after the mainline series concluded, has shaken me to my core. No one saw it coming. We all thought the series was done. But when we needed Layton the most, he came back.<br>To this day, I cannot physically, mentally, or emotionally express how much the Layton series means to me. The games comfort me on a level beyond my comprehension. I cannot wait to see what the future has in store for Layton.

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  @_fayritopyadelbrillo_7032 · 3 years ago

  I played this game when I was eight years old, I went with my father to the city to buy something that I don&apos;t remember now and when we were returning to the car we passed in front of a videogame store. I remember seeing in the window ¨Mario Kart.¨ and I wanted it, we entered the store and I looked for it, the guy in the store told us that there were none left and I was very sad. We were about to leave when my father saw ¨Professor Layton and the Curious Village.¨ I argued with him because I didn&apos;t want that, after my spoiled child moment he ended up buying it and that is one of the things I will always thank him for.<br><br>That game marked me, I love that fucking game, the story, the puzzles and above all the music. I am a writer and I must say that the plot of this game influenced me a lot. Professor Layton is part of my childhood and my pre-adolescence. I&apos;m listening to ¨Mysterious Girl.¨ while I&apos;m writing this and I admit I&apos;m crying, like every time I listen to this track from the soundtrack of the video game. <br><br>Thank you so much for this video.

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  @somerandomdude3476 · 1 year ago

  I don&apos;t often leave comments, but it&apos;s a very well made video. Bit sentimental, but I absolutely agree. I cannot recount the hours I studied with the OST in my headphones.

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  @gufobianco6457 · 3 years ago

  thank you so much for this analysis! and I agree, I too can say that this game has definitely shaped me into the person that I am today.

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  @Yumeinikki · 1 year ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ya_jC4STEEY&amp;t=1841">30:41</a> Watching your video, I also just realised the bag Bruno drags Ramon along in makes a lot of metallic sounding rattling noises as he&apos;s running from Layton &amp; Luke.

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  @notinterested7911 · 7 months ago

  Omg i actually got that they are robots when i finished it recently. It actually started from the false believe that bruno has to be a robot because he‘s such a fast runner 😅 i thought the cogs found on the crimescenes were his. I actually thought he might have been a robot henchman of don paulo.<br><br>But later i understood that if every person was feeling unwell before their dissapearance, then kidnapped and then put back into place like the lip guy they might get repaired. The cogs made sense in that way and also lady dahlias appearance.

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  @kez2254 · 2 years ago

  my parents got me this game when i was about 7 or so right before we went on vacation, and i have more memories of playing it on the plane ride and during our trip than memories of the vacation itself. since i was too young to understand a lot of the puzzles, i&apos;d ask my parents and grandma for help, and i have lots of fond memories of trying to figure out the answers with them. for some reason i stopped playing around the second to last section of the tower and didn&apos;t touch the game again until i was 20, but even though it had been over a decade and i missed a lot of the story elements as a kid, i vividly remembered so many scenes and puzzles from the game and it was so nostalgic to experience it again as an adult. after playing it off and on for months, i yet again stopped at the exact same spot i did as a kid (no clue why, life gets in the way i guess). all that to say that i finally resumed playing earlier this year (really wish i could remember what caused me to pick it up again) and finally completed it after so many years. i absolutely adored curious village as a kid, but something about not finishing it until i was an adult made it so much more impactful since i felt so much nostalgia replaying it and i&apos;m sure i wouldn&apos;t have been able to fully appreciate it when i was younger. the game as a whole is wonderful, and your video does an excellent job retelling the story and highlighting all the reasons i love curious village so much. <br><br>apologies for rambling, but since playing curious village again i&apos;ve remembered a significant time from my childhood and i&apos;m able to truly appreciate the game&apos;s beautiful art and music, and i just wanted to share my thoughts and experience with the game. thank you so much for this video, in a way watching it felt like reliving that part of my childhood and i can&apos;t think of any other retrospectives that have had that effect. excellent work, and thank you again :&apos;)

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  @Its_LeeLeeJae · 5 months ago

  What an enjoyable video! Took me right on down the road of nostalgia, as I was so obsessed with these games growing up! 👏

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  @nigeladams8321 · 1 year ago

  I played diabolical box and unwound future as a kid but only played this game a few years ago. These goofy games always make me feel everything from mirth to devastation (unwound future especially). They are beautiful

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  @Schneespur98 · 2 months ago

  Holy shit I loved this! This video reminded me that I also had this game (but the laaaate European version). I remember being charmed by it, but me and my brother couldnt get through the puzzles so I never saw the reveal. And holy shit, what a REVEAL! I have to say, that is one brilliant twist. I think I found my &quot;DS Nostalgia&quot; game for the summer to replay!

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  @hastiinjordan · 3 years ago

  What an emotional video! I&apos;m sold! I&apos;m def going to try out the Switch version.

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  @picarrot · 1 year ago

  I only watched the first eleven minutes of this video but it‘s amazing! <br>Professor Layton is definitely my favorite video game series and I appreciate such a high quality video about it. I also enjoy you mentioning great TV shows like Gilmore Girls or The Office (in the Donkey Kong video which I watched the first minute of because I was curious what other videos you make). I have never played a Pokémon game but I am definitely looking forward to finishing this video and watching other videos you make. Keep up the great work!