[DS] Professor Layton and the Mysterious Village.

Now that this is out, does anyone else have it?

I'm really digging it, even though some of the puzzles really make you feel stupid with the answers that are common sense, but at the same time terribly obscure to someone who lacks common sense like me. I even managed to fail the first puzzle, embarrasingly enough, although I would have got it if I was patient and stared longer rather than try to find hidden meaning in the words and what twists they could hold.

Honestly, these puzzles are well-contrived even if lots of them have been done before in other places. Such puzzles with the following rationale for answers really make me both furrow my brows in awe, and facepalm at the same time:

Spoiler:

1) Connect the Biggest 5 in this galaxy; the earth itself is also one of the biggest.
2) You light the match, smack in the center of the screen, first instead of anything else.
3) One mouse can't self-reproduce, so put away those exponential functions you were brewing in your mind.

etc.

Somehow too, the neat thing was that as I was playing, 5 of my young friends came by and all got stuck with me on certain puzzles, and we sat for periods of time thinking about solutions to quite a few of them. They didn't get bored and were somehow drawn in by these logic puzzles.

The music is also nice and creepy, which I like.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I hope the sequel is released regardless of sales, instead of a situation like Psychonauts where there was no sequel. The puzzles are still keeping me up until 3am making me want to play more!

I know hint coins are meant to be used but I hoard them like a miser and restart if I ever resort to using one or three, so I'm still sitting at 60 or so hint coins in stock. I also don't like losing picarats due to the manual and game's vague phrase: "something good will happen if you collect a lot of these." Thus, I'm always at max picarats for that reason.

Seeing how obsessive these actions are, it's sort of annoying how I only have one unsolved puzzle so far throughout the quest. It's a matchstick one and I definitely don't want to look at a faq:

Spoiler:

Puzzle: 3 Square Meals
I used all three hints and had formed an idea in my mind before using them. The signs heavily point to the matchsticks spelling the word "FOOD", but you're only allowed to move one!

I hope I'm wrong on that one.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Whew thanks CS! I should have known not to restrict my thinking to uniform size letters, given the nature of all the other puzzles!

Not that it's a big deal, but going along the lines of obscurely hidden puzzles, those hint coins have tiny frame boxes too! Clicking on single bricks or one pixel wide circles made me wonder a bit.

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Originally Posted by Stop Sign

So I did cave in and buy the game - just haven't had much time to get very far into it, yet.

Right now, I'm stuck on the 10 picarat rope and coin question of all things, because I keep mixing up which side of the rope will be "up" after it's taut. This is because I have the brainpower of an ant, which begs the question, why am I playing this game in the first place?

(I blame Meia. )

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I refused to click "Input Answer" on that until I realized that the way they outline it after you answer it is much better than straining your eyes along the rope :/ Doodling stuff in should help a bit!

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