Professor Layton and the Curious Village

Wrapped standalone brain teasers in animated mystery, creating a durable handheld puzzle-adventure format.

Released 2007 Developer Level-5 Publisher Nintendo Platform Nintendo DS Genre Puzzle adventure Era Broadband & the console shooter Website professorlaytonds.com ↗

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Professor Layton and the Curious Village inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Flip-Screen Room Graph ~~1980~~Full Voice Performance ~~1994~~Direct Touch Manipulation ~~2005~~

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