Professor Layton and the Curious Village 2007

Is it still worth playing?

Level-5's 2007 puzzle adventure for the Nintendo DS, the first Professor Layton game, released worldwide in 2008. You control Professor Hershel Layton and his young assistant Luke around the village of St. Mystere, looking for the Golden Apple and solving other mysteries. That village is divided into sections, some closed until the story advances or you solve enough puzzles. Puzzles are everywhere. You talk to characters or investigate objects by tapping them, characters ask you to solve puzzles, and more are hidden in objects, while one you can no longer reach reappears later. Each has unlimited time and three hints, each costing a hint coin, of which you start with ten and find more by examining suspicious objects. With puzzles given by the villagers and hidden in objects, every conversation is still a possible challenge today.