This review contains spoilers
I'm disappointed, I genuinely didn't like it.
Professor Layton games are usually full of cute and sweet stories full of empathy, with cute and lovable characters for being cute/unique, even the main villain of the original trilogy, Don Paolo, can be compared to Doofensmirthz from Phineas & Ferb, but Last Specter introduces one of the most cliché, boring but well designed villains, which sucks because he really looked like an interesting character at first glance, and knowing that I'm going to have to see him in 3 more layton games and a movie. .. damn, I hope the next minimums have a good story because really, the first three had their own puzzle in the story, and the ending sequences were the best, but this time.... Well, the plot twist of the wraith was good, but everything else was super easy to figure out before they tell you, and it was really bad because they reveal it late and it annoyed me a lot because in my head there was a better narrative thanks to how late it was, and the most annoying thing is that the way they ended it was leaving a lot of loose ends, It's the first one that doesn't make me cry because the sad scenes were super cliché and short, and the voice acting with less budget than usual, but without a doubt what made me say "nah, this layton is bad", was the kiss at the end for saving the babe like come on dude, I understand it's a 2009 game but that was the cherry on the cake to the downgrade of the puzzles since they went back to doing all math and perception in 3D, which is the most boring thing you can do so at the end I was legit passing it with a guide. because of how boring they were.
Still without a doubt the worst part was that it not only had cliché moments, but also sexist, dark and even horny and kind of... not that it's really a big deal, but for a layton to have adult jokes and even one of the characters interrupting another about to curse, and the girl in the group to be sexually harassed by a random old man.... I genuinely wondered, how the fuck do you get horny with a layton?
Emmy on the other hand is such a bad character and goes against all the values that the series already demonstrated, and it's a bummer because when I saw that an older girl was part of the cast, I was so happy because I thought she was going to be a character that I could identify with, but in reality she's super pushy, annoying and always goes against Layton and Luke, to the point where she stops being "think well and know what to say can lead to fix any conflict" to "if they don't breathe, they won't annoy you", inciting violence in such a lazy, lazy, boring and out of place way.
Being a Layton game, it's normal for me to care about this more than I would in a regular game, but I don't know. I'm disappointed that I spent 14 hours on something so underwhelming and I'm angry that I always expect so much from Layton games, and it really sucks to see a franchise you love so much have a bad game.
Professor Layton games are usually full of cute and sweet stories full of empathy, with cute and lovable characters for being cute/unique, even the main villain of the original trilogy, Don Paolo, can be compared to Doofensmirthz from Phineas & Ferb, but Last Specter introduces one of the most cliché, boring but well designed villains, which sucks because he really looked like an interesting character at first glance, and knowing that I'm going to have to see him in 3 more layton games and a movie. .. damn, I hope the next minimums have a good story because really, the first three had their own puzzle in the story, and the ending sequences were the best, but this time.... Well, the plot twist of the wraith was good, but everything else was super easy to figure out before they tell you, and it was really bad because they reveal it late and it annoyed me a lot because in my head there was a better narrative thanks to how late it was, and the most annoying thing is that the way they ended it was leaving a lot of loose ends, It's the first one that doesn't make me cry because the sad scenes were super cliché and short, and the voice acting with less budget than usual, but without a doubt what made me say "nah, this layton is bad", was the kiss at the end for saving the babe like come on dude, I understand it's a 2009 game but that was the cherry on the cake to the downgrade of the puzzles since they went back to doing all math and perception in 3D, which is the most boring thing you can do so at the end I was legit passing it with a guide. because of how boring they were.
Still without a doubt the worst part was that it not only had cliché moments, but also sexist, dark and even horny and kind of... not that it's really a big deal, but for a layton to have adult jokes and even one of the characters interrupting another about to curse, and the girl in the group to be sexually harassed by a random old man.... I genuinely wondered, how the fuck do you get horny with a layton?
Emmy on the other hand is such a bad character and goes against all the values that the series already demonstrated, and it's a bummer because when I saw that an older girl was part of the cast, I was so happy because I thought she was going to be a character that I could identify with, but in reality she's super pushy, annoying and always goes against Layton and Luke, to the point where she stops being "think well and know what to say can lead to fix any conflict" to "if they don't breathe, they won't annoy you", inciting violence in such a lazy, lazy, boring and out of place way.
Being a Layton game, it's normal for me to care about this more than I would in a regular game, but I don't know. I'm disappointed that I spent 14 hours on something so underwhelming and I'm angry that I always expect so much from Layton games, and it really sucks to see a franchise you love so much have a bad game.