There was a feeling churning inside the mans gut. A feeling he couldn’t quite shake. This particular feeling? Someone was here at this given moment, not just him. But someone else was nearby.
Was it Luke? Flora? A student of his? Or — Hmmmm… Well, there really was no need to wonder who it was. It would be simple ti figure out just who was here if he were to speak up… Right? So all he had to do was speak up.
Though there was but a moment of absolute silence from the man as he continued to think a moment longer. Think about what ifs and so on —
"…Is someone there? Do come in, if so." He finally spoke whilst putting on a gentlemanly smile, turning around to face his door so that he could properly greet whoever may walk in.
[ ] Ah, her cover was blown. It wasn't her fault in her mind -- she just heard. But she supposed, she could've just left and ignored it. Curiosity was something that always got her in trouble. When he asked her to come inside, she was afraid. Honestly, she knew he wouldn't hurt her, but she didn't want him to scold her for listening in. She knew it was bad, but she couldn't help it. A curious mind isn't always bad, right?
❝ U-Um... ❞ Her voice was so low she couldn't even hear it. Or maybe it was because in her mind she was telling herself that he must be so disappointed in her for listening in. He must regret taking her in. After all, she causes many problems for him, at least in her mind she did.
Always showing up secretly when they go out -- when they tell her to stay. Sometimes she worries she even gets the tea wrong, or might drop it on the way back. ❝I'm... I'm sorry Professor... !❞ After placing the tea on the table, so she didn't drop it, she bowed. ❝ I didn't mean to listen, promise ! ❞ But she did in the end. ❝ But... ❞
so lazy to play PL vs AA like i got rlly far but im so lazy (bc of school) to play any video games except if they're on computer and stuff. uguuu. someone force me to play it and finish it. i want to finish it. but laziness. but i have the will to play its just rfjundg.
"Sometimes I can’t help but to wonder…" The top-hated man mused aloud to himself as he stared off into the distant skies before him.
"…How different would things have been…"
If his family had stayed together.
If him and his brother had grown up together.
If Randall hadn’t fallen down that gaping hole to his ‘death’.
If Claire hadn’t stepped into that time machine.
Would he even know Claire and Randall if he had not been adopted?
How differently would his seemingly simple life had panned out.
If different things had happened?
"…"
A blank gaze remained on the clouded sky before him. Thoughts raced endlessly through his mind. All the ‘what ifs’ and so on. But perhaps this was something he best not dwell on. His life was what it was now. There was no changing it, after all.
Not that he wasn’t happy about how his life currently was; oh no! He was simply…
Curious. Curious how differently it all could have turned out. So many possibilities and yet only one outcome, only one path had been taken.
[ ] No, she didn't walk in with the tea she had made. No, she didn't walk in after what she heard. Because, honestly she thought he was thinking how things would've been if he hadn't taken her in, she thought he thought it was something he regretted. But then she realized -- it was the Professor, and he would never think that way about her, at least that was what she hoped.
She had never seen the Professor like this -- not really that much, except maybe with Claire, but after that, nothing. It took her a moment to realize, but she hated seeing him like that, he was like a father to her, and seeing him sad made her feel horrible. Usually, she saw him smiling like nothing was really wrong -- acting like a gentleman and not letting anything bother him -- not even what the Inspector might say.
But his question made her thing too, ❝ What if I never met the Professor and Luke ? ❞ Her voice let out a whisper when she said that, and she hoped he didn't hear, she wasn't even sure if it was possible. Meeting the Professor and Luke was one of the best things that's happened to her -- she had a wonderful time with them, even if most of the time they told her not to go with them on their little adventures. She still went, and they didn't mind afterwards.
She couldn't imagine her life without them, dull and boring. Secretive, even. If they never found her, she wouldn't be there, happy, with them. It made her think -- what if her father were still alive? Would she have even went with the Professor if that was the case? She didn't even know, and she didn't want to know, because she liked living with the two of them -- she loved it.
[ ] Her eyes slowly closed when reading one of the Professor's books -- something about archaeology, she didn't really know. She'd been trying to get through it for about an hour, and she was halfway through it. It was interesting to her -- archaeology, but the thought of it never crossed her mind until she started reading. She would've loved to have the certain skills that the Professor had -- asides from puzzle solving, because she already had that skill.
She leaned into her hand, and oddly enough -- it was comfortable, even if she wasn't in a bed. When she heard a slam of the door, her eyes fluttered open, and a yawn escaped from her lips. ❝ Professor, Luke? ❞ A tired tone -- but there was happiness in it, at least that was what she hoped they heard as well.
so just recently i was thinking -- what if azran legacy was professor layton's last game? (not counting professor layton vs phoenix wright). and it really made me sad like. it's a great puzzle game. usually when you think of puzzle games you think: tetris, or something else without a plot. and that's what puzzle games are sort of made out to be -- at least until professor layton (i guess?). tbh, professor layton was one of the first puzzle games that i've heard of that actually has a plot, and playing through it, the games made me fall in love with it more and more. yes, it's about a professor that solves puzzles, sounds pretty silly and stupid. but in reality -- it's actually one of the cleverest games i've ever played, not to mention the plot was amazing, in my opinion. btw under the cut is really long.
the games don't even go in chronological order depending on when they came out, except when they came out in trilogies. so the first three, curious village, diabolical box, and unwound future, were all chronological in the game time. but then the last specter came out, and it was a prequel to those three games. and you know that because it's when the professor first meets luke, and makes him his apprentice. the next two -- miracle mask and azran legacy -- are after the last specter, and the events after azran legacy lead up to curious village.
SPOILERS AHEAD (warnings for major ones?)
honestly when i first picked up the game -- i didn't realize how much potential it had to be such a great series and everything. looking back, i think i hated it when i was a kid, but now it's come to be such a big game series in my life. when you first start playing curious village -- you start off knowing: you're going to help people with a mystery, and that you're basically playing/following a professor and his apprentice. you know their names are professor layton (hershal layton) and luke triton. other than that, there's not much to it, it just immediately gives you a puzzle and tells you how to walk and everything and you find out about hint coins (a major thing for the games -- especially if you're stuck on a puzzle). there wasn't much to it, but there was a plot that made you think: "Hmm, I wonder what mystery this town holds?" or "Why did I decide to help this person?" something along those lines, and it really pulled you in.
the older games of the series (curious village, diabolical box, and unwound future) didn't seem like they really had much to offer, curious village seemed like a great game to start off with, and it made you want to play diabolical box when it came out -- but i questioned "Why would the professor help people he doesn't know?" or "Who is this villain and why is he against the professor?" as the games came out slowly. eventually everything got answered, but by then the series had made its way to a special place in my heart.
in diabolical box it talks about a box -- if you open it you die, basically. it pulls you in, in the sense of how the professor gets pulled in: curiosity. which is one of my favorite things about this series, is that it makes the characters curious, but at the same time it allows you to be curious too, and you get to think of how things might turn out, or anything like that. the puzzles are great too, but seemed unnecessary at first, but it became something fun out of the games. like if they took it away, you wouldn't know what to do with professor layton anymore.
not to mention, each individual game had their own plot, but in the end, typically came all together. in the earlier games, maybe not, but the plots were still something that i loved about this game, besides the clever puzzles. for example: the miracle mask talks about a mask that is talked to cause chaos. not only that, but the professor somehow knows about this? (SPOILER) turns out his best friend -- Randall -- went to find it, and layton believed he was dead bc of that mask. it's also interesting because of how randall wasn't really dead -- he wore the mask and caused chaos. (SPOILER END) and then there's azran legacy which connects the events of miracle mask and connects it to a civilization that is actually kind of brought up quite a lot in some games. i love how everything just ties together and the antagonist, jean descole (in the last specter, miracle mask, and azran legacy -- he was a main antagonist), turns out to be someone who he's not. (SPOILER) honestly, i didn't expect layton and descole to actually be brothers, and their dad to be the leader of an organization that is going against layton, even if he was their father and such. (SPOILER END) the plots are just so planned out and everything.
the only bad thing is that, it seems like you have to play it in order. but you technically didn't have to, even if you didn't play a previous game, they would tell you how to move and use the menu and such, and it would mention certain things from previous games that you should know, and they tell you the things you should know. this isn't a game series with a great plot that you picked up and had to play every game to understand -- no you could start anywhere and you would understand. every plot of a professor layton game is different in terms of mystery, but the plot altogether was connected and didn't really have contradictions in them.
the only thing that bothered me was that: they put in some characters that didn't seem necessary. for example: (i don't remember names sorry!) there's one character that tells you how to get hint coins, and one that tells you how to zoom in (in more recent games) and everything. i mean -- you can make different people tell you, because it's good to know, but bringing up these characters don't really seem like something important to the actual story. the makers would constantly bring these characters in just to tell us one thing, and occasionally they did play a plot in the story of one game, but other than that, nothing really important. i mean, don't get me wrong, these characters were fun to have and they were really some of my favorite 'side' characters, but yeah.
another thing is how they sort of didn't explain having flora and everything. i mean they explained it, but i've seen tons of people hating on flora like 'oh she's not necessary in their lives' or 'if they're not taking her anywhere, why even take her in?' or something like she wasn't useful, and she was annoying. which all in all, isn't true, and i'm not saying that because i'm rping her. tons of people say she might be annoying bc she's always showing up for no reason. but there is a reason. and that reason is that, when they leave her, she's alone and confined to one room, even if it wasn't actually true, it felt that way for her. because you have to remember: flora lived in a basement of some sorts (hidden away), she was the 'golden apple', and the professor and luke typically saved her from being hidden anymore. so whenever they leave her behind, she sneaks to go with them because they're the people that saved her, they're the people that showed kindness to her without trying to use her for her money (she was an heir to money -- oops forgot to mention). and yeah, so she didn't want them to leave her.
but yeah, i think that everything is solid for this series, at least to me. i mean, there are definitely flaws (like maybe some mistakes -- in plot? -- from the earliers games don't match up with current ones) but i wouldn't say that it was something major. like you would have this character do this in a current game, but in an earlier game he mentions doing something different (i don't even think this was an issue tbh), but yeah it's not like a major thing. but yeah.
the antagonists were interesting too. descole and don paolo -- descole (go to the first spoiler warning?) -- don paolo was a master of disguise, and even he helped the professor in some cases. i really liked them, not to mention there were more in certain games, but these were the ones that they sort of made stick out.
one thing i disliked: there was a movie for professor layton, and don't get me wrong it was great, voice acting was good and all, like in every game, but i kind of wished that they had made it into a game itself. like i would've loved to play that game, i bet lots of people would. it's not the same watching a movie of professor layton vs playing a game of the professor layton series.
but yeah, i know this is long and idek if any of this makes sense, but i guess i said all this bc i'm honestly disappointed that it's ending. it's a series that i picked up as a kid and thought: 'sure why not?', and i ended up loving it five years later. like, seriously, one of my favorite game series. i'm also disappointed bc i really wanted to know what happens after unwound future. like: (spoilers?) what happens to clive? i know he's in jail, but i mean like if he gets out, does he go to the professor for help? or do the professor and luke realize about flora not wanting to stay alone for the reason i said before? idk.
also the mystery rooms game, i really want to know what happened there like: did the professor get married and have a kid? (probably not). or when did he adopt him? and when did he have time to take care of him, if he was with luke too? or maybe: did he get alfendi before he even met luke? these things are things i really want to know tbh, and i wish that they made a game or something to explain it, idk. just something.
i really don't want this series to end. like this series doesn't really get the love it really deserves. i know there are lots of people that love this series as much as i do, but like i feel like there should be more -- it should be one of those big sort of games to me, and it seems big. but when you think of it, the community for this game isn't as big as some other games. and that's fine, it's still a good game series, and its their loss for not thinking of it i guess? but yeah. i'm also disappointed phoenix wright it really coming to an end soon too (like they said no more games after aa:dd but they still are making another game i think) and yeah. but yeah. if you read this thanks, and congrats on reading a really long thing? idk. but thanks for reading about my opinions !!
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