Standard Edition
StandardIn the box
- Nintendo DS game card
- Case with cover art
- Instruction booklet
Nintendo DS
Professor Layton and the Curious Village
Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a puzzle adventure video game for the Nintendo DS system. It was developed and published by Level-5 in Japan and published by Nintendo worldwide.
Point-and-clickPuzzleVisual Novel
- Update patch
- No patch
- Time to beat
- about 12.1 hours
- Plays offline
- Partly
Overview
Professor Layton and the Curious Village is a puzzle adventure video game for the Nintendo DS system. It was developed and published by Level-5 in Japan and published by Nintendo worldwide. It was released in Japan in 2007 and worldwide the following year. It was re-released in Australia using the British English localisation and European artwork to replace the previously released North American localisation. Curious Village is the first game in the Professor Layton series, followed by Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. An enhanced mobile port of Curious Village featuring additional cutscenes, subtitled "HD for Mobile", was released in 2018.
The game centers on Professor Hershel Layton, and his self-styled apprentice, Luke Triton, investigating the fictional village of St. Mystere about an artifact known as the Golden Apple, an heirloom that the late Baron had left as a test to determine who would receive his fortune after his death. The residents of St. Mystere particularly enjoy brain teasers and will often ask the player to help solve them by using the system's touchscreen to submit answers in exchange for their cooperation in the search.
It received generally positive reviews, praising both its approach to combining the adventure and puzzle genres, as well as for its presentation and animated cutscenes. It sold over a million copies in Japan alone, in addition to 3.17 million copies sold worldwide. A remake is currently in development and will be released in 2027.
Official trailer
Trailer. Watch on YouTube
Gameplay
Nintendo DS Longplay [172] Professor Layton and the Curious Village (US), World-of-Longplays. Watch on YouTube
Screenshots
Game details
- Genres
- Point-and-click, Puzzle, Visual Novel
- Developer
- LEVEL-5
- Publisher
- Nintendo, LEVEL-5
- Series
- Professor Layton
- Platforms
- Nintendo DS
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Modes
- Single player
- Yes
- Local multiplayer
- No
- Online multiplayer
- No
- Co op
- No
- Age ratings
- ESRB
- E
- CLASS IND
- L
- PEGI
- 7
- CERO
- A
Release dates
| Platform | Region | Date |
|---|---|---|
| Nintendo DS | Japan | 2007-02-15 |
| Nintendo DS | North America | 2008-02-10 |
| Nintendo DS | Australia | 2008-04-10 |
| Nintendo DS | Europe / PAL | 2008-11-07 |
Editions
Space and patches
Update patchNo patch
DLC
Over 25 bonus puzzles came out weekly over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection for half a year from launch. They can no longer be downloaded since the service closed on 20 May 2014.
Playable today
Playable offline todayPartly
The story and its puzzles still play; the weekly bonus puzzles can no longer be downloaded.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Ever released on disc | Yes, on Nintendo DS game card |
| Ever released in the store | No Never sold digitally. |
| In the store to buy today | No Never sold digitally. |
| Can be downloaded again if you already bought it | Does not exist Never sold digitally. |
| Disc runs with no patch | Yes |
| Disc runs with the final patch | Does not exist No patch was ever released. |
| Has online features | Yes Weekly bonus puzzles downloaded over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection. |
| Online servers running today | Shut down Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection closed on 20 May 2014. |
| Playable offline today: campaign | Yes |
| Playable offline today: local multiplayer | Does not exist Single-player. |
| Playable offline today: online multiplayer | Does not exist Single-player. |
| Playable offline today: DLC | No The bonus puzzles can no longer be downloaded. |
Online
Plays offlinePartly
Reception
- Aggregates
Outlet Platform Score Scale Metacritic DS 85 100 - Critics
Outlet Score Scale AdvGamers 4.5 5 Destructoid 8.7 10 Electronic Gaming Monthly 8.83 10 Edge 7 10 Eurogamer 9 10 Game Informer 7.5 10 GamePro 3.75 5 GameSpot 9 10 GameSpy 4.5 5 GameTrailers 9 10 GameZone 9 10 Giant Bomb 5 5 Nintendo Power 8.5 10 Official Nintendo Magazine 92 100 Nintendo World Report 8 10 Nintendo Life 9 10 [[The Daily Telegraph]] 8 10 [[USA Today]] 5 5
Staff and cast
- Staff
Role Name Developer Level-5 Publisher Nintendo (outside Japan), Level-5 (Japan) Director Tatsuya Shinkai Producer Akihiro Hino Designers Akihiro Hino, Akira Tago Artist Takuzo Nagano Writers Akihiro Hino, Noriko Ikeura, Kazuya Kuranari Composer Tomohito Nishiura
Notes for collectors
- The first Professor Layton game, with puzzles from Akira Tago's Atama no Taisou books.
- Over 25 bonus puzzles came out every Sunday for half a year over Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection.
- The iOS and Android versions of 2018 are separate releases.
- Over a million copies sold in Japan and 3.17 million worldwide.
Credits
- Publisher
- Nintendo, LEVEL-5
- Developer
- LEVEL-5
- Director
- Tatsuya Shinkai
- Released
- 2008-02-10
- Age rating
- ESRB E
- Region
- US
- Time to beat
- about 12.1 hours
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