History VideoGame / ProfessorLaytonAndTheCuriousVillage

* InterfaceSpoiler: If you look up the details on the "Vanishing Crank" mystery as soon as it's listed as "Solved," it will give away the fact that [[spoiler:the true purpose of the will was to find a suitable guardian for Flora]] shortly before it's revealed in the plot.

* RoboFamily: [[spoiler: A few different kinds of Robo-Family relationships are present in this game. There's the aforementioned Dahlia, who is a robot spouse to the baron, as well as Simon who was built into the Reinhold family. Then there are a few families in the village.]]

* DownToTheLastMatch: One puzzle runs on this:
-->''"You are stuck in a remote cabin in the woods, with only one match. You see a stove, an oil lamp, a fireplace and a candle in the cabin. What should you light first?"''

** There is a lot of foreshadowing about the true nature of the village. Most notably, the village store is covered in dust and seems to not have been used for a long time. [[spoiler: The reason being that the inhabitants are all robots, and hence have no need of food.]]

%% Administrivia/ZeroContextExample entries are not allowed on wiki pages, so this entry has been commented out. Add context before uncommenting. * ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:Chelmey was being impersonated by Don Paulo. The real deal shows up in later games.]]

* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: [[spoiler: Shot where it stands. Flora, Layton, and Luke don't even give brief consideration to the idea that the inhabitants of St. Mystere are worth less than any other person, and are all disturbed by the idea that claiming the fortune would mean "killing" them.]]

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: At one point, you are required to look for a clue in the painting of a girl. Touching the general area of the breasts will result in a comment from Layton. Because of the proximity to the place where you are meant to touch (which is made obvious), it's entirely possible to find this accidentally.
--> '''Professor Layton''': Now, Luke, it's important to be a gentleman.

* ImpersonationExclusiveCharacter: [[spoiler:Chelmey was being impersonated by Don Paulo. The real deal shows up in later games.]]

* InsaneTrollLogic: The candle puzzle. [[spoiler:You have three candles remaining because you let the seven lit candles burn down until they are gone.]]

* ConvictionByContradiction: Puzzle 116: The given solution doesn't actually make a magic square. Check the right column in [[http://professorlaytonwalkthrough.blogspot.com/2008/02/puzzle116.html the supposed solution the game gives]]: it totals 138, not 144. In fact, it's impossible to make a magic square with the highest number in the centre: See [[http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/68271.html here]] for the logic (A 1-9 Magic square is the same as a 43-51 magic square (which the hints explicitly say you're making) once you add 42 to each number in it).

The first game in the ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'' WidgetSeries, released in Japan on February 15th, 2007.

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* BugsMeanyIsGonnaWalk: Puzzle 116: The given solution doesn't actually make a magic square. Check the right column in [[http://professorlaytonwalkthrough.blogspot.com/2008/02/puzzle116.html the supposed solution the game gives]]: it totals 138, not 144. In fact, it's impossible to make a magic square with the highest number in the centre: See http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/68271.html for the logic (A 1-9 Magic square is the same as a 43-51 magic square (which the hints explicitly say you're making) once you add 42 to each number in it)

The first game in the ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'' WidgetSeries, released on February 15th, 2007.

The first game in the ''Franchise/ProfessorLayton'' WidgetSeries.

* BugsMeanyIsGonnaWalk: Puzzle 116: The given solution doesn't actually make a magic square. Check the right column in [[http://professorlaytonwalkthrough.blogspot.com/2008/02/puzzle116.html the supposed solution the game gives]]: it totals 138, not 144. In fact, it's impossible to make a magic square with the highest number in the centre: See http://mathforum.org/library/drmath/view/68271.html

** When Layton interacts with any one, his talking sprite is facing towards the Audience. Future games have it so that Layton is looking at an angle, when interacting with others.

* LuckBasedMission: One Poor Pooch has at least three variants of the "correct" solution. Figuring out which one the game wants [[spoiler:(the legs form an "x" shape, rather that two > or <)]] is pure luck.

* RoboFamily: [[spoiler:A few different kinds of robo-family relationships are present in this game. There's the aforementioned Dahlia, who is a robot spouse to the baron, as well as Simon who was built into the Reinhold family. Then there are a few families in the village.]]

** When Layton interacts with any one, his talking sprite is facing towards the Audience. Future Games shall have it so that Layton is looking at an angle, when interacting with others?

* SoftGlass: After Layton reveals that [[spoiler:"Chelmey" is really Don Paolo]], he exits Reinhold Manor by smashing through a closed window.

* BatmanGambit: [[spoiler:Baron Reinhold created the whole village so that only somebody clever and caring enough would discover his fortune and use it to care for his daughter. Unfortunately, there's the chance that a clever man would get to Flora, ''then'' a caring one would be led to the treasure. This in turn creates the chance that Flora would be stuck with a greedy - but smart - JerkAss, and no money. He might have been assuming that a JerkAss would just ditch her when he found out there was apparently no money and she could go back to waiting for the right person, but that leaves the question of what they'd do with a person like that to keep the village's secret from getting out.]]\\\
** [[spoiler:Bruno was there to watch people entering the village, to make sure they were morally worthy of finding and caring for Flora. Additionally, an evil clever person probably wouldn't have made Flora happy, and therefore never found her "birthmark" or the location of the fortune.]]\\\

[[spoiler:Bruno was there to watch people entering the village, to make sure they were morally worthy of finding and caring for Flora. Additionally, an evil clever person probably wouldn't have made Flora happy, and therefore never found her "birthmark" or the location of the fortune.]]\\\
It backfires slightly, though. [[spoiler:By finding someone kind enough to care for Flora, he accidentally found someone too kind to claim her inheritance and "kill" the village, leaving her to make her own way without it. Of course, once Bruno snuffs it, and he's getting on in years, the village will run down of it's own accord since there will be no one to repair the robots; after that, there's no problem with claiming the fortune. Of course, this was always a problem all along for the gambit. What if Bruno had died before Flora became of reasonable age?]]