Board 8 > Do I have to play Professor Layton games in "order"?

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I understand there's not a lot of story in these games but how much would it matter to play out of order? Would I be missing/getting spoiled on stuff?

I saw Unwound Future the other day and was thinking about picking it up but had this concern. I don't even know where UF fits...

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1-3 you should probably play in order

4 is the beginning of a new prequel trilogy so you can play that on its own before or after 1-3

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and Unwound Future is #3

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Unwound Future is the final game in the original trilogy. The next game was a prequel.

You'd definitely enjoy them all more if you played them in order, but if that's not possible for you, then you can still enjoy Unwound Future on its own.

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then again dat main theme



Layton 3 still easily one of my favorite games from this gen. There's no such thing as a bad Layton game though. All of them have been great so far.

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It'd be extremely hard to mess up a Layton game without doing some completely outlandish and series changing.

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I do have a small bit of concern for Professor Layton & the Mask of Miracle just because it's 3D now and not 2D. I never read any japanese reviews for it though, but it's probably still good

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You give it awful writing and terrible puzzles, I'm pretty sure it's messed up.

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Wait, I just figured out an instantly terrible Layton game.

All slide puzzles. Ugh.

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see they're all 3D now

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From: YetAnothrShadow | #009
All slide puzzles.

http://nooooooooooooooo.com/

And yeah, I'm not a fan of the 3D at all.

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So, am I pretty much the only sane person who actually likes the slide puzzles?

Because I totally do.

any slide puzzle you find throughout the course of the main story usually isn't too bad. It's just the post-game slide puzzles that give you a rough time

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That slide puzzle in the final section of Curious Village is the only puzzle I've ever had to use a guide on.

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Unwound future has the awesome laytonmobile.

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ok then looks like I'm going to have to find Curious Village!

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I'm maybe halfway through Unwound Future and there has been maybe one or two references I didn't get right away, but that's literally it. The game seems very "standalone" except for a couple small things in 15 hours of gameplay.

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also this game is AWESOME

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It's not that you need to play the games in order to understand the plot, but they are pretty cavalier about spoiling things that happened in earlier games, the assumption being you should already know what happened.

Curious Village, Diabolical Box and Unwound Future sort of form their own little trilogy this way. It's not like the stories are connected, but the later games will spoil some things from the earlier games.

Last Specter, Eternal Diva (the movie), and Mask of Miracle are sort of the same way to each other, but they don't make many references to the other trilogy that much (mostly because they're prequels).

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Man I wish I got into these things earlier so new copies weren't $50...

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I think the best argument for playing the games in order is that the series continues to improve as time goes on, in terms of plot, music, puzzles... the works.

If someone started by playing Specter's Flute first and then went back to Curious Village, I can imagine that they might be a bit disappointed.