| RolStoppable said: As far as the main game is concerned, yes. The Diabolical Box is the best Layton game. I will never understand how someone can consider The Unwound Future the best one. You have to look past plotholes and unsatisfactory explanations for events in all Layton games, but what The Unwound Future asks for absolutely massacres suspension of disbelief. The game throws so much bullshit at you at the end, it's really mindboggling. But the end also contains another scene that probably touches the feelings of many players, so that's about the only explanation I can come up with for why someone can accept so much bullshit, by blending out all the rest that happened and being overwhelmed by that one scene. As an example of what stretches the suspension of disbelief to the max in a Layton game, in The Diabolical Box you have an adult man masquerading as a girl who is about ten years old. That kind of thing is par for the course in Layton stories and it's why I wouldn't call any of the stories great. I cannot accept something like that as a good plot twist, because it's not in line with the rules of the game universe. If PL featured a world where shapeshifters were a real thing, then I would accept this example, but merely dressing up as someone else does not change the physical shape of a man to the one of a girl. |
Yeah, I get what you're saying. Curious Village and Diabolical Box have great stories but nothing like a 999 plot. They are simple but strong stories - like fairy tales (in a way). Although it doesn't features supernatural events or characters, Professor Layton world is kind a "fantastical" world; it's aimed at kids and youngsters after all. You can clearly see that when Layton teaches Luke how to be a gentlemen when, in fact, he is teaching the players (mainly kids and teenagers).
The twist that you referenced is not really important to the story as it changes nothing on Layton's actions. Flora was pretty much useless in this game and I think that it was just a way to show that Don Paolo is still around. For an adult it's a poor way, I understand, but for a kid these moments are priceless. I bet that kids jumped at that very moment (like adults jumped when Ethan Hunt used the same trick - in a believable way - in Mission: Impossible). So, int this case the suspesion of disbelief is bearable. I can't say nothing of the other games though.
One of the best books I ever read was Journey to the Center of the Earth (Jules Verne). I was a kid at that time and I couldn't put the book down; when Lidenbrock found a sea deep inside the Earth it was ... mind-blowing (the entire book is mind-blowing)! The thing is, this story happens in "our real world" yet they found flora, sea, and pre-historial animals down there. Let's not talk about the temperature that would bake them in a real trip. That is a REALLY BIG suspension of disbelief and yet it is one of the best books ever.
The same could be said about the famous Quicksilver scene in the last X-MEN movie. Instead of saving them, he would kill everyone. But int his case the story was bad from the beginning.
I'm going to play Unwound Future and I'll get back here to tell my toughts. Let's see if I'll agree with you or not.
P.S: Sorry for my poor English. It's not my first language and I'm still learning.
