Professor Layton and the Big Dog

I still haven't played any layton games besides the ace attorney crossover

but this is entirely accurate

as someone who has played most of the games i can confirm this is basically every game in the series

the ending of PLvAA is fucking WILD

That's... why would anyone do this?

IT IS

I think the reason it ultimately kind of works

is because PL games aren't mystery games, they're puzzle games

the mystery is just something fun and ridiculous to tie the puzzles together

Layton games are ridiculous, can confirm

Layton games are delightfully weird

i'm not gonna post spoilers but looking back it's kinda hilarious to think that the first game's plot twist is comparatively mild because it's still super wild

the first game creates plot reasons for why everyone is obsessed with puzzles

I'll never be over Layton, in a crossover game with Phoenix Wright

and then the sequels go "no society is just like that"

proclaiming that there's no such thing as magic

honestly, the mechanic of learning everything you can about magic to solve crimes was honestly super fun

sometimes in the same room as Maya Fey

that part of PLvAA ruled

I still think the best twist in the damn series is when the thing you have just definitively proven to be an elaborate fake turns out to be absolutely real in a horrifying way

still wondering not how a grown-ass man disguised himself teenage girl half his size and fooled everyone
instead wondering how he fooled literally everyone except layton
like is the rest of the world really obtuse or are they portraying this dude as sherlock fucking mindpalace holmes

the games are so good, I've played every main line one but the AA crossover

but yes thus is entirely accurate

The AA crossover is quite good overall and Recommended, but yeah

I need to play it

it can be me AA gateway

The AA gameplay elements are interesting because they're simultaneously the easiest and hardest of the series due to the Unusual format of the testimony most of the time.

(Basically, in normal AA, you only deal with one witness at a time. PLvAA puts all of them in the room at once, so you need to keep an eye out for others reacting to testimony)