OKAY i’m officially playing the prequel trilogy, and i’m so glad the scripting issues in unwound future are fixed!!! but man the mouse badge thing is unforgiving…
Curious village: multimillionaire dies and locks his daughter in an attic to be raised by robots in total isolation until someone solves this puzzle
Diabolical box: come freely, go safely, and beware of the hot twink and his hallucinogenic gas
Unwound future: losing every person you ever cared about doesn't necessarily turn you evil, the Luke cosplayer who built an exact copy of London under normal London was an outlier adn should not have been counted
Last specter: local man allows his uni friend to take his son on a dangerous hunt to find a real life monster that's destroying their town
Miracle mask: queer coded villain turns some amnesiac guy into another queer coded villain cause they both have beef with this one archaeology professor in particular
Azran legacy: there's a lesson about progress at all costs here somewhere but we're also trying to kidnap a magical zombie girl back from the archaeology mafia and wait why am I crying
Bonus
Eternal diva: who cares about death when this pipe organ can store people's souls
Phoenix Wright: how to become an omniscient narrator, step 1: poison the city's water supply
In the Promo artwork for Miracle Mask, you can see Stachenscarfen.
This man gets so excited about seeing the Bostonius that he rushes out his house and immediately slips on the ice:
It's not a continuity error that Dean Delmona has white hair in Laytons Mystery Journey. When he's shocked, his hair flies off his head, revealing it to be a wig.
Ingrid and Matthew have to stand on piles of books to be able to see out the window:
Duke makes an appearance in St Mystere despite being from Folsense. And being a hallucination.
The man Grosky fights with in Last Specter can be seen in Prison in the credits of Eternal Diva.
In Eternal Diva, during Puzzle 001, you can overhear two men arguing about the answer.
The two are looking at a fossil of what appears to be a Ichthyosaur.
You can hear the first man ask, "What about that? Is that old?"
Second man replies, "That's a fish."
The first argues back, "It's a fossil you buffoon!!"
I don't know, I thought it was funny.
That's all I can fit onto this post.
Please share any small details you've noticed, I love seeing them!
discord convo led to 6 hours of hyperfocus and research for me, so i'm gonna put my findings here for your resource as well!
as most of the resources concerning the japan-only azran legacy guidebook's azran "language" cipher (that used to be somewhere as a font back in the day?) and the fans' interpretation of what letters' solutions weren't included officially have disappeared off the face of the internet, i had the idea of reconstructing it, which brought me down the rabbithole of the INCREDIBLY inconsistent nature of the azran language throughout the professor layton prequels. even if that cipher is dubiously canon, some of its symbols appear as canon azran text in the games. i wanted to check overlap as well as log every existing example of characters in an azran writing system.
interestingly enough, some characters reappear across games- and there's lots and lots of them to account for. around 23 pages of this doc worth, actually!
this also led me to compile most of the visual imagery players see in azran spaces, as well as any azran seals shown in-game. i'm pretty sure i covered my bases, but if i'm missing anything, i can absolutely update this compilation!
Evan Barde. Know that guy? The man who died one year prior to Last Specter under very suspicious circumstances, falling off a cliff with Clark being the sole witness and him not seeing anyone else around at the time? The one whose death was quickly ruled out as a suicide by the same guy who then proceeded to alter his will?
The one who, prior to his death, was simultaneously:
- A friend of the Tritons and presumably a good loving dad (yay!)
- AND a very highly hated guy who charged people with insane rent for no known good reason (huh???), among other suspicious decision-making regarding the town that he also made, such as shutting down the factory and depriving many inhabitants of their jobs, making living in Misthallery more and more difficult for many?
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Yes. Well.
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What if every piece of info we had been given was entirely true, and we were simply missing the big picture?
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What if, before Clark... Descole had successfully been manipulating Evan Barde and forcing him to charge insane rent and intentionally make people lose their jobs in order to get them to leave the town entirely before the excavation machines would then start showing up and leveling it?
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What if, after an undefined period of time being under Descole and Jakes' manipulating scheme... Evan Barde could no longer take it anymore, and for one reason or another decided one night to leave the manor, making sure that nobody, let alone the men controlling him, saw him leave, and... made the jump all by himself?
Could it have been the guilt? the shame? the will or desperation to stop or at least hinder Descole's plan in some way, no matter the cost? Was he hoping that his sacrifice would, somehow, save his children or the town...? That one shall alas remain a mystery.
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What if Evan Barde's death was indeed a major hindrance to Descole's plan, rather than a catalyst allowing it to start unfolding? What if Clark was never meant to be the puppet in the first place, but was taken as a replacement because their old one was no longer an option?
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What if, with Clark not being as easy to work with as Evan once was, and with the townspeople evidently not leaving, Descole had to start excavating anyway... and decided to use an old legend about a specter in order to cover it up?
I'm currently replaying the Last Specter, so for the 4th November have some quotes that I like:
Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 - Part 4 - Part 5 - Part 6
Emmy what does that even mean
Ah yes, the secret hint coins that are absolutely everywhere and that anyone can tell you about
Me next time someone asks a question I don't wanna answer
I love how she's taking notes on this :')
I wish I knew what's going on in this man's head. Is he extremely confident or extremely tired?
This is how you welcome a true gentleman
Descole it's midday
Come on man I know you can find a better excuse
Wise words from a ten years old
Luke, how dare you insult the Laytonmobile like that?
No thought, head empty
There is no war in Ba sing se and there are no mice in Misthallery
Descole my man do you need a break?
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Emmy I need a word with the person who raised you.
And you need therapy.
Oooooooooooh
I haven't finished my current playthrough yet so that's all for now.
I may make more posts like this is people are interested, so tell me in the notes if you want to see more of my silly comments.