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elie-draloup · 6 months

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Professor Layton and the Miracle's Mask thoughts and theories leeeeeet's go : (spoilers for this game and everything happening prior, so original trilogy, Specter's Call, and I don't know if I mention anything from the movie but just in case spoilers for that too.)

-....Everything is different now what happened. I can't blindly tap my screen like a madlad anymore. There's a wen now.

-I don't believe that those statues were actually people, I think whoever did that is a good sculpter.

-Since I still need answers about him and since he wasn't arrested in the movie, I guess Descole is somewhere close. He doesn't look like the mask guy (slightly different energy), but he did make everyone believe he was Dolland, so... It could still be him.

-Whatever this is, I think it's either an organisation, or a mastermind either paying/menacing/manipulating people into doing all this. It seems too elaborate to be done by only one person (especially since I guess the flying guy needs wires or something, and he would need several sculptors for all these statues.)

-Oh... So Layton lost his best friend, Randall, 18 years ago... In an accident where he seems to blame himself. So new theory ! Maybe Descole do have a thing against Layton because of this : Maybe Randall was his brother or cousin or something, and he blames Layton for it. And maybe that's why he wants to make a huge discovery that much: Perhaps it was Randall's dream, and so he decided to do it for him.

Or maybe Randall isn't dead, and is Descole ! Hmm... I dunno, Layton would have remembered him better, especially if he was his best friend. Though he haven't seen his face yet and I guess your voice change from 17 to 35.

Or Randall has nothing to do with Descoll and we'll have to wait the next game for this guy's backstory. Still, Randall's body hasn't been found, so it's possible that he is still alive. But why would he pretend to be dead for 18 years ? Maybe he is the Masked man, and Descoll is waiting in the shadow for whatever his plan is this time. Or maybe Descoll isn't in this game and we'll see him in the third one.

-How many people did Layton lost throughout his life ? He lost his best friend at 17, his girlfriend/fiancee at 27 (and lost her again at 37) and thought for at least a few days that he had lost his mentor in Pandora's Box. Right now he's 35 and I still don't know what will happen to Emmy at the end of those games. Give this gentleman a break please.

-Wait he lost loved ones when he was 17, 27, 37... Ahah, Emmy is saved and only found another job ! But there's a chance Hershel lost someone at age 7. And who knows what will happen when he'll be 47.If I follow this logic (which doesn't makes sense but that's not important), then nobody will die in this trilogy.

-I GOT TO PLAY YOUNG HERSHEL THAT'S SO COOL

-It's so funny to see young Hershel acting like an actual teenager, Luke acts more like a gentleman at age 13 than Hershel at 17. And he doesn't even like archeology yet ! And his room is CLEAN. I'm not saying his office isn't clean, but it's a mess. Here ? There's not even a single book on the ground, not even on his desk, everything is in order on the shelves and that's.. so not him ? It's mentioned that his mother actually cleaned up his room, but still. Can't wait to see more about everything that happened, and how Randall will die exactly. I still wonder if he is really dead, and if he's not, what happened to him then ? But maybe he's really just dead.

-Henry is suspicious. He is waaaay too suspicious. And I'm sure his present self has at least something to do with our case.

-Back to present, I haven't considered Marissa as a possible suspect yet, but now that this Alhponse guy told me about it... Will consider the possibility. But I feel like there's actually many people involved in this... But who ? Do they all know each other identity? Are they all implied at the same level ? Who's the headmaster behind all this ? Who is manipulating who?

-Seemed obvious that all those miracles were actually elaborates magic tricks, but I didn't think we would actually prove it this early in the game. I wonder how they did the statues thing though, because thoses were probably difficult to transport. So they needed a place to hide them, and a way to quickly get them in place despite their weight.

-Grosky's fan told us that there was traces of wheels near the statues incident. So they used a carriage to hide the statues and transport them. You'd still need people with rather strong arms to put these on the grounds this quick without breaking anything.

-The fact that we know it is a rather large group of people taking part on those "miracles "... Are they all under pressure ? Are they all willingly doing this ? For money ? For their own interests? For a common goal ? I bet we already met at least some people who are actively part of it. Seems like I should be careful in whom I trust...

-The circus seems almost too obvious. They're expert at magic tricks, they're a large group of organised people, they happned to have bought lot of costumes lately, but what would be their motives? Would be too early, it's not them.

-List of people I trust : Obviously Layton, Luke and Emmy, Grosky (not in a "I can count on him way" but in a more "He won't stab me in the back" way), and that's it. Between Angela, Henry and Alphonse, the later seems the less suspicious, but i still don't trust him. I hope I can trust Ludmilla, because she's been helping me out a lot lately, but I hope it's not a trick. Counting her as an ally for now. Also, the mayor seems unaware. If only I had the Black Raven gang to help me out, at least I wouldn't have that much trust issues.

-Yep, I was right, not the circus. Alphonse definitely looks like the less suspicious between him, Henry and Angela.

-Layton is so genuinely polite and still manage to radiate so much chaotic and sassy energy, it's astounding.

-It feels like someone's trying to distract me from my investigations...First "Ho yeah my colleague want to show you something", then "Oh no something's happening at the casino". This entire town is tricking on me.

-How many people are actually part of this masquerade? What if they all know and only tourists don't ? What's even the goal behind all this? I'm so confused. I don't know who I can trust, I don't know who the mastermind is, and maybe there's not even one. Or maybe Randall's death is truly the reason behind all this: If Henry really is part of the Miracle's mask group, then why ? Is it really just to grab tourists , and throw Alphonse in prison ? It can't be just that. I wonder what exactly happened after Randall's accident. Henry said he looked out for him, and he accused Layton of abandoning Randall because he went to London (probably when he decided that spending his entire life at his job doing just that would be a good coping mechanism. Until he met Claire until she died.)

-Oh so the mask guy is Randall. I mean common. He told Henry "you stole everything from me". And like... His researches, his girlfriend, his life... Yep. That's Randall. So he's not dead. But how. And why hasn't he returned until now.

.... Yeah, I'm not certain it's Randall, because I don't know how to explain that he has disappeared for so long.

But story wise, he's the only character we know who could accuse Henry of stealing his life. But if he's not dead... Why didn't he got back sooner ? Did he survive 18 years in the ruins somehow and found a way back just now ?

-Oh wait.... If Randall is alive.... And if Randall is also Descole... Then... Descole's goal to make a great discovery would make so much sense ! However... He did tried to kill Hershel in the movie, right ? Is he.. Actuallly angry at him ?

-oh. Oh okay. I guess I get why Hershel felt guilty for Randall's death. Poor kid saw his friend falling into a seemingly bottomless pit after he desperately tried to hold him and rescue him, and then he found himself alone in some old ruins, had to finish the expedition as it was Randall's last wish, and then spent hours walking alone on the way home. How much did he actually cried during that walk. Someone please give Hershel a break. The fact that he decided to study archeology in memory of his friend is both really sweet and really sad. Kinda like he sticked to a strict gentleman behaviour and sleep with his hat on because it was the last thing Claire told him before her death. Poor dude has been imprinting on the morale and dreams of his lost ones for years as a coping mechanism.

-....... Wait. Randall fell with the mask of chaos. Henry found the mask of chaos. And if I remember well, they never found Randall's body, right ? ... Shouldn't Henry have found Randall's corpse somewhere near the mask ? So option one : I misunderstood something and Randall was indeed found and buried, so he's definitely dead end of story.

Option 2 : Henry found Randall still barely alive, took the mask and the treasure and left him to die there. Would explain a lot if Randall is the Mask guy (and possibly Descole)

Option 3 :Randall was unconscious, got rescued by Aslantes survivors (would explain where the actors come from), and the mask was left behind because it fell behind a rock or something. Then Henry finds the mask, and this idiot doesn't think it's strange that Randall's body is nowhere to be found and just thinks "yay money".

-It looks like Henry is honest about missing and looking out for Randall. But if my theory is correct and Randall is the Mask guy, then Randall absolutely hates his guts. Is... Is all this mess just a huge misunderstanding ?!

-Angela seems kinda... off. She doesn't seem bothered losing the pendant Randall gifted her before his disparition. Shouldn't it be something heavily important for her ?

-I don't trust the hotel guy. He's part of the accomplices.

- I'm lost... Is Randall really dead after all ? Is Randall both Mask guy and Descole ? Or just mask guy ? Or none ? Alive ? Dead ? Honestly the books are just describing Randall life story (or rather death story), and all he's saying is "Henry stole my life and my future wife I fuckin hate him". So yeah... To me he has to be both. Or at least the mask guy.

-YOU FUCKIN BASTARD LITTLE SHIT I DIDN'T EVEN THOUGHT Oh my gosh I want to punch this stupid guy with his stupid hairs. "Hey professor, let's talk archeology later professor, because you're so sympathic to me professor" MY ASS you traitor. Also who the heck is the hairy shadowy guy and why is he talking about what happened in last game and the movie ? And why is he talking about Descole while we haven't seen him the whole game ? (Unless he's indeed either Randall or Mask Guy). Who are they ? What have they done in this entire story ? What do they want ? Are they also looking for the Aslante civilisation ? (Problem is I know the name of the next game, so I guess the endgame will have something to do with the Aslantes anyway so... So like are we gonna bring reason to Randall, team up with him, and stop those new bad guys in the last game ? Is it what's happening here ?

- We're so close to the end and yet I still feel so confuse meanwhile Hershel is like "Hm, yeah, I think I got it". Does he know that his best friend might actually be not dead ?

-I was wrong about everything.

-Well, not everything, Randall is indeed not dead and is behind all this, though he has been manipulated by Descole who is not him after all. So I reiterate my question... Who. Is. Descole.

-Also... Seems like we have unethical archaeological multinational group as new villains! Comfort me in the idea that we're going to have some depths and redeemable qualities to Descole in the end, since we have new big bads badder than the bad guy.

-So the three places we've been to in this prelogy (including movie) are related to the Aslatnte... What is the real goal behind all this ? (Descole goal, and the mafia guys goal ?)

- I was so confused the whole game when the explanation was as simple as "Supposed dead guy is actually amnesic and got manipulated into hating two of his best friends who are both in love with him and fake-dated for 18 years and built an entire town just to wait for him to come home while the professor was drowning his grief with work." which is actually not simple at all.

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