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Professor Layton and the Inquisitive Village is a mix of a puzzle and trial game from Level-5 and published by Nintendo for the DS.  The amusement is basically 120 brain teasers of sundry difficulty, wrapped in a well-presented history that helps to encourage advancement through the game. Though there are a few small problems with the pastime and it lacks some replay importance, it is definitely a nice inscription that can appeal to a wide file of gamers.

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The game is based around Professor Layton and his in one's teens assistant Luke as they are called to the town of St. Mystere by the widow of a flush ex-Baron that lived in the hamlet; he had hidden a “Of gold Apple” somewhere in the hamlet, and the person who was able to clear up his riddles and find it would be able to lay claim to to a valuable treasure; while many have tried and failed before, the widow believes Layton’s intellectual skills will help rescue the day.  The two find the village unusual, if not odd, as it holds many secrets and mysteries to be solved, and the villagers (for a beneficial reason explained later in the play) keep themselves, and Layton and Luke, entertained through asking brain teasers.  However, things become more serious when the two find themselves amongst a murder mystery and Layton identified as a key believe in things, making the peer into for the Golden Apple even more material.

The game’s history is pretty well written, and feels (in conjunction with the great graphics and take as one's own use of animated cutscenes) feels analogous something from the brainchild of Hayao Miyazaki, boss of several Studio Ghibli films...

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