{"id":8187,"date":"2022-10-08T14:24:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T14:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/talking-point-professor-layton-and-the-lost-franchise-where-did-the-beloved-puzzle-series-go\/"},"modified":"2022-10-08T14:24:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T14:24:58","slug":"talking-point-professor-layton-and-the-lost-franchise-where-did-the-beloved-puzzle-series-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/10\/08\/talking-point-professor-layton-and-the-lost-franchise-where-did-the-beloved-puzzle-series-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Talking Point: Professor Layton And The Lost Franchise: Where Did The Beloved Puzzle Series Go?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This reminds me of a puzzle&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, my gaming experience was all about learning to become a gentleman. This was a central topic which ran throughout the Professor Layton series. If Professor Hershel Layton wore a trench coat, I wore a trench coat; if he drank fruity tea, I drank fruity tea; if he was reminded of a puzzle during the most inappropriate of times&#8230;well, you get the idea. This is to say that the Professor Layton games were a huge part of my formative gaming and indeed, my self-education. So why is it that, today, my views of the series are so often tainted?<\/p>\n<p>The answer may be found in the last title of the series: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/laytons_mystery_journey_katrielle_and_the_millionaires_conspiracy\">Layton\u2019s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires\u2019 Conspiracy<\/a>. This a game that, regardless of its merits, never sat well with me. There was no Hershel, no Luke, no aggressively brilliant jazz score. It wasn\u2019t a Professor Layton game \u2014 to my mind, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/talking-point-professor-layton-and-the-lost-franchise-where-did-the-beloved-puzzle-series-go\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Talking Point: Professor Layton And The Lost Franchise: Where Did The Beloved Puzzle Series Go?<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>This reminds me of a puzzle&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From the late 2000s to the mid-2010s, my gaming experience was all about learning to become a gentleman. This was a central topic which ran throughout the Professor Layton series. If Professor Hershel Layton wore a trench coat, I wore a trench coat; if he drank fruity tea, I drank fruity tea; if he was reminded of a puzzle during the most inappropriate of times&#8230;well, you get the idea. This is to say that the Professor Layton games were a huge part of my formative gaming and indeed, my self-education. So why is it that, today, my views of the series are so often tainted?<\/p>\n<p>The answer may be found in the last title of the series: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/laytons_mystery_journey_katrielle_and_the_millionaires_conspiracy\">Layton\u2019s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires\u2019 Conspiracy<\/a>. This a game that, regardless of its merits, never sat well with me. There was no Hershel, no Luke, no aggressively brilliant jazz score. It wasn\u2019t a Professor Layton game \u2014 to my mind, at least.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/10\/talking-point-professor-layton-and-the-lost-franchise-where-did-the-beloved-puzzle-series-go\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}