On Puzzles...

Being a university student with extended breaks and no friends and a lack of funding and textbooks, I turn to video games. A lot. And of course, anyone who knows me knows that I love Ace Attorney and Pokemon with all my heart, but close to that would have to be the Professor Layton series.

Confession: The only Professor Layton game I've finished (and by finished I mean I've completed the storyline, I haven't actually finished all the puzzles, but I've gotten to the credits) is Lost Future - Unwound Future for the Americans. It's one of my all time favourite games. I laughed, I cried (much to my mother's embarassment), I angsted over difficult puzzles, I squealed in glee when I worked out a particuarly annoying puzzle, I Googled the answers in weaker moments...anyway, you get the picture.

I'm currently playing through Pandora's Box. I started it ages ago, but then Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver came along, and a myriad of distractions...anyway, I've started working through it again and it's rather hard to put down. Yes, having everyone ever say 'oh, this reminds me of a puzzle'...PARTICUARLY mathematical ones (ohai, I'm an English major) can get on your nerves. But often they're incredibly interesting and fun. And as the plot thickens and gets more and more intricate...the games become incredibly hard to put down after a certain point. It does take a bit of tenacity to get to that point, I will admit, but after that, you're just determined to find out what's going on. Twists, twists everywhere. Delicious twists. So so delicious...

...oh right, sorry, got carried away there.

I'm hoping to finish Pandora's Box by the time Pokemon Black/White come out. Fingers crossed!

P.S. I'm praying, every day, that the gods of Capcom and Level-5 will release Phoenix Wright x Ace Attorney in English...