Professor Layton DLC is a lie! |
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| BY Mathew Ballard Mar. 24th, 2008 | More on: |
If you’re an avid DS gamer, then there’s a good chance that you’ve been playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village, the much loved puzzle adventure game, since its release back in February. There’s also a good chance that you are, eyes glued to your DS, waiting for a new batch of puzzles to be released by Nintendo every week.
But, what would you say if those puzzles you think you’ve been downloading were in your hands all along? You may think that I’m just crazy - and you would be right - but as it turns out, Nintendo isn’t feeding you more puzzles to keep you scratching your head, they are actually letting you download a “special” code that unlocks the puzzles that are already on the cartridge. That’s right, the Professor Layton DLC is a lie!
Someone decided to dig into Professor Layton’s closet and found 162 bonus puzzles just sitting there, waiting to be unlocked. Now, releasing puzzles weekly would be understandable if it would actually cost something (although Chris may disagree with me on that one), but essentially keeping the player on a leash after he/she already paid for the game is just plain odd. No?
March 25th, 2008
at 12:04 am
Yea, that is kind of suck. What happens when we run out in three years or so…ok I probably won’t still be playing it so it’s a moot point but still.
March 25th, 2008
at 12:26 am
Indeed, that’s just not right. What is the purpose of giving the content you’ve already paid for in such a limited manner? To keep the community active and talking? “Last weeks puzzle was great! Can’t wait to see what we get next week!” ?
March 25th, 2008
at 1:31 am
There will be a sequel coming out sometime, so I’m sure once they get through those puzzles it will be just about time to for the sequel.
March 25th, 2008
at 9:46 am
It’s not a bad idea really as long as the puzzles aren’t solvable too quickly. A lot of players may be less likely to sit there and drill through all 160+ puzzles if they know they’re there already, but they will more than likely continue talking about and thinking about the game if they only get a few at a time, it seems fresh.
All comes back to that most basic part of human desire, people don’t want what they know they already have, but they will wait and chase forever that which they can’t have.
Now that the gig is up; however, it kind of spoils all that and will just anger players if there’s no good explanation for why they aren’t allowed to access all the content now.