And now ladies and gentlemen… a tap dance. Tap once on the mark, twice in the corner and then right, left, right, left. That’s it, very good. Now cover the area, your dance is not complete until you have tapped every possible section of your floor space in a rhythmic and pleasing manner. Well done, of course a good tap dance should be rewarded, and like a street busker, shiny gold coins shall be your prize.
This is how I play Professor Layton and the Curious Village.
It is a good game, well worth the hype, if you happen to be a fan of puzzle games. I have put many hours of play into my little DS since its arrival. I enjoy puzzling away the hours stretching my weary brain cells. I do also find that the adverts were correct, it is fun to play with other people, passing the console between puzzles and seeing who has the sharper puzzling intellect, who is more spatially aware and who is better at maths. Sadly other people do not enjoying playing it with me. They do not like the tap dance.
I hope that not too many of you are imagining me standing over some poor innocent passer by tap dancing whilst forcing Professor Layton into their outstretched hands, because this is not really what I mean. My tap dance is one that occurs every time I enter a new screen, and it is simply done with the stylus in order to obtain hint coins. I am verging on obsessive in my tapping of every new screen, even if I have been there before, just in case something has changed and I can now tap a new spot that hides a hint coin. First I tap things that I think might contain hint coins, and quietly congratulate myself on how good I am at walking into a new area and unearthing two hint coins in my first two taps. Sadly this is not enough for me, after I have finished tapping the obvious areas I will systematically tap the whole screen, top to bottom, side to side.
The only thing that has recently topped my joy of prolonged screen tappage is the information fed to me firstly by the Metro and then by our very own Jake. This information is of course that there is now a game available to me on the XBLA that requires no more of me then to scour whole screens full of stuff to find tiny and pointless things! Hooray for Interpol: The Trail of Dr. Chaos for not only does this mean there is another outlet for my mania, but also that there is a market for this sort of tap dance madness. We are all around you!
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