Professor Layton VS Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright is certainly one of the best releases on the 3DS this year, and it shouldn’t be missed.

No one should object to this enjoyable crossover.

An interesting adventure with two popular pacifist heroes. Nothing really new here, though. [Apr 2014]

In light of the fact that both series got strong new entries over the last year, this unlikely meeting of heroes is quite impressive. The pace regularly changes enjoyably between these two distinct kinds of gaming. That they never really mesh is probably the games biggest singular issue. But, as we surely can all agree, there's way worse problems to have.

This crossover between Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright brings the best of two worlds into one game. With its very well thought and executed concept, Professor Layton vs Phoenix Wright is set to charm fans of both series alike. It does miss out, though, on the quantity and quality of the puzzles offered, as well as on the lacklustre outcome of its plot, perhaps a casualty of such an ambitious crossover.

It's great, but not quite as strong as either series' peak. [June 2014, p.66]

Impossible not to be disappointed after so long a wait. But when one witnesses the result, on will probably think that this cross-over wasn't meant to be. I love spaghetti, and I love chocolate spread, but with a little thinking, I wouldn't mix the two. Maybe that's how they should have contemplated this wedding between Layton and Wright. Even the brilliant production values, 3D transition and exquisite music are not enough to make us forget about the dull situations one has to repeat over and over again. It's the poorest of the Phoenix Wrights and the most laughable Layton.

The characters really make the game, and the music... yeah the music is special.

Layton vs Wright was interesting crossover that tragically missed its full potential. The characters atmosphere and music all had the Layton touch that we've come to know and love, but the gameplay took a slight impact. There are far fewer puzzles than any layton game before and they were all about a 6 on the difficulty scale, while pheonix's trials required less critical thinking and more tedious interrogation work to progress the trial. Speaking of, though this was supposed to be a game that put both characters on equal footing it was clear that this was a level 5 game and layton was the real star of the show. All of which is forgivable had the creators not made two mistakes, one being the sandbagging of an interesting character and hindering his development. The other being that there were inconsistencies and plot holes from the beginning of the game that weren't explained by the end of it. Some of which, not all, were forced to be explained in free DLC. Overall while entertaining and a good time waster it just feels like there could have been so much better than it turned out.

As someone who has never played a Professor Layton game I found his segment boring, but the trials are the same as the ones that we have grown to love from the Ace Attorney series, also the voice acting (for Pheonix and Maya at least) **** and the difficulty of the puzzles were incredibly inconsistent, but overall it's a good game

Worst of both series combined.... really couldn't take the grip of the cases and the trials.... the logic used to detect in consistences and stuff was so.... voided... really a forgetful experience... It looks and sounds nice tho, i give you that.

This game is a joke. If you've seen "The Village" you'll figure out the twist pretty quickly. There is time traveling that is unexplained. The game wants you to forget the first part of it. You have to if you want to accept the "Twist". It makes little to no sense.