Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box may not be a perfect game in a vacuum but it is perfect for me, and playing it makes me almost perplexingly happy. It was immensely formative for me, and has stuck with me since I played it for the first time at the tender age of 8. When the Professor smiles and points at me and says "every puzzle has an answer" I feel like I'm being physically patted on the head.