Professor Layton and the Curious Village is, first and foremost, a point and click visual novel. Despite the gameplay not suggesting it, it also happens to have some of the best atmosphere in any game, ever. It's a focused, melancholic story of a town first and foremost, and that village is one of the best parts of the entire game. It's not so much "quirky" as it is, well, curious, or strange. Everything is carefully tuned to just be a little off beat, just a little eccentric. You could nitpick a lot about the game -- the slow pace, the lack of relevant puzzles, and the occasional groan-worthy "logic" puzzle -- but does that really matter when it's presented as well as this?