Here's another game I'm really excited about: Professor Layton & The Curious Village. I love, love, LOVE the art style! The character designs and environments look amazing. I also dig the music...it's too bad the voice acting and fake British accents are so poorly done.

The concept is a great one. It's a neat little murder mystery that's primarily a text adventure game with some nice full animation bits and a bunch of logic puzzles that are somehow linked to uncovering various clues.

The logic games remind me of the simple puzzle games my Uncle would challenge me with involving a bunch of matchsticks. Their transition to a DS Stylus screen are very natural and clever.

More than anything, though, is I'm in love with that wonderful visual style. There's so much more to Japanese character design and it's nice to see the developers behind "Professor Layton" are willing to embrace and explore new ways of visual design that harken back to classic Japanese animation.