I have a problem.

It’s silly, I know, but I have a prob­lem with brain teasers. I can’t put them down with­out get­ting really angry at myself for giving up. I will con­stantly think about the prob­lem until I’ve answered it. It’s really quite unhealthy. So what do you think hap­pens when I come across a game like Pro­fes­sor Layton and the Curi­ous Vil­lage?

I lose sleep.

Phoenix Wright: Jus­tice For All is very much like the orig­i­nal, but with a few added tricks. Released in North Amer­ica Jan­u­ary of 2007, Cur­rent fans sali­vated over the new game. Fea­tur­ing slightly improved graph­ics, - maybe I’m nuts but I don’t recall moving mouths in the first game - slightly better music, an expanded cast, and a new fea­ture to aggra­vate the player, Jus­tice For All pro­vides hours of enter­tain­ing Lawyer-y fun.

Ice Sta­tion Santa is the first install­ment for the second “season” of Tell­tales expan­sion of the Sam & Max uni­verse. I grew up with the orig­i­nal Sam & Max, and so when I heard tell of a new com­pany taking over the title - since LucasArts is run by morons and dis­con­tin­ued the title - I was a little wor­ried. Hell I remem­ber the short-​lived car­toon, which though enjoy­able had screwed with my young sen­si­bil­i­ties. The voices weren’t the same and it really bugged me.

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attor­ney is for the most part, a rather enjoy­able game. Released in Octo­ber of 2005 (if you live in North Amer­ica as I do) this game became an instant hit and flew off the shelves. Now granted I waited two years before play­ing it (since then a second game has come out, and there are a third and fourth in exis­tence some­where) but only because I have only recently bought a DS. I have to make sure to buy my friend Dane a dec­o­ra­tive cake for lend­ing me his copy.