January 25, 2008

I Want

I received a “mys­te­ri­ous” email today, which led me to the offi­cial web­site (noth­ing there yet), and then to Ama­zon to get details. They had a great trailer for the game, but I was sur­prised to find that you can only “share” their video links via email to one per­son. Go fig­ure. So then I went to YouTube, where I found sev­eral trail­ers, all of which I could embed here if I wanted to.

Talk about nar­ra­tive in games. I’m a puz­zle gamer, so this is now at the top of my list. Even if you’re not, though, it’s worth it to watch the trailer, as it’s more inter­est­ing than many Hol­ly­wood movie trailers.

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8:26 pm Comments (8)

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  1. Yeah, I got that link too and I have to say that it does look quite appeal­ing. I just hope that the puz­zles are well inte­grated. Too bad we’ve got to wait 3 weeks!

    Comment by dr. b. — January 25, 2008 @ 10:17 pm

  2. My word!

    Comment by Jaap van de Geer — January 26, 2008 @ 6:10 am

  3. Thanks for blog­ging about this. I’m plan­ning to talk about the crit­i­cal think­ing and learn­ing in Lay­ton close to the release date. Feb. is a good month for games that teach on the DS with both Pro­fes­sor Lay­ton and Apollo Jus­tice (the sequel to the Phoenix Wright series) com­ing out.

    I actu­ally pre-ordered Lay­ton back in the fall, when it was sched­uled for a Nov. release. This is def­i­nitely a game worth pro­mot­ing. Here’s hop­ing your post will stir up some more inter­est in the library gam­ing community.

    Comment by paul — January 26, 2008 @ 7:05 am

  4. Now I just need to steal my daughter’s DS for a while.

    Comment by David — January 26, 2008 @ 8:45 am

  5. I wouldn’t have been sur­prised to find that you can share the video links to one email. Pretty clever ARG-like pro­mo­tion! I’m just sur­prised to find that there isn’t more to the meta-game…

    Comment by Scot Colford — January 26, 2008 @ 10:24 am

  6. Looks great! Now, if I can just fin­ish “Phoenix Wright: Jus­tice for All” before then. I have not been mov­ing through that quickly at all.

    Comment by Karin Dalziel — January 27, 2008 @ 8:19 pm

  7. See­ing a red x box … or was that the point?

    Comment by Donavan Vicha — January 28, 2008 @ 9:59 am

  8. I can see it okay, Don­a­van — it’s an embed­ded video from YouTube. Can you try it on a dif­fer­ent browser and let me know if you still can’t see it? Thanks.

    Comment by jenny — January 28, 2008 @ 9:55 pm

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