History VideoGame / ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy

* SequelHook: Subverted, while not a sequel exactly, it seems heavily suggested with the "To be continued" at the end, that they will remake Curious Village and possibly the entire original trilogy.

* FanGirl: Hannah of the Clampettes is back.

* WhamEpisode: Starting from the end of Chapter 5, the game throws whams at you relentlessly, but four of them are especially big: [[spoiler: Emmy was working as a mole for Targent all along, Descole explains of his shared past with Layton, revealing that he is his ''brother'', that Hershel was actually '''Descole's''' name, and that their father is none other than ''Bronev''.]] '''Holy crap'''.

-->'''Young Professor Layton:'''But [[spoiler: Hershel]], I want to stay with you!

Layton recieves a letter from professor Desmond Sycamore, who requests his help in solving a mystery he has stumbled upon: the identity of a young girl who was frozen in ice for millions of years, but is inexplicably still alive. The girl is the key to solving the mysteries of the ancient Azran civilization, and it becomes clear that Layton and his friends aren't the only ones who are interested in doing so...

** The reward for completing all the puzzles is a final Episode, in which [[spoiler:Layton, Luke and Emmy reminisce about their adventures in the prequel trilogy and thank the player for everything]].

* AerialCanyonChase: We get one of these early on in the game. Use your puzzle solving skills to shoot down unmanned drones and missiles!

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: As soon as the golems wake up they promptly start destroying all civilisation they can see with [[FrickinLaserBeams ancient Azran laser beams]]. Layton and crew have to figure out a way to shut them down. [[spoiler:This is despite Aurora telling them earlier on that the golems have sentience and feel emotion. When the golems get shut down they plummet out of the sky and smash to pieces. Layton's gang literally exterminated an entire sentient race, and nobody is in the least bit bothered.]]
** Later plunges into straight up [[FridgeHorror Fridge Horror]] when [[spoiler:it's revealed that Aurora is also a golem, yet is practically human...]]

* HundredPercentCompletion: As always, there are curiousities and bits and pieces to find. Good luck!

* TakesTheBullet: [[spoiler:Descole, for Luke.]]

** In one of the post-game episodes it's revealed that [[spoiler:Sycamore's wife and daughter died together]], and is implied that Targent was involved somehow, but this major piece of backstory is never touched on again.

* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler: The last scene of the game is like this, showing Layton and Luke heading off to another adventure. It's also a {{Book End|s}} for the series]].

* BookEnds: [[spoiler: The last scene after the credits has Layton and Luke driving to St. Mystere, which was the very first scene of ''The Curious Village'']].

* [[spoiler: WeatherControlMachine: The source of Hoogland's problems.]]

-->'''Young Professor Layton:''' [[spoiler:''(to his older brother'')[[note]]]]Who will turn out to be ''Descole''[[/note]] But [[spoiler: Hershel]], I want to stay with you!
-->'''Professor Sycamore:''' [[spoiler:My daughter would be about your your age if she was still alive.'']]

* GuiltFreeExterminationWar: As soon as the golems wake up they promptly start destroying all civilisation they can see with [[FrickinLaserBeams ancient Azran laser beams]]. Layton and crew have to figure out a way to shut them down. [[spoiler:This is despite Aurora telling them earlier on that the golems have sentience and feel emotion. When the golem get shut down they plummet out of the sky and smash to pieces. Layton's gang literally exterminated an entire sentient race, and nobody is in the least bit bothered.]]
** Later plunges into straight up [[FridgeHorror]] when [[spoiler:it's revealed that Aurora is also a golem, yet is practically human...]]

-->'''Young Professor Layton:''' [[spoiler:''(to his older brother'')[[note]]]]Who will turn out to be ''Descole''[[/note]] But [[spoiler: Hershel]], I want to stay with you!

* AntiquatedLinguistics: Julien. Good heavens.
** GratuitousIambicPentameter: It's not just that he speaks in words of old / but, by habit, he speaks in metered verse!
*** Justified in that he and Romilda are meant to be a ShoutOutToShakespeare (though, oddly enough, the latter speaks normally).

* AerialCanyonChase: We get one of these early on in the game. Use your puzzle solving skills to [[CrowningMomentofAwesome shoot down unmanned drones and missiles]]!
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Cryogenic sleep does not work that way. Nor does one just wake up from it upon being released. There's also the massive internal damage that would surely have occurred. Characters do comment on how impossible it is, and assume that the Azran must have had some technological means of getting around the problem.
** [[spoiler: As it turns out, Aurora is a golem, capable of withstanding extreme temperatures.]]

* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:Descole doesn't join everyone when the Azran Sanctuary starts to fall apart. He says goodbye to Layton, and is later seen riding off on the Bostonius with Raymond.]]
** Emmy pulls this at the very end too after [[spoiler:being revealed as a Targent spy]], mostly because of the fact [[DoomedByCanon she wasn't in the original trilogy]] it seems.

* CallForward: [[spoiler:Chelmey and his newly-married wife are seen at the aerodrome, going on their honeymoon together. Awwwww.]]

** [[spoiler:Also the ending, where Luke and Layton are shown driving towards a certain village]].

* [[spoiler: EnemyMine: After Bronev opens the door to the Azran sanctuary, kidnaps Aurora, and has Emmy betray Layton, the latter and Descole team up to stop them. [[TeethClenchedTeamwork Neither of them are happy about it.]]]]

* [[spoiler: GuestStarPartyMember: Descole, surprisingly enough. He even gets to solve puzzles of his own!]]

* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler:Aurora has one of these once her memories return, and attempts to jump off the top of the Targent tower. It's only through Layton's [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre inter]][[YouAreNotAlone vention]] that she finds the courage to make her own future.]]

* HumanPopsicle: Aurora, who survived millions of years of being trapped in a giant ice cube.
** FishOutOfTemporalWater: Which means that she has a lot of catching up to do after she wakes up.

* IncrediblyLamePun: A village in the jungle in which the buildings are shaped like mushrooms, is named "Phong Gi".
** Also, the name for the glue snail is "glutinus maxiumus". [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything Remind you]] [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar of anything]]?
** Then there's a mushroom name: "Ommis Nommis". Doubles as a shout out to the internet meme.
** Professor Sycamore's jokes, which are lame enough to make people stop laughing.

* RetailTherapy: Courtesy of Emmy, [[spoiler:Aurora]] gets some of this, complete with a cutscene of them shopping for clothes, and then Emmy prompting Layton and Luke for their opinions. Crosses over with TheMakeover [[spoiler:as it's a means of helping Aurora to create a disguise]].

* SceneryGorn: Verges on this in Chapter 2, set in the town of Kodh. It's quite a bleak place, really -- seems kind of run down and a bit shabby.

* [[spoiler: ThatManIsDead: The spirit of the trope is invoked by Layton in the ending, who learns that his real name is in fact, Theodore Bronev. Layton says that Hershel Layton is the only name he needs.]]
* [[ThatRemindsMeOfASong That Reminds Me Of A Puzzle]]: Once again, some of the puzzles can come completely out of left field. For example, a woman in Hoogland gets angry with you and bluntly asks you to leave... after you complete a puzzle.
* TheMole: [[spoiler: Emmy. It turns out she had been reporting Layton's progress on discovering the Azran legacies.]]

-->'''Young Professor Layton:''' [[spoiler:''(to his older brother'')[[note]]]]Who will turn out to be ''Descole''[[/note]] But [[spoiler: Hershel]], I want to stay with you!
* WholePlotReference: The central plot is almost a direct carbon-copy of the main plot of ''[[VideoGame/MegaManLegends Mega Man Legends 2]]'': The protagonists find and awaken a representative of an ancient race of precursors in a frozen land, said representative informs the protagonists that if they find a certain number of "keys", they will unlock a great legacy left behind by said precursor race, and the protagonists then travel the world in an airship to track down said keys before an opposing organization gets them first. [[spoiler:And as with ''Legends 2'', said "legacy" turns out to be an ancient KillSat designed to KillAllHumans when activated.]]

* ArcWelding: [[spoiler: Sycamore goes over the fact that the Golden Garden, Ambrosia, and the Infinite Vault, respectively uncovered in ''Last Specter'', ''Eternal Diva'' and ''Miracle Mask'', are all examples of Azran civilization. Soon after, another is revealed to be under Lake Kodh.]]

-->'''Young Professor Layton:''' [[spoiler:''(to his older brother'')[[note]]]]Who will turn out to be ''Descole''[[/note]] But [[spoiler: Hershel]], I want to stay with you!

* ShoutOut: Hoogland has the couple of [[Theatre/RomeoAndJuliet Romilda and Julien.]]

* GratuitousSpanish: [=NPC=]s at San Grio!

-->'''Young Professor Layton:''' ''(to his older brother'')[[note]]Who will turn out to be ''Descole''[[/note]] But [[spoiler: Hershel]], I want to stay with you!