History YMMV / ProfessorLayton

** Keep in mind, though, that Luke is [[{{Squick}} prepubescent]]. Though some fangirls [[{{Shotacon}} like that kind of thing]]...

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: Don't let the cute and quirky character designs and whimsical settings fool you; all of the games have several examples.

* CrazyAwesome: There's a bit of an ongoing tradition that the ending portion of the game tends to become absolutely ''insane'' further in. It becomes especially funny after Layton determines that the "secrets" of wherever they happen to be exploring at the time turn out to be relatively mundane and then he proceeds to [[spoiler: build a hang glider out of curtains and a giant globe]], [[spoiler:swordfight with an old man in a decomposing mansion while high on illusion fumes]], or [[spoiler:drive up the side of a twenty-story walking robot tank in the Laytonmobile]].

** A hint of SceneryGorn in Lost/Unwound Future, with the [[spoiler: Mobile Fortress]].

* ShipsThatPassInTheNight: Flora and Clive. They don't interact much unless you count [[spoiler: Clive kidnapping Flora]].

* YourMileageMayVary: Some puzzles may be a breeze for you; the same puzzles might make someone else tear their hair out.

* DieForOurShip: Flora's unfortunately subjected to this treatment by a sizeable chunk of the fandom.

* NightmareFuel: Don't let the cute and quirky character designs and whimsical setting fool you; all of the games have several examples.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series is '''huge''' in Europe, selling as muchas in the rest of the world combined. That makes the BadExportForYou only Europe got with ''Specter's Flute'' all the more jarring.

** GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: The series is '''huge''' in Europe, selling as muchas in the rest of the world combined. That makes the BadExportForYou only Europe got with ''Specter's Flute'' all the more jarring.

** One of the [[BrutalBonusLevel bonus puzzles]] in ''Diabolical Box'' asks you to multiply a three-digit number by a two-digit number to get a four-digit number... and you can only use each of the numbers 1-9 once. There are only two possible answers. Solving this puzzle without using hints is virtually impossible without [[LuckBasedMission random guesswork]] (even consciously avoiding multiplications that would make the last digit 0 doesn't help much; it only eliminates a handful of the ''[[BeyondTheImpossible over 387 million]] possible combinations).

** Luke's theme, "Future British Gentleman", from ''Eternal Diva''.

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wH9-ZudjsI Puzzle Battle]] in Unwound Future.
* Luke's theme, "Future British Gentleman", from ''Eternal Diva''.

* ScrappyLevel: Ask anyone if they like the peg solitaire or [[{{Klotski}} sliding]] [[BlockPuzzle block]] puzzles, among others.
*** This Troper loved the block puzzles.
** Don't forget the chess puzzles. "Here, this is a 10x10 chess board. Jump on every single space, and you can only move as a knight. Also, there is only one known way to solve this puzzle, and only one correct direction to jump for every single jump. [[CompleteMonster To top it off, we've replaced your hints with random chess trivia that is no help whatsoever.]] Oh, quit crying, you wuss."