History YMMV / ProfessorLaytonAndTheDiabolicalBox

%%* EvilIsSexy: Anton.

*** Perhaps his pulse was checked off-screen.

* {{Narm}}: The voice acting is at places very slightly awkward, but a more major one comes in the form of a MoodWhiplash. In the puzzle where [[spoiler: Anton tells the Professor to choose a sword]], a lot of tension is built up, which is all ruined by the Professor still doing his trademark finger-pointing, smile then catchphrase "success" routine. It is redeemed thanks to the ensuing SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.

* FoeYay: Layton and Anton, when the latter's dialogue is taken the wrong way.

** [[spoiler: Folsense is one letter away from "fool sense", and the way it's pronounced sounds like "false sense".]]
** [[spoiler:Sophia didn't tell Anton that she was pregnant with his child to avoid having their child stay in Folsense, the town plagued by a deadly disease, as a heir of the Herzen family.]]

** They do provide a counter at the top of how many people you've given tea too, however.

* TearJerker: [[NightmareFuel/ProfessorLayton See here]].

* ThatOnePuzzle: “Plaza Puzzle”. The puzzle itself isn’t too difficult to solve as long as you can think outside the box. What makes this puzzle veer into this trope is the fact that you can know how to solve it, yet still have your solution counted as incorrect because your line wasn’t exactly where the game wanted it to be. Figuring out the precise placement for the line on the first attempt takes either an impeccable sense of proportion or, more likely, [[LuckBasedMission dumb luck]]. Of course, those who don’t accomplish this are likely to second-guess their logic, leading to a ton of wasted time spent searching for an alternative solution that doesn’t exist, and/or three wasted hint coins just to find out that the original logic was correct, and the game was just being picky.

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Anton in the final act.]] Also Flora, after Layton and Luke confront her about her disguise and she tells them she just didn't want to be alone again.

* VillainDecay: [[spoiler:Don Paolo, the BigBad of the previous game, was a genuine threat before. However, in this game his evil plot takes a backseat to Anton's story, and is thwarted in a rather more humorous manner than last time.]]

* NightmareFuel:
** The game's very premise involves a cursed object and a vampire subplot [[spoiler:though both of those turn out to be false]].
** The possibility of blood on the walls.
** Anton is enough to scare the crap out of anyone.
%%** The dream sequence with the ball.
* TearJerker:
** [[spoiler:Anton and Katia's grandfather-granddaughter reunion at the end of the game. Even Anton and Beluga's reunion during the credits was touching.]]
** [[spoiler:While Anton gets to meet his granddaughter, he never gets to meet his daughter, who died soon after Katia was born, and only learned of her existence long after she died.]]
** Watching Folsense [[spoiler: slowly lose the facade of a glamorous and thriving town as the hallucinogenic gas is cut off, revealed for the hollow shell that it really is. Compounded by Anton looking at his hands in speechless shock and realizing that he's actually an old man.]]

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Anton looks more like [[spoiler: Beluga's mother]] than [[spoiler: Beluga's older brother]]. Where he is standing in the family portrait does not help.
** MissingMom: Where is his actual mother?

* {{Narm}}: The voice acting is at places very slightly awkward, but a more major one comes in the form of a MoodWhiplash. In the puzzle where [[spoiler: Anton tells the Professor to choose a sword]], a lot of tension is built up, which is all ruined by the Professor still doing his trademark finger-pointing, smile then catchphrase "success" routine. It is redeemed thanks to the ensuing CrowningMomentOfAwesome.

* FridgeBrilliance: [[spoiler: Folsense is one letter away from "fool sense", and the way it's pronounced sounds like "false sense".]]

** The events of the Game begin, when Layton & Luke discover Doctor Schrader, who they believe to be dead, cause of the Box. [[spoiler: He is actually alive, he actually got a scent of the Hallucinogenic Gas in the Elysian Box; but you would expect that some one as intelligent as Layton, or an Inspector like Chemney, would make ''checking for a pulse'' the first thing they do, Upon discovering him]]!?

** [[spoiler:While Anton gets to meet his granddaughter, he never gets to meet his daughter who died soon after Katia was born and only learned of her existence long after she died.]]

* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Anton in the final act.]] Also Flora, after Layton and Luke confront her about her disguise and she tells them she just didn't want to be alone again.

** The events of the Game begin, when Layton & Luke discover Doctor Schrader, who they believe to be dead, cause of the Box. [[spoiler: He is actually alive, but actually got a scent of the Hallucinogenic Gas in the Elysian Box; but you would expect that some one as intelligent as Layton, or an Inspector like Chemney, would make ''checking for a pulse'' the first thing they do, Upon discovering him]]!?

** They evidently walk into town with them [[spoiler: and have no reason to hallucinate them, either, so must actually be there]]; the real question is ''how did they get them''?

** The events of the Game begin, when Layton & Luke discover Doctor Schrader, who they believe to be dead, cause of the Box. [[spoiler: He is actually alive, cause all that's in the Box was Hallucinogenic Gas, but you would expect that some one as intellignt as Layton, or an Inspector like Chemney, would make ''checking for a pulse'' the frst thing they do, Upon discovering him]]!?

** [[spoiler:While Anton gets to meet his granddaughter, he never gets to meet his daughter who died soon after Katia was born.]]

%%** [[spoiler:The story of Anton and Sophia, especially her letter to him.]]