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1* AssPull: Many players regard TheReveal as this. In-game, even ''Luke'' takes issue to it: [[spoiler:"WHAT DO YOU MEAN ALL THE VILLAGERS ARE ROBOTS?!?"]]
2* FanNickname: Throughout the game, pieces are acquired which ultimately get assembled to form a robot dog, which will sniff out hint coins. The player gets to name this dog; many players call it "Gizmo," since the pieces from which it's formed are identified as "strange gizmos."
3* ThatOnePuzzle: "The Chocolate Code", full-stop. You're expected to decode a message made out of seemingly random letters on a candy bar. Yet even the hints make absolutely no mention of [[spoiler:the bites on the various pieces]], which are crucial to solving it and appear as little more than decoration otherwise. It doesn't help that the solution is completely convoluted: [[spoiler:the bites on each piece correspond to the position of keys on a keyboard, relative to the letter on the candy bar (so, for example, if the letter was "R" and there was a bite taken out of the left side of that block, the decoded letter would be "E" because E is to the left of "R" on a standard keyboard)]]. The only tip that any of this is actually relevant is a passing mention in the puzzle text that the person sending the message is a "technophile". Thankfully, the European release saw this puzzle axed (likely due to localization issues in countries where AZERTY or QWERTZ keyboards are standard) and replaced with a much simpler calculation puzzle.
4* ThatOneSidequest: The Inn sidequest. The gist is that you get various items for solving certain puzzles, and you put these items in either Layton's or Luke's room in order to spruce up the place to their liking, with each providing comments on each item to nudge you in the right direction. The execution, however, absolutely ''reeks'' of TrialAndErrorGameplay, given that the comments provided for certain items are vague and/or misleading (for instance, the comments for [[spoiler:the map]] would have you believe that it belongs in Layton's room, when it fact it needs to go in Luke's; this is compounded by the globe ''also'' going into Luke's room).

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