So I wrote some more Layton meta???

There was a single lonely Layton prompt on a free-for-all meta request meme. I had to fill it.

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But man, I could talk about this stuff all day. Like how Misthallery plays with the general purity and corruption motifs - a lush rural town, but its clear and sparkling water is unsafe to drink, its politics full of greed and lies and manipulation, black markets and class strife. How Hershel's choice at the end of Curious Village retroactively contrasts with the choices of Bill Hawks and Duke Herzen in their respective games, and then the same money/death connection appearing in Miracle Mask. How there is no "Eternal Life" in Eternal Diva, only finite live repeatedly stolen, and the true form of immortality actually being dead but remembered by the living. Dahlia being tormented by her own original purpose as a replacement for a dead woman within in her subconscious, even long after being memory-wiped, reset, reprogrammed into a different person with the same face. Layton canon is kind of fascinating if you set aside its inherent goofiness and take it seriously for a few seconds. (Though of course I wouldn't love it so much if it weren't goofy.)