I just finished the game, and it was great. The story was gay, but you don't play Layton for the story. You play it for the fantastic puzzles. The puzzles in this game, on average, seemed harder than the puzzles from the first game. But that is a good thing. For example, there's a set of 6 puzzles that are like those peg games you find at Cracker Barrel, the first couple are fairly simple, the next two are hard, but the final 2 are ABSOLUTELY BRUTAL. I love it! I can't reccommend this game enough.