Shady Types

Episode 10: Shady Types is the tenth special episode for Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. There are reports of two suspicious individuals lurking about in Nulwitch Woods (formally Eldwitch Woods), so Phoenix Wright, Hershel Layton, Maya Fey, Luke Triton, and Espella Cantabella set out to investigate.

Unlike the chapters in the main game and the episodes in the main Ace Attorney and Professor Layton series, this special episode features next to no gameplay (aside from one new puzzle) and has a lot of fourth wall breaking by the characters.

References to popular culture

 * During Wordsmith's musings, he begins to speak of "the meaning to the ultimate puzzle of life", which Triton interrupts with "Huh? Please don't say it's 42..." This is a reference to the comedy book, movie, television, and radio series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, where a giant supercomputer called Deep Thought states, after seven and a half million years of calculation, that the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything is "42".


 * The puzzle in this special episode (Puzzle 80: Short Round Ride 2) features Fey riding on a minecart, and is a follow-up to Puzzle 23: Short Round Ride (which is found in Mysterious Labyrinthia). The titles of these puzzles and the presence of minecarts are references to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the second instalment in the Indiana Jones franchise, which has a character called Short Round and features a high-speed minecart chase at the film's climax.