Professor Layton and the Curious Village/Regional Differences

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Name Input Screen

The American version uses hand-writing recognition for the screen where the player inputs their name. It was, however, very clunky, which led to this feature being excised in the European and Korean versions.

The Japanese release used also a slightly traditional keyboard.

U.S.	Europe/Japan

Voice Acting

The European and Korean versions uses the US dub for all of its languages (all further localized Layton games starting from the second one have a different dub for Korean language and each European language), with a single difference: all the lines said by Luke have been re-recorded by a native British voice actress. The British accent imitation done by the American actress was reportedly borderline offending for the UK play testers. This change was carried in all the Layton UK versions.

Text Changes

• In the Japanese and US versions, it's stated that Chelmey's favorite food is sweet-potato fritters. In the UK version, however, it's stated that Chelmey's favorite food is cake.

Name Changes

Many names were changed between the Japanese and international versions.

Japanese	Translation	English		Japanese	Translation	English		Japanese	Translation	English
ロイ	Roy	Simon		ダイス	Dice	Franco		アンナ	Anna	Beatrice
キネツク	Kinetsuku	Gerard		プーク	Pork	Pauly		マック	Mac	Percy
サロメ	Salome	Dahlia		ビクトリア	Victoria	Agnes		ボブ	Bob	Gordon
アンダルトン	Andalton	Archibald		ギネス	Guinness	Jarvis		アドネ	Adne	Adrea
ゼペロ	Zepero	Giuseppe		ガント	Gant	Crumm		プッカ	Pucca	Prosciutto
リーサ	Lisa	Ingrid		ポーロ	Polo	Pavel		コーエン	Cohen	Sylvain
アロマ	Aroma	Flora		アレン	Allen	Baron		マリア	Maria	Violet

The US English and European English revisions have a few name differences.

US	Europe
Viola	Violet
Flick	Nick

Graphical Changes

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• During the part where Layton and Luke read a newspaper article about Chelmey, the original Japanese version incorrectly spells Chelmey's name as "Chellmie". This was fixed in the Japanese friendly version and the international versions.
• The European and Korean versions uses a symbol of a hat and a symbol of a coin to state the puzzle number and the amount of coins you have. The US and Japanese versions write the puzzle number and coins in actual text. This change would carry on to all future Layton games.
• While the question and answer for Puzzle 49 remains the same, the international versions changed the graphics related to the puzzle.
• In the original Japanese version, the hint tab that shows up when solving puzzles shows stars while the Japanese friendly version and the international versions use numbers 1, 2, 3 instead.

Change in Picarats

Picarats in the Layton games are used as points for completing puzzles. The harder the puzzle is, the more Picarats you are awarded for completing them. While the US and Japanese versions give you the same amount of Picarats for each of the puzzles, a few puzzles give out different Picarats in the European and Korean versions. This change in the amount of Picarats obtainable affects the maximum Picarats that can be obtained between versions. In the US and Japanese versions it's 5312 Picarats, while in the European and Korean versions it's 5302 Picarats.

Puzzle Number	JP/US	Europe/Korea
#41	10	30
#114	10	20
#124	70	50
#125	80	60