The Professor Layton games are very funny on many levels but I think the funniest part how they’ve set up this quaint world full of whimsical characters and then every game we get some more genuinely dark and tragic backstory for our mild-mannered main character.
Like, oh haha, this bland looking dude has a kid sidekick and lives in a world of Scooby-Doo logic. He’s also a master swordsman who has lost half the people he’s ever cared about in a number of deeply traumatic circumstances.