Proffesor layton endings *spoilers*

Yeah, those endings really bothered me quite a bit. The whole game was making sense of things, and using logic, yet the endings defied that.

 Diabolical Box Spoilers

The way I read it, the whole town was long since abandoned, therefore yeah, everyone in town as well was an illusion. Still doesn't explain how everyone had the same hallucinations.

I mean at least in

 Spoiler

[SPOILER="Link's Awakening Spoilers"]Link's Awakening, the fact that the island was an illusion was thanks to it being a deity's dream, which is able to explain continuity.