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Professor Layton 4 includes unlockable Professor Layton RPG

by JC Fletcher on Aug 25th 2009 1:00PM

Most American gamers have yet to get their copies of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, and Level-5 has already released news that will make you yearn for the fourth game. At last night's LEVEL-5 VISION conference, the company announced that Professor Layton and the Devil's Flute will include a bonus game, Professor Layton and London Life.

The Brownie Brown-developed London Life is an RPG that, according to Level-5's Akihiro Hino, will last over 100 hours. It was originally announced for the ROID cell phone game service -- we have yet to learn whether it will still be released there in addition to DS. Devil's Flute will be out on November 26 in Japan.

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Professor Layton and London Life (DS)

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Tags: DS, level-5, level-5-vision-2009, Nintendo, professor-layton, professor-layton-and-london-life, professor-layton-and-the-devils-flute, puzzle, rpg

Reader Comments (37)

I've heard of Curious Village and Diabolical Box, and Devil's Flute makes 3, so what else is there? Did I miss a hype train somewhere?

You forgot "The Final Time Journey" or something like that.
Devil's Fruit is the 4th game.

Ah. Still not localized, I'm assuming. Well, I just bought a DSi on eBay, so it's time for me to find out what all the fuss is about. Layton is among the most interesting to me, at least until Scribblenauts and my rooster hat!

It's a really fun game with a lot of unique character, so I would think you would enjoy it. Grand Theft Auto is surprisingly awesome on the DS, might be worth a try...

Third game is called "The Last Time Travel".
Second game is called "The Devil's Box" (in Japan)
Fourth game is...er...the above mentioned.

I haven't been interested enough to get past puzzle 5 in the first game yet...

It's not Layton's fault that you can't solve puzzles.

Haven't been interested enough, or aren't smart enough?

professor earthbound and the quest for striped shirts

Layton beating up New Age Retro Hippies with a bat?

DAY ONE!

I laughed.

I can't wait to see Layton fighting a cup of coffee!!

Brownie Brown's track record kind of sucks. Remember Blue Dragon Plus and Magical Starsign?

And what about the Mana games and Mother 3?

I don't see your point. Both of the games you mentioned are great, the Mana games they've contributed to were decent enough, and Mother 3 is the amalgamation of only the best and most positive adjectives I haven't the time to type. They do great work.

F, I'm gonna toss out the yellow flag on the Mana games. Legend of Mana was the last tolerable game in that series, and even that was stretching it (I liked it at the time, but it didn't quite hold up too well). I haven't liked ANY of the BB-developed Mana games, and I really really tried to like Children of Mana.

Why SE doesn't suck it up and remake Seiken 3 for the DS, I'll never know.

Well, to be honest I enjoyed Magical Starsign more than the latest Mana games, and I really don't know where the Blue Dragon Plus hate comes... is a very good game.

And speaking of bringing games to the DS, Nintendo and Square should release an enhanced port or a sequel of Illusion of Gaia. I heart that game a lot.

I would...do...*things* for Illusion of Gaia on the DS.

DID SOMEONE SAY ILLUSION OF GAIA?!?

No, seriously, that's probably my favorite SNES game behind Chrono Trigger. If there was a remake on DS my heart would probably explode.

games inside games? what a time to be alive.

Some part of this reminds me of Xzibit...

Yo dawg I heard you like to play games so I put a game inside your game so you can play games while you play games, dawg.

I hope you meant to type "whimsical" and terrible just sort of slipped out.

That's two strikes, btw. First with Psychonauts, second with EarthBound, for the love of all that is holy please don't comment on Killer7 next.

Come on Nintendo speed it up, there is reason to not release a new Layton game every six months so we are caught up.

Supposedly there is a reason, which is that they ran out of puzzles; some of the puzzles were Japanese-language-specific so they used puzzles from the second game to make the English release of the first one, etc. Consequently it takes a lot longer to make new games; we either have to wait until several more games are out in Japan that they can use the puzzles from, or a separate development team has to come up with a whole batch more puzzles.

I've heard this online several times but don't know whether it's true or not. If it is, there might be a reason for the delay. Reason or not, the delay is indeed really annoying. :( [But let's be positive - the second game just came out - yay.]

Brownie Brown? Blechhhhhhhh, do not want.

I'm now afraid of RPGs. I have been playing Persona 3:FES, that's rated at 70+ hours, for about 95 hours now, with the end still pretty far away. I can't imagine how long London Life will take.

Layton in a new genre sounds pretty epic.

It took them well over a year to localize Diabolical Box. If they ever manage to bring this one over,they'd unfortunately probably either drop the RPG... or we won't be seeing it until 2015.

But here's hoping Level 5 will be a bit quicker this time around.

I have to admit that I'm intrigued by the possibility of a Layton-type RPG, but not sure how it would work. Can't find puzzles until your stats are high enough? How would you do battle (please no match-3 type mini games to do battle)? The concept is intriguing and I'll admit to looking forward to how it will work.

Apparently all you do is wander around 'making people happy', according to the 1UP live blog last night. Doesn't sound like there's much puzzle solving at all. It's basically an RPG full of side quests.
In other words, Brownie Brown pretty much just made an RPG with the Layton cast.

Hmm? I thought they were calling it 'Professor Layton and the Flute of Malevolent Destiny'?
http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2009/08/19/tgs_title_list_round_1/
That's what the official title is on the TGS list, at least.

Either way, this is really awesome. I'm not exactly an RPG fan, so I don't know that I'll enjoy this all that much to be honest, but essentially throwing in a full second game is a kick ass thing to do.

But Psychonauts WAS awful!

(minus away!)

Those screens... they look like something straight from Mother 3...

I want this RPG, hell, it looks like they could package it and sell it by itself, and it'd sell thousands!

inb4 "don't give them ideas"

There are certain things (like sigma harmonics, nanashi no game, and the last two ds tales games) that make me wish I could speak (or at least read) japanese.

This is one of them.

I really hope this gets localised, and preferably faster than Devils Box...

Its a very interesting series already waiting for my copy from amazon!

I too hope it doesn't take too long to get this one localized/translated to English. I am enjoying Diabolical Box and already want the next game , the Time Travel one. (Professor Layton is the BEST puzzle series out there, just like Brain Age is the Best Brain series)

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