Professor Layton and the Last Specter coming to North America

by JC Fletcher on Jun 8th 2011 11:40AM

It didn't make it onto Nintendo's stage presentation, or really any kind of announcement, but many of you have probably already solved the puzzle of whether Nintendo is localizing Professor Layton and the Last Specter for DS. Imagine us pointing our finger dramatically when we say ... it is!

Nintendo quietly released a trailer and screens for the localized fourth entry, the first of a new trilogy set before the three games that have already come out. The media does not include anything about the "London Life" RPG, a Brownie Brown-developed Layton RPG unlocked at the end of the Japanese release of this game. But let's be optimistic and assume Nintendo hasn't removed that great-looking bonus.

Tags: ds, e3-2011, level-5, nintendo, professor-layton, professor-layton-and-the-last-specter

Reader Comments (11)

My wallet was taken for a wild ride with all the awesome Wii U, Wii, and 3DS announcements. I don't know how much more awesomeness i can take...

@Mrguy you know that guy

The 3DS games in itself will kill my bank account. The rest just means more nights on the corner.

A lot of what Nintendo's actually up to didn't make the stage show: Mario Party 9, Rhythm Heaven, Kirby Mass Attack, Animal Crossing as noted below, and this

Paints a better picture for the Wii holiday than the show itself (Skyward Sword only)

This reminds me of a puzzle....

A man from the South Pacific called in to a publisher and demanded a refund for a page-a-day calendar he'd bought, claiming that because of where he lived, he paid for something in it that he could never use. The agent on the line for the publisher thought this was patently absurd, until she got the man's address and looked at the news. Smiling at his cleverness, she then sent the man a refund for exactly 1/365th of the price of the calendar.

Why did the man get his refund?

Hints:
1) The man didn't travel at all; he stayed home the entire year. Other people were affected by this problem, but none of them were silly enough to demand a refund!
2) If the man had lived anywhere else that year, or if he had called in during a different year, he wouldn't have a claim to a refund.
3) The agent said that if things had gone the other way, she'd have chided the man for getting double use out of that day on the calendar and not paying for it!

This one's hard, but I think a little bit of cleverness will solve it.

@John Z
Um, the International Date Line? Was there a change recently?

@B310

You got it. The man lives in Samoa, which will be skipping December 30th of this year when the International Date Line shifts eastward.

Technically, the Date Line doesn't itself move: nations like Samoa (and earlier than that, Kiribati in 1995) instead assert that it has shifted, and begin doing business under their new positioning. Because the Date Line is so sparsely populated, however, this situation doesn't come up often.

Well done! I was worried the hints weren't helpful enough.

This is the best announcement of the week so far. I thought the RPG would have kept this release from ever localizing. If dropping the RPG is what it takes to get it here, fine. All I want is more Layton!