The Professor Layton games have long demanded a soundtrack a bit more sophisticated than the one they have — the plinky, “ooh boy, we have a mystery!” music is fine at first, but eventually I’ve found that it begins to grate. This is especially true of the first game that I played in the series, 2008′s Professor Layton and the Curios Village.
Wired Game|Life editor (and my former boss) Chris Kohler published an excellent story today about his exploits in Disneyland last weekend. He wasn’t there just to float down log flume rivers or hang out with Mickey Mouse; he went to solve puzzles, Professor Layton style.
Level-5 rented a big space at this year’s Tokyo Game Show, but then got cold feet and missed the biggest TGS ever. Doh.
Nintendo studio Brownie Brown helped make Mother 3. It also, quietly, made a Professor Layton role-playing game, available only in the Japanese and American versions of DS game Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call.
Level-5′s Professor Layton and Capcom’s Ace Attorney are joining forces for a puzzle lawyer game, complete with witches and big swords. It looks great.
Level 5′s puzzle adventure series Professor Layton spawned a film in 2009, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva. Anime distributor Viz Media now plans to bring the Japanese movie to America this fall, reports Anime News Network. Another puzzle solved.
Today, Professor Layton studio Level-5 is teaming with Japanese phone game company DeNA to make a new social game called Professor Layton Royal. [Kotaku Japan]
