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Title: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 26, 2009, 10:32:34 PM
The CEO of Level 5 confirmed that the company is localizing Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=18055

 Yesterday at GDC, Akihiro Hino, the president and CEO of Level 5, spoke at the session entitled "Level-5’s Techniques to Producing a Hit Game." At the beginning of his speech, Hino showed a list of all the games that Level 5 released; the second game having an official English translation of Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box.    


During the Q&A session that followed, Hino said that he wants all six Professor Layton games to be released in North America and Europe. He also revealed that Level 5 is currently working on a localization of the second Professor Layton title that will hopefully be released sometime in six months.    


Chuck Jose contributed to this article.

Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Kairon on March 26, 2009, 09:54:26 PM
Took em long enough. They're up to... SIX? in Japan?
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 26, 2009, 09:59:25 PM
No, Level 5 is developing the 4th Professor Layton game which is the start of the second trilogy. Hino wants all 6 to be available in North America and Europe.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 26, 2009, 10:00:20 PM
Quote from: Kairon on March 26, 2009, 09:54:26 PM
Took em long enough. They're up to... SIX? in Japan?

3. The 4th one ("Professor Layton and the Devil's Flute") releases in Japan this fall. So either it was a bad translation or Level 5 is already planning to release 2 more Layton games.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: vudu on March 26, 2009, 10:09:57 PM
Best news to come out of GDC, hands down.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Kairon on March 26, 2009, 10:12:19 PM
Quote from: Flames_of_chaos on March 26, 2009, 09:59:25 PM
No, Level 5 is developing the 4th Professor Layton game which is the start of the second trilogy. Hino wants all 6 to be available in North America and Europe.

Ah, that makes things a little more reasonable. Still, I have a coworker who points at Nintendo not localizing Prof. layton games as a sign of hardcore abandonement, so I'm happy to hear this news.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Stratos on March 26, 2009, 10:14:05 PM
Is Professor Layton really considered a hardcore game? I always viewed it as more of a hybrid.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: NWR_Neal on March 26, 2009, 10:22:05 PM
Yes!!! More Layton = More Awesome!
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Sundoulos on March 26, 2009, 10:30:25 PM
Awesome!  I had lost hope that they would release any more here; the news that we might get both trilogies is awesome!
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Flames_of_chaos on March 26, 2009, 10:38:23 PM
Quote from: Kairon on March 26, 2009, 10:12:19 PM
Quote from: Flames_of_chaos on March 26, 2009, 09:59:25 PM
No, Level 5 is developing the 4th Professor Layton game which is the start of the second trilogy. Hino wants all 6 to be available in North America and Europe.

Ah, that makes things a little more reasonable. Still, I have a coworker who points at Nintendo not localizing Prof. layton games as a sign of hardcore abandonement, so I'm happy to hear this news.

And your point is? Level 5 confirmed that a localization is being done whether it is done by Nintendo or by Level 5. Level 5 is too small to publish games in North America so I think Nintendo will co-publish the game with Level 5 like the first Professor Layton in North America.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: TJ Spyke on March 26, 2009, 10:50:07 PM
Flames is right. Nintendo is publishing the game in North America (they don't "co-publish" it though), but it's not their IP. Level 5 owns the IP (and publishes the games themselves in Japan). I think the people blaming Nintendo probably don't realize this.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: BlackNMild2k1 on March 27, 2009, 12:38:35 AM
Nintendo better slow down... pretty soon they are gonna run out of things fans have been begging, bitching, crying and complaining  about for years.
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: IceCold on March 27, 2009, 01:25:28 AM
Wonderful!
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: NWR_pap64 on March 27, 2009, 01:36:07 AM
Quote from: BlackNMild2k1 on March 27, 2009, 12:38:35 AM
Nintendo better slow down... pretty soon they are gonna run out of things fans have been begging, bitching, crying and complaining  about for years.

Actually, they still have a few left over...

A new Kid Icarus game, a ground breaking Zelda title EVERYONE loves, Mother 3 in the US, Earthbound finally released on the VC (legal issues be damned), Waluigi gone for good, better third party support...

Fans will be bitching till the end of time...
Title: Re: Level 5 is Localizing the Second Title in the Professor Layton Series
Post by: Khushrenada on March 27, 2009, 01:42:43 AM
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Waluigi gone for good

Wait! What?