Topic: Professor Layton movie

[mac<censored>]

Dunno if it's already been mentioned around here, but there's a Professor Layton movie coming out; it opens in a couple of weeks.

Title is "[レイトン教授と] 永遠の歌姫" ("[Professor Layton and] the Eternal Diva")

Do animated movies based on games follow the usual rules?
(same great art style as the game tho!)

Website:  http://www.layton-movie.jp

[ThomasO]

What do you mean by "the usual rules?" Like, it contains many of the elements from the games but makes an attempt to create a storyline that ends by being completely unlike the original idea? I don't know. The only animated movie I've seen based on a video game was the Animal Crossing movie, and it followed the direction of AC:WW quite well, in my opinion. For example, the concepts of working for Tom Nook, moving in, other residents moving out, were all worked into the storyline in a way that felt natural.

However, I've never played Professor Layton (I plan to at some point) so I wouldn't be able to tell what are based from the game or not.

[mac<censored>]

What do you mean by "the usual rules?"

"A movie made from a video game must suck"

[Peachylala]

There is even a trope for this. Yeah.

Clock me up as seemingly interested.

[KDR_11k]

I think the Japanese are decent at making movies out of games.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Showing the boobs of the female characters ensures success in Japan.

[Peachylala]

Depends. Was MGS4 popular in Japan for Naomi Hunter's clevage alone?