Fifth Professor Layton game announced

By Oli Welsh Published 26 November, 2009

Miracle Mask due in Japan autumn 2010.

Level-5 has announced the fifth game in its wildly successful series of Professor Layton puzzle adventures. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will slot into Japanese DS consoles in autumn next year.

The announcement was made at a launch event for fourth game Professor Layton and the Devil's Flute, according to Andriasang. Europe and North America have yet to receive the third instlament, The Last Time Travel, but initial sequelPandora's Box came out earlier this year.

Miracle Mask is set in a magical town called Casino City which was created by the wish-granting Mask of the title. Level-5 showed artwork depicting a night-time circus parade with a giant inflatable clown. According to Famitsu, there will be significant changes to the game's systems.

If there was any doubt about Layton's popularity in Japan - a spin-off animated movie is due in December - Level-5 also hinted at a second movie and announced a promotion with McDonald's which would see exclusive puzzles available for download in the fast-food chain.

The series has sold almost eight million copies worldwide.

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Comments (11) Latest comment 2 years ago

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  • Nexus_6 #1 2 years ago

    After almost smashing the frigging DS against the cat in frustration at the early puzzles of Curious Village, i am now enthralled with the game and can't wait to get on to Pandora's Box and the rest.

    Getting extremely annoyed by the Fight Club BD advert splashing over the screen right enough....

  • KDR_11k #2 2 years ago

    What also needs mentioning is that Layton is the most popular in Europe, Curious Village sold as much here as in the US and Japan combined (Pandora's Box didn't have a lot of time to build up sales yet).

  • Nexus_6 #3 2 years ago

    KDR - excellent, didn't know that.

    It certainly is the game i would consider getting a DS for - been playing on the one i got my GF for her birthday. Got her PL CV for her next birthday too so technically its mine!

  • menage #4 2 years ago

    Don't worry, they'll just rehash old ones and sell em as new. By the time this hits EU everyone won't even notice they are using puzzles form 1 again.

  • jonsaan #5 2 years ago

    'Ooooooh Professsoorr Laaaayton?!'

    /shoots

    'Sorry Luke, but you had it coming, you mockney weasel. It's time to puzzle on without your annoying asides frankly.'

  • Razz #6 2 years ago

    Fifth game? o_O Last time I checked there was talk of a sequel to curious village and next minute there's a fifth game? WOW!

  • penhalion #7 2 years ago

    Ok seriously now. Stop announcing Layton games when we are only on the second one. Unless the puzzles become more interesting I'm actually not even sure how it's gotten to number 5 at all!

  • Caimbeul #8 2 years ago

    Arent only 2 out here so far?

  • rprince #9 2 years ago

    The fifth game is the final one, right? Or is there potential for more?

    Also, I love how EG constantly make a point of how far behind Europe and the US are in the series, every time there's a bit of news about Professor Layton! It is annoying, but it's a reasonably text heavy game and the translations are very good. Although some of the puzzles suffer in the clarity department, they certainly don't bodge the translation.

  • spookyzombie #10 2 years ago

    With any luck the 5th one will be out over here by 2020.

  • VMerken #11 2 years ago

    The good thing is that we have three more Laytons to look forward to. The voice acting is (barring the one exception we all well know and loathe) nothing short of superb, I love it :).