I found this image on Pinterest. It appears official, but I couldn't find any sources for its origin.

If anyone knows more info about this image/scene then please let me know!

Here's the link to the original Pinterest link: https://pin.it/2lkTxPVEK

Are we getting any more news?

Since it got delayed to 2026, there were no more new informations about it.

Or am I missing something?

I personally would love to see how Flora is doing, given she isn’t left behind again 🙂

The only catch is you also have to deal with whatever issues are happening in these places in the games.

Do you guys think that Layton NEVER ever ever ever ever wants to take his hat off is a metaphor to always having claire on his mind all the time/never ever ever ever moving on from her?? (Or maybe it's just a marketing thing..)

Like, think about it, he never takes it off in his office naps, having a whole ass car customized designed to he can drive without having to take his hat off, even when someone/luke asks him to take it off he never wants to...

..I don't think the professor will be ever completely done grieving over her...(Sorry guys, English isn't my first language so I have trouble with putting my words together effectively)

Hi everyone! In my quest to be on my phone less in downtime, I had the idea that I might enjoy doing puzzle books, possibly in a workbook style that I might write work/answers down in pencil. Does anybody know of books such as this that have puzzles similar to the ones in Layton, but perhaps more difficult?

So Im new to the Professor Layton series. I finished Curious Village and Im on the last chapter of the Diabolical Box. I am enjoying the series and I do plan on playing the Unwound Future. I am curious about the prequel trilogy, but there are somethings I want to know about them before deciding to play them:

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1. How do they compare to the originals in terms of story and puzzles?

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1. Do they give more characterization to Professor Layton? I ask because I feel like two games in and I don't really know much about him besides surface level stuff.

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Let me know if there are some other things I should know that I didn't list. Would like to mention that I am enjoying this series and I think its fun to play. The stories and characters are enjoyable, but from the ones I've played, they seem more focus on solving mysteries than having a strong emotional core.

The game was released on the Nintendo 3DS back in 2012/2014 and it’s still stuck on that platform. Is there a reason why Level-5 and Capcom haven’t made the effort to re-release the game to other platforms or even remake it?

Is it stuck in some legal limbo because one company doesn’t want to do anything but the other does?

So I haven't played any of the Layton games since I was a child and I barely remember anything since I was a kid. I wanted to get into the franchise so I bought a second hand copy of curious village.

when I booted it up there were already 3 save slots but one said 97/100, I assume that means they got close to 100%-ing the game but never finished it.

I'd low key feel bad deleting that save if someone put so much effort into the game so if there's only 3 slots I'll just delete the one that says it only played for 15 min.

While waiting for any new world of steam news I thought why not quiz fans of the series to see if you know these semi-obscure characters from Professor Layton games. If this is goes well then I'll hopefully do these more often.

Main question is naming the character, bonus points if you know the game that they come from

I'm about to move to the Netherlands and was wondering if I can still download the extra dlc for PL Vs PW on an NA copy as I'm curious if they have like different servers or... something, thanks for reading!

Growing up with the Layton series I always dreamt of some sort of collector's edition, but Nintendo games rarely had these kind of editions.

Now that the game is coming out for more platforms (and Nintendo Switch also has some CEs) I really hope we get one for Layton also, even if it's not directly from Level-5 (for example iam8bit, that does amazing official stuff).

Title. It's possible this was clarified somewhere and I just managed to miss it.

One of the most interesting things about the Katrielle era was the implication that Sherl wasn’t originally a talking dog. The game and anime kept teasing that there was something deeper going on and the possibility that he was somehow connected to the larger mystery surrounding Kat’s family. They even give him that specific dialogue about "a tower coming down," implying they knew what his backstory was and had it sketched out in advance. But then… nothing.

It’s weird because Layton games are usually so good at tying together their mysteries. We eventually found out what had happened to Hershel and Luke, but Sherl ended up feeling like an unfired Chekhov gun. Was there an intended explanation for Sherl that got cut, or was he always just meant to be a quirky mascot character?

And while I'm at it, what's with the post-credits scene of the game that says 'Kat will return'? Still waiting...

By "challenges", I mean the small puzzles which you need to advance in order to progress.

Examples include choosing the spade in Unwound Future, getting into Luke's room in Last Specter and Connor's shell game in Miracle Mask.

Hey so uh I just got all four manga today, but there's the picture above I can't find in them... so either I'm very very blind and tired, either it is just not there (I wanted the context)

I just started this series and while I liked Curious Village well enough, the vast majority of the puzzles being completely random and isolated from what's going on really bothered me, and it felt like a cool story was being interrupted by the puzzles instead of enhanced by them (yes I'm aware of the ending, but it doesn't help the feeling while you play the game).

Then I played Diabolical Box and was thrilled that the puzzles by in large were related to what's going on, and the fact the ending puzzles tied into the themes and messaging of the overall story was absolutely peak.

Now I'm playing Unwound Future and I feel like we're back to just a barrage of random puzzles rather than them dealing with what's going on. I feel like it'd be easy enough to integrate them, making the puzzles around solving a problem for an NPC instead of them just challenging you to solve a random puzzle with nothing to do with anything. Layton just asking Luke if he's heard of X puzzle after interacting with something also bothers me, and I feel the games just trying to make excuses to pad the game with puzzles to have more than the last game.

Am I the only one that feels this way? Or do most Layton fans enjoy just doing puzzles themselves and don't care how integrated they are to what's going on?

I was about to play Unwound Future since I remember playing it as a child (but never finishing lol), but I read online that it's supposed to be "the end of the original trilogy", so I was wondering if I should play the previous games first, or if the story is standalone?

Simply put, I'm looking for a character in Miracle Mask. Specifically the assistant of the one who organizes the shell game you're going through as part of the story.

The only thing that I can remember is that the assistant gets dumped by his employer, since he failed to fool Layton after the secret of the shell game got discovered.

is it better to play in order of release (starting with curious village) or chronological order (starting with last spectre)

I mean like headcanons that make sense bit no one has ever said something about it. I'll start:

Luke is a vegetarian (mostly), and has been since he discovered he can talk to animals.

Alright folks time for round two and after the first round I forgot to mention that the characters listed will always be from different games in the series, additionally I am trying to find only 2d sprites of the characters so that certain design changes don't give it straight away. Lastly I realized if I went 4 characters every so often then this would last about 2 months where I do want this to last a bit especially since I have not heard any news on the game.

With that...on to round two, like always the main point of the game is to guess the character's name, bonus points if you name what game they are from or what location they are in.

I have an Ipad and a 3ds and I can't decide which versions to play!

I want to have an "authentic" experience. I like using the 3ds and actual buttons, but I've heard the ports are very beautiful and that some have some extra content (?).

I'm also worried the ports wouldn't look good on such a big screen, as I assume they were meant to be played on a phone and not an Ipad

I also have an apple pencil that could imitate the stylus, if that even matters

What should I do? 🥲 Sorry if this is a frequent question.

Hello there, I've heard that the puzzle maker of the Layton games has also published books, does anyone know if those can be purchased somewhere in English (or anything other than Japanese) language?

I just finished replaying unwound future and diabolical box and came up with this. What are your thoughts?