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Professor Layton: The animated Feature Film



As everybody expected, this game deserve to be made into a movie.

Titled Professor Layton: The First Movie (there will be others?), the flick is slated for January 2010 in Japan and will follow the adventures of Professor Layton and his young assistant, Luke. This isn't the series first foray into features. Last year, Level 5 announced a live action Professor Layton film.

New details have emerged about the Layton anime. It will be produced by Japanese studio TOHO and will get an entirely new story drafted by Level 5 president Akihiro Hino. Hino is the brains behind all the previous Layton games as well as directing the forthcoming Dragon Quest IX. The game's voice actors will reprise their roles for the feature animated films.

source: kotaku website

The Another World

Another potential Level 5 game Ninokuni: The Another World which the company is collaborating with Studio Ghibli. Looks pretty promising to me.

At the beginning, game made for people to be relaxing and enjoyable(simple character, good story and easy gameplay) but lately, it's all about good CG quality, super complex story and confusing game system(well actually I'm talking about Square-enix). Hope Level 5 can become a new Square like other people said soon.

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