Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask 3DS Release Date Is November 2012. Long-Awaited First 3DS Entry With Polygonal 3D Graphics And Puzzles

Here is the official American logo for Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask for 3DS.

Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle will be released in America this November as “Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask”. The long-awaited Japanese game, which started out as an original DS title before being moved to a 3DS launch game, and is so old that it was originally set to hit DS release in Japan in the third quarter of 2012.

Here is an awesome CG Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask Debut English Announcement Trailer (USA).

However the game was over halfway finished when it was completely scrapped in order to be built-up again to fully take advantage of the Nintendo 3DS system and it’s built-in, glasses-free, stereoscopic 3D graphics. It was eventually released as a launch game for the 3DS in Japan on February 26th, 2011, and was the best-selling launch game, with sales of 117,000 copies+ sold on launch day.

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask ties into the Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva CG film, and takes place before the events of the original DS trilogy and the first game in the series (Professor Layton and the Curious Village). That’s because Miracle Mask is the second game in the “Prequel Series” that got its start with Professor Layton and the Last Specter released in 2011.

The dialog scenes are very dumb looking in this new polygonal 3D style.

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask is the first 3DS game in the series and, as such, will take advantage of the stereoscopic 3D graphics of the system. It is also 3D in other ways however, being the first game in the series to be rendered in polygonal 3D with polygonal 3D in-game graphics. As well as polygonal 3D minigames, which gives them a completely different feel than previous entries in the series.

Additionally, the characters now have a “bobble-head”-style of movement that is quite jarring and, quite frankly, insanely ugly looking, as you can see in this video of the Japanese version in action.

Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will feature a whopping 150 Puzzles to solve built-in, with an additional 365 DLC Puzzles available to download for free, post-release. These will be released at one-a-day for an ENTIRE YEAR after the game hits stores! Like with all new 3DS releases, Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will be available to buy at launch in either digital or physical form.

A Ladybug Minigame shows off the new polygonal graphics.

Here is the announcement of the game from the Nintendo Direct Press Conference, skip to 6:10 in the video to see the first polygonal 3D minigames and a bit of gameplay for the title.

Last but not least, hopefully Nintendo will commission a digital release of Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva, redubbed with the English voice-acting cast, and released via the Nintendo eShop and/or Nintendo Video; so fans can finally see the film how it was originally meant to be watched. The film is now available in the U.S. via Viz Media (released last year) on DVD, however the film was not redubbed with the American voice actors.

 

WatchMePlayGames: Professor Layton and the Last Specter Let’s Play Part 2

Part 2 of my WatchMePlay Professor Layton and the Last Specter Let’s Play on the Nintendo DS!

Still in tutorial mode basically during the early-goings-on of this Level-5 Adventure game, we still get to experience some of the further story meat and potatoes as we arrive at the town of Misthallery and see a Tutorial on Hint Coins and The Trunk, which tells us all about those features and how they work. We also go through the first Journal Entries and watch the first “Episode”. Enjoy. :)

Other WatchMePlayGames Installments:
* Elite Beat Agents Part 1
* Elite Beat Agents Part 2
* Kid Icarus: Uprising Part 1
* Kid Icarus Uprising Part 2
* Kid Icarus Uprising Part 3
* The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX Part 1
* Professor Layton and the Last Specter Part 1

 

WatchMePlayGames: Professor Layton and the Last Spector Part 1 Let’s Play (DS)

An amazing painting featuring the cover artwork of Professor Layton and the Last Specter for DS!

WatchMePlay Professor Layton & the Last Spector in Part 1 of my Let’s Play originally published for VideoGamesBlogger.

WatchMePlay Professor Layton and The Last Specter Part 1:

Professor Layton and the Last Specter was released on October 17th 2011 and is the fourth entry in the beloved Puzzle Adventure Game series from Nintendo and developer Level-5.

This game follows previous entries including: Professor Layton and the Curious Village, Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box, & Professor Layton and the Unwound Future, yet The Last Specter is actually a prequel, set before the first game in the series and marks the start of an all-new prequel Trilogy that continues on 3DS with Professor Layton and the Mask of Miracle (a game yet to be released in the West, we’ll likely see it at E3 2012 in English form).

In Professor Layton and the Last Specter, we get to experience the story of how our beloved renowned archaeologist (a well-mannered English gentleman) and his young assistant Luke Triton first met, while also delving into the mystery of a seemingly supernatural giant specter that has been haunting the town.

Other WatchMePlayGames Installments:
* Elite Beat Agents Part 1
* Elite Beat Agents Part 2
* Kid Icarus: Uprising Part 1
* Kid Icarus Uprising Part 2
* Kid Icarus Uprising Part 3
* The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX Part 1
* Professor Layton and the Last Specter Part 1

 

Guild 01 3DS Announced. New Trailer (Nintendo Direct). Four Games In One, Each By Famous Creator (Suda 51, etc). Level-5 Developing

Four games in one all made by different producers... Awesome.

Guild 01 3DS is a unique project that many outside of Japan probably don’t know about; however it’s a very interesting premise that everyone should be excited about. That is, if it ever makes it outside of Japan… so far it hasn’t been announced for a Western 3DS release, so here’s to hoping…

Developed by Level-5 (Professor Layton series, White Knight Chronicles series, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, Dark Cloud series), the aim of the game is to do a unique collaborative project, similar to something like “The Animatrix” or “Halo Legends”. Except instead of anime, it’s finally being done with videogames!

Like with the aforementioned anime film projects, Guild 01 for 3DS is actually four-games-in-one. And each segment, each of those games, is being developed by a highly acclaimed, talented producer who will have the freedom to completely shape that “episode”, “segment” or what-have-you (his game) into whatever he wants. Not only that, but these games can even be in different genres!

Topping the sound of this very sweet cake off is the fact that big names are collaborating, including Suda 51 (No More Heroes, Killer 7, Lollipop Chainsaw, Shadows of the Damned), Yoot Saito (Dreamcast’s Seaman and GameCube’s Odama, among others) and Yasumi Matsuno of Level-5 (Final Fantasy Tactics, Vagrant Story, Final Fantasy XII, Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, need I say more?)…

If all of this doesn’t make you VERY excited indeed, then you might as well go play Hello Kitty: Island Adventure. Cause you’re just a Jew.

Ahem (South Park reference, for the uninitiated).

As stated, each game will be a different genre, here is the rundown!

Game Name: Kaiho Shojo
What is it?: A “3D shooting game” developed by Suda 51. So you can expect all kinds of immature humor and crazy zaniness layered with overthetop action or brutal violence. In this game you control a robot called “Kaihoki” which literally translates to “Liberation Machine”. Awesome. What does Liberation Machine do you ask? Blast him some demon scum, naturally! To put the cherry on top, acclaimed anime studio “Bones” is supplying the animation (or cutscenes) for Suda 51’s little project!

Game Name: Rental Bukiya de Omasse
What is it?: Developed by America Zarigani (a comedy group), producer Yoshiyuki Hirai has decided to craft an RPG in which you play the role of the owner of a Weapon Shop! You will create weapons and sell them to adventurers, who need them for their RPG spelunking. Giving a unique perspective on an age-old RPG cliche.

Game Name: Air Porter
What is it?: Yoot Saito continues his oddball nature by developing a game in the Simulation genre. In it you control an airport business as it takes in baggage from fliers, which you must then immediately and efficiently expedite to the proper destination (or something). The airport will grow and expand as you succeed at your task, making the game ever more complex in turn. Given the developer, there’s likely to be some interesting twists, considering how freakin’ weird both of his crazy oddball wacko games are… in particular Odama (no relation to Obama… this was before the age of Obama!) which was a “Samurai Pinball” game where you used your microphone (i.e. your voice) to order troops to haul ass out of the way of a gigantic evil boulder (the “pinball”…) that’d bowl them over (BWAHAHAHAHAHA!) if it weren’t for the godly voice commanding them where to move… No I haven’t played it. Although I ALMOST bought it on many occassions. I knew it’d become rare… now it costs…. *checks* Oh okay scratch that. It’s going for like $2 bucks new. :/ I should buy it…. ONE DAY it’ll be rare. I promise you that. And then of course there was Yoot Saito’s “Seaman”, a game about a talking “manfish” that learned your language and grew wiser as you actually, literally, spoke to IT using the microphone… he always makes microphone games. Cause he’s a nut. Course, he also made “SimTower”, his only “normal” game…

Game Name: Crimson Shroud/strong>
What is it?: Thankfully, since “Guild 01” IS coming from Level-5 after all, Level-5 producer Yasumi Matsuno decided to stick with what Level-5 fans love best… RPGs created by Level-5! This one will be a “dark fantasy” type… and how many times did I just say Level-5? DAMMIT!

Now check out the Nintendo Direct Guild 01 3DS Trailer to get an interesting look at all of these four games in action!