With the Origin Island DLC the game just kept me in. After about 300-400 hours I had reached God-rank on each life profession which ranged from Magician or Hunter to Alchemist or Woodcutter.
Exploring the world, replaying it, and getting to God rank on each of the 12 lives in the game was just addicting. It isn’t the most complex, original, prettiest, or nuanced of games, but I have sunk hundreds of hours into it regardless. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney crossover game in November 2012, it was after this that Level-5 produced one of my favourite non-series games of theirs, Fantasy Life. Level-5 helped create the Professor Layton vs. Level-5 appears to be floundering in their direction, not helped by recent events or the death of Tago While less grounded than the originals, I still love them and their transition onto the 3DS for the last two games, although considering Pandora’s Box and Lost Future, Layton wasn’t ever shy of getting a bit wacky. They would also go on to create a prequel trilogy for Layton which takes us into the origin of Layton and Luke’s partnership, Layton’s backstory, and would also involve an anime film Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva as well. They would develop a few more Dragon Quest and Inazuma Eleven games and the Ni No Kuni series.
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It was around here that Level-5 began work on their Inazuma Eleven series of football role-playing games which spawned its own manga and anime too. This is the quintessential Layton game and deserves its own article of praise for its amazing characters, plot, music, atmosphere, and gameplay alike. Its success led to a sequel in later 2007, Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box, and then closed the original trilogy in 2008 with Professor Layton and the Lost Future. Curious Village never gets old, even as the simplest and most basic entry in the series in every respect. It provides a lot of the charm that I know Level-5 for, combining the music, characters, plot, gameplay, and artwork into an iconic series of games. The music is one of the greatest things about the entire series, which within the geographical setting of England draws inspiration from French style music. Works, an anime studio, provided the animated cutscenes and Tomohito Nishimura composed the soundtrack. Level-5 modified his puzzles to work with the DS’s touchscreen and stylus with Tago contributing 30 new puzzles for the game. This was because after going through many ideas of what the game, characters, and direction of it would be, rather than just being some form of puzzle game inspired by the Brain Training series, it took on a unique life of its own with Akira Tago’s puzzles from his Head Gymnastics series of puzzle books fitting with a story centring on the solving of a mystery by Layton and Luke. Akihiro Hino produced the game and Professor Akira Tago of Chiba University supervised the development. Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the Nintendo DS was released in 2007 as their first fully self-funded and self-published game, transitioning them to being both a developer and a publisher. It was then they would release their most iconic series – Professor Layton.Īfter Fantasy Life’s 2012 release and the final Layton game, Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy, in 2013, Level-5 went dead Their next game would be Rogue Galaxy, their third RPG for the PS2, which established them as a go-to RPG developer in Japan in the space of a few years. A reference to the highest mark on a Japanese school report card being level 5.ĭark Cloud in 2000 and Dark Chronicle in 2002 were their first games before Square Enix picked them to develop Dragon Quest VIII under the watch of series designer Yuji Horii.
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He was wary that his team wouldn’t be able to be an independent developer, so they partnered with Sony Computer Entertainment, which then allowed them to develop for their upcoming PS2 on the condition that he form his own company – Level-5. Level-5 was founded in 1998 by Akihiro Hino and his development team at Riverhillsoft. Multimedia Shorthand Version Available Here It is rather sad having grown up with their Professor Layton games and played them all multiple times that the company has seemingly drifted. Not that they’ve stopped making games, they still churn out their Inazuma Eleven and Yo-Kai series, but this is mostly it. Yet they seem to have all but vanished since the early 2010s. From the Professor Layton series of games and media to the 3DS game Fantasy Life, they are also the ones behind Ni no Kuni, too. Level-5 is a developer who has made some of my favourite games of all time.
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