{"id":211043,"date":"2021-03-08T20:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/professor-layton-games-inspiration-level-5\/"},"modified":"2021-03-08T20:04:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-08T20:04:20","slug":"level-5-explains-inspiration-behind-professor-layton-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/03\/08\/level-5-explains-inspiration-behind-professor-layton-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Level-5 Explains Inspiration Behind Professor Layton Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Level-5<\/strong> is perhaps one of the more underrated Japanese video game developers and publishers out there, having been involved with many popular\u00a0Japanese game series and properties of the past decade. Level 5 is perhaps best known for series such as Ni No Kuni<\/em><\/a>, Yo-kai Watch<\/em>, and\u00a0Professor Layton<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Now, a recent interview with Level-5 CEO Akihiko Hino gives some insight into the company’s early days and its eventual move to self-publishing. Professor Layton<\/em> fans can also glean some interesting history on how the team at Level-5<\/a>\u00a0created the Professor Layton<\/em> series through this interview as well, including what inspirations the team took when creating the series fans have come to know and love.<\/p>\n

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The interview with Hino comes by way of Yahoo! Japan, which largely centers around Level-5’s beginnings as both a video game developer and, eventually, as a publisher. Much of the conversation revolves around the Professor Layton<\/em> series<\/a>, as it is one of the earlier franchises that really put the studio on the map. Apparently, the series first began as a sort of experiment, with Hino saying, “At the time, it really felt like we were making Layton<\/em> with a small number of people. There was a lot of risk involved with the project, but I wanted to keep staff morale high, so I repeatedly assured them that ultimately the project was just an experiment.”<\/p>\n

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Of course, the series eventually grew into something much bigger than a simple experiment. Hino continues, explaining that a large part of Layton<\/em>‘s inspiration came from a Japanese puzzle-solving book series called Atama no Taisou<\/em>, which Hino was a big fan of. Hino goes on to cite\u00a0<\/em>the Sherlock Holmes<\/em> series<\/a>\u00a0as another big inspiration for Professor Layton<\/em>, which doesn’t come as much of a surprise to fans of both properties. Though the full interview is entirely in Japanese, it’s an interesting read that gives some great insight into Level-5<\/strong> and Professor Layton<\/em>‘s history.<\/p>\n

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Source: Yahoo! Japan<\/a><\/p>\n\n

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