The final title announced at today's Level-5 Vision press conference was the event's biggest surprise. Level-5 and Capcom have teamed up for a crossover between Professor Layton (Layton Kyouju in Japanese) and Ace Attorney (Gyakuten Kenji).http://www.andriasang.com/e/blog/2010/10/19/layton_crosses_with_ace_attorney/
The new 3DS title is titled "Layton Kyouju vs Gyakuten Saiban." An official English name hasn't been announced, but just as a placeholder, one could refer to the project as "Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney."
What are Layton and Phoenix Wright pointing at?
Ace Attorney designer Shu Takumi made an appearance at Level-5 Vision to announce the project alongside Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino. Takumi is heading up scenario work on the new game.
Official materials released by Level-5 promise a game that that puts players up against puzzles with contradictions. The "puzzle" and "contradiction" theme are recognizable as, respectively, key words from Layton and Ace Attorney.
The game's story has Professor Hershel Layton and Phoenix Wright (Ryuichi Naruhodo in the Japanese version) finding themselves in a different world. They come to the medieval city of Labyrinth City, where reality and illusions are intertwined. This strange town is also home to witches, who hide in the shadows, and is a place where magic is real. It has also been home to a number of impossible occurrences of late.
The city is controlled by a villain named Story Teller. The story he writes with his pen becomes reality as the future of the world.
Layton will find himself faced with all new puzzles. As for Phoenix Wright, the person who seeks his help this time has been accused of witch craft.
The trial that takes place in this world is "Majo Saiban," or "Witch Trial."
The term "Witch Trial" will be familiar to those who've been paying attention to Capcom's recent Ace Attorney developments. Capcom recently hinted at an upcoming game announcement at the Ace Attorney portal. An image for the game showed a book with the word "Witch Trial." It looks like the identity of the mystery game has been revealed.
Level-5 opened a teaser site for the game today. The site will get some actual content tomorrow (10/20).
Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney is currently date TBA. Level-5 will be publishing the game.
Only thing I don't like so far is Layton being prosecutor instead of partnering with Phoenix, but well, the VS part of the title has to go somewhere.It'll probably wind up being a "friendly rival" kind of thing like with Edgeworth.
Btw, anyone knows if the full trailer has appeared somewhere or will we have to wait for the site to open to watch it?
It'll probably wind up being a "friendly rival" kind of thing like with Edgeworth.
Layton: Confusing the town for convenience using the powers of a witch, it has to be...You!
Girl: You're wrong, I'm not a witch.
Layton: Then, why do you know of a book that you've possibly have never read?
Phoenix:Objection!
Professor, there is a big contradiction with your statement!
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A mysterious case has awakened in Labyrinth City.
Archeology Professor VS Defense Lawyer
The two in a shocking challenging case
The Witch Trials
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Girl: Ah, nooo!
Luke: It's exactly like it's written in the book.
Maya: No way, that's not possible!
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Ruling the City
The Creator of All
The Supreme Culprit
"Story Teller"
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Girl: I will be killed...because, it is written within the book.
Phoenix: I won't let what ever the heck in written in that book happen.
Layton: Mr.Wright,
I think we may have made a huge mistake.
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Hershel Layton
Naruhodo Ryuichi
A Shocking Collaboration
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Layton: There is no limit for finding the perfect answer, Luke.
Phoenix: Look what we've gotten ourselves into. Y'know, I don't really like that top hat guy.
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Professor Layton VS Ace Attorney
LEVEL5XCAPCOM
This time the puzzles are full of contradiction
Nothing new at all, now, AMERICAN Phoenix speaking full sentences? That will be a first.For the love of God.
For the love of God.I dunno, I think english Phoenix and Edgeworth sound pretty awesome.
Get them good voice actors, because those english ones in the games make me worried. Unless I'm just wrong.
Plus, it'd look pretty stupid if the entire game was in 2D sprites, and the 3D effect just worked as a pop-out book.
Hell no. You'd be surprised by how well 2D layers work out in stereoscopic 3D.I've played classic games in 3D. They do work well, but it wouldn't be as such for a game with high definition sprites like Ace Attourney. It really does work better this way.
And if you played the 5th case in the first AA, you'd recall the instances where you could inspect and examine 3D objects/evidence. Really, for this crossover game, they could've even had you examine full 3D environments, with classic 2D sprites for dialog. But that's besides the point.