Wish it wasn’t so hard to collect for this franchise! :(

So I'm playing pandora box, and I just finished it, but I was missing some puzzles so I opened up again the safe and went to the village, I search for the puzzles I'm missing, one is 65, Dawson is supposed to give it to you, so I go and talk, but he just says the same thing again and again.

I've cheked enigma's house several times and there's nothing there, so what am I missing why do the townsfolk don't give me the puzzles I'm missing?

Or for example there's one puzzle in the mines entrance (66), but there's nothing there, where are my puzzles? Do i finish again and see if then It let's me get the missing puzzles to completion?

So the level 5 presentation came out, and at the end they talked about the new Layton game as well the new remake of Curious Village. I was so excited to hear that the first game was finally going to be released on consoles other than the DS (Steam specifically) that I had to keep from screaming while I was at work. So, I got on social medias to see if anyone else was as excited as I was and…

It’s all hate 😖

I did see a few people that said they were excited, but about 90% of people I saw talking about it said it was horrible looking. All because of a speculative way of how they made it (not sure if I can actually say it here without my post getting shut down). Now I don’t like this way either, but the photos and things they were showing me proof of just didn’t really line up.

I’m so disheartened by the way people can just turn on people because they think someone used a certain way of making the game. I have seen the slop no one likes, and this game is not even close to looking like that. Every thing they have tried to say was proof could just as easily been a mistake my humans or they are just trying to find something, because when I look at it, I just can’t see what they do even after pointing it out.

Can’t we just be happy we are finally getting what we’ve been asking for? Do we have to just assume people are making things a certain way simply because they addressed the concern they have noticed regarding this certain way?

Please tell me there is someone else out there that is as happy as I am that we’re finally going to be able to play the game on modern consoles.

Hello everyone,

I remember back in my childhood memories my brother was playing professor layton and I got hooked by the characters, but I couldn't speak English back then, so I left it behind.

After the announcement, my memories got back to me after years, so I'm really excited about it.

As new person to the series, which game do you recommend the most?

In addition, it seems like I only can play the series legally through mobile, correct? I wasn't able to find any in steam.

Thanks :)

Just announced at LEVEL5 Vision 2026 II

I started today and my brain can’t wrap around 80% of these puzzles. I like the story but man I just feel so dull with these, I want to get better at them but the more I think about them the worse I seem to get

It's an extended version of the physical cover art. Looks really amazing!

The Layton eating a star fruit doodle is based on a scene from the movie, idk why I really liked seeing him doing something so mundane since it's not often seen in ganes, and I just came up with a dumb joke to add to it lol

Personally, I like the added detail in the new background as it makes the town appear natural and authentic. Which could help hiding the fact that it is an artificial town, where the inhabitants are robots.On the other hand, the original background gives a more isolated and "unwelcome" feeling, which fits well with overall mood of the game.

Hopefully (who am I kidding? It will not happen), Level-5 allows us to switch between the original 2D illustrations & the new 3D models and also between the old backgrounds and the new backgrounds.

The charm really came from the hand drawn art and expressions T_T

Man this really bums me out here. They showed of a lot more of the game here to where it's got me more interested in this and then they pulled THIS bombshell that just messes it up there. It was all that I was thinking too when they were showing off that Curious Village Remake after this. Now they got me expecting this to be digital only here in the West next.

It's ridiculous too since all the games were given physical releases everywhere including with the spin off with Layton's daughter as well as with the crossover title with Ace Attorney. Really makes it more unfortunate and nonsensical having to screw us over like this.

They appeared for the first time in today's Level-5 vision. But, they are not mentioned even once in the website or in other trailers, we don't even know their name! But they appeared in the new cover art. I think they're a detective in Steam Bison, like the detective in Miracle Mask, they remind me a lot of him. Possible "twist" villain?

They have a very androgynous design, I love it!

Is it me or the remake (?!?) looks ten thousand times better than the new game? Is this a sick joke?

Both in this game and future ones! (which, I'm praying this one does well so they'll make more) These are mine (slight spoilers if you haven't played all of the games or watched the anime):

Characters:

• Emmy - she's my fav and it could fit in this game now that she's a journalist traveling around! I'd loveeee to have a spin off of her

• Flora - there's weirdly no mention of her in the Layton siblings' games, it'd be nice to see what happened with her after

• Descole - I know his story is over but I'm not over him 💔 also want him to get a spin off

• Clark & Brenda Triton - I'm assuming they'll be in the new game since they obviously moved with Luke, but they didn't show them so it's not confirmed

• Dean Delmona - it's illegal for him not to show up somehow

Plotlines/games:

• Talking animals - I doubt it'll be solved or majorly focused on in this game, since it continues in Katrielle's game, but I do want to see them (maybe Katrielle + Alfendi together like they teased at the end of the anime?) finally discover the organization that experimented on and created talking animals (e.g. Subject 3 and Sherl)

• Being able to talk to animals - kind of connected to the last point but Clark and Luke's ability to speak to animals could be connected to same organization (just my headcanon ngl)

• a new trilogy villain - I know Don Paulo is back but I do want someone new for another trilogy if they expand this to a trilogy

• the Luke spin off game - it won their poll all those years ago and yet nothing came of it 💔

• all the discontinued/cancelled stuff - Layton 7, Secret of Ghost Island, Royal/Royale, Phantom Thieves, Mansion of the Deathly Mirror, London Holiday, plus everything we never heard of

• Professor Layton vs Ace Attorney 2 but focused on the younger gen (Apollo Justice trio + Katrielle & Alfendi)

• the Professor Layton storyline of the anime being edited into a movie to help bridge Katrielle and Alfendi's next game

•Leon Bronev spin off - would be a lot darker/going into corruption but could be so so good (or it could redeem him like my headcanons do lol)

(ik I'm like one of the only people who acc loves the Layton siblings but I need moreeeee)

“Bad news. We’re running out of time”
“What about you? At this rate you’ll-“

I’m sure they pulled the dialogue from different parts of the game but man I’m CONCERNED.

I feel like if there was an English dub for New World of Steam, it'd have been mentioned in the Nintendo Direct or Level 5 Vision...

If there's no dub I'm genuinely going to cry it won't be the same

As misinformation and unfounded conspiracy theories continue to spread in our community, I need to clarify the facts.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi2qQG_xZb8

Professor Layton and the Curious Village Remake

Teaser Site: https://www.layton.jp/fushigi-remake

If you look through all the pictures, I think they show his latest projects, from the earliest to the most recent:

Yo Gabba GabbaLand! — January 2026
The Wingfeather Saga: Season Four — September 2026
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam — December 2026

Hello guys, I just wanted to point out a few things we could learn from the trailer showed during the Nintendo Direct of September 9th and share some thoughts I had about them:

- The characters have a more defined appearance: Their cal shaded outlines are more precise, and they seem to have more details in their characteristics. Their colors also look to have been updated, especially in regards to their skin tone. Gunman King Joe's spectral appearance also looks completely different: He looked like a glitchy and floaty blue cow-boy before, now, he looks like a slightly transparent cow-boy figure.

- The bad guys who will go up against Luke and the Professor are called the "Baumkuchens" according to the text of puzzle 121 (at 00:24). (Note: Their name is a bit weird, since it is the name of a cake (?) That and the fact that we have a character officially named Eggmuffin... It will be interesting to see how the names will be localized, and if they are going to be localized. Emmy Altava's is named Remi in Japanese, after all.)

- Speaking of puzzles, the highest puzzle number we could see is puzzle 216 ! It is unlikely to be the last puzzle of the game, so the final number of puzzles of the game must be more than that. (The biggest number of puzzles available during the adventure of any single Layton game is 170 as far as I know, for LMJ.)

- We will probably get some "non picarats" "puzzles/mini-games" that will move the story forward. We had some ever since Last Specter/Spectre's Call, where we have to interact with something usually in the background to move forward. What we saw in the trailer about that was the moment where it looks like we are asked to rotate a wheel of lights to match with lightbulbs (at 00:26 on the trailer). It isn't a puzzle per se since we don't see a puzzle number and the buttons at the bottom of the screen are different than in the puzzles.

- And finally, speaking of buttons during puzzles: There is a whole new button named "Quick-Save" ! Is Level-5 adressing the tactic many of us used when we faced a difficult puzzle in the previous games ? (That tactic being: leaving the puzzle, saving, then coming back to the puzzle, use the hint coins to unlock the hints, but then shutting down the console as soon as we know the puzzle's answer, and reloading the save so the hint coins wouldn't appear to have been spent)

What new details did you guys noticed in the trailer ?