Level-5 CEO Implies Nintendo Is To Thank For Professor Layton’s Comeback

All thanks to “Company N”

by Jim Norman 11:30am

Image: Level-5Professor Layton and the New World of Steam was one of the biggest surprise announcements of 2023. While the return of Level-5’s polite professor might have felt like a no-brainer to some, it appears that the studio was initially hesitant about a comeback. That is until certain big names in the industry started pushing for it (thanks, Automaton).

This is according to Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino who, in a recent Tokyo Game Show chat with Dragon Quest’s Yuji Horii, confessed that the team was content to leave the Layton series alone after it had reached a “beautiful” conclusion.