May 18th, 2009 by JC Fletcher
Last year, in the midst of a pile of news from Level-5, the company quietly announced three DS puzzle games called the
Atamania series. The first game in that series comes out on May 21 in Japan, and it looks like something worth getting excited about!
Sloane and MacHale’s Mysterious Story is, like Level-5’s Professor Layton series, a collection of brain teasers wrapped up in an overarching mystery tale. The puzzle content in this game consists of lateral thinking puzzles from Paul Sloane and Des MacHale, presented as both animated scenarios (in a very cool silhouette style) and text. The puzzles seem to involve moving the text of the puzzle around with the stylus to make connections.
Of course, Level-5 has yet to say anything about localization on Mysterious Story. We’d say it’s an obvious choice given the success of Professor Layton, but we have yet to see any of the Layton sequels!
Level-5’s Layton-esque ‘Sloane and MacHale’s Mysterious Story’ launches this week in Japan originally appeared on Joystiq Nintendo on Mon, 18 May 2009 18:15:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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October 21st, 2007 by Candace Savino
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Recently, the Japanese website Inside-Games held an interview with Level 5's president, Akihiro Hino (pictured looking contemplative above). When asked if Level 5 had anything planned for the Wii, Hino said that the company was very interested in producing a Wii game. Unfortunately, the interview doesn't go into further detail on the issue, but we're willing to take this as a good sign. With the bossman publicly expressing his enthusiasm for the little white console, it seems likely that the company will develop a game for the Wii at some point.
Level 5 is the developer behind the
Dragon Quest and
Professor Layton games, among others. Since the company already
has a plethora of games in the works for the DS, it's nice to see them showing the Wii a little love, too. If Level 5 does develop a game for the Wii, though, we can only hope that they'll aim for something original. We don't think we could muster up much excitement for
another Dragon Quest title just yet.
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GameFront]
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