Professor Layton 7 ideas:
Professor Layton Chronicles: Great Conspiracies:
Release Dates:
Japan: 18th October 2016
Europe: 21st October 2016
North America: 24th October 2016
Australia: 23rd October 2016
Gameplay Changes:
Puzzles
1) The amount of puzzles per game has been drastically reduced, with only 100 story puzzles being featured in the game, with a further 20 bonus puzzles located within Professor Layton’s Challenges.
2) The amount of puzzles in Layton’s Challenges has been increased from 15 to 20.
3) Said puzzles are a mixture between abstract, logic puzzles, and real-life puzzles that involve the use of the 3DS’s 3D feature, as well as interacting with the in-game environment. In addition, chess-related puzzles, word-play, algebra, and cryptography (i.e. code breaking)
4) There are now only three hints per puzzle, with the third being the “Super Hint”; also, Hint Coins are awarded to players by how many picarats they collect from puzzles, instead of being collected from the environment.
5) The amount of picarats derived from a puzzle has changed; many puzzles have lowered numbers, and some have higher numbers, in order to balance the spread of picarats.
Investigation:
6) Picarats are now used to allow the main characters to battle enemies, or overcome obstacles, by them learning different “Actions”, by granting them experience to rise through the different “levels” of their profession.
7) Said level’s maximum is now 10. Actions can also be found by examining the environment, giving the characters ideas. When doing so, a “Train” option allows them to perfect their moves and to also go on side-quests to gain hint coins and new moves.
8) When in combat mode, Actions are used in combos to defeat enemies and overcome obstacles; the prizes range from new artefacts to examine, hint coins, more picarats, or a puzzle.
9) The Collection feature now collect artefacts related to the story, and certain items have a puzzle related to it. Thus, there are only twenty-five artefacts to collect. There is also an “Examine” feature, that produces either five hint coins, a puzzle related to the artefact, or information concerning the artefact that is compiled in the “Artefacts” section of the Professor’s Journal.
10) When all information is unlocked within the “Artefacts” section of the Professor’s Journal, five extra “Trunk Episodes” are unlocked, as well as fifty picarats.
Characters
Protagonists
Main:
Professor Hershel Layton
Professor Desmond Sycamore
Luke Triton
Arriana Triton (née Barde)
William Triton
Katia Triton (née Anderson)
Emmy Altava
Clark Triton
Randall Ascot
Angela Ascot (née Ledore)
Leon Bronev
Dimitri Allen
Superintendent Delmont
Chief Inspector Chelmey
Inspector Barton
Minor:
Flora Rheinhold
Clive Dove
Henry Ledore
Antagonists
The Phantom Deity (a.k.a. Leonard Bloom)
Don Paolo
The Spectre d’Or (a.k.a. Aurora – resurrected with power of Azran civilization)
Setting
10 years after Unwound Future
Cities Visited:
London, UK
Godd City (renamed Acierville for the foreign release of Azran Legacy)
Misthallery, UK
Bistonio, South Africa
New York, US
Dark Heaven, Atlantis