
A brand new trailer for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam has proven off a neat twist to this shock puzzle-solving sequel’s story.
After a protracted look ahead to a brand new entry within the sequence, New World of Steam will place the Professor as one thing of a newcomer himself, in a narrative which strikes the sequence’ motion to America.
It is right here that Layton’s former protégé Luke has been dwelling following the occasions of 2010’s The Unwound Future, and the place he has since made a reputation for himself as a neighborhood detective. The newly-arrived Layton, in the meantime, is an unknown – and so on this recreation the same old rookie/professional relationship will likely be reversed.
The beloved Professor Layton sequence initially launched on the Nintendo DS, with an unique trilogy of video games adopted up by an extra trilogy of prequels. The final of those arrives for the Nintendo 3DS – and ever since, the sequence has been on one thing of a hiatus.
A spin-off centring on Layton’s daughter arrived in 2017, to blended opinions.
From the appears of issues right here, The New World of Steam will gently transfer the story on from all that and act as a recent entry level into the franchise for newcomers.
Set in a sophisticated steampunk model of America – particularly, a fictional metropolis named Steam Bison – right now’s trailer states that this world will increase as Layton and Luke remedy its mysteries.
Professor Layton and the New World of Steam was first introduced in final month’s Nintendo Direct and is because of launch on Swap, although it nonetheless lacks a launch date.