Prof. Layton - London Life RPG

[HellHammer]

"Professor Layton and the Last Specter includes a separate RPG known as 'London Life' co-developed by Brownie Brown. 'London Life' is touted to run for over 100 hours in gameplay."

I'm curious to see how many people have heard of this 'game within a game', apparently some kind of life-sim RPG by Brownie Brown, of Mother 3 fame.
It's out next month and only after seeing screenshots in Nintendo Power did I (total)recall hearing about it back a couple years ago when it was released in Japan.

I haven't been able to find much info about it outside of the no-go on an EU localization, and a few bad quality youtube videos of Japanese gameplay.

But still I'm pretty excited it's being released in English! Anyone else interested?

[YoshiEgg25]

I'll be getting the Last Specter, so I'll end up playing this a bit most likely. Hopefully it's an RPG I can actually get into.

[k.vlaros]

Hi Hellhammer,

You better believe I was hooked by the London Life from the first rumors! After Layton 4 came out in Japan, I searched Youtube [probably would have been smarter to search Japanese video sites] over and over to catch videos of this Mother 3-meets-Animal Crossing bonus and only ever found the same 2 or 3 one-minute videos of low quality. As I remember reading about it, from the earliest it was understood to be a semi-beta for a stand-alone game down the road. So I was pretty bummed when, at the L5 conference after the 3DS's debut in '10, it was shown as a 3DS title with a completely different art style under the moniker of 'Fantasy Life'. contemporaneous article

But the upside is that the bonus will be localized for the US afterall, and that's a fine consolation!

[lisalover1]

I'm really excited for the new Layton game. I was going to buy it regardless, but this is just icing on the cake!