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Level-5 CEO Reveals The Inspiration For Professor Layton And The Risks Of Self-Publishing
Speaking recently with
Yahoo Japan (translation credit to Nintendo Everything), Hino talked about Level-5 s early beginnings. When asked about comparisons to book series
Atama no Taisou, he shed some light on his initial inspirations for Professor Layton.
I always enjoyed the ‘Atama no Taisou’ and because those sorts of brain training exercises were popular at the time, I decided to make something that would incorporate similar puzzles. The series would be a trilogy called Layton that followed a story with characters like Sherlock Holmes and his buddy Watson. Those things were in my mind from early on.