![]() Receiving a letter from one of his former students, now an accomplished opera singer, the Professor is invited to watch a lavish performance at the prestigious Crown Petone Opera House. In each game in the series you take on the role of Professor Hershel Layton and are tasked with solving numerous puzzles to progress the plot and uncover a deeper mystery, with high-quality anime sequences furthering the story.Īlthough not based on one of the Professor and Luke’s adventures directly, the film’s plot fits into the established formula. Here’s the somewhat sparse trailer:īy the time the film made it into Japanese cinemas, four games had been released in the Nintendo DS-exclusive series, with Professor Layton and the Spectre’s Call (known in the US as Professor Layton and the Last Specter) being the most recent, released in Japan in 2009, with its English translation hitting the West in 2011. Released in its native Japan in December 2009 and making its way to the UK in October 2010 with a superb English dub, Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva was directed by Masakazu Hashimoto and featured the voices of Yo Oizumi/Christopher Robin Miller as Professor Layton and Maki Horikita/Maria Darling as Luke. Having spent all of our time so far looking at games based on live-actions films and live-action films adapted from games, for this installment of LIT? we’re taking a look at our first anime feature film based on a game series. Welcome to Lost in Translation? – the Ready Up series where we look at the rocky two-way road of media adapted from video games and games based on films and TV shows, in a bid to decide whether the juice was worth the squeeze, or if what made the source material great in the first place got lost in translation. ![]()
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