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'Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy' (2017)

A sequel to the beloved puzzle game, Professor Layton series, 'Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy' focuses on Professor Layton's daughter, Katrielle, as she starts her own detective agency to solve the mystery of the world, and to also find her lost father, Hershel Layton.

It's been 3 years since the last Professor Layton game been released, not including the spin-offs. For more information of the Professor Layton game series please check out my post about it: Professor Layton: Perfect Game Series for Puzzle Lovers

For a short description, Layton series are well known for solving interesting puzzles and mysteries for gameplay. It's a fun game if you like puzzles or relaxing, but still interesting story lines.

'Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy' takes place chronically after 'Professor Layton and the Unwound Future' and it's not stated how many years has past since then; the only clues are how London or the characters has change since the last game. In the opening of 'Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy', Katrielle has a dream when she was younger about her father.  She is 21 years old when the game takes place, and it's not really been said how long her father's been missing.


The game has the same art style from the previous games with some new gameplay in solving the cases.  The elements that I love about the Professor Layton series are still incorporated in 'Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy' which I love. The artwork, puzzles, soundtrack, and story plot are all there with more elements to love in this new game. They also include the fun puns they you should recognize~


Katrielle has the help of her assistant, Ernest Greeves, and a talking dog Sherl to help her solve the mysteries of the Seven Dragons, seven Millionaires of London.  Reoccurring characters with Inspector Hastings and Profiler Analyst/Katrielle's rival, Emiliana Perfetti. Like the other Professor Layton games, you will see the same background characters as you progress the game.


At a point in the game, you can choose the order of certain cases you can investigate. You can also stop one case and start a different one if you feel like it. I like doing things in order, so I played in the order the cases were displayed on the case board in the Layton Detective Agency. As you find out more information about a case, you receive a puzzle piece that represents the information you learned. Once you find all 6 pieces, you can solve the case. Another fun thing you can do is redecorate the office and change Katrielle's outfit throughout the game.


I read an interview article of Akihiro Hino, President and CEO of LEVEL-5; he discussed how since the previous games had upscale mysteries, and that it would be weird if they place Professor Layton in solving smaller scale puzzles in London. They also use a female protagonist since the audiences have a high percentage of female players. That is the origin of Katrielle Layton, as she starts out solving smaller scale mysteries and hopefully involve to larger scales as the series progress.


To help promote 'Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy', there is an online game where you solve puzzles from around the world. Promotion of the game comes with puzzles that fans can solve and can win some prizes where you can transfer it to the actually game. The website has their own little story plot going on as well, so if interested please check it out: https://layton.world/top.html

You can also buy the mobile version of 'Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy'. 
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Spoiler Alert(Maybe)
Akihiro Hino isn't sure if they will continue with Katrielle Layton's story in future games. I hope they do since there are questions that haven't been answered in my opinion in this game. We haven't figured out the background story of Sherl, he's a talking dog where only a few people can understand him. Sherl has amnesia and is the first client of Katrielle to help figure out who he really is, which isn't answered in this game.  When I first heard that Professor Layton has gone missing, I thought this game would have Katrielle actually on the search for him. Layton's name is mention a couple of times from several characters, but it was only a short mention till Katrielle change the subject. Also, in the very end of the game, Katrielle wants to search for Layton to let him know that she solved his puzzle on who she is, which clarifies that like many other characters in the previous Layton series, Katrielle is another child that Layton has adopted. I want to who Katrielle's real parents are and see more of her interaction with Layton. I want to see Luke and Emmy and other characters to see what they are up too.  

It was nice to visit Gressenheller University and the Dean from previous Layton games. Gressenheller University is the university that Professor Layton taught archeology. It was nostalgic to be able to see the school again~
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I really hope they will continue the Lady Layton series and follow Katrielle's story as she solves mystery of London and on the search for Professor Layton.

Akira Tago, the game director and inspiration of the Professor Layton series.

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