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Layton Brothers: Mystery Room is a Professor Layton series spin-off game for the iOS and Android mobile operating systems. It was announced on the LEVEL-5 Vision event 2011[2].

The game follows Lucy Baker, a beginning detective who is transferred to Scotland Yard. Here, she works under Alfendi Layton, son of the renowned Professor Hershel Layton. Together, they investigate crimes for Scotland Yard's "Mystery Room".

The game was released as a freemium game: the game itself and the first 2 cases (and prologue) are free, while two additional packs of respectively 4 and 3 cases can be bought from within the app.

In 2022 Level 5 announced the release of a manga adaptation of the game, publishing the weekly episodes online.

Development[]

Originally, the game was to be called just "Mystery Room"[3], and was a Nintendo DS game that belonged to LEVEL-5's Atamania series and was first announced at LEVEL-5 Vision 2009. In Mystery Room, the players would team up with detectives Poccho and Sly to solve crimes.

At some point in time, LEVEL-5 decided to put the game under the Professor Layton series instead. The original focus on solving mysteries and crimes remained intact but besides that, several changes were made from the original version: new characters were designed to fit in the Professor Layton universe, and the release platform was changed to Apple's iOS mobile operating system. A reason for the latter is unknown.

Teaser Site[]

Teaser site

On June 14, 2013, LEVEL-5 opened a teaser site with a hidden Layton Brothers logo. This was an early hint towards the localization of the game. The game was released in English on June 27, 2013.

The logo can be accessed by clicking on 9 sets of doors, and then clicking on the magnifying glass, and finally on the door keyhole. Only the first fraction of the logo can be seen.

Accessing the site as described is possible through use of the Wayback Machine here.

Cases[]

Characters[]

Placement within the series[]

Layton Brothers: Mystery Room has been referenced through its characters in both the 2017 game "Layton's Mystery Journey: Katrielle and the Millionaires' Conspiracy" and in the 2018 animated series "Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Kat's Mystery-Solving Files" thusly truly cementing the game as a canon part of the overall series, after years of uncertantly.

Speaking of Kat's Mystery-Solving Files, due to one particular plot point from the "Professor Layton and the Relics Treasure" subseries of episodes, namely, Hershel Layton's disappearance and cryogenic sleep of 11 years, in order for the game to fit in one unique and comprehensive timeline of events alongside the other titles, then the entirety of the events of Layton Brothers need to be set as happening shortly after the rescue of Hershel Layton by Katrielle, as Commisioner Barton, who himself is an older version of Barton, is seen both at the beginning of the game and at the very end of it, talking with who is pretty much guaranteed to be Hershel Layton himself.

Furthermore, another implication of the same plot point, is the practically outright confirmation that Alfendi Layton, just as his sister Katrielle, is also an adopted child.

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Trivia[]

  • The English version simulates the dialects of various characters, such as Lucy's Yorkshire accent or Dolly's Cockney.
  • Despite being titled "Layton Brothers", there's actually only one Layton in this game, and he is Hershel Layton's son, not brother.
    • The title appears to reference Alfendi Layton's dissociative personalities, as suggested by his reference to his "brother" in the first case.
  • The European Android version contains a bug in which the prices for the case packs are listed as €227 and €151 instead of €2.27 and €1.51 for case packs 1 and 2 respectively. The prices are correct in the Google Play store.

Trailer[]

【PV】レイトンブラザーズ・ミステリールーム(L5W_Ver.) 【PV】『レイトンブラザーズ・ミステリールーム』(TGS2012_Ver.)

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