Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and The Millionaires’ Conspiracy is getting a chance to live on once again, this time on the Switch. The game, now titled Layton’s Mystery Journey: Katrielle and The Millionaires’ Conspiracy DX, is set to launch Aug. 9th, 2018 in Japan. As for updates, the DX version lets players choose between touch pen and controller input methods. There are also plans from Takara Tomy to release Nazotoki Charm toys that will work with the game through NFC.
Of all the games you could port, you have to port the worst one...great.
Came here to say fantastic news, was this game not well received?
Heard that many of the puzzle is ”trick” puzzle with unneeded info to solve them
One ex. was about a car and the answear was like 0/nothing
Try the mobile Cap 1 demo
What SwedishGalaxy94 said. A lot of the puzzles were cryptic puzzles with a 'trick' to them. But a lot of these puzzles required a discreet number answer, which doesn't really go well. Even if you realize the trick, you then need to guess which number the game expects from you.
It's less about logic and cleverness and more about guessing which trick the game wants you to use.
Then there's also the one puzzle that has been translated incorrectly and leads you to the exact opposite answer if you were to follow the instructions.
And the translation, in my opinion, is pretty damn terrible. Everything, and I mean everything, needs to be a pun. I looked into this and apparently the guy who translated this loves puns and just shoved them in there. It's incredibly jarring.
It is probably the worst Layton game, but I still had fun with it (and I still come back for the daily bonus puzzles).
Semi-spoilery elaboration: It certainly doesn't buck the trend of the puzzles being easier and less brainteaserish and more "fiddle with these mechanics until the solution presents itself" every game, and the game presents a couple central mysteries that frustratingly don't get resolved at all, and there are fewer music tracks than normal, but Kat herself is a pretty good protagonist and the individual cases + the way they tie together aren't bad (although relatively low-stakes compared to previous games).
I’d love to see all the Layton games (plus new ones!) on Switch. This is the only entry so far I haven’t played yet, so I’m pretty happy about this.
(Bummer to hear in other comments that this outing isn’t the greatest, though.)
That's weird that they're adding button inputs considering nothing stopped them from doing that on the DS and 3DS entries.
I'm glad about this since I skipped it on 3DS. Still not sure if I'll get it but makes me feel better about not getting it the first time.
