• Professor Layton's Puzzle Master, Akira Tago, dies at 90
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[url]http://www.ign.com/articles/2016/03/16/akira-tago-professor-laytons-puzzle-master-dies-aged-90[/url] [QUOTE]Best-selling author, psychologist and puzzle designer for Level-5's Professor Layton series, Akira Tago has died aged 90. According to the Japan Times, he passed away on March 6, after falling ill to interstitial pneumonia. Tago made his name with a best-selling quiz book, "Atama no Taiso" (Brain Exercises) in 1966, which resulted in 22 sequels and 12 million copies sold by 2001. In the world of video games, Tago has been credited as "Puzzle Master" - almost certainly one of the all-time great video game job titles - in every Professor Layton game.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]Level-5 president Akihiro Hino revealed that the Layton series owes its entire existence to Tago's work[/QUOTE] He made 1,919 puzzles for the entire series, including the phoenix wright vs professor layton spinoff. you can see every single puzzle he made here: [url]http://layton.wikia.com/wiki/Puzzles[/url] [video=youtube;dmd58nFB6OI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmd58nFB6OI[/video]
One of my favorite series, so relaxing. RIP
im guessing thats why they ended the series two years ago, maybe it was expected
I never realized it was mostly made by one person, rip.
Wow that's sad to hear. He definitely made some puzzles that I loved solving. Time to go replay the series, RIP.
professor layton is the only game series to make me cry, multiple times throughout the series and even in the same game. if you played it, you would probably know why. the guy was the lifeblood and i hope level-5 manages to pull something amazing like it again. There was a layton brothers spinoff but it wasn't that successful sadly. it was a crime scene investigation rather than puzzles.
[QUOTE=Wii60;49948767]professor layton is the only game series to make me cry, multiple times throughout the series and even in the same game. if you played it, you would probably know why. the guy was the lifeblood and i hope level-5 manages to pull something amazing like it again. There was a layton brothers spinoff but it wasn't that successful sadly. it was a crime scene investigation rather than puzzles.[/QUOTE] I love the series, but it bugs me how often they fell into the trap of having the explanation for the mystery be something much less interesting while still be just as implausible as if it were actually something supernatural. Case in point, [sp]Instead of Folsense just being the result of hallucinogenic gas, which made pretty much no sense, you could have had everyone actually been stuck in a memory the past somehow, which would have fit the theme, and made that amazing melancholy theme playing through most of the game that much better [/sp]
I couldn't be happier that the series was as successful that it was, at least. And the recent Phoenix Wright vs Professor Layton was absolutely grand. Rest in peace, man.
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