Level-5 To Celebrate 25th Anniversary With Release Date Announcements

Oh, heck yeah! That's great news. Hopefully they release sooner rather than later.

I’m playing through the Yo-kai Watch trilogy on 3DS for the first time right now. Gives me an incredible sense of nostalgia and I wish this series did better over here than it did. Is it just wishful thinking that, even now, I hope a localization of the fourth game will be among these announcements?

Team Professor Layton games here!

Level-5 making a comeback in the west has been one of the best surprises this year. They have so many great franchises under their belt, from the weirder (but still great) stuff like Yo-Kai Watch and Fantasy Life to the icons that are Professor Layton and Ni No Kuni, they're one of the best third party JP studios out there. A couple missteps brought them downhill in the west for a while, sure, but having even two of those series popular again over here is huge. With any luck we'll get some Yo-Kai Watch ports and localizations next.

I'm really excited for Decapolice. It's looks like it'll fill the void while I wait for Astral Chain 2.

Decapolice and Professor Layton and the New World of Steam are my two most anticipated games on Switch (Alongside Lorelai and the Lazer Eyes). Can’t wait to see this.

Gonna need that Fantasy Life date asap! Love that game on 3DS, and hope the sequel follows true to it!

Also looking forward to Decapolice. Looks extremely intriguing! Hopefully we’ll get some Ni No 3 news as well!

Wish they’d make a Yokai collection…. I missed out on the series. I tried the demo of the first one, but wasn’t hooked primarily because I’d just gotten off a 200hr bender with X/Y. But the premise always sounded awesome to me, spirit/ghost buddies.

They're like THE studio I keep waiting to create something I really enjoy. For whatever reason, they're games just never land for me.

Fantasy Life, Decapolice & Inazuma Eleven are all scheduled to release in 2023. I'm guessing none will. Whilst extra time to get the games right is always the right course of action, over-promising & under-delivering in the first place creates frustration.

Please give us yokai watch 4 please! Actually scratch that, PLEASE bring yokai watch back to the US!

I'd be on board for another Yo-Kai Watch title, but that's almost wishful thinking outside of Japan at this point. I hope at the very least that we get more news for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam.

Loved the Layton games back on the DS but kinda grew out of them by the time the 3DS games came around. I wouldn’t mind a collection of those.

That was a great presentation. I was interested in every game shown. It would be nice to get some release dates.

Did I read it right that their announcement was that they are going to announce the release dates in November? Or are my sleepy blurry eyes deceiving me
I need a release date for Fantasy Life i

@WoomyNNYes get ready for 2025 release. Yeah

I really understand if the Yokai games don't make it here, but they were really amazing!

I do think they Maybe should've released one for Switch a bit sooner? Port the thing or something! Now we're like 3 Pokemon games further and I don't think consumers would go for a game they feel as a fourth! (If they had dropped it after Sword and Shield though!

And to clarify, it definitely is NOT a pokemon clone, I just think consumers see it that way.

Niiiiice! Can't wait to know the release date of Fantasy Life i and Decapolice!
Welcome back, Level 5!!

@LikelySatan
Come on there's got to be some other studios like that. EA?

@mlt No, I've long given up on EA coming through with anything I'm interested in. Besides them being gross as gross gets, they also screwed me out of like $500 when my Origin account was hacked while I was deployed with the Army in 2010. I guess I could look forward to them giving me that money back?

Fantasy Life! GIVE ME FANTASY LIFE!!!

@YoshiFlutterJump We are most likely not going to get Yokai Watch 4 in America. They'd have to bring over a ton of material in order for people to understand the plot of the game, so they might as well just make a spiritual successor to Yokai Watch that can easily be marketed in the west.

@LikelySatan
Holy crap sorry to hear that. I would be properly pissed if I were you and I imagine you were. I can't say I'm really surprised coming from these guys though. That's why they were the first that came to my mind when thinking of companies you would expect strictly nothing from.

As for level 5 I loved ni no kuni and rogue legacy back in the days but I have to admit, lately there has been pretty much nothing coming from them that would be interesting to me. Decapolice might change that. And at least contrary to EA, I know they are good at something even if it's not for me. My mother was such a huge fan of Layton. Yokai was such a phenomenon. They definitely had gold in their hands at some point. I hope they can get back to those highs.

@mlt Rogue Galaxy's curated parts made me sad for the copy-paste parts, and it was a huge Star Wars rip-off, but that and the Dark Cloud games really impressed back in the day.

Fantasy Life, Decapolice and the next Inazuma game all meant to be coming this year yet there's two months left and no release dates for any of them.

I think it's safe to assume all three of them have been delayed to 2024, which makes me wonder why they are leaving it so long to announce the delays.

I expect stuff to get moved to 2024, and I'm kinda hoping that happens. Shadow drops just don't get me excited, so I'd be tempted to wait for a sale on Fantasy Life i or Decapolice if those suddenly get released.

...Please. Just ONE thing. Give us SOMETHING with Yokai Watch in the west.

I got some cool thick 25 years booklet from TGS from their booth as a freebie. I wonder if that thing is only obtainable there or they give copies out elsewhere / sell em elsewhere.

Can't wait for Fantasy Life

Waiting on fantasy life but I fully expect a delay now given that Crimbo is getting close and still no “2023” release date.

I’m okay with a delay though. I love the first one so take as much time as needed for the second

Will most definitely get fantasy life on release and am really interested in decapolice as well. I really love level 5

Totally excited about decapolice

Professor Layton is something I came to only recently and I absolutely love the vibe, I’d have the whole collection if Azran Legacy wasn’t so absurdly priced.

It seems like a no brainer to bring layton back for a console like the switch with such a huge install base of casuals- I found out just recently that my parents who aren’t gamers at all had played all of the earlier games in the DS days

Looking forward to see if they will port Yokai Watch 4 among other games

@BeyondKnight They probably won't be bringing 4 to the west, given how much material you'd need to consume just to understand the plot of the game. Not to mention, I wouldn't expect anything from them that hasn't already been announced. This seems to be only an event to showcase the release dates for upcoming titles.

I would like a professor Layton collection all the games up to the switch

Will we ever see Jeanne d'Arc get a release on something other than PSP?

I think the only one I've ever played is "Fantasy Life", which was basically my way of passing time between the release of "Super Smash Bros. for 3DS" and "Pokémon Alpha Sapphire". It's basically like Skyrim, except you can't freely murder people.

For all the talk from people saying that it's going to be delayed, I hope you are all wrong! 🤣 But I fear that you may all be correct 😞
I might have to crack out my 3DS version of Fantasy Life to pass the time whilst I wait for 2024

I hope that Fantasy Life i is NOT just an enhanced remake/update/remaster/whatever of the DS version!