#level-5

[uglylittleman]

FORKLIFT CERTIFIED

[vgadvisor]

[princeofcyberpunk]

chat, is this real? (god i wish it wasn't.)

so uh. according to this thread its very possible that Level-5 is using ai art. thats fucking fantastic. thanks guys. definitely not a spit in the face to your fans who've loved you for years for your unique art direction. no. not at all :) /VERY SAR

it doesn't matter if they're "just using it for concept art" or whatever. they're still using it and its fucking gross. As a Yo-Kai Watch fan of almost 10 years now, I am truly disgusted. I hope they recall this decision and go back to using exclusively real artists, or they'll lose a lot of fans (including myself, which would break my heart. I love Level-5 games to death.)

I'm still most likely going to buy Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road and Decapolice when they come out, because most likely if the use of AI in scriptwriting/sidequests is real those will be rewritten in the English localization by actual people. Still doesn't change the concept art thing but i've been hyped for these games for too long to let that ruin it. If it goes any further than that tho, i'm probably going to tap out. Which sucks so much.

This is lazy at best and downright harmful to real artists at worst.

also why would you want it to look more like the anime bro the yo-kai watch anime was ass. thats just me tho askjfhakjhfkjafk

[call-me-rucy]

Level-5 Vision moved from this month to some point in summer.

[stelyos]

My 100% True Professional Gamer Live Reaction to Nintendo / Level-5's New Announcement.

[bassboosted-moon-chao]

love how the trailer for NWoS follows on from the original teaser but instead of being badass it's Luke nearly running Layton over with a steam powered walker mech and being like "get in loser". Thank you Level-5.

[bitchfendi]

LEVEL-5

[gmology]

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (2011) | 12 yrs

[bearofohu]

since level-5’s localization branch closed down a couple of years ago, im honestly wondering how this will affect the english release of nwos

dont get me wrong im not at all concerned for its existence—its going to exist most definitely. not only is nwos included in christopher robin miller’s business website (he lists 8 games hes worked on, when his voice only appears in seven), but nobody is more aware of layton’s incredible popularity in the west than level-5 themselves. professor layton was inspired by the west, after all. it would be franchise suicide to not localize it and that’s the last thing l5 is trying to do after making a reboot so crappy that it nearly bankrupted the franchise

but since there’s no localization branch anymore, it’s likely level-5 is for the first time ever outsourcing their projects’ localization, and that’s what kinda concerns me. the reason a lot of anime and games have shitty dubs is bc they get outscored to companies that can’t be fuckin asked (funimation is a good example)

localization divisions of game companies specifically can be shit too (treehouse is a good example) but level-5’s branch always made a genuine effort to produce good dubs. thats why all of their voice actors fit the setting; they're all bri'ish, and most of if not all of them did genuinely good jobs (im not tolerating slander against lani she did her best. i blame whoever casted her she was not designed to be voicing a 11 yr old cockney child)

and that's why it worries me to see nwos be outsourced - we have no way of knowing how the dub quality will change. obviously christopher robin miller is not going to stop voicing layton, we're not going to get any kind of chris pratt mario shit bc hino is not a backstabber

but what DOES worry me is the possibility of nwos getting outsourced to one one of those companies that dont give a shit. i should note that the the likelihood of this isnt very big just given how aware level-5 is of layton's prevalence in the west. layton is not like most anime/anime games, its not going to have its dub be unceremoniously flung to some low-effort team to hire the same non-union white man you recognize in every fire emblem game

but still, just because its unlikely doesnt mean its completely impossible. in the second l5 vision hino mentioned that inazuma eleven's next game is getting internationally released, which means the same is almost certainly happening to nwos (the fact this is happening is actually kind of huge - every other layton game before this has had to wait up to a year after the game releases in JP for the localization)

as much as it pains me to give any non-hershel level 5 game anything but my cold and dismissive scorn, i will be checking out inazuma eleven victory road's english version when the game releases in 2024 (its not guarenteed that victory road and nwos will be outsourced to the same people btw, but that kind of thing is common)

and unless victory road's localization ends up sucking some seriously crinkly ass, i dont think we have anything to worry about

[found-in-retro-game-mags]

Dark Cloud

"Now it's your turn. Rebuild the world." (Expert Gamer #86, August 2001)

[lspiritomb]

I need everyone to know about this super-cute Katrielle Layton mascot

[krongulous]

Big news guys, we are getting a release date for a game at some point

We don’t know which one it is but I’m banking on it being Decapolice or Fantasy Life

[vgadvisor]

[acsis-narf]

I wonder if anyone else noticed...

Look and these 2 images & find the difference.

Left: Decapolice Teaser Trailer on Nintendo Direct (February 2023).

Right: Decapolice Teaser Trailer LEVEL-5 VISION ver. (March 2023).

That's right...

Harvard's red coat changed length in the span of 1 month 🤣.

Although...

Looking at the main visual (left) released on the same day of the February trailer, it seems like the longer coat is the right one. 🤔

The character concept art also uses the longer coat, so what was that shorter coat about...? 😅

[call-me-rucy]

So you’re telling me that Level-5 made a crime suspense game that *checks notes* “breaks the mold from the Layton series”, presents “the story of a mysterious detective investigating in a virtual space where reality is copied completely”, with an investigation mode consisting of putting the evidence in the right place on a bulletin board, starring a red color coded prodigy police detective and they want me to believe this isn’t Mystery Room written in a different font?!?! (affectionate)

[your-fave-is-being-blended]

Ushiro Reiichiro from the cancelled level-5 game? Please 🙏

Ushiro Reiichiro from Ushiro is being blended!!

You cannot save him.