Professor Layton`s adventure has broken into the real world.If you`re not aware, the promotion for the latest Layton game, Layton`s Mystery Journey: Katreille and the Millionaire`s Conspiracy is a puzzle-solving journey that`s broken beyond the bounds of its 3DS roots and is now something you can experience in a web browser. But that new experience at Layton.World is just part of the plan for Level-5 president & CEO Akihiro Hino. In a recent interview with the man behind the successful series of puzzling adventures that currently stretches across six mainline games (with a seventh on the way), we talked about how his team creates its original conundrums and the recent expansion into new ways to experience the series.Layton`s Mystery Journey is set to launch on 3DS sometime later this year, but surprisingly the mobile version is coming out worldwide on July 20. This latest game also switches up the protagonists trading in the familiar professor for someone claiming to be his daughter. But we`ll go into that in the interview below.GameSpot: What drove the decision to bring Layton to smartphones?Akihiro Hino: Of course, Layton has always been a continuous series on the 3DS. But for me as a user, I`m always in a taxi, on the go, and I like to play on my smartphone. Solving mysteries on the smartphone is really fun for me; that`s what I wanted to do. I know that there`s going to be a lot of people out there that want to do this kind of mystery solving, so that`s why we decided to go for smartphones.Is it going to be on iOS and Android?Yeah, for both.My favorite thing about the Layton series is how it marries these quirky, fun stories with engaging puzzle elements. How do you go about deciding the best puzzle to create for each part of the story? It never feels random; it doesn`t feel like I`m just talking to somebody and then suddenly there`s a random puzzle that doesn`t fit.So what we do first is make the story. And then once we`ve made the overall story, we create ...
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