I've been pretty grouchy about the whereabouts of the second Layton game, since the manual to the first game gave the impression it was already in the works. Now a little tidbit of new info has surfaced suggesting that the second Professor Layton game may be on its way to North America after some time in localization hell, complete with a new title.
At one of Layton developer Akihiro Hino's talks at GDC today, a big slide popped up behind him rattling off the names of his company Level-5's English language releases. On that list was, of course, Professor Layton and the Curious Village... and the second game was called Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box. Previously, official materials had been referring to that game as Professor Layton and Pandora's Box. The new title fits the content of the game a lot better, though.
Someone flat-out asked Hino what was up with Layton series at the talk, and Hino says that he intends to release all six games in the series (three to date, and the three just announced for Japan) in English. Hino stated that localization work on the second Layton title was currently being done and that he hopes to see it released in the US in about six months.
Nintendo certainly didn't announce a second Layton game at their GDC talk today, so... are we going to hear something at E3? A delay-fest like Rhythm Heaven's if we do hear about it by the end of the week? Or is Level-5 going with a publisher other than Nintendo? Remember that in Japan, Level-5 published the Layton series and it could possibly do the same here.
