Randal Mann the sound man, for obvious reasons of course.

Florence Sich, the janitor, Justin's Sidequick. They all figure on the web site and literally appear in only one case where their role are limited to: "Here the case and Yeah Al's like that" at the end. The development of Hilda was okay. But The end felt like really rushed. I feel like they should had make another case connected to the jigsaw murder. for me 3 wasn't enough.

I agree, there were a lot of characters I wanted to see appear in game (With all of those back stories), but were simply filler-ins for Lucy's "hunch" to become more tricky. I would've never guessed the killer was DeBonair though... I honestly thought he was a filler as well!

I also wish they had expanded upon Alfendi's split personality disorder...And how Layton had raised such a rude son! He (The original Alfendi) is definitely not a gentleman if you ask me!

FLASHBACK

Layton: I'm finally home honey! You won't believe what happened.

8 years old Alfendi: DID ANYONE REALLY DIED THIS TIME! HOW DID HE/SHE DIED? WAS IT MURDER? WHAT WAS IT? BRILLANT? GORE? OR VERY ELEGANT? CAN I HAVE THE SKULL? YOU KNOW I LOVE SKULLS FATHER! THEY ARE SO MAGNIFICENT! SO UNIQUE. SO POETIC! PLEASE FATHER LET ME HAVE IT PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!

Layton:

Emmy Layton's wife: You know you should pass more time with your own son rather than this Luke boy.

Layton: I guess I could take you with me next time.

Alfendi: YAY!

Flora: What?! Why Luke and Al can go but not me?! I'M OLDER THAN THEM!

Luke: N-N-NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

Then a new series was born and Level-5 still make millions.

Since Layton adopted Flora and she's way underuse, we could easily introduce her in Mystery Room without too much spoiler!

Emmy's Layton's cousin, so that's definitely out of the question

It was bloody fantastic! I loved this game to death. Putting aside a few presentation problems at the first couple of cases,this game was really freaking consistent in its greatness. If I had to rank the cases,it would go like this:

0<1<7<2<4<3<5<9<6<8

0 was just a 2 minute opening and was just kinda meh. Lucy looks like a full blown AA character though and I love how Barton is the commissioner.

1 was a simple tutorial case and did its job fine. Not much to say except the mystery device was rather ambiguous in terms of appearance and the green and red arrows as well as the stone heart confused the hell out of me. Also the music isn't very Laytonesque but it could fit AA very well.

7 was alright. Mostly puzzle solving. It felt the most Laytonesque of all the cases. Only thing of note is the ending

2 is somewhat underwhelming after you finish it. The culprit is really obvious and this was where I realised we didn't even get to speak to any other suspects. Poor Bingo didn't even get a role. He was just...there. Potty Prof appeared here and was fantastic.

4 has a really good opening and is also surprisingly gory. Guy got hit in the head with an axe. Ouch. After that though catching the culprit wasn't that much fun. Etista's role was a surprise though. Other than that this case was just alright.

3 is really good. The twist that the victim made the killer shoot her without him knowing is fantastic. Roscoe is a good red herring and I genuinely was confused the whole time. Very interesting.

5 is a simple case,like Turnabout Samurai,but develops as you progress. Even the final nail in the coffin is similar to 1-3. I really wish I could've talked to Randall (you can guess why), and the way Dread was killed reminds me of 6-2 in a way. de Bonair is an interesting villain as you only meet him at the end. He reminds me of 6-2's villain as well. Cruel guy killed a 19 year old,but wasn't even man enough to directly do it.

9 is a fantastic final case. The setting of Forbodium Castle is great and the solving of the Makepeaces' murders is great. Only problems are that this isn't that emotional and the catching of the culprit was underwhelming. Guy's a police officer,but he doesn't even attempt to escape? Also,the ending left some stuff unsolved,which disappointed me. Other than that this I enjoyed getting Alfendi off the hook. The twist that Potty was Al was incredible.

6 is very interesting,because we don't know a goddamn thing about it. Who killed who? Sure,we know that Barbarossa was the last to die,but who killed the others? He didn't have a motive to murder them. How did Agonni die? Why did Diane orchestrate the whole thing? All we know is that the crooks 'oiked her father',as she put it. Very mysterious. Even the ending isn't a real confrontation. You just try and figure things out with Uttar's help.

8 is by far my favourite. It's a simple case in the end,and the characters all being animals is cute,but I think the twist that Dog was Makepeace really puts this case in a new light. He hung up the millionaire on his coat stand four years ago. Really creepy. Also,wouldn't that make Hen the housekeeper the prime suspect? And did Justin orchestrate this one too? We may never know,but I really enjoyed this nevertheless.

Anyway,that was Layton Brothers. Was it good? Read the first sentence,you bastard. I absolutely recommend it. Such a good game. I hope a sequel is made for this. Then I shall be satisfied to the tenth.MMMMMMPPPPHHHH

I loved Hilda, Diane Makepeace, Chico, Lucy and Alfendi... especially his Potty Prof. persona. That it was his original perosnality was probably my favourite twists, even though I had already read it before I watched the game (one of the major reasons I became interested in watching it, as it were). That, and that Constable Barton had become commissioner

I can imagine even the calmer Al having some choice words about Katrielle communicating with a dog.

We clearly see Barton on the phone talking to Hershel in the end part. So that means that he disappeared only after this game. Very suspicious.


And I myself think that Potty Prof would be a great assistant in the likes of Don Paolo and 'Prof. Sycamore'.

Do we have any confirmation that Lady Layton takes place after Layton Brothers? I was wondering if perhaps Hershel went missing around the time Makepeace was killed.

A villainous assistant like Don Paolo could be fun, but he was "cartoonishly" evil, which is why I think he (or someone like him) would fit into Lady Layton.

Well,that could depend. For all we know,Layton Brothers could be noncanon even.

I think Potty Prof was a fun assistant in the last case because he kept ridiculing everyone. I think they could make it work.

Non-canon is the route I think Level-5 are going to go down, I think. I hope I'm wrong.

To clarify my opinion; Don Paolo was for the most part, as I said earlier, kind of Saturday morning cartoon evil, which fit the tone of the Layton games, which seems to be the same tone Lady Layton is going for. Al was a fun assistant, (and while I personally prefer Placid, I do wish old Al had a little more screentime) but, snide jabs aside, he's portrayed as more serious than Don Paolo, he's legitimately frightening at times with his temper and threats (and liking for murder), which I why I wonder how well he'd actually fit into Lady Layton. Just my opinion though.

I was wrong. :D Mystery Room is officially canon.

Yeah, I started it some time back, and was ecstatic to see the canonicity of the game now. Hurrah! :D

In the free version of the iOS game, you get the sandwich and apartment murder cases. I personally thought that the idea of a dying message in the sandwich case was silly. I don’t expect the victim to be able to spell her killer’s name using her sandwich ingredients. The real purpose - to hide a smell - was actually a great way to solve the case.

For the apartment murder case, I love the misdirection with the clock hand. But an ice weapon? Seems far-fetched to me.
My favourite part about this case was seeing Alfendi’s “dark side.” I find it very intriguing. Having fun bought the full game now, I look forward to see more of him.

I love the twist in case 3. It’s so easy to overlook the possibility of the victim placing the button in the trash instead of Strapping.
Case 4: I saw the corpse being controlled like a marionette coming. My screen brightness was too low that I couldn’t see the shape of the stain.
Case 5: It’s Recipe for Turnabout!
-What the witness saw was a fake death to confuse them.
-The cause of death was drinking poisoned coffee (or was it tea?).
-Listening to the radio is a clue to solving the case.
-The killer is caught because they knew what the poison’s container looked like when they shouldn’t have.
I love it though. It’s great!
I don’t remember much about case 6 other than the puzzle where you had to pour water on the fire in a specific order. I mean, I found that weird but the puzzle itself was good.
Case 7: I love the oppressive atmosphere in this one, and the twist in which one victim was found to have ingested a soporific, but that was a misdirection since the victim was poisoned at the same time. Sounds like a turnabout fit for Ace Attorney.
Case 8: I honestly don’t remember this one much, but I like how you interrogated two suspects.
Case 9: I had trouble figuring out that Diane was shot from the staircase. When it came to solving the four-year-old case, I don’t see the reason to deduce that Lawson is the killer. But one thing I do like is the free investigation section at the end of the case. Since Alfendi can’t help her, Lucy has to do the investigation without him highlighting objects of interest for her. I like that because it’s not a contrived increase of difficulty.
Speaking of Alfendi and Lucy, I don’t like how Lucy eventually gets mildly annoyed after a few cases of Alfendi’s personality switching. He seemed unstable in that state, so I wouldn’t take it so easygoing.
I’m glad that the “dark” side of Alfendi is actually his default personality, since that’s the most interesting part of his two personalities.

Yes, case 3 is by far one of the best just because of that ending twist. Never could've saw that coming.

Huh, interesting, I never noticed the parallels between case 5 and 3-3, though it also resembles 1-3 in that it takes place in a studio, a snooty lady is the main suspect at first, and the producer is the killer with their motive involving blackmailing and them being caught by a slip of the tongue.

You might be confusing case 6 and 7. 6 is the one with the gangsters and 7 is the investigation one with no murder till the end.

Fun fact, in case 8, you can technically accuse everyone and thus have multiple interrogations with all suspects.

Also a small error in case 3, the castle is called Redmond castle but in cases 8-9 it's called Forbodium Castle.