Feature: Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright: The perfect match

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Feature: Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright: The perfect match

Added: 19.03.2014 8:00 | 3 views | 0 comments

Why the collaboration works, and what it could lead to.

Feature: Professor Layton and Phoenix Wright: The perfect match article

They’re from two completely different worlds, of course. Professor Layton is a casually dressed Victorian gent in a top hat, and his sidekick Luke dresses like some Charles Dickens urchin, and even has the mockney accent to go with it. Phoenix Wright and Maya? One’s an endearingly insecure hot shot lawyer in a sharp blue suit, and the other’s a boisterous, frivolous sidekick in traditional Japanese garb. Combining these two worlds is like getting an anime company to make a Werthers Originals advert; an old english gent slowly rocking back and forth in a rocking chair next to a roaring...