In an interview in this week's Famitsu, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino made first mention of the studio's newest project, Time Travelers.
This original game, whose genre, platform and release date, are being kept secret, has a time traveling theme. Hino described it as "a large scale title" and added that he expects it to become a popular series for the Professor Layton and Inazuma Eleven publisher.
Hino will be serving as producer on the game. But Japan is already going gaga over the title because of who's in the directors role. Level-5 has drafted Jiro Ishii to head up the project. Ishi previously directed 428, a Wii, PS3 and PSP sound novel that received wide critical acclaim, including a perfect score in Famitsu.
Even more intriguing was Hino's comment about the game's platform: "Centered on hardware that's not yet in this world, it will expand to other hardware."
It looks like Time Travelers is being readied for systems that doesn't yet exist. Is Hino hinting at 3DS support?
Regardless of platform, Time Travelers looks like it could be a ways off. In an interview in Famitsu, Hino and Ishii revealed that they only first met at Famitsu's annual awards show in April of last year. Some time after the event, Ishii told Hino that he'd split from 428 developer Chunsoft to become a freelancer, and that's when Hino suggested that they work together on Time Travelers, which is now in development at Level-5's Tokyo branch.
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This original game, whose genre, platform and release date, are being kept secret, has a time traveling theme. Hino described it as "a large scale title" and added that he expects it to become a popular series for the Professor Layton and Inazuma Eleven publisher.
Hino will be serving as producer on the game. But Japan is already going gaga over the title because of who's in the directors role. Level-5 has drafted Jiro Ishii to head up the project. Ishi previously directed 428, a Wii, PS3 and PSP sound novel that received wide critical acclaim, including a perfect score in Famitsu.
Even more intriguing was Hino's comment about the game's platform: "Centered on hardware that's not yet in this world, it will expand to other hardware."
It looks like Time Travelers is being readied for systems that doesn't yet exist. Is Hino hinting at 3DS support?
Regardless of platform, Time Travelers looks like it could be a ways off. In an interview in Famitsu, Hino and Ishii revealed that they only first met at Famitsu's annual awards show in April of last year. Some time after the event, Ishii told Hino that he'd split from 428 developer Chunsoft to become a freelancer, and that's when Hino suggested that they work together on Time Travelers, which is now in development at Level-5's Tokyo branch.
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