Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy

Professor Layton and the Azran Legacy is the sixth installment in the core Professor Layton saga and the last entry in the prequel trilogy of games, which follows the Professor and his crew meeting up with another archaeologist named Professor Sycamore (not that one), who has supposedly discovered a "living mummy" encased in ice. Together with said archaeologist and the mummy, the five travel the world to uncover the secrets of the long-gone Azran civilization. Unfortunately, the actual game doesn't exactly end up being as fantastic as it sounds.

At the time, it was claimed to be the final Layton game centering around the Professor's adventures, with the torch eventually being passed to his daughter, but that statement would be retconned when he ended up making a comeback a decade later.

Warning! This page contains a couple of small spoilers.

Prerelease Info Miracle Mask LeftoversSomeone's done quite a puzzlingly poor cleanup job. UK Kiosk Demo

Unused Graphics#

Unused Puzzle GraphicsSprites for puzzles and placeholder backgrounds.

Profile Thumbnails#

Two different thumbnails for the characters Aurora and Romilda are in lt6_en.fa/menu/en/s_chr_ani_b.xa/001.xi. When clicking on their profiles in the game's bonuses, you can switch between the art/models of their two different outfits. It's possible there were supposed to be separate profiles for them in those styles.

This notion is further evidenced by the existence of s_chr_ani_c210.xa and s_chr_ani_c658.xa, which contain separate 2D profile illustrations for Aurora's casual clothes and Romilda's wedding dress respectively. When a character has two different illustrations they switch between, they're normally kept within the same graphic file, which is the case for the both of them (meaning the files with the separate sprites are overall unused).

In addition, there's also one of a human silhouette with a question mark over it in 002.xi, which is likely a placeholder. Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask has a similar graphic as well.

Warning#

cesa_a.xi and cesa_b.xi are graphics for a translated version of the warning that shows up in Choubunmei A no Isan, telling the player not to illegally distribute the game over the internet. For some reason, the top screen is missing the 'D' in 'distributing'.

Volume#

vlm_old.xa has exactly as described. Final graphic for comparison.

Temporary Graphic#

An image with "仮", or "temporary", on it. This appears multiple times in files for Daily Puzzles that have less than 4 pictures included in their instructions. This graphic is also present in Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask.

file:PL6- temporary.png

Demo Leftovers#

Japanese-Exclusive Secret Nazotoki RoomChocolates and soccer and puzzles-- oh my!

Title Screen#

Characters#

Hazel's Gender#

In the Italian version of Azran Legacy- Il Professor Layton e l'eredità degli Aslant- the gender of Hazel the squirrel was changed from female to male. Her (his?) Italian name is Guscio, and Italian words and names generally end in -o or -i if they're masculine. Her character profile also uses 'vederlo', roughly meaning 'see him' (the feminine form is 'vederla', i.e. 'see her').

Sage Sheppard's Clothes#

In the Japanese version, Sage Sheppard's clothes were white instead of blue, to resemble traditional pope clothing. This was likely changed to avoid possible connections between the religious leader of Hoogland and any real-world equivalents.

Japan	International

Character Names#

As is the same with all Layton games, multiple characters have different names across regions.

US and EU

Puzzles#

Puzzle #012- Squirrel Snacks#

The Japanese version has a little 'g' (for grams) by the weight counter. Other versions remove this.

Japan	International

Puzzle #023- Choc-Full#

In the original Japanese version, puzzle #023 is about six apprentices working to cut fruit at a fruitcake shop. One boasts that because of their cutting, the fruitcake is full of 'S'. The task is to figure out which apprentice cutting what fruit made the claim. In the localized versions, the player has to give chocolates to characters in a specific order. This was actually adapted from a puzzle originally used for the region-locked Secret Nazotoki Room, which would have been given to the player when they entered a password from promotional chocolates.

Japan (フルーツのS/Fruit no S)	International (Choc-Full)

Why the original was replaced is a mystery -- especially since it would have worked perfectly fine in most other languages.

Oddities#

In the "Voices" bonus, each character has up to five icons to show which spoken line(s) belongs to who, and a majority of them have different facial expressions to match what they're saying. In Bronev's case, they show him without sunglasses to signify that the line was spoken after he had taken them off in Chapter 5. In the graphic file, four of Bronev's icons depict him with sunglasses and one doesn't, as opposed to the three with and two without in-game. It's possible that there was originally going to be four lines either from before Chapter 5 or just before he takes the glasses off, and then one from after.

Graphic File	In-game

References#