Finally!

Nintendo Australia has just announced that Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask will be released in Australia and New Zealand on October 27th. A mere 20 months after its initial launch date in Japan, it was released with the console there in February 2011.

While not Nintendo Australia’s fault at all the release date is welcome news for fans of Professor Layton. The local release date (apart from the glaring huge initial translation) is good as well, we’re getting the game essentially the same day as Europe and America. Bonus is that since Nintendo is publishing the title, the game will be available to buy in stores but also on the Nintendo 3DS eShop.

This is the fifth Professor Layton game in the series and this time a mysterious Masked Gentleman is terrorising the city of Monte d’Or with magically dark miracles. He’s turning people into stone, which doesn’t sound like a miracle to me at all. Layton suspects that the Mask of Chaos is providing the man with his dark power and he has to be stopped. Layton will have to dig into his own past for answers; you’ll even get the chance to play as Layton at the age of seventeen.

New to Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask are all new 3D graphics and character models, new mini games and 365 days of downloadable puzzles to check out.