The creators of Professor Layton try their hand at a mix between Pokémon and Virtual-On, but is it a serious rival for Pikachu and co.?
Trying to manufacture a phenomenon is always dangerously presumptuous. Franchises like Pokémon didn’t spring up overnight, they were slowly nurtured over several years and their expansion dependent on audience reaction – not some pre-prepared schedule. LBX was an attempt to create an instant multimedia empire around a single concept, and in Japan at least it never really took off. But the game itself is really not that bad.
The first LBX game was released in Japan on… Read the full story