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Anna Koselke

"Lost" Professor Layton game that only released in Japan 16 years ago is getting an unofficial translation after being discovered on an old phone

Professor Layton and the Mansion of the Deathly Mirror.

While fans wait for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam to release, a long-lost title from the beloved puzzle game series has been unearthed - after 16 years.

Professor Layton and the Mansion of the Deathly Mirror was first released as a Japan exclusive for mobile devices in 2008. It received a re-release just a year later, but it never made it overseas, and entire chapters have since been lost to time - until now, that is. A self-described "game preservationist" known online as Yuvi discovered the full game on an old cell phone "that looked like it survived a house fire."

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