Nintendo Switch 2 Might Release Before My Most Anticipated Switch Game

Despite the lack of an official reveal, the Nintendo Switch 2 is widely expected to release in 2025, and it might just make it to market before the Switch game that I'm most excited about does. Seven years out from its launch, the Switch has had a long and healthy lifespan, and the games that have released in that window include some of my all-time favorites, like One franchise that means a lot to me, however, has spent most of that time waiting in the wings.

The series in question is, which is set to finally receive a new Switch entry in 2025. Although games came out at a steady pace for a good portion of the DS and 3DS's lifespan, things dried up once the Switch hit the market, and the only Layton game to release on the console to date was a port of the 3DS spin-off was finally announced in 2023, but developer Level-5 has still barely shown any gameplay.

The Nintendo Switch is a great system, but it's significantly lacking in one key regard that I want the Switch's successor to directly address.

My love for the Professor Layton games started with the first entry,, which my mom somehow learned about upon release and bought for me before I had ever even heard of it. In this instance, her curation couldn't have been better. The intriguing town of St. Mystere drew me in immediately, and the variety of puzzles and fascinating ensemble of off-kilter characters kept me hooked.

games don't operate quite like any other puzzle titles on the market, although they've had some decent enough imitators. On a surface level, the formula could easily be clunky. The overall structure resembles a marriage between visual novels and point-and-click adventures, but there isn't much challenge to be found in navigating their rich environments. The meat of the series lies in the brain-teasers that pop up in absurdly shoe-horned ways, whether NPCs throw them at the Professor, or something simply reminds him of a puzzle that he can use to challenge his young apprentice.

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