Gulp.

There's something inexplicably thrilling about getting a new game, but how about getting two new games in one? We bet you're giddy already. The next announcement might just tip you over the edge: Professor Layton and the Last Specter is coming to North America on 17th October and contains a bonus game.

Layton's had bonus games before of course, but nothing on this scale. Unlocked from the start of the top hat professor's latest adventure is Professor Layton's London Life, a 100-hour long RPG that started life as a mobile game in Japan before being integrated into this fourth outing. In Japan you have to unlock it by completing the game: in North America, it's available from the very start.

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Professor Layton and the Last Specter for the Nintendo DS family of systems is the fourth installment in the Professor Layton puzzle adventure series. It begins a new trilogy that is a prequel to the original games, set three years before the events in Professor Layton and the Curious Village™. The game contains more puzzles than any in the series to date. As a North American exclusive to the overall Professor Layton and the Last Specter package, a bonus role-playing game called Professor Layton’s London Life™ containing more than 100 hours of additional content will be available to players from the start of the game.