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Known as ''Professor Layton and the Spectre's Call'' in the UK and ''Professor Layton and the Specter's Flute'' in Japan, this is the fourth game in the ''[[Professor Layton (Franchise)|Professor Layton]]'' [[Widget Series]], and the first in the prequel trilogy.

It was followed by ''[[Professor Layton and The Mask ofthe Miracle (Video Game)Mask|Professor Layton and The Mask of Miracle]]''. There's also an animated feature set between those two, ''[[Professor Layton and The Eternal Diva]],'' which has been released in Japan and the UK and is set for a US release of November 2011. It was feared that the game was never going to be released over seas, but it was eventually released in October 18th18.

Please place series-spanning tropes on the main ''[[Professor Layton (Franchise)|Professor Layton]]'' page, and London Life-specific tropes in its respective section at the bottom.

* [[Hundred-Percent100% Completion]]: Throughout the game you will build a "collection," little odds and ends you acquire by accomplishing puzzles or just clicking on random hiding places, in a manner reminiscent of the previous games' [[Gotta Catch Em All]] minigames. The difference here is that completing your collection of more than 20 items achieves absolutely nothing...except this trope.

* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: The episodes that are unlocked show little scenes involving daily characters during, before, and after the main story is taken place. If you get all the puzzles you get the last one {{spoiler|which reveals Chelmey's past and why he's so dedicated to his job.}} This is also the only way of seeing {{spoiler|how Emmy and Layton met each other}}.

{{quote| '''Emmy:''' I stepped on a nut!<br />

'''Luke:''' I stepped on a bolt!<br />

* [[Back Fromfrom the Dead]]: In the credits, {{spoiler|Loosha}} can be seen in the background of the last shot with everyone else, despite the repeated [[Please Wake Up|Please Wake Ups]]s followed by sad flute music and a [[Really Dead Montage]]. Then again, the body ''did'' [[Never Found the Body|slip down into the depths of the water]]...

* [[Bookworm]]: Olga, the librarian of the city, is so obsessed with them that she dreams of having a house stacked to the roof with books.

** One of the papers you can investigate in Scotland Yard contains a picture of Prime Minister [[Professor Layton and Thethe Unwound Future (Video Game)|Bill Hawkes]]. Emmy comments that she doesn't like him all that much.

{{quote| '''Bucky:''' The word [X] isn't in Bucky's dictionary, and shouldn't be in yours, either!}}

* [[Cool Train]]: The train toy you get from [[Get Onon the Boat|Bucky]] is just like the car mini-game in ''Unwound Future''.

* [[A Day in Thethe Limelight]]: Compared to the other chapters where Professor Layton is the main character, Chapter 6 has you controlling Emmy.

* [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]]: Luke has prophetic visions that correspond to the specter's arrival. {{spoiler|In reality, he actually has been keeping tabs on the water levels of the canal, gets advice from adorable little mouse friends, and his thinking of Armagedddon stems from the old legends of the specter. In truth, he didn't have to be so melodramatic about it.}}

* [[Expy]]: Jakes' son slightly resembles [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson]], except a bit fatter...

* [[Get Onon the Boat]]: Bucky is an avid boat owner that takes you anywhere in Misthallery that's close to a river. It's taken [[Beyond the Impossible]] once you realize his services extend to the old bridges to the town and market that are clearly not very close to the river down below... Lampshaded when Layton and Emmy comment on how unlikely each new location is.

* [[Heartwarming Orphan|Heartwarming Orphans]]s: Arianna and Tony. A flashback shows Arianna being devastated by their father's death.

* {{spoiler|[[Kill It Withwith Water]]: Loosha uses this to stop Descole's machine after it gets back up to its feet.}}

* [[Leaning Onon the Fourth Wall]]: Goosey has a strange hobby of hiding around Misthallery. Just like Hazel in ''Unwound Future,'' Goosey likes to hide beyond the side of your DS.

{{quote| Unnhh...braaaaains... Or at least some tea, please.}}

{{quote| Of course I hear you, woman! I'm deliberately obtuse, not deaf!}}

* {{spoiler|[[Pulling Themselves Together]]}}: {{spoiler|During the final battle, Layton, Luke, and Emmy manage to deactivate Descole's [[Combining Mecha]] and smash it to pieces. Unfortunately, it effortlessly reassembles itself immediately afterward, forcing Loosha to resort to the [[Kill It Withwith Water]] example above.}}

** Emmy pointing out a (step)ladder, calling it a ladder. [[Ace Attorney|It's a shame there's no one to argue it with.]]

** That [[Ocarina of Time|flute]] looks rather familiar as well... <ref> When compared to Saria's Ocarina, not the actual Ocarina of Time itself.</ref>

* [[Villain Exit Stage Left]]: {{spoiler|Once you beat Descole in the final battle, he declares that this isn't over, leaps off the mech... and supposedly scurries away. While Layton and the others are staring maybe a few feet away.}}

* [[Used to Be Aa Sweet Kid]]: Arianna, before her father's death. When she heard the townspeople muttering about how glad they were to be rid of him and how he deserved what he got, she developed a powerful resentment and isolated herself on the family estate.

Packaged in with some (though sadly, not all) versions of the game is a bonus role-playing game called ''Professor Layton's London Life''. You take on the role of a resident of Little London, which is entirely populated by sprite versions of characters from all of the existing Layton games. As you dwell amongst the characters, you are assigned small quests, usually in the form of acquiring a specific item for a specific individual or delivering a message from one character to another. Certain of these quests make up a storyline, which must be completed to win the game, involving Professor Layton, Luke, Flora, Inspector Chelmey, Don Paolo, and a strange mystic artifact which may or may not have something to do with [[The Fair Folk|fairies]] and/or [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]].

=== Professor Layton's London Life provides examples of: ===

* [[Added Alliterative AppealAlliteration]]: The town's called "Little London" in the NA localization. There's also references to the "Tiny Thames", "Reduced Rome", and "Big Britain".

* [[Call a Hit Point Aa Smeerp]]: Your success is measured in "Happiness" and, to a lesser extent, "Wealth."

* {{spoiler|[[Heroic Sacrifice]]}}: In the main story, {{spoiler|Flora and Lady Dahlia are prepared to sacrifice themselves in order to prevent [[The End of the World Asas We Know It]].}} Fortunately, Layton figures out what really needs to be done and stops this from happening - with the player's help, of course.

* [[Plot Coupon]]: The {{spoiler|Queen's Blood ruby}}. It's supposedly [[Curse|cursedcurse]]d to boot.

* [[Rainbow Speak]]: Most speech appears as white text on a black background. However, if a character speaks to you in {{color|red|red text}}, your happiness will drop - and the longer their speech, or the more angry they are, the more it will reduce your happiness. Conversely, if a character speaks to you in {{color|green|green text}}, your happiness will be restored. You have absolutely no control over how they will speak to you, and of course each quest can only be resolved in one way. The most you can do to protect yourself is to avoid speaking to members of [[The Family for Thethe Whole Family|the Family]] except when required to do so by a quest.

{{quote| [[The Hobbit (novel)|Thief! We hates it forever!]]}}

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