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Akira Tago, the mastermind, best-selling author, psychologist, puzzle-creating extraordinaire for Level-5's Layton series, has unfortunately passed away at the age of 90.

According to the Japan Times, he passed away on March 6, after falling ill to interstitial pneumonia. Tago made his name with a best-selling quiz book, "Atama no Taiso" (Brain Exercises) in 1966, which resulted in 22 sequels and 12 million copies sold by 2001.

In the world of video games, Tago has been credited as "Puzzle Master" - almost certainly one of the all-time great video game job titles - in every Professor Layton game.

In an interview with Eurogamer in 2014, Level-5 president Akihiro Hino revealed that the Layton series owes its entire existence to Tago's work - it began life as a bonus story mode in a planned release of Tago's already-published puzzles, which Hino had loved as a child.

The news is just breaking today here in the states.

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As an enormous fan of the Layton games, this saddens me deeply. You were a creative and beautiful mind Akira Tago. And you will be fondly remembered, and greatly missed. Thank you for your work.

 

[Onepunchbruh]

RIP, another man also died, the pokemon creative director.

Poor guy R.I.H

 

[tk615]

Rest in peace and thank you for the great memories within each game.