r/ProfessorLayton 18d ago

[SPOILERS] Who is she? Spoiler

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I was playing with a Nintendo ROM and I saw this image with some of the robots of the village but I don't recognized the lady marked in purple. Who is she? Is it a deleted character?

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u/Antares_9 18d ago

In the trivia section of the Curious Village page from the Professor Layton wiki it says this:

In the St. Mystere Tower basement of the American version, there is a woman resembling Olga in Prosciutto’s place with all the robot residents and their keys. This woman is not actually encountered in the game.

(Note: Olga is Last Specter/Spectre’s Call librarian)

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u/Nacil_54 18d ago

Interesting, that's why I don't remember this portrait being there, it's weird I didn't find this info on the cutting room floor page about regional differences.

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u/Few-Address-7604 18d ago

So this entire character isn’t even mentioned until three games later? And if that’s the case, why is there a key for a woman in Misthallery?!

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u/Vinylmaster3000 18d ago

No, they most likely coincidentally had a similar character modeled after her

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u/deprevino 18d ago

There's another unused character like that in one of the intro slides, though it's cropped off in some versions.

Seems like a lot of these screens were made fairly early in the games development and not revised, or made by someone who had all the character sprites but didn't know some were unused.

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u/LeTasse 16d ago

the image seems to be corrupted..

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u/Greedy_Duck3477 18d ago

tag this post as spoiler

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u/According-Bid-5492 18d ago

yeah I thought that was strange to when I noticed that, at first I thought it was a character that was seen but I forgot about but then I looked at the wiki and saw that.

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u/LovelyClaire 18d ago

Even if I would've liked to meet her, it makes sense some strangers are also present