Level‑5 Vision Teased

Level-5’s April 10 showcase turned into a check-in on the company’s Switch 2 slate, with new platform details for Professor Layton, Decapolice, Inazuma Eleven, and Snack World. (level5.co.jp) Level-5 streamed “LEVEL5 VISION 2026 Craftsmanship” on YouTube on Friday, April 10, at 9:00 p.m. Japan time, which was 8:00 a.m. Eastern on the same day in the United States. The company said the broadcast would carry “the latest information” on multiple titles and offered English and Traditional Chinese subtitles. (level5.co.jp, gematsu.com) The official event page says the stream included the first reveal for Professor Layton and the New World of Steam, plus new titles Snack World: Reloaded and Pufflings: Journey Through a Fantasy World. Nintendo Life’s roundup said several other projects appeared with only “in development” labels rather than firm dates. (level5.co.jp, nintendolife.com) The clearest Switch 2 signal was platform expansion across games that were previously tied to older hardware or left vague. Nintendo Life’s recap lists Snack World: Reloaded as a Switch 2 game, Inazuma Eleven RE and Holy Horror Mansion as coming to both Switch and Switch 2, and Professor Layton and the New World of Steam as a Switch and Switch 2 release. (nintendolife.com) Decapolice moved further than that. The game’s official English site now lists only Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Steam, and RPG Site reported that the original Switch and PlayStation 4 versions were removed after the showcase. (decapolice.jp, rpgsite.net) Professor Layton and the New World of Steam also widened beyond Nintendo hardware. Level-5’s official site says the game got a new trailer and character updates on April 10, and Gematsu reported that Level-5 now plans a late 2026 launch on Switch, Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Steam. (layton.jp, gematsu.com) Snack World: Reloaded looks like a more direct next-generation play. Its official site lists Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, and Steam, and says the remake adds enhanced graphics, refined controls, and a new mode built around Chup, the anime protagonist. (snack-world.jp) Inazuma Eleven got one of the few hard dates in the presentation. RPGamer reported that Inazuma Eleven: Victory Road will get a physical Nintendo Switch 2 release in Japan on June 11, 2026, while Inazuma Eleven: Cross is set for Japan in June 2026. (rpgamer.com) The thread running through the event was not a Nintendo first-party reveal cycle but a publisher cleanup of a delayed lineup. Nintendo Life said many announcements still lacked dates, and Level-5’s own pages now show a mix of “coming in 2026,” “late 2026,” and “to be announced” across the games tied to Switch 2. (nintendolife.com, decapolice.jp, snack-world.jp, layton.jp) So the takeaway from Level-5’s April 10 show is narrower than a platform showcase but more concrete than a teaser: several long-running projects now have Switch 2 attached to them, and a few no longer target the original Switch at all. (level5.co.jp, decapolice.jp)