Professor Layton and the Phantom Railway

This is an Alternate Universe set in a 1930s-esque environment during a financial depression that rakes its ugly claws throughout the world. Hershel Layton is an ex-professor, having had everything ripped from him 7 years ago after an accident that leaves him homeless. He is forced to jump freights and travel relentlessly with the Government, Targent, and a strange assassin on his tail.Luke Triton is a boy from Misthallery, weary and worn-down from the issues brought on by the depression. When everything he knows is destroyed by money-starved Targent, he runs from what was once his home and hops into a boxcar, quietly joining the company of a then-sleeping man as the train rattles along the rails.Everything changes when the train is derailed and the two learn of the mysterious Phantom Railway.