Akihiro Hino
Soon after the port was finished, Level-5 president Akihiro Hino entered talks with him to convince him of joining the company. In June 2011, it was announced that Matsuno had entered Level-5 based on his impression of the "Professor Layton" and "Inazuma Eleven" series and in order to create the games he wanted to. During his stay there, he developed the fantasy RPG "Crimson Shroud" for the Nintendo 3DS, which is part of the collaborative project "Guild 01" of Grasshopper Manufacture's Goichi Suda, Sega's Yoot Saito and comedian Yoshiyuki Hirai. Matsuno left Level-5 in October 2012 and explained "With my work done on the domestic and overseas version of my latest 3DSWare game, it was good timing for me to step down and take a short break in order to recharge for my next project." In September 2013, he announced a partnership with the American company Playdek to develop "Unsung Story", a strategy game similar to Matsuno's previous titles and set in a medieval fantasy world.