Generally, the video games introduced or showcased on a Nintendo Direct are the identical within the West as they’re in Japan. Different instances it’s not till you circle again round and take a look at the Japanese video that you simply realise it contained information of a brand new Summer season Trip recreation.
The Boku no Natsuyasumi collection, which has been working in Japan for many years, are principally a bunch of video games the place you play as a child and get to take pleasure in a leisurely few weeks of your summer season trip wandering round a city, catching bugs and simply usually absorbing the vibes.
The principle video games within the collection had by no means been launched within the West till final yr, when Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer season Trip: The Limitless Seven-Day Journey dropped on Swap and PC. As I mentioned on the time, that was a little bit of a bummer as a result of the license slapped excessive of the expertise kinda ruined the entire thing.
So perhaps it’s little shock that whereas no point out was manufactured from this recreation on the Western Nintendo Direct whatsover, the Japanese present had a trailer for Natsu-Mon: twentieth Century Summer season Trip, a model new recreation written and designed by Boku no Natsuyasumi collection creator Kaz Ayabe, and developed by his studio Millennium Kitchen.
Seemingly going again to the collection’ roots, it takes us again to a time that appears just like the 80s or early 90s, and has us enjoying as a 10-year-old, on holidays, doing all of the stuff I mentioned above: climbing bushes, chatting with locals, recognizing bugs, doing a little dancing.
Will this come to the West? Who is aware of! I mentioned on the finish of my Shin-Chan weblog that “I can solely hope this one sells sufficient, or a minimum of attracts sufficient consideration, to persuade somebody to launch a number of the older video games in English as effectively”, however that applies simply as a lot to new video games as effectively!
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Natsu-Mon: twentieth Century Summer season Trip shall be out on the Swap this Summer season.
