Japan’s Nintendo Direct Had A Very Good Shock Announcement

Typically, the video games introduced or showcased on a Nintendo Direct are the identical within the West as they’re in Japan. Different occasions it’s not till you circle again round and take a look at the Japanese video that you just realise it contained information of a new Summer time Trip sport.

The Boku no Natsuyasumi sequence, which has been operating in Japan for many years, are principally a bunch of video games the place you play as a child and get to get pleasure from a leisurely few weeks of your summer time trip wandering round a city, catching bugs and simply usually absorbing the vibes.

The principle video games within the sequence had by no means been launched within the West till final 12 months, when Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer time Trip: The Countless Seven-Day Journey dropped on Swap and PC. As I stated on the time, that was a bit of a bummer as a result of the license slapped excessive of the expertise kinda ruined the entire thing.

So possibly it’s little shock that whereas no point out was manufactured from this sport on the Western Nintendo Direct whatsover, the Japanese present had a trailer for Natsu-Mon: twentieth Century Summer time Trip, a model new sport written and designed by Boku no Natsuyasumi sequence creator Kaz Ayabe, and developed by his studio Millennium Kitchen.

Seemingly going again to the sequence’ 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 stated above: climbing bushes, chatting with locals, recognizing bugs, performing some dancing.

Will this come to the West? Who is aware of! I stated on the finish of my Shin-Chan weblog that “I can solely hope this one sells sufficient, or at the very least attracts sufficient consideration, to persuade somebody to launch a number of the older video games in English as properly”, however that applies simply as a lot to new video games as properly!

Natsu-Mon: twentieth Century Summer time Trip might be out on the Swap this Summer time.