In 1988, Nintendo released Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir upon the Famicom Disk System. Though the lack of global release meant it’s long been an obscurity outside its home country, it made quite the splash in Japan. For one thing, it gave Yoshio Sakamoto—best known for his work on …
Famicom Detective Club is not something I would ever have expected to see on Nintendo Switch. A pair of relatively obscure adventure ’80s Famicom adventure games that never saw a worldwide release doesn’t exactly seem like it’d be a high priority for the remake treatment. But here we are, and …
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & the Blade of Light, the first game in the Fire Emblem series, is finally getting an English release—30 years on from its launch in 1990 for Famicom. The classic tactical JRPG is coming to Nintendo Switch on December 4, and will be available for purchase …
Hoshi wo Miru Hito, a Famicom JRPG that has never been officially released outside Japan before, is getting an international Switch release courtesy of City Connection. It’s due out in northern summer / southern winter 2020, with a planned price of USD $9.99. Hoshi wo Miru Hito (which roughly translates …
Spoiler warning: This whole article is about a major spoiler for Dragon Quest III. As if the title didn’t give that away. Fake endings aren’t exactly a rarity in video games, or any narrative for medium. This is particularly true of RPGs, where “surprise! here’s the real final boss” is such a worn-out trope …
