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Forums - Nintendo Discussion - Famicom Detective Club (The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind) getting localized for a western release May 14th

Alex_The_Hedgehog on 17 February 2021

I played Famicom Tantei Club Part II on SNES, with an unnoficial translation back in 2016. That game got me hooked from the beginning to the end.

It's the kind of game that makes you want to play a bit more just to see what happens next. It's wonderful. By the way, it's one of the few games on SNES that has a murder as the main theme, and it actually shows the corpses, as far as I remember.



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Metallox on 17 February 2021

I think I remember the Gaming Historian channel mentioning these games in a video. It's surprising to see them returning.



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Soren0079 on 17 February 2021

Mar1217 said:

The obscurly famous 1980's Famicom Detective games released originally on the Famicom(NES), Super Famicom(SNES) got remade recently for the Nintendo Switch last year and were out in Japan since then, but it seems like Nintendo finally understood there's a market for the VN/Adventure enthusiasts by finally announcing the localization of both games to the west.

Original games were made by the Metroid team from back then and the soundtrack was also composed by Kenji Yamamoto who did Super Metroid soundtrack. There's options to switch the soundtrack to the original 8-bit/16-bit sounds.

One of those low-key hyped games to be honest.

The remakes have not released in Japan yet but they were announced last year.
Ethier way it is very cool that Nintendo will be publishing this outside of Japan. Hopefully this leads to the recent Buddy Mission Bond switch exclusive to be localised too.



Shiken on 17 February 2021

In all honesty, I am pretty excited for it. I love a good murder mystery and I am looking forward to experiencing what these games have to offer.



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Alex_The_Hedgehog on 17 February 2021
Mar1217 said:
Alex_The_Hedgehog said:

I played Famicom Tantei Club Part II on SNES, with an unnoficial translation back in 2016. That game got me hooked from the beginning to the end.

It's the kind of game that makes you want to play a bit more just to see what happens next. It's wonderful. By the way, it's one of the few games on SNES that has a murder as the main theme, and it actually shows the corpses, as far as I remember.

Common you're just setting my expectations to skyrocket once I get my hands on the 2nd game lol xD

I do know the game is rated Teen in NA so I don't know if it means some  parts in the remake are "censored" or different to the original.

Anywoo, the fact they even wanted to localize it in the first place is great, so I'll take it as it is.

I don't know if the original for SNES would be worth of a "M" rating, since there's no blood or gore (If I remember well).

But yeah, that announcement came out of nowhere, and I really liked it.



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The_Liquid_Laser on 17 February 2021

I'm interested in any of those Famicom era games that never made it out of Japan, especially if the games were considered good by fans. I'm definitely intrigued by these.



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noname2200 on 18 February 2021

The second game was actually pretty good! It's linear as hell, and I'm not sure it's even possible to fail, but it was still a nice ride.



Wman1996 on 18 February 2021

Pretty nice that Nintendo is remaking some Japanese-only games for a global audience this time. I really like visual novel/interactive story games, so I want these. $34.99 a piece still will probably be a lot, but that's better than $59.99 a piece.



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Cerebralbore101 on 18 February 2021

This was the most exciting thing at the direct. A new (for westerners) game, being remade and coming out this year.



Ultrashroomz on 18 February 2021

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