Hey, that Nintendo Direct we had yesterday? Fairly cool, proper? However until you watched the Japanese model of the Direct, you most likely missed one of many coolest hidden gems to return out of the present: a bit of sport known as Stray Youngsters.
Stray Youngsters appeared completely within the Japanese Nintendo Direct. The sport follows a younger boy who’s sucked right into a TV right into a world made up fully of kids, the place he goes on an odd journey. We do not know an excessive amount of concerning the mission simply but, but it surely appears to be an RPG, and one thing about the way in which the boy is interacting with the monsters he encounters seems to be acquainted…
Yup, should you’re watching the trailer and pondering it seems to be a bit like Undertale, you are not flawed. You see, developer Onion Video games is a Tokyo-based indie run by Yoshiro Kimura, who was a sport designer on a 1997 sport known as Moon: RPG Remix Journey. Initially, Moon was solely ever launched in Japan, and was an odd “anti-RPG” that was in some ways forward of its time. However the distinctive methods it questioned the components of conventional RPGs finally impressed most of the themes and concepts in Toby Fox’s Undertale practically twenty years later. And the success of Undertale in flip impressed Onion Video games and Kimura to return to Moon in 2021 and launch the sport worldwide for Nintendo Swap.
Simply in case it wasn’t crystal clear: sure, #StrayChildren shall be localized and launched exterior Japan!
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Now, with Stray Youngsters, Kimura and his studio look like exploring one thing like a non secular successor to Moon that has discovered from numerous different, comparable video games in the identical custom. Up to now, it does not have a launch date both in Japan or within the West, however Onion Video games is reassuring that this sport will not be locked to Japan the way in which Moon was for therefore lengthy. And an English model of the trailer is predicted quickly. So whereas we wait eagerly for Deltarune Chapter 3, maintain this little gem of a sport behind your thoughts.
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Acquired a narrative tip? Ship it to [email protected].
