22 years later, an important milestone for role-plays finally arrives in the West

Among the many upcoming games on Nintendo Switch, you should pay close attention to Moon, porting a 1997 RPG on PlayStation, which never left Japan before.

Why should you care? Good, Moon It is a kind of lighting point for a small community of avant-garde and avant-garde avant-garde Japanese game development studios. Its developer, Love-de-Lic, was founded by several role-playing creators who had just left the Square company, where they had worked on games such as the trigger of a stopwatch and Super Mario RPG. Moon was called an "anti-RPG." In short, his hero is a child who has to travel the world of a Japanese role-playing game after the "hero" has already unleashed it, killing all his fauna for experience points, breaking everybody's pots and generally constituting a nuisance.

The spirits behind Love-de-Lic finally founded the development studios Skip, Vanpool and Punchline, creating games like Chibi-Robo, Little story of the king, the tingle games for Nintendo DS and many other games sharing the same desire to upset traditions and rethink role-playing stories.

At the time, Moon His publisher, ASCII, would have almost devoted a "significant portion" of his booth at the 1997 E3 to what he called a "strange and twisted RPG" for the original PlayStation. But soon after, the American version of the game was canceled and the game only came out in Japan. But soon, it will be finally playable in English, on the Switch. The English translation is being written right now by KotakuTim Rogers, who will have a lot to say about Moon once he is able.

Moon will be released in Japan on October 10 and "soon" out of Japan, according to an interview with one of its developers, Yoshiro Kimura, at the Tokyo Game Show last weekend.