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28 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
JP Direct ends with a neat-looking Koei-Tecmo ADV, Buddy Mission Bond, out January 21🇯🇵 character designs by Yusuke Murata, has a kinda moving-manga aesthetic, maybe a little otome-ish
Buddy Mission Bond's four protags
Buddy Mission Bond trailer 🇯🇵

the conceit is that you're constantly buddying up two of the four protags based on the situation & their unique chemistry, with distinct investigation & infiltration phases
between this, the Famitan remakes, some of the genre marketing they've done in Japan, etc it seems Nintendo's making a real push back into ADV... why now, I wonder? like, is there some obvious flashpoint that I missed?
it just strikes me as odd because not that long ago, Miyamoto was lamenting that ADV are too cost-intensive to be profitable... maybe their strategy is to just not loc anything? iunno
(I had to check bc "not that long ago" is often quite long ago and nah, I wasn't crazy, mid-last year gamasutra.com/view/news/3459…)

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29 Oct
a fascinating (ongoing) thread from comic translator & former Capcom artist Katsuya Akitomo on his lifelong relationship with American comics🇯🇵 for context, Akitomo has been publicly credited by Akiman & Akira Nishitani for familiarising the '90s Capcom team with Marvel's work
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29 Oct
IGN Japan's Indie Game Week STG showcase article's live, with features on Mechanical Star Astra, Squadron 51, BLUE SABERS Early Mission, DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge, Wings of Bluestar, CLIONEKO, 1993 Shenandoah, Star Hunter DX & SPACE / MECH / PILOT jp.ign.com/indie-game-wee…🇯🇵
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Mechanical Star Astra: "of all the games featured here, this is the one STG fans should get hyped for" "there's nothing particularly novel about it, but we can't wait for the final game"

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29 Oct
looking over the NGPC library now... presuming they deliberately skipped KOF R-1 & Samsho! for being pre-color, and that CvS is off the table, that just leaves Fatal Fury: First Contact as far as fighting games go

how much deeper will they dig, I wonder...
SNK's two Metal Slugs seem like a given, and they also own a handful of sports games, a few RPGs, a puzzle game or two, etc

as far as third-party licenses go, there's CvS & Card Fighters, Sonic Pocket Adventure, an Ogre Battle game, a few puzzle games, etc
there are only ~80 NGPC games and if you cut out all shovelware & super JP-specific stuff then it's closer to 50, and that's before weeding out the licensed/third-party IP

there's enough for a solid compilation, but not a ton of stuff I'd necessarily expect to sell on its own
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26 Oct
Panel de Pon's 25 years old! this was Nintendo's first original, non-character-branded puzzle game, but they immediately corrected that "mistake"—almost every subsequent game was rebranded, reskinned or bundled with the likes of Tetris, Yoshi, Pokemon, Dr. Mario & Animal Crossing
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26 Oct
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former Westone president Ryuichi Nishizawa & Strictly Limited Games co-founder Dennis Mendel discuss the resurrection of Westone's unreleased arcade game, Tokeijikake no Aquario famitsu.com/news/202010/23…🇯🇵
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