Chill Japanese Basic Lastly Getting An English Translation

Boku no Natsuyasumi is a long-running Japanese collection that, with a bizarre and unhealthy exception, has by no means been formally launched within the West. That’s a disgrace! The place publishers have failed us, although, followers are stepping up and delivering the products.

The collection, greatest translated as My Summer season Trip, started all the way in which again in 2000 on the PS1, and every sport is about roughly the identical factor: a child is away together with his household on summer season holidays, and also you’re given management of him as he spends his days wandering the countryside, gathering bugs and making mates.

Whereas we (one way or the other) obtained a Shin-Chan-branded spin-off final yr, no fundamental sport within the collection has ever been formally launched in English. And possibly by no means will, so it’s superior that Hilltop—whose work we’ve featured right here earlier than—is main a staff engaged on releasing an “English translation” patch for the second sport within the collection, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2.

This one is about in 1975, and whisks you away to spend 31 days at your uncle and aunt’s B&B in a small city on the southern coast of Japan. It has one of many biggest covers in all of video video games:

Right here’s a trailer. Not for the sport, it’s for the English patch, however I assume it’s additionally for the sport:

Ah, beautiful! “Not a lot occurred at present. However it was a day I’ll always remember”. Can not wait. Within the meantime, you’ll be able to take a look at—and help—Hilltop’s work right here.

Whereas we’re on the topic, the final Nintendo Direct had the reveal trailer for Natsu-Mon: twentieth Century Summer season Trip, a model new sport written and designed by Boku no Natsuyasumi collection creator Kaz Ayabe, and developed by his studio Millennium Kitchen. There’s no phrase on an English launch for this, however with curiosity within the collection lastly choosing up over right here within the final couple of years, there’s at all times hope!