Boku no Natsuyasumi is a long-running Japanese series that started with a strange and bad exception, was never officially released in the west. That’s a shame! However, where publishers have let us down, fans jump in and deliver the goods.
The series, best translated as My summer vacationstarted in 2000 on the PS1, and each game is about the same thing: a kid is away on summer vacation with his family and you take control of him as he spends his days wandering the countryside. Collect bugs and make friends.
While we (sort of) got one Shinchan-Branded spin-off last year, no main game in the series has ever been officially released in English. And maybe never, so it’s great that Hilltop—whose work we have presented here before—leads a team working on the release of an “English translation” patch for the second game in the series, Boku no Natsuyasumi 2.
Set in 1975, this one takes you to a small town on the south coast of Japan to spend 31 days at your uncle and aunt’s B&B. It has one of the best covers of any video game:
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Here’s a trailer. Not for the game, it’s for the English patch, but I think it’s for the game too:
Oh, nice! “Not much happened today. But it was a day I will never forget.” Can not Wait
Speaking of which, The last Nintendo Direct had the reveal trailer for Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Vacationa brand new game written and designed by Boku no Natsuyasumi Series creator Kaz Ayabe and developed by his studio Millennium Kitchen. There’s no word on an English release for it, but with interest in the series finally getting here in the last couple of years, there’s always hope!
