Sometimes, The games announced or presented on a Nintendo Direct are the same in the West as they are in Japan. Sometimes it’s not until you turn back and watch the Japanese video that you realize it has news about a new summer vacation game.
The Boku no Natsuyasumi Series, which has been running in Japan for decades are basically a series of games that you can play as a kid and enjoy a few leisurely weeks of your summer vacation wander through a city, catch bugs and just soak up the vibes.
The main games in the series had never been released in the West until last year Shin Chan: Me and the professor on summer vacation: The endless seven-day journey fell on Switch and PC. As I said at the time, that was a bit a disappointment because the license gossiping about the top of the experience kind of ruined the whole thing.
So it’s perhaps unsurprising that while this game wasn’t mentioned at all in the western Nintendo Direct, the Japanese show had a 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.
Seemingly going back to the roots of the series takes us to what looks like the 80’s or early 90’s and lets us play as a 10-year-old on vacation and do all the things I mentioned above: climb trees, chatting with the locals, spotting beetles, dancing.
Is this coming out west? Who knows! I said at the end of my Shinchan to blog that “I can only hope that this game sells enough or at least gets enough attention to convince someone to release some of the older games in English as well”, but the same goes for new games!
G/O Media may receive a commission
Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Vacation will be released for Switch this summer.
