This week’s dual-pronged Nintendo Direct exhibits have been full of enormous video games. Kirby and the World Past! Metroid Ravenous! The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time! However the Japanese model of right now’s present quietly snuck in a minimum of one sport the remainder of us did not get: a sequel to Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii’s 1983 journey sport.
The Portopia Serial Homicide Case got here out a whopping 43 years in the past – first in your private computer systems, then on the NES – and the homicide thriller romp went on to grow to be a fairly large hit for Enix (now Sq. Enix). Even Hideo Kojima as soon as credited it as one of many the reason why he needed to start making video games within the first place.
And in right now’s Nintendo Direct, we obtained a brand-new trailer for a sequel to The Portopia Serial Homicide Case. The text-based detective work and witness interrogations from the unique appear to be intact, alongside a brand new string of murders. Test it out under.
The Steam web page additionally notes that Yuji Horii is supervising the challenge as an government director, although there’s sadly no signal of English-language help simply but. We must always hear extra as the sport approaches its 2027 launch window on Change 2 and PC.
“Set in Eighties Kobe, gamers can take pleasure in a totally new detective expertise – investigating alongside a brand new solid of characters to uncover the secrets and techniques hidden behind the unique murders,” the Steam description explains. “This title is a menu-driven, command-selection textual content journey sport. Gamers make the most of quite a lot of instructions to navigate the investigation. By gathering witness statements and bodily proof, you’ll progressively uncover the reality behind the serial murders.”
Three years again, Sq. Enix tried to revive the unique sport with an “instructional demonstration of Pure Language Processing (NLP), an AI expertise.” That pseudo-remake, pseudo-experiment did not go down too effectively with gamers – Steam reviewers slapped it with a ‘Very Unfavourable’ score. Though, Sq. Enix would not appear to be concerned on this upcoming sequel.
