Moon
Developer Love-de-Lic
Publisher Onion Games
Format Switch
Release Out now
They say love doesn’t come with an instruction manual, but here the latter is pretty much essential. The early stages of Love-de-Lic’s 1997 ‘anti-RPG’ - never previously released outside Japan - are an unwieldy reminder of a game from a different age. Co-director Yoshiro Kimura’s Onion Games has supplied a downloadable booklet to guide you through this localised port, but it’s still an off-puttingly cumbersome start.
Tim Rogers’ localisation - by turns strange, funny and heartfelt - rarely misses a beat. Delightful touches abound: the two options when you talk to the local baker are “I’ll buy!” and “I’ll… bye!”