ROUNDUP
STRAY CHILDREN
Developer/publisher Onion Games Format Switch Origin Japan Release Winter (Japan), TBA (worldwide)
A spiritual successor to Love-de-lic’s cult 1997 favourite Moon: Remix RPG Adventure – rereleased by Onion Games two years ago – Yoshiro Kimura’s typically surreal new roleplayer is a throwback in more ways than one. It centres on a boy who is sucked inside a TV set and emerges in a psychedelic land populated by other youngsters. Setting cartoon-style characters against grainily realistic (and seemingly prerendered) backdrops, it looks like a revived classic from the early PlayStation era. Alas, it also harks back to when we had to wait for western releases of Japanese games – though we’re assured a localised version isn’t far off.