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REVIEW: Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir Wednesday, June 9th, 2021 Look for us on OpenCritic! Share this page Check out our friends across the pond at Visual-Novel.info Popular Posts SUPPORT OPRAINFALL BY TURNING OFF ADBLOCK Ads support the website by covering server and domain costs. We're just a group of gamers here, like you, doing what we love to do: playing video games and bringing y'all niche goodness. So, if you like what we do and want to help us out, make an exception by turning off AdBlock for our website. In return, we promise to keep intrusive ads, such as pop-ups, off opr...

Both stories have some arbitrary info blocks like this, but even with my sus sense tingling, neither case went exactly where I expected it to go.

01/06/21 Famicom Detective Club is easily one of the least expected game releases for the Nintendo Switch. Originally released for the Famicom in the late 1980s, this visual novel duology was only ever released in Japan, with only re-releases on Super Famicom, Game Boy Advance and the Wii U Virtual Console to prove that NIntendo hadn’t entirely buried them in their past. Now Utsugi Detective Agency’s teenage detectives have returned to re-solve the cases of The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind, fully remade for the Nintendo Switch and with localisation and release outside Japan...

Those interested in playing an older style adventure game will be pleased with Famicom Detective Club's twists and turns.

Famicom Detective Club is an exciting but perhaps confusing proposition from Nintendo for fans of the visual novel genre. On the one hand, the remakes represent a major developer and publisher paying attention to a genre that is generally reserved for indie devs and other more niche studios. On the other hand, they are remakes of games from the 80s with a new user interface and visuals but largely the same mechanics; the games are from a simpler era, so to speak. While I thoroughly enjoyed my time with both The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind, it is undeniable that compared to mod...