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lattedecoffee · 1 year

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I have finished The Girl Who Stands Behind (the other Famicom Detective Club game), and I think I prefer The Missing Heir. That’s not to say I didn’t enjoy TGWSB, it was still fun and interesting, but TMH made me cry and TGWSB did not.

Ayumi got to exist more this time which was nice, even though I don’t really care for the games wanting me to ship her with the protagonist. There were also a lot of great moments, funny and serious (that whole scene at the end involving the culprit was amazing, particularly a certain shot iykyk), but TMH’s ending felt more impactful imo. Maybe it’s because it’s more personal to the protagonist? Also TGWSB had all these last second reveals that didn’t really affect me much. Like yeah it’s an ok reveal and it makes sense I guess but why was this only told to me now…?! Why couldn’t some of this have come before the last 5 minutes of the game?

Both are still great story-wise and I know I’ll be thinking about them for a while. They’re are clunky gameplay wise but that’s to be expected given they’re from ‘88 and ‘89 respectively. If you love Ace Attorney, remember that these games were one of its inspirations and play them! I’d love to see more people playing these.

Also something I just realized: mirrors were integral to both games but in very different ways. Wanna know what I mean by that? Guess you’ll have to play 😈

#famicom detective club #taro ninten #ayumi tachibana #the missing heir #the girl who stands behind

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mhudson92 · 2 years

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receptorconsuming · 2 years

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Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (2021)

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nintendokids · 1 year

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Currently Playing - Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir

I just wrapped up The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening on Switch and am shifting gears with something different.

I gained an appreciation for visual novels back on PlayStation Vita (💙 for PS Vita!) and, more recently, played a couple of Vampire: The Masquerade visual novels on Xbox. I found the Switch is an ideal platform to enjoy these kinds of games and searched for something new to play in the Nintendo Store.

Nintendo released two Famicom Detective Club games on Famicom in Japan in 1988 and 1989. The duology included The Missing Heir and a prequel The Girl Who Stands Behind. These games have been lovingly recreated on the Switch and were released in 2021. I started playing The Missing Heir a few nights ago and am enjoying the game quite a bit!

The story starts a bit cliche for a detective story. Your character has suffered amnesia after an accident and finds himself having to regain his memories while trying to solve a case he was hired for prior to losing his memory. I like this dual discovery that is going on at this stage and every new character interaction has me eager to find out more.

This game is probably a slow burn for me. I’m in no rush to finish it but will share my thoughts here as I progress.

Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir

-Christian

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the-spoonicorn · 1 year

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knock knock. ahem im here to borrow your switch. anyway 3 5 24 !!

great you can have my copy of just dance 2017 it's all yours buddy

3. 1-3 games you’ve played in the past 12 months that you really enjoyed

i played a lot of games in the last year... if i had to choose 3 max that i really enjoyed, it'd be aini, famicom detective club: the girl who stands behind (switch remake), and tales of berseria.

i'm talking about aini removed from me being on aitsf brain rot mode 24/7. upon release i was excited about it to the point where i did nothing outside of playing it save for eating and sleeping, so throughout my playtime i was engaged enough for the game's issues to not detract from my experience too much, and i'm glad that was the way i chose to play the game because i think i might have enjoyed it a bit less if i had taken more time for my first playthrough.

fdc was short and sweet and i really liked the setting. just a simple mystery VN along the lines of portopia (as they tended to be back when the original came out). i look back on it and go "yeah, that was fun"

berseria's ending was ass and the second half of the game was kind of boring but i had fun being the bad guy until the game turned into Plot About Saving The World #14523485 and it was nice playing a story-driven JRPG again after not having done so for a hot minute. i enjoyed the overall experience even though the game royally pissed me off

5. Game(s) coming out that you’re looking forward to

botw2 is the obvious pick so i will not say that and instead say that i'm really looking forward to octopath 2. i like that there will be 8 new stories and they're not just reusing the chatacters from 1 since their stories have ended already. i would also say ff7 rebirth but i don't see myself getting a ps5 any time soon (or this year at all for that matter) so i'm not super hyped about it

24. A game with a cool art style

i like the art in 13 sentinels a lot. it feels like i'm playing through a painting and the weird ever-present sunset gives the environments a nice, nostalgic glow that fits the whole time travel thing. i also love the sentinel comms portraits. the dramatic lighting draws attention to the characters' faces and also makes it look like they're speaking into a screen in the cockpit. you ever hear of that UI test where you blur your eyes and if you can still make sense of what's on the screen it's good design, or something like that? if you get a bunch of the portraits on the screen at once, the faces really stick out and the rest of the cockpits become the background. the effect it creates is really neat.

#thanks for the ask

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bowloflentils · 3 years

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Working my way through Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind. Experiencing this game again is bring back memories of playing the old Super Nintendo fan translation on ZSNES back in the day on my parent’s old laptop.

Fan art above is by Hounori.

#famicom detective club #famicom detective club: the girl who stands behind #hounori #nintendo #nintendo switch

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hopeymchope · 3 years

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Famicom Detective Club: Taro Ninten and the Side Ponytail of Death

FAMICOM DETECTIVE CLUB! I’ve been playing the new Switch remakes of the original two games and really enjoying them. I decided to play them in release order.

The Missing Heir comes first and has our protagonist struck with a case of amnesia. He has no such memory issues in the second game, The Girl Who Stands Behind, which actually takes place two years BEFORE the first title. It’s a prequel, so there is some debate over the proper order to play them in. I feel like there are clear benefits to playing them in release order, though, and the amnesia plotline is just one of them.

The protagonist is officially named by you, the player, but he does have two semi-canonical names. In promotional materials for the Switch remakes, Nintendo calls him “Taro Ninten.” In a Japanese strategy guide from the ‘80s, he was dubbed “Naoya Takada.“ I opted for the Nintendo-backed option, so I named him Taro Ninten for my own playthrough. And Taro is a GOOD BOY. We’re told he’s had a strong sense of justice ever since he was born, and he’s willing to say just about anything to convince people to talk when he needs information. Need comfort and care to lower your walls? Insincere flattery to butter you up? Spooky stories to make you snap and squeal? Mindless repetition of the same two words until you can’t take it anymore? Taro’s your man for any of it!

The secondary protagonist is your trusty co-investigator, Ayumi Tachibana. (She would go on to take the lead in the obscure THIRD game in the series, but... let’s just ignore that one for now. Until I start campaigning that IT get a remake.) Ayumi is your trusty confidant in the first game (TMH), but she tends to only show up for one scene at the end of each chapter. She later steps up to be a much bigger player in the second title (TGWSB).

And in a shocking turn of events, Ayumi is rocking the Side Ponytail of Death. But she’s... she’s alive? For three games in a row?!?!

If Nintendo ever resurrects this series for a new entry, Ayumi had better watch her back...

I LOVE the art style and the animations in this remake. You can see some of the simple-yet-lovely animations in The Missing Heir in a post I recently reblogged. Everything is beautiful to look at, and there’s a great Japanese voiceover on top of it all. I confess that the soundtrack is far less appealing to me in The Missing Heir, but I kind of enjoy the music in The Girl Who Stands Behind so far.

These are adventure games that play out kind of like visual novels at times. TMH is definitely more obtuse; if you opt to try it, you’ll probably need to reference an online guide at a few points. There are parts where you have to keep hammering the same option in the menu like four times just to cause something to change, and there’s one part where you’re supposed to move between locations and do certain actions at each location in a specific order to make the story advance. Yeah, it’s an old-school adventure game in that sense. Sort of like “Deja Vu” or “Shadowgate” with fewer puzzles and no chance of your character dying. No “pixel-hunting” here, at least. When you move your cursor around to look at and interact with objects, you can always clearly see the necessary targets.

TGWSB, on the other hand, isn’t nearly as difficult to step through. It’s typically pretty clear what you need to do to progress. If you can’t figure out what to do next, just trying every menu option at least once will usually get things moving again. It’s much more player-friendly that way. I haven’t finished the second one yet, so I can’t speak to the story really... but it definitely plays faster and better.

TMH’s big mystery is pretty fun, but there are also times when parts of it are obvious. I’d say that Danganronpa and Ace Attorney have much more convoluted murder mysteries in them. I figured out the culprit behind TMH very early on, and they remained my top suspect for the majority of my playthough (though I did get thrown off their trail for a short while). The final puzzle area did at least stump me for a little bit, though.

And for now, I have just one suspect in TGWSB, but I have to wonder if I’ll proven correct again...

Oh, and the second game really cemented for me that I ship Taro/Ayumi. Or Ninten/Tachibana. Nintenbana? Taroyumi? Whatever. They’re great kids who go great together and clearly are fond of each other. Like... just fucking kiss already.

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hardcore-gaming-101 · 3 years

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Famicom Detective Club (Switch Remakes)

The Famicom Tantei Club games are considered classics of the Japanese Adventure (ADV) game genre, and it was welcome news when it was revealed in 2019 that the first two games were to be remade for the Switch. As the planned 2020 release date was delayed by almost a year, an even bigger surprise came in February 2021 when Nintendo announced that the games would be localized into English for the first time. This was exciting news for fans of video game history, as these are two of the of the few remaining 1980s Nintendo first party games that has never been available in English. The remakes were developed by MAGES, with series’ creator Yoshio Sakamoto returning as producer. The two games, titled in English as The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind, were released digitally as separate games and as a bundle. The Japanese version was also given a physical release in the form of a Collectors’ Edition set.

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oldgamedebris · 3 years

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Club Promoter “There’s no one name Ayumi at the bar. We’ve got a Rei and an Asuka though...”

(The protagonist is voiced by Shinji [Megumi Ogata].)

#Nintendo Switch #Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind #Neon Genesis Evangelion

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lattedecoffee · 1 year

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Why did no one tell me famicom detective club goes so hard

Just finished The Missing Heir (beat it in one day, it’s relatively short), and I cried at the end. I guessed every big twist but one, but that didn’t stop the moments Taro realized them from hitting hard. I only wish there was an English dub, though the Japanese VAs were amazing (I just like knowing the language lf the voices lol

This series was one of Ace Attorney’s inspirations and you can really tell. Not only in its gameplay, but in the one character that literally just looks like the Ace Attorney judge.

I’ll be playing The Girl Who Stands Behind ASAP because holy crap I loved this one and general online consensus seems to be that TGWSB is the better one.

PLAY. FAMICOM. DETECTIVE. CLUB.

#famicom detective club #taro ninten #the missing heir #the girl who stands behind

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mhudson92 · 2 years

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#famicom detective club #the girl who stands behind #mystery #paranormal

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receptorconsuming · 2 years

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Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind (2021)

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brawler1993 · 3 years

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The Entertainment Dome Episode 167 - We Interrupt These Recaps to Bring You a Nintendo Direct

This week on The Entertainment Dome, we take a brief break from the Attack on Titan and RWBY recaps and instead do our damndest to cover everything in last week's Nintendo Direct, from the new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character(s) to Splatoon 3.

This week on The Entertainment Dome, we take a brief break from the Attack on Titan and RWBY recaps and instead do our damndest to cover everything in last week’s Nintendo Direct, from the new Super Smash Bros. Ultimate DLC character(s) to Splatoon 3.

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operationrainfall · 3 years

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REVIEW: Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind

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#Famicom Detective Club #Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind #Graphic adventure #murder mystery #Nintendo #nintendo switch #Reviews #visual novel

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miketendo-64 · 3 years

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[EXPlay] Famicom Detective Club (Nintendo Switch)

[EXPlay] It's time to put our sleuthing skills to the test as #FamicomDetectiveClub #NintendoSwitch gets the Explain & Play Treatment. Does it crack the case of Visual Novels on Switch who is it a case that will eventually run cold? Find out here...

Welcome to EXPlay, (Explain & Play) the review series where we care not for scores but tell it how it is when it comes to every game we get our hands on, whilst also taking the time to include some lengthy gameplay, to give you the reader, the chance to shape your own impressions and views whilst watching and reading. In this installment, we’re covering Famicom Detective Club by developer…

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#EXPlay #Famicom Detective Agency #Famicom Detective Club EXPlay #Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind #Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir #Nintendo #Nintendo Switch

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satoshi-mochida · 3 years

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Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir and Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind release today separately digitally for the Switch. Buying one on the sShop lets you get $10 off the other.

#Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir #Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind #Famicom Detective Club #Famicom Tantei Club #visual novel

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