so there's this Extremely Japanese series of games, Boku no Natsuyasumi ("My Summer Holiday"), each about a young boy called "Boku" ("Me") who goes to spend a month of his summer holiday with family in various Extremely Japanese locations - a farm in the countryside, a fishing town, if you've seen it in a Ghibli film it's probably been done
like I'm not joking these games are Miyazaki as HELL
the "point" of them is just to wander around and do things that a kid would do on summer holidays - catch bugs, go fishing, meet a local artist who teaches you to write haikus, etc. No pressure, no progression goals, just a little scrapbook that gets filled in with your adventures at the end of each day.
I love them dearly but also none of them have been released in English and I don't read a word of Japanese so playing them is difficult; the only exception to this is the spinoff Attack of the Friday Monsters (3DS, 2013).
UNTIL NOW
THERE'S A FUCKIN SHIN-CHAN TIE IN GAME THAT'S OUT IN ENGLISH, OF ALL FUCKING THINGS
I'm told it has a dedicated "get your arse out" button, in keeping with the tone of at least one of the things it mashes up
