It's Japanese adventure game week as I've been making a few test purchases to get to know how to actually use Yahoo Japan Auctions now that I'm in Japan and don't have to rely on proxies to bid on stuff. Still intend to keep online purchases to a minimum here because I really do enjoy hunting through Japanese game shops in person, but even I can't resist the siren call of a few Saturn bangers, so here we are. π
Left game is, of course, Snatcher, a game that needs no real introduction other than to say that it's my hope to properly catch up on the "rest" of Kojima's adventure game catalog soonish, having gone about it completely backwards and played through his team's fantastic, genuinely vital Tokimeki Memorial games first, as I've written about on here before. The game on the right, meanwhile, is Michinoku Hitou Koi Monogatari, which essentially has you traveling around Tohoku as you play rounds of hanafuda (mainly koi koi) against pretty anime ladies for the chance to take photos of them as they model in front of real world backdrops. It's the direct predecessor to FOG's long-running Fuuraiki, a travel-em-up series very near and dear to my heart that I've covered elsewhere before and will probably get around to talking about on here soon enough because boy do I have some words that need to be written about those games.
What can I say? 2022 is the year of the Saturn for me and honestly, it's been better than ever.
