The latest Nintendo Direct held a plethora of exciting news and announcements for the Nintendo Switch, with classics getting ported for the console and new developments on upcoming releases.
Every once in a while, a title will break out of convention only to be lost to time, mostly due to how it flew under everybody’s radar when it was first released. The cult classic Moon is an example of this, as this weird, quirky, and incredibly unconventional RPG first released for the PlayStation in 1997 and failed to live up to sales despite being critically acclaimed. This can be mostly attributed to the fact that the game did not see a worldwide release, settling only for a Japanese one.
However, thanks to the efforts of independent development studio Onion Games, Moon will be making its return more than two decades later to the Nintendo Switch, first for a release in Japan on October 10 followed by a worldwide release at a later date. Check out the trailer for Moon below.
Moon ,in a nutshell, is about turning a ton of tropes in the RPG genre upside down, and provides a rather interesting faux behind-the-scenes look at what really happens to those NPCs when the Hero is not around. It tells the story of a young boy who is playing a video game within a video game called “Moon World.” After falling asleep, he gets sucked into the television and into the video game itself, where he takes on a weird role of a character who follows closely behind the game’s Hero.
However, instead of the usual experience of defeating monsters, the boy finds himself releasing the souls of the monsters the Hero has cut down to collect ‘Love.’ Along the way, he’ll meet up with a distinct cast of characters who often have mundane stuff for the boy to do and finish on his own quest.
Moon will be released on the Nintendo Switch in Japan on October 10, with a worldwide release afterwards.
