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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.
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by Donald Theriault - May 25, 2021, 10:00 am EDT
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Nintendo’s second child of the Portopia Serial Murder Case is a short but sweet affair.
The Famicom Detective Club games really shouldn’t need a Machete order, but it has to be reminded up front: The Missing Heir is the first in release order, while The Girl Who Stands Behind is the first game in-universe. With that bit of chronological confusion dealt with, The Girl Who Stands Behind is a fine adventure experience that is also a bit of Nintendo history - though if Nintendo of America did bother to localize this game in 1990, it would’ve been beatable in a rental barring some Earthbound Beginnings-esque difficulty spiking.
Oh no, did I leave the heir at that rest stop!?
A few years ago while looking into things relating to Smash characters that didn’t make the cut, I came across the name Ayumi Tachibana and her series Famicom Detective Club. She was originally considered for a spot on Super Smash Bros. Melee’s roster, but was ultimately cut because the team rightfully didn’t believe she had enough recognition to warrant her inclusion. From that point on I found myself incredibly curious with the Famicom Detective Club games, none of which had ever left Japan. When remakes of both titles were announced in Japan I had some hope that maybe we would see them released in the West, but still did not believe they actually would. Cut to around a year later when they announced that both would in fact be making their way to the rest of the world, and I was reasonably excited to see what they were like. Did they live up to expectations or fall flat? Let’s solve this mystery together.