33 Years Later, Japanese Famicom RPG Hoshi wo Miru Hito Is Being Rereleased On Switch

Interesting 🤔

Looks kinda cool.

Hey that's great for gaming preservation. Never heard of it but it sounds like it could be pretty fun

Absolutely looking forward to this. Great news!

It will probably shift about 108 copies, but I'm all for this kind of thing. Sadly, 8-bit RPGs are a pretty hard sell in 2020. I'd argue only the later Dragon Quests (III and IV), Ys I and II, and Phantasy Star are still enjoyable today. You can have a good time with the old Final Fantasy titles too - but not necessarily in their 8-bit incarnations. I hope this is a good one!

Looks kind of interesting but the music sounds extremely grating.

It's fun to look back at how closely the first batch of Japanese RPGs mimicked Ultima and Wizardry, the primary difference being the investment in character art by real comic artists.

That's an interesting release!

Cool.
I don't recall ever hearing of this game, I like the sound and atmosphere.
I'm always up for good RPGs.

looks pretty underwhelming to be honest. Now get an english pport of Lagrange Point released and we'll be doing good.

I've posted the same kind of comment elsewhere, but this was a BAD game even back in the day. Like, REALLY bad, it has that reputation in Japan, having achieved the status of "***** game of legends". It's slow, didn't look good even by the standards of the day, clunky, you can't run away from fights despite the fact that you can randomly run into enemies way stronger than you early on, due to lack of directions, you can get petrified and then have to painfully wait to die for like 10 minutes, your laser gun deals LESS damage than you bare fists... sigh. It's bad. Really bad.

For info on this game in English, you may want to look up the name "Star Gazers" instead. It's the title given to it by the group of "fans" that translated it.

@RupeeClock I came here to post the same thing! I watched that run at AGDQ, I think they explained depending on RNG it was possible to get a first encounter that was impossible to beat? I seem to remember entire villages on the map screen were also invisible? What a bizarre release.

Still, as they say, bring everything to Switch!

@AlexanderDaniels It's still a very weird and uninteresting game to boot. Why pick a game that has achieved this legendary status of being horrendous, to the point that people play it for that specific reason, only to make it slightly better to the point that its main attraction, its laughable suckiness, would be gone?

Look at those 4K ultra HD 3D graphics.
This is truly next gen. Haha just kidding.

this rerelease is epic lets go!!

I might be tempted for a Euro.

Probably one of the very last games anyone would ever picture getting re-released in 2020, let alone worldwide. Regardless of its memetic status, hat off to City Connection for the initiative.

"depending on RNG it was possible to get a first encounter that was impossible to beat?"
Sounds exactly like Phantasy Star I

When we get Sweet Home let me know! That’s the game we really need!

I feel like I've heard of this game recently. Supposedly it has a reputation for being just okay. I'm always down for unreleased jrpgs so bring it on!

Neolithic pebble stone games would probably have more depth, and be kinder on the ears.

@Onion Yeah, same. I'll wait for reviews, but I'm a sucker for these kind of releases.

@RudyC3 I'm going to personally tell you the fan translation is not only incomplete (as most if not all of the battle text was left in garbled state) but I'm even responsible for going Victor Ireland on the script. Poor guy who originally translated the script.

Will be interesting to see how an official translation turns up.

Still though "Stargazers" is essentially when the title means (people who watch the stars). I think I read it somewhere before as even sometime before releasing the incomplete translation patch, there was already a freeware fan-produced PC remake created by Japanese fans spreading around.

@Smoo Speaking of gaming preservation, I just am crossing my fingers that nintendo has some sort of eshop backwards compatibility in the next console.

@Impaler-D Very much off-topic, but as an RPG fan, I have a quick question for you:
No no Kuni or TWEWY?

@The_Pixel_King
Ni No Kuni for sure.

TWEWY is also a great game for what it is, but not really my thing.
Granted, it's been several years since I played the game on DS and may give it a re-evaluation at some point.

Thanks man. I’m looking for an RPG on the eShop that’s under $50 and these are the two that are jumping out at me. The only other JRPG’s that I’ve played through (to completion) are TWEWY and Chrono Trigger – both on DS

Of all the games that could have been localized....

Hmm, where have I heard of City Connection recently... oh, right: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/04/kemco_and_city_connection_apologise_over_new_switch_jrpg_revenge_of_justice

A port of a legendarily bad Famicom RPG being handled by the guys who just got caught red-handed plagiarizing "scenarios, settings, character settings, and dialogue" from another game in their latest release. What could possibly go wrong?

I always admired pixel art their unique presentations as they possess a certain ethereal quality that make me think of stained glass and cross stitch embroidery. I wish I possessed the know how and patience to create such lush visuals on a digital canvas. I create art for myself as a hobby and would be thrilled to pluck out some of the more bizarre and beautiful images from my mind and share them with the world in their entirety. Music helps fuel these creative endeavors but I can only draw and craft so much before I become frustrated with my limited skill set. Ah well- onward and forward, eh?

@flagloverNZ hi from Slovakia!

well this would be interesting to review

@BlackenedHalo Hi! I love Slovakia, I am originally Hungarian neighbor hahaha

@flagloverNZ Really? The world is so small 😁 Hi my neighbour, nice to meet you! I like Hungary as well, after all history between these two countries is so rich.. well yeah, it wasnt always "milk and honey" but whatever, Nintendo is connecting people! 😁

This game is the most cryptic buggy garbage.

I would want to get it but if I don't see the article on the day it's released then I'll forget about the game and I'll never buy it.

Like soooo many others.

This was a lie. They didn't release it in the West. https://city-connection.co.jp/hoshiwomiruhito/en/

@Chrysologus

Thanks for linking to that webpage.
"The In-game text for this title is Japanese only. Also, this title will only be available on the Japan e-Shop", it states. I was actually wondering when this supposed worldwide release was going to happen.

Oh well. I'll buy it from the Japan eShop I guess - if the game is about suffering terrible game design, not being able to understand the text just adds to the experience.