Pre-Orders Go Live For Moon, The '90s 'Anti-RPG' Launching In The West For The Very First Time

Given the developer's pedigree, I'm seriously considering buying this game. Oh well, another game in the backlog for me...

So exactly which genre conventions does it defy?

Yes, I am intrigued by this one. While the premise doesn't necessarily grab me, the whole history of it makes me want to try it.

I'm very interested in this. Any word on a physical Western release? Or is it import as usual (hope it comes with English language support if that is the case)?

I’ve been wanting to play this for years—I’m about to go pre-order it and I’ve never preordered a Switch game before. Very excited to check it out!

@BulbasaurusRex as per the news from July https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2020/07/anti-rpg_playstation_title_moon_arrives_on_switch_eshop_this_august

One night, under the silvery light of a full moon, a young boy is suddenly sucked through his TV and into a videogame — a classic JRPG called “Moon World”. Following closely behind the game’s brave hero, the boy begins his own journey to recover the world’s missing moonlight by collecting “Love”.

As Moon World’s hero loots and levels up by cutting down monsters for experience points — you know, as heroes do — the boy releases their souls and collects their “Love”. Moon is not a game where you fight to level up — your own progress comes by gathering lost “Love”!

Therefore you do not fight, you help the dead monsters' souls passover to release LOVE

What makes a Anti-RPG, well...anti?

I gotta be honest, first time I saw this game's box art I assumed it was an obscure Plok spin-off.

And for all that low price you get only eShop....wow....I am so eating all this BS....I instead PreOrdered the Physical version.

@Quarth the Japanese retail release won't include English language support, as per Onion Games tweet:
https://twitter.com/oniongames/status/1293945397627572224

Btw, for anyone wondering, this game has absolutely no (typical) RPG elements. There are no battles at all. It's more of an adventure game. You mainly do fetch quests and solve puzzles.
It's still really worth it because of the ambiance, beautiful soundtrack and endearing story.

@Bunkerneath LOVE, huh. Now what does that remind me of...
Bonetrousle starts playing in the distance

English trailer here - https://youtu.be/FClNYk5Pbdw

So Moon and Paper Mario: Origami King both have the same head writer and lots of the Moon staff worked on Mario RPG (as mentioned in the article) as well as Tingles Rosy Rupeeland! Very intriguing.

@RazumikhinPG Ah, that sucks... Well, digital it is then. Thanks!

@MeowMeowKins the guy who did Undertale has acknowledged Moon as one of his biggest influences.

I would like a physical release please!

It’s surreal to see this game finally get a English release, was bummed when it originally failed to. Their Dreamcast title Lack of Love is the same kind of “experience”, very import friendly title.

@RazumikhinPG I read it would include both Japanese and English... But I guess Onion Games themselves will have better knowledge of this.

Really looking forward to this one, but i'll wait for a sale. I was looking into the Japanese physical release (and willing to pay more for it than I'd pay for a physical download), but sadly, it's way out of my budget, and now doubting whether or not it supports English, I'd rather wait for maybe a limited run of the English version in the future.

I dig the art style.

Looks interesting enough.

@Shambo I have the Japanese limited edition pre-ordered. Because Onion Games are not involved with it, it's really not likely that it will include English support.
Luckily the Japanese in the game is quite simple.

After hunkering down and making my wy through the "Very-Much-An-RPG" Xenoblade 2, an "Anti-RPG" is EXACTLY what I need right now. My gosh I'm burned out on RPGs for the year.

I really wish I liked RPGs.

I assume LRG will offer a western physical release for Moon since they previously had a preorder for another game developed by Onion Games, Black Bird.

@Magician that's what I hope for as well. With all of the limited physical Switch publishers, I'd even think a game like this will be fought over for publishing rights.

@RazumikhinPG ah. Noice. Big influence, I see.

@RazumikhinPG So instead of just defying conventions, it sounds like they just cut out everything that would make an RPG or adventure game worth playing. It sounds boring to me, but to each their own.

@MeowMeowKins

As long as the game doesn't give me a bad time.

I’ll wait a bit and see if we get a western physical release. Really cool they’re doing this.

@Screen I bet it won't. Who knows, you might even feel like having some ketchup afterwards

@BulbasaurusRex just don't think of it as an RPG, because it's really not.

@RazumikhinPG That's kind of my point. They dress it up as something unique and interesting that still caters to RPG fans, yet it reality it sounds like nothing more than a lame, half-baked puzzle/exploration game based around a meta-RPG story.

@BulbasaurusRex it's neither lame or half-baked tho, but I get your point.