You'd be forgiven for never having heard of the Touch Detective games before (although some of you will no doubt know it, since you clicked on the title and all). The original game was released in Japan on DS in 2006, and made it to Europe and America shortly after.
It's a point-and-click detective adventure — and there were certainly a fair few of those on the DS — with an art style reminiscent of others in the genre, like Tangle Tower, Professor Layton, and pretty much anything else in the Level-5 catalogue.
But it's made by developer Beeworks, a Japanese developer that's spent the past few years making games featuring Touch Detective's Funghi, a little mushroom lad who's very popular in Japan.
Now, they're putting together a collection of many of the Touch Detective games for Nintendo Switch, which includes:
- Touch Detective
- Touch Detective 2 ½
- Touch Detective Rising 3: Does Funghi Dream of Bananas?
- Funghi the Escaper (additional content released for the mobile version of Touch Detective)
- Funghi the Interviewer (additional content released for the mobile version of Touch Detective)
- Touch Detective Encyclopedia (a collection of over 500 digital materials including concept art, sketches, and character art)
The collection is releasing in Japan as both a digital and physical game on October 6th, 2022. It will cost 5,280 yen, and only includes Japanese in the language options.
Would you buy this if it came out in English? Let us know in the comments!
[source famitsu.com]
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Getting. Happy to have these on a current system.
Wait there's a Touch Detective 3??? I need this.
I used to play this with a mate, he was a really fun guy.
LOVE Touch Detective. I'd buy a collection in a heartbeat.
I played the first two way back when. Didn't even know there was a third, but I have seen one of those spinoff games on a digital store and I was hella confused recognizing the character on a title whose description made zero mention of Touch Detective. I would like this to be released here, but IDK how likely it is if English isn't even included in the Japanese release.
Obviously, I would love to get this in English. I might get the japanese version, even though I don't know enough japanese. Except for the one tiny bit in each game that drove me crazy trying to figure it out, I really enjoyed them. They had such a kids' black comedy about them.
Running out of space on the SD card, so if I got this I wouldn't be left with much room.
Well, they did localize Funghi Explosion on Switch, so hope springs eternal. Getting all the Touch Detective flagships including the third one that doesn't seem to have left the Rising Sun Islands back in the NDS days would be a most welcome opportunity.
How about a Trauma Centre collection? =)
Given how much these games require you to understand context , history, pop-culture, and common turns of phrase, localization is unlikely. The people working on the localization of "The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles" said it would have been easier to just make a new game, as an example.
But we can hope!
gods i want this, i forgot the pain of NA not getting the 3rd D:
I picked it up on a whim back in the day but never really dug into it. Might give it a whirl if it gets brought over.
Speaking of DS detective games I bought on a whim, I know it'll never happen but maaaaan Hotel Dusk would play so well on the Switch screen.
And here I almost thought we were gonna get a re-release of cult favorite Touch Dic. A shame.
@Clyde_Radcliffe Wonder if SEGA/Atlus would bring them to modern platforms, specifically the Switch. Great games.
I have vague memories of this....I never actually played it though. Maybe now will be the time!
I would buy an English version of this on day one! I love the two DS ones and never got to play the 3rd since it never released here.
I love the art style so much.
This is an amazing compilation. Here's hoping for Atlus USA, but they don't seem to care about smaller games anymore. Hopefully some other niche publisher picks it up for a western release.
I played the first one on the DS. It was alright but weird. I'm just thinking this won't be localized. These games are too niche but I guess all manner of low budget visual novels are pumped into the eShop every week so why not this.
Nice. I played the first one and it was quite alright, and I played a little bit of the second but I don't think I ever finished it. I heard of the third and the spin-off starring Funghi.
Would love to play this collection if it ever comes to the west.
I LOVE these games. I beg for a translation.
If they'd translate this to English... Instabuy for me!!
@link3710 I did seee there is a fan translation of thee 3rd game
God dam I've only just found this out. For the love of Funghi please have an English translation!
@Rambler With puns like that, you must be a fun-guy!
Any hints of a western release or English patch??
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