After 43 years, Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii is making a surprise sequel to his NES murder mystery game
This week's dual-pronged Nintendo Direct shows were stuffed with huge games.
This week's dual-pronged Nintendo Direct shows were stuffed with huge games.
The short version
- The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time !
- But the Japanese version of today's show quietly snuck in at least one game the rest of us didn't get: a sequel to Dragon Quest creator Yuji Horii's 1983 adventure game.
- The Portopia Serial Murder Case came out a whopping 43 years ago - first on your personal computers, then on the NES - and the murder mystery romp went on to become a pretty big hit for Enix (now Square Enix ).
What happened
Even Hideo Kojima once credited it as one of the reasons why he wanted to begin making games in the first place. And in today's Nintendo Direct, we got a brand-new trailer for a sequel to The Portopia Serial Murder Case.
Why it matters
The text-based detective work and witness interrogations from the original seem to be intact, alongside a new string of murders.
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