![]() ![]() By interacting, helping, or sometimes just listening to the inhabitants of Moon World the Boy gains bits of love that help him level up while sleeping. Love and kindness in all their myriad forms take the place of experience in this game. In his dreams, the Boy meets the Queen of the Moon, who tells him to go and seek out love. The designers put a lot of thought into just how a “real” fantasy world would think of a house-breaking, pot-smashing, loot-stealing, monster-slaying hero, and the Hero is often on the receiving end of a joke or insult just by being what he is. It’s a twisted mirror image of the worst sorts of RPGamers - those who really play just to win, and who are willing to destroy everything in their path. ![]() The Hero is in fact a silent, helmeted sociopath obsessed with XP and leveling, and the landscape is littered with the corpses of innocent monsters caught in his path. Instead of a land under siege, the Boy finds a place that is definitely not suffering despite the strange disappearance of the moon’s light. ![]() Hesitantly he does, only to have the game turn itself back on and drag him into its digital depths.įor the record, the game doesn’t really look like this.Īs said above, Moon deconstructs the essence of an RPG, and the results aren’t necessarily pretty. His gaming fugue continues for hours and hours until his mother finally yells at him to turn it off. The player follows the experiences of the Boy across several game saves as he wallops monsters and makes his way to the evil dragon’s castle. The introductory lore, presented in text on a virtual television, continues screen after screen, getting more wordy each time, until it culminates in a solid wall of text. The first ten minutes or so are a dedicated lampoon of old-school RPGs. It’s no coincidence that its development studio, Love-de-lic, rhymes with “psychedelic.” The basic concept takes a very generic RPG in the style of Dragon Quest and deconstructs it, turns it inside-out, and adds a heaping helping of surreality. “RPG Remix” is a good place to start, though. Moon is a difficult title to describe, as it both is an RPG and yet is not. This was obviously a title with a following, to keep its price so high. I’d been keeping my eye on a copy in my local store for almost a year, but hadn’t picked it up immediately because of its rather formidable price tag - $60 for a PSX title. We’ll keep you updated on when we know more about the PC release.Every year I buy myself a treat for my birthday, and for 2012 that meant Moon: RPG Remix Adventure. Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is available now on Nintendo Switch. If you aren’t familiar with the game, it follows a young boy who is sucked into his favorite video game, and instead of fighting monsters, he must win them over with love and friendship after they have been slain by the game’s ‘hero.’ For now, it also seems there isn’t any announced plans for other platforms. Unfortunately, there isn’t much more news than that and there is also a lack of timeframe for when to expect this PC port to come. The game’s official Steam page has gone live, which you can see here. The remake brought the game to the Nintendo Switch in 2020, and while there made been no word on when it’d come elsewhere, now we know it will be coming to PC. The game was once meant to be released in America way back in 1997 on the original PlayStation, but that never came to be. It took almost two and an half decades, but the Japanese RPG Moon: Remix RPG Adventure finally came stateside last year. ![]()
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