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Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind

A combined remake of the second game in the Famicom Detective Club series originally released in 1989 on the Family Computer Disk System in 2 parts. It is a prequel to the first game. Find the secret behind a…

14 May 2021

Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind is an adventure developed by D3Publisher, released 14 May 2021 on Nintendo Switch.

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What Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind is

Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind is an adventure game developed by D3Publisher and released in 2021. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The prologue scene depicts an autumn night as a 15-year-old boy (the protagonist of the game) is on the run from two police officers. A man, respected by the police, decides to care of the situation by himself. The man takes the boy to a coffeehouse, where the boy explains that he ran away from his orphanage to find his parents' whereabouts. The man introduces himself as a private detective named Shunsuke Utsugi, and convinces the boy to become his assistant. A few months later, Utsugi and the protagonist receive a phone call to check over a crime scene. The murder victim is a freshman schoolgirl named Yoko Kojima. The protagonist begins gathering information from Ushimitsu High School to…
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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind launched on 14 May 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Returnal. It arrived 4 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Biomutant, Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Returnal.

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When did Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind come out?
Famicom Detective Club: The Girl Who Stands Behind was released on 14 May 2021 for Nintendo Switch.

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