Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir
A combined remake of the first game in the Famicom Tantei Club, Famicom Detective Club, series originally released in 1988 on the Family Computer Disk System in 2 parts. Solve a murder mystery surrounding a…
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir is an adventure developed by MAGES., released 14 May 2021 on Nintendo Switch.
What Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir is
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir is an adventure game developed by MAGES. and released in 2021. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo Switch only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The story begins with a man named Amachi discovering the fallen protagonist on the ground near a cliff. The protagonist discovers that he has lost his memory, and after recuperating, he revisits the cliff and meets a young girl named Ayumi Tachibana. He learns from Ayumi that he is an assistant detective investigating the death of Kiku Ayashiro, and heads over to the nearby Ayashiro estate located in Myoujin village. The Ayashiro family owns a huge plot of land passed down from generation to generation, but there is a strange saying in the village that the dead will return to life to kill anyone who attempts to steal the treasure of the Ayashiro family. As the protagonist investigates the…
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.
How it was received
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 2 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir launched on 14 May 2021, within three weeks of Biomutant, Resident Evil Village, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition and Returnal. All of them reviewed better. 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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