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Hello everybody.
The “Detective Adventure Game” series Detective Saburo Jinguji series is celebrating its thirtieth anniversary this year with the first new release in five years with Ghost of the Dusk on 3DS! This series originally started on the Famicom Disk System and became one of the best known Japanese adventure game series. The series about a hardboiled detective solving crimes has almost miraculously survived until this day (outliving several companies!) with main releases on Famicom, Saturn, PlayStation 1/2, DS and 3DS, as well as a long-running concurrent sub-series on cell phones. The first DS title was released (twice) in the USA as Jake Hunter.

The 2012 3DS title was pretty horrible, and I had basically given up on this series, so I was really glad when the seventeenth main entry in the series, Ghost of the Dusk, was announced for 3DS for an August 2017 release. Members of the original Jinguji team are supposed to be working on this game. No English release has been in internet announced yet though, and considering only one (DS) title has been localized up until now, chances don’t look too good for this latest one, but perhaps… The stories are pretty much standalone, so it’s not like it’d be undoable.

Some big names who have worked on the series are Kazushige Nojima (writer of several Final Fantasies including 7 and 8 ), Katsuya Terada (comic artist) and Kazutaka Kodaka (creator/writer Danganronpa).

Thank’s a lot!