Echoing the sentiment that tracking video games would be a lovely addition to the site. Happy to read that it’s already on the backlog.
I’ve recently been playing ファミコン探偵倶楽部 remakes for the Switch: 消えた後継者 and うしろに立つ少女. These are really good remakes of the original NES games from 1988 and 1989 – full furigana, message log with replayable audio and voice acting even for the protagonist make these first two games super approachable.
35 years after the originals, Nintendo just recently released the third part in the series, 笑み男, a month ago. Supposedly it is much darker in tone than anyone expected from Nintendo – maybe explaining why they dropped furigana for this title.
After finishing 笑み男, I’m going to finally dip into バディミッション BOND after hunting down a physical copy from Japan last year. It has this excellent “playable manga” vibe. There’s full voice acting but only some words get furigana.
Another really good Switch game for beginners that I didn’t see mentioned yet would be アナザーコードリコレクション. This is a remake of two games, a DS game called Another Code: Two Memories and a Wii sequel called Another Code: R (never released in USA). Full voice acting, furigana, and a message log here as well.
Game Gengo did a whole video on it when it was released earlier this year:
