Along with the announcement, Hilltop published a roughly 2-minute trailer for the patch of the game giving us a small taste of the translation and some of the incredible editing work that has gone into making it more accessible for non-Japanese speaking players.
Boku no Natsuyasumi is a popular series of Japanese games that started all the way back in 2000, with the PlayStation title of the same name. Its sequel Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 followed in 2002 for PS2 and kept the same premise: you've been whisked away to the Japanese countryside on a Summer holiday with your family and must spend your days catching bugs and meeting with the locals.
Frustratingly, the four games that make up the main series were never given an official European or North American release, despite much interest, with Westerners only being able to experience its spiritual successors'
Attack of the Friday Monsters and
Shin-Chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation. Hackers and fan translators have therefore had to take things into their own hands, in order to try and bring this series of games to a wider audience.
In 2021, the Boku no Natsuyasumi super fan
@obskyr announced that they were busy translating the PSP remake of the original, with that project presumably still ongoing despite a lack of updates. Now another team led by Hilltop is working on a patch for the original version of the PS2 sequel, providing more reasons for fans to get excited.
Hilltop issued the following statement
on his Patreon about the hack:
www.timeextension.com
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