Obscure Japanese PS1 Game Finally Available In English

Screenshot: Hilltop

Back in 2000, Sony launched a sport referred to as Aconcagua for the PlayStation 1. An journey sport set within the aftermath of a aircraft crash within the Andes, it has spent the final 22 years solely obtainable in Japanese. Until now!

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Hilltop—which we lined final yr for its work on Racing Lagoon—will probably be releasing an English-language patch on July 11 that can lastly make the sport playable for, effectively, anybody who is ready to learn this publish.

I’ll be sincere, I had by no means heard of this sport till immediately, and a fast search reveals that it’s not precisely thought to be a traditional (a 29/40 from Famitsu isn’t nice, even again then), however like Racing Lagoon, that’s not likely the purpose right here. The level is that this sport is attention-grabbing, and virtually none of us have ever bought the prospect to play it, so it’ll be cool to get to test it out.

Aconcagua has you enjoying as a variety of characters (you may swap between them), after solely 5 folks (together with a journalist and political chief) survive a aircraft crash in South America brought on by a terrorist bombing. It’s bought a third-person viewpoint, and has you wandering round a snowy mountaintop fixing puzzles and serving to the opposite survivors get right down to the underside with out being murdered by stated terrorists.

Here’s some footage of the unique Japanese launch: observe that it really has plenty of English in it already, however just for cutscenes and voice performing; the textual content you wanted to truly play the sport was all in Japanese:

Aconcagua (アコンカグア) Ps1 Longplay [HD]

Here’s the English patch’s trailer, exhibiting that the subtitles have now been translated:

Sony’s Aconcagua PS1 English Patch Releasing July eleventh

You’ll have the ability to get the patch when it’s out right here.