

However, the television on which he was just playing Fake Moon switches back on by itself, and the boy is sucked into the world of Moon, a land called "Love-de-Gard." Its people and its story resembles Fake Moon's. After playing through a few typical RPG scenes (random battles, an airship sequence, etc.), the boy is ordered by his mother to go to bed and obediently does so. Yet, the people have produced a hero who must travel to Dragon Castle and destroy the beast. The perpetrator, Dragon, will wreak millions of calamitous years upon the people of Love-De-Gard with her power. Queen Aphrodite has been abducted and taken to the moon. Convoluted JRPG stories are skewered by the minutes of a nonsensical backstory, which Boy skips through before the player can read it. The game begins with the player controlling the Hero of Fake Moon in a 10-minute game-within-a-game, Fake Moon being something of a parody of Japanese RPGs (JRPGs) of the 16-bit era. Moon begins with the protagonist, a small boy, playing a new role-playing game (RPG) called "Moon" (a.k.a. In 2019, Onion Games released a port for the Nintendo Switch, which was localized and published in Western territories in 2020. After speaking with Fox, original designer Yoshiro Kimura was inspired to localize Moon. Moon: Remix RPG AdventureĪlthough it was not officially localized for many years, it influenced Toby Fox for the design of his 2015 game Undertale.

Moon has been praised by critics for how it parodies the conventions and tropes of role-playing games.Īlthough it was not officially localized for many years, it influenced Toby Fox for the design of his 2015 game Undertale. The player takes on the role of a supporting character in this world, attempting to undo the damage done by the hero. Moon is set within a fictional role-playing game where "the hero" has wreaked destruction, killing hundreds of creatures and looting homes. Moon: Remix RPG Adventure is a role-playing adventure game developed by Love-de-Lic and first published in 1997 by ASCII Entertainment for the PlayStation in Japan.
