Feature: "We Tested 60fps In Pre-Production, But The Smoothness Felt Unnatural"

Respecting Japanese animation in ‘Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town’.

Back in the summer of 2022, the world of Crayon Shin-chan collided with Millennium Kitchen’s My Summer Vacation series in a delightful, beautiful game with an unnecessarily long name. Shin chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation -The Endless Seven-Day Journey- brought Kay Ayabe’s long-running game series into contact with the celebrated manga and anime property starring the precocious five-year-old Shinnosuke “Shin” Nohara, creating a crossover that felt so right that it’s amazing it didn’t happen sooner.

The upcoming sequel, Shin chan: Shiro and the Coal Town, is a stunning-looking game that builds on the first’s foundations and takes the titular rascal into an imaginary world for this summer holiday. It launched in Japan in February and recently won an Excellence Award for Visual Arts at CEDEC 2024.

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