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| Navinosuke: The Yo-kai Buster is a faithful rebuild of Metal Slug developer's long-lost game. We ask the director what it took to bring back the obscure creature collector from over 20 years ago | Reported context: [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] | Not recorded | Not recorded |
| Navinosuke: The Yo-Kai Buster details the grueling process of restarting development, gives a progress update | Reported context: [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] [object Object] | Not recorded | Not recorded |
THE SHORT VERSION
- Happinet will publish Navinosuke: The Yo-kai Buster in 2027 on Switch and PC, Automaton West reports in an interview with director Ryota Seki of Kohachi Studio.据 Automaton West 对 Kohachi Studio 导演关良太的采访，Happinet 将于 2027 年在 Switch 与 PC 平台发行《Navinosuke: The Yo-kai Buster》。
- Seki said none of the original ROM builds survived, so the team rebuilt the game from the original developers' memories, incomplete documents, screenshots and surviving pixel art.关良太表示，原作 ROM 全部没有留存，团队只能依靠当年开发者的记忆、不完整的设计文档、截图与现存的像素美术重建。
- The studio kept the worldview, the character banter and all of the pixel art, and is adding new guide characters and battle illustrations after finding its own faithful rebuild too frustrating to play.团队保留了世界观、角色之间的斗嘴与全部像素美术，并在发现自己照原样重建的版本过于劝退之后，加入了新的向导角色与战斗插画。
A 2027 release for a game shelved in the 2000s一款 2000 年代被搁置的作品，定在 2027 年
Happinet will publish Navinosuke: The Yo-kai Buster in 2027 on Nintendo Switch and PC through Steam, Automaton West reports in an interview with the director. Kohachi Studio develops it, and the studio was formed by former members of Nazca's Metal Slug team. The pixel-art RPG follows a mechanical onmyoji named Navinosuke as he investigates supernatural incidents across Japan and meets more than 200 yokai, which he fights in turn-based battles and then persuades to join him.据 Automaton West 对导演的采访，Happinet 将于 2027 年在 Nintendo Switch 与 PC（Steam）平台发行《Navinosuke: The Yo-kai Buster》。本作由 Kohachi Studio 开发，这家工作室由 Nazca《合金弹头》团队的前成员组成。这款像素风 RPG 讲述机械阴阳师「Navinosuke」在日本各地调查怪异事件，途中会遇到两百多种妖怪，通过回合制战斗与其交手，再把它们说服进队。
The schedule has already moved once. GoNintendo reports that the game was originally set for 2026 before shifting to 2027, and calls it the last game the Metal Slug team was working on. The same outlet records that the cancelled Game Boy Advance release planned to hunt yokai through GPS-based, location-based play, that the feature was pulled late in development, and that the team reworked the game around its absence before the project was shelved.档期已经改过一次。GoNintendo 报道，本作原定 2026 年推出，后来推迟到 2027 年，并称它是《合金弹头》团队当年在做的最后一款游戏。同一篇报道还记录到，已取消的 GBA 版原本打算用 GPS 做基于位置的妖怪搜寻，这项功能在开发后期被砍掉，团队围绕它的缺失重做了整套玩法，项目最终还是被搁置。
The GBA original and the pitch behind itGBA 原作与当年那份企划
The original was built in the 2000s, and Automaton West describes the GPS unit as the thing that made it ahead of its time: an early attempt at a geolocation-based RPG in the vein of Pokemon GO. The unit was scrapped midway through development, and the title was shelved under what the outlet calls undisclosed circumstances, which is where the story sat for two decades.原作开发于 2000 年代，Automaton West 把 GPS 外设称为它「超前于时代」的原因：那是类似《Pokemon GO》的定位式 RPG 的早期尝试。该外设在开发中途被取消，作品随后以该媒体所说的「未公开的原因」被搁置，此后二十年没有下文。
Seki told the outlet how he first heard about it. While the team was still at SNK, then SNK Playmore, senior colleagues from the Metal Slug team described an RPG the whole team had moved away to build after finishing Metal Slug 3, and showed him the pitch. The game never shipped, the seniors no longer had a playable build, and he never got to try it himself.关良太向该媒体讲述了他是怎么第一次听说这款游戏的。当时团队还在 SNK（后称 SNK Playmore），《合金弹头》团队的几位前辈说，他们在做完《合金弹头 3》之后，整个团队曾离开公司几年去做一款 RPG，并把《Navinosuke》的企划拿给他看。那款游戏从未发售，前辈手上也没有可运行的版本，他始终没能亲手玩到。
No ROM survived, so the art did the work没有 ROM，只能靠美术反推
The revival began without the thing a rebuild usually needs. Seki said none of the original ROM builds survived, so the team worked from the memories of the original developers, incomplete design documents, a large collection of screenshots and countless pieces of pixel art. Looking at the surviving art, he said, made the original team's intentions easy enough to read that reconstruction went ahead without much hesitation.这次复活一开始就缺少重建通常最需要的东西。关良太说，那个年代的原始 ROM 一个都没能留下，团队只能依靠当年开发者的记忆、不完整的设计文档、大量截图与无数张像素美术。他表示，光是看留存下来的像素画，就足以相当清楚地读出原开发者的意图，因此重建过程并没有太多犹豫。
The first pass copied the original specifications, and that turned out to be the problem. Seki said the team played its own rebuild and concluded it would feel too frustrating for modern players, so it is now identifying those points and fixing them in daily feedback sessions with debuggers. He added that a person unaffiliated with the studio who had played the GBA version tried the new build and said the battles had become more enjoyable, which he called reassuring.第一版是按原作规格照做的，而这恰恰成了问题。关良太说，团队玩过自己的重建版之后判断，照这个状态发售会让现代玩家觉得过于难受，于是正在逐项找出这些问题，并通过与测试人员每天的反馈会来修正。他补充说，一位与公司无关、玩过 GBA 原版的玩家试玩了新的 Switch 版本，表示战斗比原版更有意思，这让他们安心不少。
Three support yokai and a lost difficulty curve三只辅助妖怪与丢失的难度数值
Combat is turn-based with one addition the director singles out. A player can equip up to three support yokai, each able to activate an ability at any point in a battle, so a defence boost can go up while the dialogue box warns of an incoming attack. Seki compared that to a real-time battle. The difficulty had to be invented again, because no design documents covering the original numerical settings survived, and he said support abilities now play a larger part.战斗是回合制，导演特别点出了其中一处不同。玩家最多可以装备三只辅助妖怪，每只都能在战斗中的任意时点发动能力，因此当对话框提示即将到来的强攻时，可以立刻让辅助妖怪提升防御。关良太把这种体验比作实时战斗。难度则必须从头重做，因为涉及数值设定的原始设计文档没有留下，他表示辅助能力如今在战斗中占比更重。
Some things were kept deliberately. Seki listed the worldview, the banter between characters and all of the pixel art as elements the team had to preserve, and said the original developers now go through the game and flag what could be improved. Lead designer akio is adding new illustrations to battle effects to make fights more spectacular than the original. The revival stands at roughly 90 percent of the original version's content, with new scenarios and their assets still being made.有些东西是刻意保留的。关良太把世界观、角色之间的斗嘴与全部像素美术列为必须保留下来的部分，并说当年的开发者现在会整体过一遍游戏，指出哪些地方还能改。主设计师 akio 正在为战斗演出加入新的插画，让战斗比原作更有看头。这次复活的进度大约是原作内容的九成，新增剧情与相应素材还在制作中。
Guide characters instead of arrows用角色做向导，而不是箭头
Role-playing games from 20 years ago rarely told players where to go, and Seki said getting lost was part of the experience. For this release the team added guidance wherever it judged players could otherwise stall for reasons that are not the player's fault. Arrows and markers were considered first, akio found them uninteresting, and the studio added new characters as guides instead, which meant more dialogue to write and implement.二十年前的 RPG 很少告诉玩家该往哪走，关良太说，迷路本身就是体验的一部分。这次团队在认为玩家可能因为与自身无关的原因卡住的地方，都补上了引导。他们也先考虑过箭头与标记，但 akio 觉得那样没意思，于是改为新增几位角色来充当向导，代价是要写、要实现的对话变多了。
The game is built on Japanese folklore and will be sold to players who may know nothing about yokai, including many in Japan. Seki said it is designed to work as a fantasy adventure without prior knowledge, and that an in-game yokai encyclopedia is there for anyone who wants the legends behind the creatures after they finish. That is a different proposition from a primer, and it keeps the folklore optional.本作建立在日本民间传说之上，却要卖给可能完全不了解妖怪的玩家，日本国内也有很多人如此。关良太说，游戏是按「不懂妖怪也能玩」的幻想冒险来设计的，同时内置了妖怪图鉴，供玩家在通关后回头了解这些传说。这与从头讲解不同，等于把民俗知识做成了可选项。
A demo, a second project and a run of old games试玩版、第二个项目与一波旧作回归
A demo is planned before release, though neither outlet gives a date; Seki pointed readers to Happinet's account and the studio's own accounts for updates. Kohachi's other project is Black Finger JET, a spiritual successor to Metal Slug developed alongside this one, and Seki said akio, credited as the creator of Metal Slug and R-Type, still has pitches for new games the studio hopes to take on once both are finished.发售前计划推出试玩版，但两家媒体都没有给出时间；关良太让读者关注 Happinet 的官方账号与工作室自己的账号。Kohachi 的另一个项目是与本作同步开发的《Black Finger JET》，被视为《合金弹头》的精神续作。他还说，被称为《合金弹头》与《R-Type》作者的 akio 手上仍有许多新作企划，希望在两个项目完成后着手推进。
The wider pattern is a run of old games returning. This site's report on Croc 2's Switch remaster covers a 1999 platformer brought back with more than 40 levels, and Wild Blue Skies on Switch tracks a rail shooter that reached the console at $14.99. A Persona 1 remake leak sits on the same ground from the other direction, an unconfirmed trailer for an old RPG. Navinosuke differs in one respect: its source material was never finished, so there is no original release to compare a rebuild against.更大的背景是一波旧作回归。本站关于《Croc 2》Switch 重制的报道，讲的是一款 1999 年平台游戏带着 40 多个关卡回来；《Wild Blue Skies》Switch 版记录的是一款以 14.99 美元登陆主机的轨道射击游戏；《Persona 1》重制泄露则从另一个方向落在这片地带，一段尚未被确认的旧 RPG 预告。Navinosuke 有一处不同：它的原始素材从未完成，因此不存在一款成品原作可以用来对照重建的结果。
Sources & reporting limits来源与核查范围
- Navinosuke: The Yo-kai Buster is a faithful rebuild of Metal Slug developer's long-lost game. We ask the director what it took to bring back the obscure creature collector from over 20 years ago
- Navinosuke: The Yo-Kai Buster details the grueling process of restarting development, gives a progress update
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