What I did in the game: 100% completed (Trivias, Souvenirs, Tanukis, Masks)
The One Picture I have taken: File Select screen, which shows Trivias and Souvenirs, the best I can show in one picture.
Bakeru is a 3D Platformer by Good-Feel, which made many games for Nintendo including many Yoshi games and Kirby Epic Yarn. But this one is 100% created by them without any involvement from Nintendo. You're playing a Tanuki shapshifted as a human, and your main mean of attack are your two drumsticks which you can use with the L and R triggers. This is weird at first, but make the game really unique. If initially the game seemed quite short, once you reach what was supposed to be the ending, the game pull the rug under you and become massive, which was an awesome surprise back when I first played it...
Because yes, this is not my first time through the game. I initially bought the japanese version of the game, because for the longest time, everyone thought this will never come to the West. And then, many years later, Spike Chunsoft (who usually publish Visual Novels) localized it out of the blue and here we are. I was not ready to double-dip on it at first because it's a 3D platformer, understanding the language is not essential. But then, the game got a big discount last Boxing Day, so I decided to pull the trigger to replay it, but on my Switch 2 this time. And it totally changed my experience. When I first played it, the game was amazing, but it chugged on the Switch 1. On the Switch 2 though, it mostly runs at a smooth 60FPS. Plus, now I was able to understand the minimal story and all the trivias. Only weird thing is that the english version of the game seems to be missing 2 stages as can be seen in my completion picture of the japanese version below (you get 3 Souvenirs and 5 Trivias per level):
After a little research, it seems that there was 2 Collab stages in the japanese version that were never brought here for license reasons I guess. I admit, I don't remember them quite well, but it seems that if you don't care about the english texts, the japanese version might be the ultimate one after all, even more since the new moves that were exclusives to the english version initially were later brought back to the japanese one through a patch. So now it's really a matter of choosing betwen 2 exclusvives stages or english text. Either way, it's one amazing adventure that I highly recommend, even more if you can play it on Switch 2.
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