Japan’s Nintendo Direct had some really cool reveals today

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Nintendo Directs are always chock-full of information on games coming to different regions. And while the North American Nintendo Direct had a bunch of games to show off, today’s Nintendo Direct for Japan also had some surprising, intriguing games on display.

I try to make a habit of watching the Japanese Nintendo Direct after the North American one airs. For one, it’s an interesting way to see how Nintendo organizes these shows for different regions; some games move further up in the rundown, or feel like they get a little more time. And in other cases, some games only show up in certain regions’ Directs. It’s a handy way to spot games you might have otherwise missed, and has put me onto early stand-outs like Gnosia‘s Switch port.

Today’s Nintendo Direct for Japan certainly had some surprises, too. I normally wait until later in the day to take a look, but after seeing some Twitter chatter about a few trailers, I looked over and found that quite a few games showed up here that didn’t appear in the North American Direct. So I put together a quick look at the key differences. An important note: I do not speak Japanese, and am mostly relying on info I can ascertain from English outlets or otherwise noted sources.

Shoutouts to our sister site Siliconera for getting the details on this one. Shown near the beginning of the Direct, it looks like a party game featuring various athletic competitions starring… horse girls? I have done some research and ascertained that this franchise is, indeed, about literal horse-girls. Either way, the anime horse gals slamming dunks and playing dodgeball looks pretty fun.

Shown off at a North American Nintendo Direct earlier this year, Fashion Dreamer is a new game from the Style Savvy studio.