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Boku no Natsuyasumi is a gorgeous adventure game developed by Millennium Kitchen, where you play as a young boy enjoying a month of vacations at the Japanese countryside, in the summer of 1975. As each day passes, you may wander around your grandparents' rural home, collecting bugs, swimming in the pond, helping with the daily chores, or getting to know the townsfolk. There's a good degree of freedom, and the game itself looks beautiful thanks to the use of polygons combined with pre-rendered backgrounds, based on nature photographs. The game has a bittersweet tone towards the end, and each day concludes with a crayon-scribbled entry in the protagonist's diary. Definitely one of the most atmospheric and memorable adventure games on the console.

Due to the nature of the game you can't really lose or get stuck much, so it's entirely possible to play this one without knowing Japanese (as well as all the following Boku no Natsuyasumi games). Text is presented vertically in these games, so it's unlikely we'll ever see a fan translation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX2I0YanKMg

Not only did Boku no Natsuyasumi get ported to the PSP, but the series continued with Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 on the PS2, and 3 on the PS3. There was also a PSP spinoff where you raise a family.