Many of Japan’s biggest games have been open world-ized, but I wouldn’t have expected the next to be—*checks notes*—summer vacation adventures. Sony’s Boku no Natsuyasumi (“My Summer Holiday”) series was a life sim trailblazer in the early 2000s, and now there’s Natsu-Mon: an enjoyable adventure giving a seldom-known subgenre new life. As a longtime devotee of the Sony games, I welcome the change rather than demand purity. It still isn’t getting old strolling through a virtual sunflower field, even if I’ve done it enough times to be a seed farmer… Read more.