Daiva for Famicom is a truly bizarre choice for NSO, even with the added context of its J-PC relatives. I guess D4 Enterprises are finally contributing to the service, years after they bolstered the Wii (U)'s Virtual Console with a whole bunch of MSX/Famicom/PC Engine titles, but Nintendo choosing this out of D4E’s catalog is going to confuse & annoy a lot of Switch users hoping for conspicuously missing heavy-hitters. The Daiva games work best when you can try all of them, too, so this one isolated entry that’s also arguably one of the weaker series games (due to much less strategy) will just get shat on regardless of context.
Definitely a shame, too. It’s hardly the first time some obscure T&E Soft game has come west, divorced from its release/media circumstances, just to get weird looks from those who won’t know any better. Sadly, it’s more fun for me to talk about this Daiva entry than to really play it, given the lack of translation and the need to pair it with the other entries for full enjoyment, I’d hardly call the Daiva series a footnote, as it demonstrates how much bubble-era money & ambition even a small studio like T&E Soft had back in the mid-'80s, but this release just doesn’t speak to any of that, unlike D4E’s own box set.
