Sweep Me Away, Ghost Sweeper

Sometimes you can’t help but fall to the “overnight fan” effect, and I fell hard when I started to get acquainted with Ghost Sweeper Mikami. GS Mikami is a horror comedy property with its origins as a manga written and illustrated by Takashi Shiina, focusing on the adventures of professional Ghost Sweeper Reiko Mikami and her agency in their exorcisms and consultations. Sometimes crass on the surface, there’s a certain kind of heart beneath it all that qucikly endeared me to the series (starting with the anime).

Ghost Sweeper Mikami has a lot of material that it could lend to a game from a cast of characters with established ghost sweeping lore to derive mechanics from, creative ghosts to fill in a juicy rogue’s gallery, and a distinct and colourful art style to set its presentation apart. It’s no surprise that a Super Famicom game would be released, but there’s always the onerous albatross of being licensed material. So does Ghost Sweeper Mikami: Joreishi wa Nice Body manage to shed the stigma and stand as solid title?

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