Psycho Dream coming to Nintendo Switch with first official English translation

Ratalaika Games has announced that the SNES classic Psycho Dream will be coming to Nintendo Switch this year. Not only that, but the game will be translated to English for the first time.

Psycho Dream is a side scrolling action adventure game originally released in 1992. It takes place in a bleak future in which people escape reality to live in a virtual one. It is your job to rescue a young girl who has become trapped.

Here’s a full overview of the game below:

A dangerous trend has emerged among young people: they are evading reality by taking permanent refuge in a new entertainment medium known as DMovies, which allows people to immerse themselves in a world of virtual realityand become part of a movie.Some of them remain in that alternative reality for so long, their bodies ultimately give up and die. These people are known as Sinkers.

The government has created a new special division composed of agents known as Diamond Dogs, whose mission consists of entering the virtual reality worlds of the DMovies and rescuing the people trapped in them.

Join Diamond Dogs Ryo and Maria in their mission to rescue young Sayaka from the DMovie she’s trapped in before it’s too late.

Key Features

• 6 stages full of action and nightmarish creatures
• Select from 2 playable characters, each with their own unique skills
• Rewind/Turbo function: repeat something until you achieve perfection, or speed things up
• Save state function: save wherever you want to in the game, and restart from that exact point
• Screen filters: select from several filters to modify how the game looks (retro-style monitor, black-and-white, etc.)
• Gallery: view images from the original game’s manual and box design
• Cheats function: activate cheats that will make your mission a lot easier (infinite lives, invulnerability, etc.)
• Jukebox: listen to the 13 music tracks included in the game whenever you want

We should also mention that Psycho Dream is available on Nintendo Classics, albeit untranslated from its original Japanese. If you want to know what else is making its way to Nintendo Switch, click here.