Monica’s Castle (Unreleased) Will Receive YouTube Episodic Playthrough

On May 20, 2022, YouTube channel 裏路地Gamers (Back Alley Gamers) announced it had received the ever so rare and unreleased copy of Monica no Shiro (Monica’s Castle – aka Faradoon) on loan from the owner HRD-Chan 4078, who had teased it on their Twitter account several times over the past year.

The announcement establishes the plan to release a long play of the game in episodic format. While this is far from the image dump that the community has no doubt been hoping for, it may be the best we get, at least for now… From a game history perspective alone, it should be interesting to see what this game is all about and how it plays out.

Announcement Trailer

Here is the announcement roughly translated from Japanese to English:

あきらめないRPG
挫折しないRPGとしてプロモーションを開始。予約特典として豪華声優陣の歌うイメージソングCDのプレゼントキャンペーンまでしておいて結局未発売に終わったゲーム。当時は『発売を挫折したPRG』という不名誉な呼び名で呼ばれていました…。
そんな伝説のゲーム、モニカの城。
なんと今回、発売直前版をお借りする事が出来たのでプレイ動画を作成していこうと思います。
果たして最後まであるのか。エンディングはあるのか。
下手くそながらも頑張って作っていきますのでよろしくお願いします。

RPG that never gives up.
What was promoted as an RPG that never fails, the game [Monica’s Castle] never ended up being released, even after there was a campaign promotional giveaway of a CD with an image/song sung by the splendid voice cast as a pre-order bonus. At the time, it was dishonorably called “RPG that failed to be released”. Such a legendary game, Monica’s Castle.
This time, I was able to borrow a pre-release version of the game, and I would like to make a play video of it. Is there really an ending? Is there an ending at all?
I’m not very good at this game, but I will do my best to make a video.

VOL 1. Playthrough

VOL 2. Playthrough

Promotional VHS Trailer

Thanks to R1ggles for calling this news to our attention. Cheers!