Play Kaguya Hime Densetsu (Japan) Online

Game Overview

Kaguya Hime Densetsu is one of those weird, charming NES games that feels like stumbling into a half-remembered folktale. You play as a bamboo cutter’s daughter—except she’s also a princess from the moon, because of course she is—and the whole thing has this dreamy, slightly off-kilter vibe. The controls are a little stiff (it is an old Famicom game), but there’s something oddly compelling about wandering through forests and villages that look like they were painted in watercolors. Just don’t expect a straight retelling of the original story—it’s more like someone took the myth, tossed it in a blender, and hit ‘start.’