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Ah, Moai-Kun, the game where you play a "cute" version of an Easter Island statue, who can comically injure itself by head-butting too many rocks in a short time. Looks painful.

Goofy exterior aside, Moai-Kun is in fact a very crisp puzzle-platformer, whose only real flaw is the annoyance of being forced to play 5 levels at a time. (I never understood why puzzle games like Moai-Kun and Flappy do that: once you've beaten a level, you've almost always got it 100% down, so why force the player to replay it?)

Do you need a title screen translation to play this game? No, but this patch has value in a couple ways. One, it shows that someone's vetted the game to make sure you won't get halfway through and discover a bunch of Japanese text that poses a roadblock. Two, it helps give you that "what it would have been like to play this on my NES back in 1991" feeling - and Moai-Kun's presentation is slick enough to trigger some Konami nostalgia, especially the music.

I haven't played the more recent patch from Stardust Crusaders, so I can't opine on which patch is better, though theirs looks nice. (Not sure what the "Engrish cleanup" in their patch was, unless they just fixed the misspelled "DIRECTER" in the credits.)

But Suicidal Translations' patch got me through two playthroughs of this game, a decade apart, and I thought it at least deserved a review after being out for 18+ years. It's a homely old patch but it works just fine.