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[Also that is a FAST Mega.]

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TalkBack / Pokemon Legends Z-A Mega Dimension DLC Opens December 10

« on: Yesterday at 04:10:00 AM »

Also that is a FAST Mega.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73148/pokemon-legends-z-a-mega-dimension-dlc-opens-december-10

The Pokemon Legends Z-A DLC will be available next month.

A new trailer for the DLC confirmed the launch will be December 10, and also confirmed the setting will put versions of the game's characters in a location known as "Hyperspace Lumiose". New Mega Evolutions for Chimecho and Baxcalibur were shown: the latter will have its Mega Stone distributed through multiplayer battles in a fourth season. It will also be possible for Pokemon to exceed level 100 in the story, the first non-glitch occurence in franchise history.

A new Mystery Gift for the Mythical Pokemon Diancie is also available: the gift awards its Mega Stone and a new sidequest that leads to obtaining the Pokemon for the first time in nearly a decade. Credits must be rolled in order to obtain the Pokemon.

[Just in time for making 2/3 of the Kalos starter Mega Stones even easier to grind.]

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TalkBack / Pokemon Legends Z-A Receives Update For Bug Fixes And Online Adjustments

« on: November 05, 2025, 03:51:55 PM »

Just in time for making 2/3 of the Kalos starter Mega Stones even easier to grind.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73147/pokemon-legends-z-a-receives-update-for-bug-fixes-and-online-adjustments

Poke-France just got a little bit more stable with a new software update that resolves a couple of outstanding bugs and removes a complaint about the online battle mode.

The version 1.0.2 update to Pokemon Legends: Z-A (on both Switch 2 and Switch) includes a change to the scoring system for the 4 player "Battle Club" mode such that the players in 3rd and 4th place after the match are not starting from negative points. (Bonuses are available for performance which would usually offset the drop.) The second season of the battle mode already confirmed that the requirements for unlocking the Greninjite and Delphoxite Mega Stones would be lowered from the original requirement of rank K to a much easier rank S for the Delphoxite: the Greninjite would also be available at rank Y (ie: one battle).

A couple of known issues were also fixed in the update, relating to potential softlocking of capturing Pokemon under certain circumstances. Full details are available for the issues here.

Additionally, a new trailer for the launching-by-end-of-February Mega Dimension DLC will be released tomorrow at 9 a.m. ET.

[The West, but not down south from home base for some reason?]

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TalkBack / Previously Japan Exclusive My Nintendo App Comes To West With Nintendo Store Branding

« on: November 05, 2025, 02:59:00 AM »

The West, but not down south from home base for some reason?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73146/previously-japan-exclusive-my-nintendo-app-comes-to-west-with-nintendo-store-branding

Nintendo made a point of emphasis in their recent shareholder presentation about using apps to connect with fans, and another one has expanded its reach overnight.

A new app called "Nintendo Store" has dropped on the Apple App Store (iOS) and Google Play store (Android) after previously launching in Japan under the name "My Nintendo". The app serves as an interface for the eShop as well as tracking game play history dating back to the 3DS.

For reasons unknown, the application is not listed in Australia as of press time.

[Forget the third pillar, there's not even a second one here.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Shifting Development Focus To Switch 2

« on: November 04, 2025, 05:53:37 PM »

Forget the third pillar, there's not even a second one here.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73145/nintendo-shifting-development-focus-to-switch-2

Nintendo has perhaps begun the transition to full on Switch 2 a bit sooner than most expected.

In the shareholder meeting following the release of the second quarter financial results, Nintendo confirmed that due to the record-setting sales of the Switch 2 since its June 5 launch - 10.36m copies being the most for any game console in history through just under four months - that "we will shift our primary development focus to Nintendo Switch 2 and expand our business around this new platform".

Although software will still be released on the original Switch for the forseeable future - there are already a couple of confirmed games for 2026 and some still rumored - these will likely be the exception as opposed to the rule.

Also in the shareholder's meeting - full presentation notes found here (PDF link), sell-through of Switch 2 has already exceeded 10m units, and 84% of Switch 2 owners owned some form of the original.

[Or "the first full Switch 2 quarter". Let's see how that worked for them.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Announces Results For Second Quarter Of 2025-26 Fiscal Year

« on: November 04, 2025, 01:57:43 AM »

Or "the first full Switch 2 quarter". Let's see how that worked for them.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73144/nintendo-announces-results-for-second-quarter-of-2025-26-fiscal-year

Nintendo has released their financial results including the July - September calendar quarter and after having to revise results down last year, are going the opposite way now that Switch 2 is out.

All monetary figures quoted in yen, with a comparison based on current market rate of US$1 = ¥153.478 provided for clarification only.

Financial Indicators

Revenue: ¥527.202bn (approximately $3.435bn), up 90.56% from same quarter last year

Operating income: ¥88.253bn (~$575m), up 31.71%

Ordinary income: ¥140.218bn (~$913m), up 316.93%

Digital sales: ¥85.7bn (~$558.3m). up 8.21%

Mobile and IP revenue: ¥16.6bn (~$108.16m), up 0.61%

Hardware Shipments

Switch 2's second quarter saw a total of 4.74m shipments, for a new lifetime total of 10.36m units. The Switch 2 will likely pass the Wii U this month.

The original Switch shipped 920,000 units (390k OLED, 330k standard, 200k Lite), and has a life to date of 154.01m units: it has undoubtedly become the best-selling dedicated game hardware in Nintendo history after the DS.

New Software

Donkey Kong Bananza opened to shipments of 3.49m units in its first roughly two and a half months. Sales for the Nintendo Switch 2 edition titles were not broken out (though Super Mario Party Jamboree was reported as having shipped 1.16m units in six months, most likely based on its Switch 2 edition). No details were broken out for Kirby and the Forgotten Land + Star Crossed Worlds or Drag x Drive.

Catalogue Sales

Mario Kart World is continuing the trend of ridiculous attach rates for Mario Kart games, shipping 3.94m copies in the quarter and has a new lifetime total of 9.57m units (a roughly 92.37% attach rate). Meanwhile, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe shipped another 700k copies in the quarter for a very nice lifetime total of 69.56m.

The Switch top 10 can be found here, where it appears Super Mario Odyssey will be the fifth 30+m seller on Switch after the next financial results.

Other Announcements

As mentioned, Nintendo has revised their estimates upward for financial indicators (revenue up 18.4%, operating profit 15.6%, ordinary profit 21.1%), and for Switch 2 sales from 15m systems to 19m. Switch expectations were correspondingly lowered to 4m from 4.5m.

[Less a fault of the time change and more the News Editor trying (and failing) to deal with reversion to a pumpkin at the worst possible time.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - November 6, 2025

« on: November 03, 2025, 04:43:36 PM »

Less a fault of the time change and more the News Editor trying (and failing) to deal with reversion to a pumpkin at the worst possible time.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73143/nintendo-downloads-november-6-2025

Of course, there's one major game this week, and it's the best version of Tears of the Kingdom (or the first GOOD Zelda game on Switch 2) in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, a game that openly encourages unlimited running and eschews weapon durability in lieu of mowing down Moblins by the gross. (In more ways than one.) And apparently this one counts, but I think they said that about its predecessor five years ago and that ended up with a BB-8 run in. So I don't know.

Apart from that, we have an annual karaoke release, a Hello Kitty game, and Dinkum - as featured in the September Direct, but published by a company who thinks becoming a victim of nVidia is a good idea by use of plagiarism machines.

THINGS WE MISSED LAST WEEK: A late-dropped localization of Stray Children, the new RPG from the creators of Moon, Dandy Dungeon, and in a past life Linda^3.

IS THE EGGCONSOLE GAME PLAYABLE WITHOUT KNOWING JAPANESE: I'm going to error on the side of caution and assume an RPG of any description is a no.

North America

Switch 2

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (US$69.99/C$99.99)

Switch

Let's Sing 2026 ($39.99/$53.00: Tuesday)

Hello Kitty and Friends: Freeze Tag Party ($39.99/$39.99)

Chicken Police: Into the Hive ($24.99/$32.50)

Strike Force Heroes ($24.99/$31.99)

Golden Sunshine Beside You ($24.99/$34.49: Friday)

Biped 2 ($19.99/$25.99: Wednesday)

Dark Quest 4 ($19.99/$25.99: Wednesday)

Dinkum ($19.99/$25.99: Wednesday)

Last Order ($19.99/$not released)

Motordoom ($16.99/$19.99: Friday)

Mission: Mars ($14.99/$19.99)

Of Blades & Tails ($14.99/$18.99)

Boxes: Lost Fragment ($14.99/$14.99)

Final Frontier Story ($14.00/$18.00)

Finding Chuchu ($11.00/$15.36)

My Cozy Aquarium ($10.99/$15.50)

Celestial Fall ($9.99/$15.99)

Chronoquartz ($9.99/$12.99)

Outlanders ($9.99/$12.99)

Tiny Lands 2 ($9.99/$12.99)

The Visitor Effect ($9.99/$13.99: Friday)

Nyaz Operation: Occupy House of Kobayashi ($9.90/$9.90: Wednesday)

Brain Workout! Spinning Animal Puzzle ($8.99/$11.49)

Train Your Focus and Observation Skills: THE Spot the Difference Challenge ($8.99/$11.49)

Shark Siege - Together Survival ($7.99/$10.99: Wednesday)

House Fighters: Total Mess ($7.99/$11.00: Friday)

Mage Arena: Voice of Power ($7.99/$9.99: Friday)

Picronix ($6.99/$8.99)

EggConsole Mugen no Shinzou II PC-8801 ($6.49/$7.34)

Twilight Paradise: Moonlight Mononoke ($5.99/$7.49: Wednesday)

Nitro Karts Racing ($5.99/$4.99: Saturday)

Dragon Snack ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

UFO Builder ($4.99/$6.99)

Cloud to Gold ($4.99/$6.83)

Dollmare ($4.99/$5.99)

Traditional Tactics with Sess-AI 2.0 ($4.99/$4.89)

Square Brothers ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Gas Station: Idle Simulator ($4.99/$6.00: Friday)

Everdawn Isle ($4.99/$4.99: Friday)

Mega City Obby ($4.99/$4.99: Friday)

Open Sesame - Alibaba Dash ($2.99/$3.99)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: A broader indie sale sees Venba go to a record 70% off until the 21st. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Switch 2

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (€69.99/£58.99)

Switch

Let's Sing 2026 (€39.99/£34.99: Tuesday)

Hello Kitty and Friends: Freeze Tag Party (€39.99/£39.99)

Golden Sunshine Beside You (€25.99/£23.99: Friday)

Strike Force Heroes (€24.99/£22.49)

Chicken Police: Into the Hive (€22.00/£19.79)

Dinkum (€19.99/£17.99)

Dark Quest 4 (€19.50/£16.99: Wednesday)

Last Order (€19.50/£17.59)

Biped 2 (€18.49/£16.75: Wednesday)

Motordoom (€16.99/£15.29: Friday)

Mission: Mars (€14.99/£13.49: Wednesday)

Boxes: Lost Fragment (€14.99/£13.49)

Of Blades & Tails (€14.99/£13.49)

Final Frontier Story (€13.00/£11.69: Wednesday)

My Cozy Aquarium (€10.99/£9.89)

Celestial Fall (€9.99/£9.99)

Tiny Lands 2 (€9.99/£9.99)

The Visitor Effect (€9.99/£9.99)

Chronoquartz (€9.99/£8.99)

Outlanders (€9.75/£8.50)

Nyaz Operation: Occupy House of Kobayashi (€8.52/£7.69: Wednesday)

Shark Siege - Together Survival (€7.99/£7.99: Wednesday)

Brain Workout! Spinning Animal Puzzle (€7.99/£7.99)

Train Your Focus and Observation Skills: THE Spot the Difference Challenge (€7.99/£7.99)

Mage Arena: Voice of Power (€7.99/£7.19: Friday)

House Fighters: Total Mess (€7.99/£6.99: Friday)

Picronix (€6.99/£6.29: Wednesday)

Twilight Paradise: Moonlight Mononoke (€5.99/£5.49: Wednesday)

EggConsole Mugen no Shinzou II PC-8801 (€5.59/£5.39)

Dragon Snack (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

UFO Builder (€4.99/£3.99: Wednesday)

Square Brothers (€4.99/£4.99)

Cloud to Gold (€4.99/£4.49)

Dollmare (€4.99/£4.49)

Traditional Tactics with Sess-AI 2.0 (€4.99/£4.49)

Gas Station: Idle Simulator (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Mega City Obby (€4.99/£3.99: Friday)

Nitro Karts Racing (€4.99/£4.99: Saturday)

Timore 6: The Cadaver (€2.99/£2.69: Wednesday)

Open Sesame - Alibaba Dash (€2.99/£2.59)

Japan

Switch 2

Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment (¥8980)

Switch

Magical Craft: Neko to Mahou no Dress (¥6578)

Lumo 2 (¥4400)

Let's Sing 2026 (¥4180: Tuesday)

Golden Sunshine Beside You (¥3300)

Strike Force Heroes (¥2900)

Biped 2 (¥2300)

Dark Quest 4 (¥2300)

Dinkum (¥2300)

Boxes: Lost Fragment (¥2200)

Mission: Mars (¥2199)

Last Order (¥1980)

Celestial Fall (¥1710)

Of Blades & Tails (¥1700)

Motordoom (¥1666)

Finding Chuchu (¥1600)

My Cozy Aquarium (¥1600)

Final Frontier Story (¥1500)

Nyaz Operation: Occupy House of Kobayashi (¥1500)

The Visitor Effect (¥1476: Friday)

Easy Flight Simulator 2 (¥1390)

House Fighters: Total Mess (¥1399)

Outlanders (¥1200)

Baseball Card Shop Simulator (¥1199)

Shark Siege - Together Survival (¥1199)

Jelly Form (¥1000: Saturday)

Evo Pop (¥900: Saturday)

EggConsole Mugen no Shinzou II PC-8801 (¥880)

Twilight Paradise: Moonlight Mononoke (¥800)

Picronix (¥777)

UFO Builder (¥749)

Square Brothers (¥680: Friday)

Dragon Snack (¥499: Wednesday)

Cloud to Gold (¥499)

Dollmare (¥499)

Traditional Tactics with Sess-AI 2.0 (¥440)

Open Sesame - Alibaba Dash (¥299)

[So look for a pandemic to kick in around New Year's.]

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TalkBack / Animal Crossing: New Horizons Gets Switch 2 Edition And Switch Update In January

« on: October 30, 2025, 05:11:00 AM »

So look for a pandemic to kick in around New Year's.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73086/animal-crossing-new-horizons-gets-switch-2-edition-and-switch-update-in-january

Animal Crossing: New Horizons looks to be starting the year on Switch 2.

The multi-million seller will receive a Switch 2 edition on January 15. The $4.99 upgrade ($64.99 MSRP if buying the game completely new) will up-res the game to 4k, add mouse controls on the right Joy-Con, microphone and camera support, and 12 player parties.

A free update for the base game will add a new hotel and a Mr. Resetti-powered "reset island" option, plus collaborations both internal to Nintendo (the Ultra Hand, Nintendo consoles, Zelda and Splatoon amiibo support) and external (LEGO) coming later.

[Starring a very fast time to slime, and we don't just mean the Dragon Quest duo.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - October 30, 2025

« on: October 27, 2025, 04:00:00 AM »

Starring a very fast time to slime, and we don't just mean the Dragon Quest duo.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73083/nintendo-downloads-october-30-2025

The RPG train continues unabated on Switch 2 and OG this week with the headliner, the main event, the icon(s) Dragon Quest I + II HD-2D (with apparently a fourth party member in 2?), but if you prefer a bit more action in your RPGs you can drop down to the slightly cheaper Tales of Xillia remaster the following day. Switch 2 should also be getting an upgraded version of Ball X Pit and the upgrade is free, but it's coming in molten on the eShop so it gets the Question Marks of Mild Discomfort.

In the non-RPG adjacent realm, we have the Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection featuring some of the biggest kusoge this side of the eShop, a Switch 2 port of Two Point Museum that for some reason apparently omits mouse controls, and a new crossplatform action game from Inti Creates.

THINGS WE MISSED LAST WEEK: Apart from the Archives on both (Taito's Midnight Landing), a new M2 shooter (Night Striker Gear), an 8-bit throw back to the Angry Video Game Nerd, and the newest Jackbox Party Pack.

IS THE EGGCONSOLE GAME PLAYABLE IN ENGLISH: It's a JB Harold Murder Club adventure game so it's not looking good.

North America

Switch 2

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (US$59.99/C$79.99)

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection ($49.99/$64.99)

Majogami ($39.99/$55.38)

Two Point Museum ($29.99/$39.99: Tuesday)

Ball x Pit ($14.99/$19.49: Tuesday)

Switch 2 Upgrade

Ball x Pit (no cost)

Switch

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake ($59.99/$79.99)

D.C. Re:tune ($59.99/$77.99)

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection ($49.99/$64.99)

Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home ($39.99/$49.99)

Paw Patrol Rescue Wheels: Championship ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Tales of Xillia Remastered ($39.99/$53.49: Friday)

Majogami ($34.99/$48.48)

Simon the Sorceror: Origins ($29.99/$34.99: Tuesday)

Asterix & Obelisk - Mission Babylon ($29.99/$39.99)

7th Domain: Tree of Chaos ($24.99/$34.41)

Hannah ($19.99/$26.99)

Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists ($19.99/$: Friday)

Final Formation ($17.99/$24.93: Wednesday)

Greek Tragedy ($15.99/$20.99)

Space Chef ($14.99/$17.49: Tuesday)

Cauldron ($14.99/$19.99: Wednesday)

House of Golf 2 ($14.99/$20.99)

Detective Dotson ($14.99/$19.49)

Seer's Gambit ($14.99/$19.49)

Laundry Store Simulator ($14.99/$20.99: Friday)

Kamla ($12.99/$17.99)

Tattoo Studio Simulator ($9.99/$13.99: Monday)

Farming Pro Simulator 25 ($9.99/$13.99: Tuesday)

Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano ($9.99/$13.99)

Bokeh Adventure ($9.99/$16.32)

Releaseburg ($9.99/$14.27: Friday)

Easy Flight Simulator 2 ($9.99/$11.99: Saturday)

Dead Zone: Survival Ops Zombie Shooter ($7.99/$11.99: Friday)

Quarantine Area: Zombie Lockdown ($7.99/$11.20: Friday)

Make It! Yakiimo ($7.00/$6.56)

Achilles Survivor ($6.99/$9.49: Wednesday)

Death Park 2: Remaster ($6.99/$11.30)

Nuclear Gladiators 3000 ($6.99/$9.75)

Colorizing: Daydream ($6.99/$8.99)

Silver Bullet ($6.99/$6.99)

TetroMosaic: Happy Halloween ($6.77/$9.77)

EggConsole Kiss Of Murder PC-8801 ($6.49/$7.34)

Dungeon Minesweeper ($5.99/$8.35)

Lucky Hunter ($5.99/$7.79)

Bunny Pit Stop ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Halloween 1985 ($4.99/$6.29: Wednesday)

Angry Battalion ($4.99/$6.99)

Beaked Buccaneer ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Goat Out of Hell ($4.99/$6.83: Friday)

Castle Climb Obby ($4.99/$4.99: Friday)

Brain Training! Kanji Challenge ($3.99/$5.39)

Find It! World Heritage Adventure ($3.99/$5.39)

Escape Game Room06 ($1.00/$1.36)

Learn to Play: Pumpkin Smash! ($0.99/$1.39: Friday)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 - Archives

Scion ($9.99/$13.72)

Switch

Stray Children ($29.99/$38.99)

Sworn ($24.99/$33.99)

Dreamscapes - The Sandman ($14.99/$23.99)

Infinite Lives ($14.99/$19.99: Friday)

Figure It Out - The Tantrum Simulator ($11.99/$11.99: Friday)

Yabai Girls: Amazing Accountant ($8.99/$12.69)

Trucking School: Truck Simulator Driving 2025 ($7.99/$10.99: Friday)

Moorhuhn 2 ($6.99/$9.50: Friday)

Puzzle Fruit Merge - Match Game ($3.99/$5.60)

Supermarket Simulator Store Game 3D ($3.99/$5.60)

Fish Rescue: Pull the Pin ($3.99/$5.59: Saturday)

PyroMind ($2.99/$4.20: Friday)

Drifties ($0.99/$1.39: Saturday)

Switch - Archives

Scion ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: Nintendo's Halloween sale is on until the end of spooky season and No Man's Sky is its usual 60% until end of day on the 5th thanks to a recent update. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Switch 2

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (€69.99/£59.99)

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection (€48.99/£41.99)

Majogami (€35.99/£32.39)

Two Point Museum (€29.99/£24.99: Tuesday)

Ball x Pit (€14.99/£13.49: Tuesday)

Switch 2 Upgrade

Ball x Pit (no cost)

Switch

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (€59.99/£49.99)

D.C. Re:tune (€58.99/£53.09: Wednesday)

Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection (€48.99/£41.99)

Harvest Moon: Home Sweet Home (€39.99/£35.99)

Paw Patrol Rescue Wheels: Championship (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Tales of Xillia Remastered (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Asterix & Obelisk - Mission Babylon (€34.99/£28.99)

Majogami (€30.99/£27.89)

Simon the Sorceror: Origins (€24.99/£22.49: Tuesday)

Hannah (€19.99/£17.99)

Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists (€19.99/£17.99: Friday)

Train Plus 2026 Kurakyu (€18.99/£17.09: Wednesday)

Greek Tragedy (€15.99/£14.39)

Final Formation (€14.99/£13.49: Wednesday)

Cauldron (€14.99/£12.99: Wednesday)

Detective Dotson (€14.99/£12.99)

Laundry Store Simulator (€14.99/£13.49: Friday)

Cardboard Town (€14.79/£13.29)

Seer's Gambit (€14.79/£13.29)

Coloree (€12.99/£11.69)

Space Chef (€12.49/£11.39: Tuesday)

Tattoo Studio Simulator (€9.99/£8.99: Monday)

Farming Pro Simulator 25 (€9.99/£9.99: Tuesday)

Asfalia: The Cranky Volcano (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Bokeh Adventure (€9.99/£9.99: Wednesday)

Releaseburg (€9.99/£8.99)

Easy Flight Simulator 2 (€9.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Jelly Form (€9.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Dead Zone: Survival Ops Zombie Shooter (€7.99/£: Friday)

Quarantine Area: Zombie Lockdown (€7.99/£7.19: Friday)

Make It! Yakiimo (€7.00/£3.51)

Achilles Survivor (€6.99/£6.99: Wednesday)

Colorizing: Daydream (€6.99/£6.29: Wednesday)

Death Park 2: Remaster (€6.99/£6.99)

Nuclear Gladiators 3000 (€6.99/£6.29)

Silver Bullet (€6.99/£5.99)

TetroMosaic: Happy Halloween (€6.77/£5.99)

Dungeon Minesweeper (€5.99/£5.39: Wednesday)

Lucky Hunter (€5.99/£5.39: Wednesday)

EggConsole Kiss Of Murder PC-8801 (€5.59/£5.39)

Bunny Pit Stop (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Halloween 1985 (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Angry Battalion (€4.99/£3.99: Wednesday)

Beaked Buccaneer (€4.99/£4.99)

Castle Climb Obby (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Everdawn Isle (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Goat Out of Hell (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Brain Training! Kanji Challenge (€2.49/£2.24)

Find It! World Heritage Adventure (€2.49/£2.24)

Escape Game Room06 (€1.00/£1.00)

Learn to Play: Pumpkin Smash! (€0.99/£0.99: Friday)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 - Archives

Scion (€8.99/£7.49)

Switch

Stray Children (€28.99/£24.99)

7th Domain: Tree of Chaos (€24.99/£22.49)

Sworn (€24.99/£21.99)

Dreamscapes - The Sandman (€14.99/£12.99)

Infinite Lives (€14.99/£14.99: Friday)

Kamla (€12.99/£11.69)

Figure It Out - The Tantrum Simulator (€11.79/£10.59: Friday)

Beam Car Crash: Drive Simulator 2025 (€9.99/£8.99: Tuesday)

Yabai Girls: Amazing Accountant (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Trucking School: Truck Simulator Driving 2025 (€7.99/£7.99: Friday)

Moorhuhn 2 (€6.99/£6.29: Friday)

Puzzle Fruit Merge - Match Game (€3.99/£3.59)

Supermarket Simulator Store Game 3D (€3.99/£3.59)

PyroMind (€2.99/£2.69: Friday)

Drifties (€0.99/£0.99: Saturday)

Switch - Archives

Scion (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Switch 2

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (¥7678)

Majogami (¥6500)

Yobari Detective: Miasma Breaker (¥4378)

Two Point Museum (¥3888: Tuesday)

Switch

D.C. Re:tune (¥8800)

Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake (¥7678)

Tales of Xillia Remastered (¥6930)

Majogami (¥5500)

Asterix & Obelisk - Mission Babylon (¥4620)

Sumikko Gurashi: The Kingdom of the Sky and the Two Little Girls Character Cross (¥4378)

7th Domain: Tree of Chaos (¥3499)

Train Plus 2026 Kurakyu (¥3280)

Kamitsubaki Academy Newspaper Department (¥3080)

Simon the Sorceror: Origins (¥2900: Tuesday)

Hannah (¥2890)

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector (¥2800)

Final Formation (¥2420)

Nuclear Gladiators 3000 (¥2350)

Toziuha Night: Order of the Alchemists (¥2100)

Kamla (¥1980)

Greek Tragedy (¥1850)

Bokeh Adventure (¥1700)

Cardboard Town (¥1700)

Cauldron (¥1700)

Detective Dotson (¥1700)

Farming Pro Simulator 25 (¥1499)

Bike Runner (¥1390)

Silver Bullet (¥1200)

Dead Zone: Survival Ops Zombie Shooter (¥1190)

Achilles Survivor (¥999)

Spinning Animal Puzzle (¥980)

The Spot The Difference Challenge (¥980)

Dungeon Minesweeper (¥890)

EggConsole Kiss Of Murder PC-8801 (¥880)

Colorizing: Daydream (¥777)

Angry Battalion (¥749)

Make It! Yakiimo (¥700)

Lucky Hunter (¥660)

Halloween 1985 (¥600)

Cyber Girls (¥500)

Bunny Pit Stop (¥499: Wednesday)

Goat Out of Hell (¥499)

Escape Game Room06 (¥100)

Learn to Play: Pumpkin Smash! (¥100: Friday)

Revealed Later

Switch 2

Ball x Pit (¥1700: Wednesday)

Scion (¥1100)

Switch 2 Upgrade

Ball x Pit (¥100: Wednesday)

Switch

Sworn (¥3850)

H Party: Bikini Beach (¥2999)

H Secrets: Romantic Charm (¥2999)

Snapshot Girls 6 (¥2999)

Super H Puzzle (¥2999)

Dreamscapes - The Sandman (¥2599)

Shroomtopia (¥1620)

Seer's Gambit (¥1500)

Moorhuhn 2 (¥900: Friday)

Scion (¥838)

Warrior Survivor (¥700: Friday)

Beaked Buccaneer (¥680: Friday)

H Uni 4 (¥381)

[And the Switch 2 version even comes in a similar fashion to its prior console releases.]

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TalkBack / Assassin's Creed: Shadows Comes To Switch 2 In Early December

« on: October 23, 2025, 08:33:05 AM »

And the Switch 2 version even comes in a similar fashion to its prior console releases.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73004/assassins-creed-shadows-comes-to-switch-2-in-early-december

After multiple retail leaks suggested it, the travails of the Templars are officially Switch 2 bound.

Nintendo's YouTube has confirmed a December 2 launch for Assassin's Creed: Shadows, the newest game in the Ubisoft mega-franchise that launched on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series in March. Set in the end of Japan's Sengoku era, the player has a choice between two playable characters including one based on the famed samurai Yasuke.

The game will launch at a US$59.99 MSRP for both digital and physical formats (a US$99.99 premium edition will also be available), and include all of the updates released to this point automatically. Support for cross-progression for owners on the other previously mentioned platforms via a Ubisoft account will also be included.

[Also, the sun rose in the east this morning.]

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TalkBack / Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition Delayed To 2026

« on: October 23, 2025, 06:31:43 AM »

Also, the sun rose in the east this morning.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73003/elden-ring-tarnished-edition-delayed-to-2026

Bandai Namco have made an official announcement of something that was previously inferred.

A press announcement has come out confirming that Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition would now launch in 2026. "More time for performance adjustments" was cited as the reason.

Announced on April 2 for a 2025 release, there were mixed impressions when the game was demoed at this year's GamesCom. A potential delay to the other Switch 2 project of From Software, The Duskbloods, was not identified.

[Sakurai truly asking the question we all are.]

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TalkBack / Kirby Air Riders Direct 2 Recap: Story Mode, Online, And More

« on: October 23, 2025, 06:24:00 AM »

Sakurai truly asking the question we all are.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73002/kirby-air-riders-direct-2-recap-story-mode-online-and-more

The Kirby Air Riders Direct 2 (as it is seemingly officially known) has just wrapped with a whole host of new details.

Game Details

The final announcements of the show from host Masahiro Sakurai were that the game would have no DLC, but a day 1 update will add some modes to the game. The update will not be on the cartridges as shipped so downloading it will be required. An online demo will be available the weekends of November 8 and 15 (3 - 9 am ET Saturday, 7 pm Saturday - 1 am Sunday, and 10 am - 4 pm Sunday).

Story Mode

A new mode called "Road Trip" will be the game's story mode, in which players will have to participate in races and City Trials to solve a mystery about why all of the rides are focused on getting to one location in the world.

New Modes

"Top Race", an overhead view mode featured in the original Kirby Air Ride, will return with more maps and new control options plus an option for 8 player races. A new "Boss Battle" stadium was shown with a robot King Dedede (which can transform into a ride) among other bosses, and featuring a sort-of 3rd button with the ability to lock onto the boss by clicking in the right analog stick.

Time Trials will be available in single lap and race conditions, but will not feature online leaderboards.

An option for designing rides will be available, including the ability to sell them online: as more people buy the design, the price will go up.

Online

The game's lobby system, called the "Paddock", will feature the ability to select from multiple races or race types in the same Paddock. A music player and Amiibo functionality will also be accessible.

Accessibility

The game will feature a full accessibility option menu, including the ability to lock the camera to prevent screen shake and color options for those with forms of color blindness. The menu will also be more explicit in showing what the options are doing.

Amiibo

Following on from the Kirby and Bandana Waddle Dee figures, figures for Meta Knight, King Dedede, and Chef Kawasaki along with specific rides will be sold in 2026 (Meta Knight's launching March 5). The Dedede amiibo was shown changing modes from a regular ride to more of a glider by rotating the treads.

["Excelsior! ...that means Mysterio's a wanker."]

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TalkBack / The Marvel Cosmic Invasion Begins December 1

« on: October 22, 2025, 08:45:37 AM »

"Excelsior! ...that means Mysterio's a wanker."

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73001/the-marvel-cosmic-invasion-begins-december-1

The newest licensed DotEmu brawler is going to make 2025 with room to spare.

Marvel Cosmic Invasion, a four player side scrolling brawler starring the masked (and otherwise) superheroes of the mouse has confirmed a December 1 launch. The Tribute Games-developed game was announced as a Switch game in the March 27 Nintendo Direct, and then confirmed for Switch 2 in the system unveil Direct on April 2.

The announcement was accompanied by confirmation of two new playable characters (Iron Man and Phoenix), making for a total confirmed roster of 15 supers.

[They're still updating Switch games without Switch 2 support?]

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TalkBack / Pikmin 4 Update Next Month To Add New Pikmin, Photo Mode

« on: October 22, 2025, 05:57:56 AM »

They're still updating Switch games without Switch 2 support?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/73000/pikmin-4-update-next-month-to-add-new-pikmin-photo-mode

2023's Game of the Year is getting a free update with new features.

An update for Pikmin 4 will be available with new features and difficulty options.

• Decor Pikmin - a special Pikmin created for the Pikmin Bloom mobile game - will operate background items on the maps, and any of those Pikmin can be transferred to Pikmin Bloom.
• A photo mode will be added (known as the "Field Camera".
• Two new difficulty options - "Relaxed" and "Fury" - will be added: as the names imply, they are easier and harder than the existing difficulties. They can be moved to at any time, unlike games where the hardest difficulty must be selected from the start and can't be changed (or changed back).

Notably, the announced update details do not mention any Switch 2-specific features.

["What's your favorite scary GameCube game?" "Super Mario Sunshine. Absolutely frightening."]

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TalkBack / GameCube Nintendo Classics Library Adding Luigi's Mansion Next Week

« on: October 21, 2025, 05:15:40 PM »

"What's your favorite scary GameCube game?" "Super Mario Sunshine. Absolutely frightening."

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72997/gamecube-nintendo-classics-library-adding-luigis-mansion-next-week

It wouldn't be the first year of a GameCube library if it didn't bring Luigi's Mansion along for the ride.

Nintendo have confirmed tonight that the launch day game will be the newest addition to the Switch 2-exclusive GameCube library for Expansion Pack subscribers, launching on October 30 (likely the night of the 29th in North America). This will be the second time the game has been re-released following a 2018 3DS port.

Luigi's Mansion is the third of the seven games revealed on April 2 to come to the library: Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance, Pokemon Colosseum / XD, and the dreaded Super Mario Sunshine are still outstanding.

[Can they add a THIRD button?]

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TalkBack / Second Kirby Air Riders Direct To Air October 23

« on: October 21, 2025, 05:27:41 AM »

Can they add a THIRD button?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72996/second-kirby-air-riders-direct-to-air-october-23

We have a date for the promised second Kirby Air Riders Direct.

Promised in last month's Nintendo Direct, the presentation will air Thursday at 9 a.m. ET / 6 a.m. PT / 10:30 in Newfoundland. The show will run for 60 minutes and be hosted by director Masahiro Sakurai.

[If the fifth game in the series invented jazz, I guess the third invented funeral dirges.]

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TalkBack / Persona 3 Reload (Switch 2) Review

« on: October 21, 2025, 05:00:00 AM »

If the fifth game in the series invented jazz, I guess the third invented funeral dirges.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/review/72536/persona-3-reload-switch-2-review

I would have written a content warning normally but the game's puts it better than I ever could.

Of all of the Atlus RPGs that are accessible on Switch 2, I would have to say that regardless of selected difficulty at the start, the most difficult game is any variation of Persona 3. Not due to anything about the battle system or social systems, but I’ve tried to play versions of Persona 3 across five different systems and have always struggled with the game’s themes. As someone who has probably suffered from clinical depression for most of my adult life and has been on anti-depressants non-stop for the entire 2020s, this game makes Nocturne feel like an average Pokemon playthrough by comparison. And if you’re coming into Reload looking for a good RPG instead of the definitive version of the game that it’s needed since 2010, the Switch 2 is definitely the place to play it.

As this is now the fourth different version of Persona 3, the story should be well known. Your self-named protagonist arrives on a Japanese island called Tatsumi Port Island late at night one night and runs into a phenomenon called the “Dark Hour”, in which everyone around turns into a coffin at midnight and those that don’t run the risk of being eaten by “Shadows”, rogue demons that have appeared on the island. A few days later, the main character discovers his talent for using the power of Persona to fight the Shadows, and is press-ganged into leading a high school’s Special Extracurricular Extermination Squad (SEES) against the Shadows, including climbing an obnoxiously large tower that takes over the high school every Dark Hour. The squad expands to include more students, a robot, a dog, and a twelve year old boy as they take down “Full Moon Shadows” every lunar month to try and stop the Dark Hour from happening any more.

Persona 3 was the first of the “modern trilogy” of Persona games, so it was the first to really use the concept of “social links” (later renamed “confidants” in 5) and there are some oddities. The core concepts remain the same: you meet up with people in the school and broader community who with the right dialogue options can provide enhancements to battle capabilities, including the ability to summon more powerful Personas as the link grows. The social links in 3 are the only ones in the modern trilogy that if not played properly can “reverse”, or essentially be broken–meaning you lose all of the benefits. Thankfully, one of the new options added for Reload is a rewind function to jump back without the need of reloading a prior save (though there’s plenty of slots for those, too). A lot of the major challenge regardless of which of the game’s five difficulty options you pick is sorting out the schedule of building the social links to maximize your growth. Although most days have two times for interaction, the options for social links are extremely limited at night due to most of the social links being students, so night sessions will usually be devoted to working jobs for extra cash or building your character’s social status since some links have checks against those stats. Thankfully, there’s only three stats to worry about versus five in the other games (“Charm”, “Courage”, and “Academics”) since some social links require one of them to be maxed. Previous renditions of Persona 3 have basically required you to confess love to every female Social Link in your age range: thankfully, Reload brought back the function from the later games for platonic relationships with the female social links so you can play a chaste hero if you choose. Although some of the male party members do not have social links with the main character, they do have new event options that provide exposition on them and battle boosts.

Fuuka would go on to have opinions about Roki Sasaki.

The battle system is turn-based and uses the speed (“Agility”) stat for turn order, so battles will have a predictable order. Player characters and enemies can have weaknesses to three varieties of physical attack (“Bash”, “Strike”, “Pierce”), and then the classic Shin Megami Tensei elements of fire/ice/thunder/wind/light/dark: hitting one of these weaknesses gives the attacker a “1 More” follow-up attack after knocking the opponent down. If the player party knocks down every opponent on the screen, they can activate the “All-Out Attack” to massively damage everything on screen if not outright win the battle. Reload adds on a new function called “Theurgy”, which unlocks after a couple of months of in-game time and gives each character access to a super move for mass damage, full party buffs / healing, or some other effect. Each party member builds the Theurgy meter differently, so although on paper it seems like a super move, the closest comparable is the various “Overdrive” modes Final Fantasy X had. It’s a simple system once you adjust to it, since it’s driven off things the characters are doing anyway. Apart from Theurgy, the other change compared to prior Persona 3 versions is that the characters have had skill set adjustments to make them more focused on primary roles, and light / dark elements now have basic damaging moves instead of being “one-hit kill or nothing” as they were previously.

Since the main character is capable of wielding every Persona in existence while his teammates are confined to a single one, it will be necessary to perform “fusions” of Personas for more powerful ones as the game proceeds. The “don’t call it a Pokedex” Demon Compendium can be partially built with post-battle rewards, but the most powerful Personas will require some time in the menus. The option to automatically see everything that can be fused is present in Reload, though mostly only with the Personas currently in your character’s stock, which might be a weird bunch since the most efficient way to build Social Links is to have a Persona of a tarot arcana that matches the arcana of the social link to maximize points. One pain point for me as a completionist in collecting games is that the money situation, especially early on, makes it hard to build a good stock of fusion material for later due to lack of funds. Even on the easiest difficulty, enemies do not drop money directly; the only way to get funds is to pick it as a post-battle reward in the “Shuffle Time” mechanic (randomly generates cards with items, money, healing, Personas) or by selling things picked up in the environment outside of battle.

A lot of the depressing parts of Persona 3 stem from the main dungeon being both dreary and overly long. The “Full Moon” dungeons are short and more of a boss rush, meaning that 95% of the battles in the game are in the slog known as Tartarus. Even with forced breaks in the climb every month, it’s still the same environment and randomly generated floors the whole way up with only the odd treasure or randomly fleeing enemy to break up the monotony. And of course, every battle in the game where you have to use a special move immediately plays an animation of someone pulling out a gun (excuse me, an “Evoker”) and shooting themselves in the head. Is it any wonder why it’s taken me nearly a decade and a half to beat Persona 3 in some form?

Somehow I doubt that shooting myself in the head with trauma would produce a Wind spell.

There’s a major elephant in the room with Reload as well: the lack of the female playable character option from the Portable version (as seen on the Switch). I fully understand why this is the case: it would be like creating an entirely different game given the female protagonist has largely different social links and it would be necessary to create new linked events for the female party members who wouldn’t be a social link in her story. If they included a female option in the launching game, we wouldn’t have seen Reload anywhere until 2026 or later. At least the Switch 2 version would’ve been day and date with the Xbox Series version? Still, there’s one major thing that a potential female Reload would have to account for: one of the female protag’s social links in Portable was a seemingly romantic link with the previously mentioned 12 year old boy. Sure, Reload cut out a flagrantly transphobic scene involving the male MC, but there’s still at least one questionable social link involving teacher / student relations of the “inappropriate” variety.

Reload is certainly the best we’ve ever seen Persona 3 look on a Nintendo system, though given the previous contender was an upscaled PSP game that’s not a high bar. Still, the demons stand out even more now, and little flourishes on the characters even in the background are adapted well to the Switch 2. The game runs smoothly as well, I didn’t notice any slowdown in either docked or handheld when playing. The soundtrack is the usual Persona series banger, but there was a controversial move when the voice actors for the main playable characters were all recast for Reload (with the voice actors who didn’t shoot their career in both feet appearing in cameos). Thankfully, the new voice actors did a great job, and I have to give special thanks to the new voice for Junpei who managed to do what their predecessor couldn’t and play Junpei in a way that I actually wanted to use him in my party and socialize with him.

If it wasn’t for the flood of RPGs I still have to play this year, I think this would be “teh urn” for Persona 3. As it sits, I do want to see this one through to graduation, knowing full well what awaits me there, and the 45 minute / 13 stage final boss fight I have to go through to do it. There’s still some structural issues with Persona 3, but it’s probably the most underappreciated member of its trilogy.

[Oh, banana!]

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TalkBack / Donkey Kong Bananza Adding Monthly Challenges To Emerald Rush Mode

« on: October 20, 2025, 09:58:15 AM »

Oh, banana!

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72995/donkey-kong-bananza-adding-monthly-challenges-to-emerald-rush-mode

The Emerald Rush mode of Donkey Kong Bananza is due for another expansion next week.

A monthly challenge is being added next week, specifically on October 28 with the first challenge starting at 4 a.m. ET / 1 a.m. PT and running until November 4 at 2:59 a.m. ET / 11:59pm PT on the 3rd. The challenges will feature fixed options for "Emerald Perks" per run, and there is no limit on the number of runs that can be attempted in the event period.

Participants will be able to obtain statues of Engaurde and King Bananza from this round of challenges, with more statues to come.

["The Downloads are the means by which all is revealed - the eternal march of death is only matched by the number of Switch games still coming out."]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - October 23, 2025

« on: October 20, 2025, 04:00:00 AM »

"The Downloads are the means by which all is revealed - the eternal march of death is only matched by the number of Switch games still coming out."

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72994/nintendo-downloads-october-23-2025

The Switch 2 is on an absolute RPG heater right now as in the last month and a bit we've had Trails 1st, FF Tactics, Disgaea 7, Pokemon, and now Persona 3 Reload with Dragon Quest I-II HD-2D, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment, and Yakuza Kiwami in the next few weeks (for certain definitions of "RPG"). If you're not up for 90+ hours of socialization surrounding random bouts of shooting yourself in the head to summon Satan and 100 of his closest friends, there's also PowerWash Simulator 2 and one of the last EA games before they suffer death by a thousand cuts at the hands of private equity in the Plants vs Zombies remake. (Review of Reload coming soon (tm).)

Meanwhile, the original Switch - which is already at 50 games this week so we're on North American record advisory - has PvZ, historical amazement sim Once Upon A Katamari, the Switch version of the latest Double Dragon game, Aksys-published platformer The Good Old Days, and indie hit ILA: The Frosty Glide will be dropping a few hours after this article.

THINGS WE MISSED LAST WEEK: SNK's 1983 "grab food out of a moving car" game Munch Mobile in the Archives.

North America

Switch 2

Persona 3 Reload (US$59.99/C$79.99)

Full Metal Schoolgirl ($49.99/$66.99)

PowerWash Simulator 2 ($24.99/$33.49)

Plants vs Zombies: Replanted ($19.99/$29.99)

Switch

Once Upon A Katamari ($39.99/$53.49: Friday)

Chicken Run: Eggstraction ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Dora: Rainforest Rescue ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Hot Wheels Let's Race: Ultimate Speed ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Double Dragon Revive ($34.99/$46.99)

Sports Camp: A 35-Game Adventure ($34.99/$42.99)

The Good Old Days ($29.99/$41.52)

Tayutuma: It's Happy Days ($29.99/$38.99)

Fast and Furious: Arcade Edition ($29.99/$39.99: Friday)

Reus 2 ($24.99/$34.49)

Becastled ($24.99/$34.47)

ILA: A Frosty Glide ($19.99/$25.99: Monday)

Sedap: A Culinary Adventure ($19.99/$25.99: Tuesday)

GilGul ($19.99/$25.99)

Plants vs Zombies: Replanted ($19.99/$29.99)

SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator ($19.99/$25.99)

Dreamed Away ($18.99/$24.79)

Mega Match March ($17.99/$23.49: Wednesday)

Death Frame ($14.99/$24.00)

Oil Refinery - The Simulation ($14.99/$19.99)

Coloree ($12.99/$17.99)

Quit Today ($11.99/$15.49: Wednesday)

OFC - Ultimate Fighting Club ($9.99/$13.99: Tuesday)

Murder Inc ($9.99/$13.29: Wednesday)

Unfair Rampage: Nightfall ($9.99/$13.90)

Shroomtopia ($9.99/$12.99)

The Quarantine Sector ($9.99/$12.99)

Escape Game The Edo Period ($9.99/$12.49)

Acre Crisis ($9.99/$13.29: Friday)

Sub-Structure 17: White Knuckle Ascent ($7.99/$11.00: Monday)

Gruniozerca Trilogy ($7.99/$11.49)

Udon! Road to Mastery ($7.00/$6.51)

Windborn - Echoes of the Night ($6.99/$10.30)

Mannequin Mayhem: Physics Ragdoll Shooter ($6.99/$9.99: Friday)

Lost Howl ($6.99/$6.99: Friday)

Sushi For Robots ($5.99/$7.99)

Run Chicken, Run! ($5.99/$6.20: Friday)

Redex ($4.99/$6.29: Wednesday)

Steampunch: Lost Tombs ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Zumba - Marble Zombie Invasion ($4.99/$7.99)

Claim The Forest ($4.99/$6.83)

INC: The Beginning ($4.99/$4.99)

Coralina ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Pacify ($4.99/$6.96: Friday)

Bananitro ($3.99/$6.83)

Mystic Beauty - Anime Shift Puzzles ($3.99/$5.99)

Find It, Detective! ($3.99/$5.39)

Grand Poker Casino ($3.99/$5.31)

Cave of Illusions: Twistyland ($2.99/$4.69)

Gnomdom ($2.99/$3.99)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 - Archives

Midnight Landing ($9.99/$13.72)

Switch

Midnight Landing ($9.99/$13.72)

The Jackbox Party Pack 11 ($29.99/$38.99)

Tattoo Tycoon ($29.99/$48.99: Friday)

Snapshot Girls 5 ($19.99/$19.99: Tuesday)

Super Hentai Puzzle ($19.99/$19.99: Wednesday)

The Angry Video Game Nerd 8-Bit ($19.99/$25.99)

Special Combat ($19.99/$24.99)

Snapshot Girls 6 ($19.99/$19.99: Friday)

H Desire: Sexy Waifus ($19.99/$19.99: Saturday)

Night Striker Gear ($18.99/$26.28)

Rabbiman Adventures: Secret Room ($14.90/$14.90)

Faraway Train ($13.99/$18.90: Wednesday)

Bloodshed ($12.99/$16.99)

Dreamout ($9.99/$13.99: Monday)

Beam Car Crash: Drive Simulator 2025 ($9.99/$14.99)

Truck Simulator: Delivery in City ($9.99/$13.99)

Drone Delivery: FPV Simulator ($9.99/$13.99: Friday)

Brainrot Turbo Kart ($8.99/$12.9)

Anime Girls: Puffy Pumpkin ($8.99/$12.69)

Pixel Game Maker Series Shiki-Shiki Haunted Dungeons ($8.99/$11.79)

Candyland: Sweet Survival ($6.99/$9.99: Saturday)

Suika Sprunki Edition ($4.99/$6.99)

Lyca ($4.99/$6.49)

Oblivion Dreams ($4.69/$6.55: Saturday)

H Uni 4 ($2.49/$3.48: Friday)

Switch - Archives

Midnight Landing ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: Alongside a Switch 2 upgrade, ARK: Survival Evolved and its DLC is on sale until November 6. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Switch 2

Persona 3 Reload (€59.99/£54.99)

Full Metal Schoolgirl (€49.99/£39.99)

PowerWash Simulator 2 (€24.99/£19.99)

Plants vs Zombies: Replanted (€19.99/£17.99)

Switch 1

Chicken Run: Eggstraction (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Dora: Rainforest Rescue (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Hot Wheels Let's Race: Ultimate Speed (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Once Upon A Katamari (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Double Dragon Revive (€34.99/£28.99: Wednesday)

Sports Camp: A 35-Game Adventure (€34.99/£29.99)

The Good Old Days (€29.99/£26.99)

Fast and Furious: Arcade Edition (€29.99/£24.99: Friday)

Becastled (€24.99/£22.49)

Reus 2 (€24.49/£20.90)

Tayutuma: It's Happy Days (€24.25/£24.99)

Sedap: A Culinary Adventure (€19.99/£17.99: Tuesday)

Plants vs Zombies: Replanted (€19.99/£17.99)

SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator (€19.99/£16.75)

ILA: A Frosty Glide (€19.50/£16.75: Monday)

Dreamed Away (€18.49/£16.69)

Mega Match March (€17.49/£15.79: Wednesday)

Death Frame (€14.99/£14.99)

Oil Refinery - The Simulation (€14.99/£13.49)

OFC - Ultimate Fighting Club (€9.99/£9.99: Tuesday)

Murder Inc (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Quit Today (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Shroomtopia (€9.99/£8.99)

The Quarantine Sector (€9.99/£8.99)

Unfair Rampage: Nightfall (€9.99/£8.99)

Acre Crisis (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

Crownfall: Young Hero (€9.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Escape Game The Edo Period (€8.99/£7.49)

Sub-Structure 17: White Knuckle Ascent (€7.99/£7.19)

Udon! Road to Mastery (€7.00/£4.16)

Run Chicken, Run! (€6.99/£6.29)

Windborn - Echoes of the Night (€6.99/£6.00)

Mannequin Mayhem: Physics Ragdoll Shooter (€6.99/£6.99: Friday)

Sushi For Robots (€5.99/£5.49)

Lost Howl (€5.99/£4.99: Friday)

Redex (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Steampunch: Lost Tombs (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

INC: The Beginning (€4.99/£4.99)

Zumba - Marble Zombie Invasion (€4.99/£4.99)

Bananitro (€4.99/£4.49)

Claim The Forest (€4.99/£4.49)

Coralina (€4.99/£4.99: Friday)

Pacify (€4.25/£3.79: Friday)

Grand Poker Casino (€3.99/£3.59)

Mystic Beauty - Anime Shift Puzzles (€3.99/£3.59)

Cave of Illusions: Twistyland (€2.99/£2.69: Wednesday)

Gnomdom (€2.99/£2.59)

Find It, Detective! (€2.49/£2.24)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 - Archives

Midnight Landing (€8.99/£7.49)

Switch

The Jackbox Party Pack 11 (€29.99/£26.99)

Tattoo Tycoon (€29.99/£26.99: Friday)

Special Combat (€22.99/£19.99)

Snapshot Girls 5 (€19.99/£17.99: Tuesday)

Super Hentai Puzzle (€19.99/£17.99: Wednesday)

The Angry Video Game Nerd 8-Bit (€19.99/£16.75: Wednesday)

Snapshot Girls 6 (€19.99/£17.99: Friday)

H Desire: Sexy Waifus (€19.99/£17.99: Saturday)

Night Striker Gear (€16.18/£14.01)

Faraway Train (€13.99/£11.79: Wednesday)

Bloodshed (€12.99/£10.99)

Dreamout (€9.99/£8.99: Monday)

Truck Simulator: Delivery in City (€9.99/£8.99)

Drone Delivery: FPV Simulator (€9.99/£9.99: Friday)

Anime Girls: Puffy Pumpkin (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Brainrot Turbo Kart (€8.99/£8.99)

Bobby Six Seven (€8.99/£8.09)

Pixel Game Maker Series Shiki-Shiki Haunted Dungeons (€8.79/£7.89)

Gruniozerca Trilogy (€6.99/£6.29: Wednesday)

Candyland: Sweet Survival (€6.99/£6.99: Saturday)

Lyca (€4.99/£4.49)

Suika Sprunki Edition (€4.99/£4.49)

Oblivion Dreams (€4.69/£4.19: Saturday)

H Uni 4 (€2.50/£2.29: Friday)

Switch - Archives

Midnight Landing (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Switch 2

Persona 3 Reload (¥7678)

Full Metal Schoolgirl (¥6980)

Switch

Once Upon A Katamari (¥5940)

Double Dragon Revive (¥4950)

TOEIC L&R Test (¥4180)

Sports Camp: A 35-Game Adventure (¥4050)

Becastled (¥3600)

Tayutuma: It's Happy Days (¥3500)

Yandere Boyfriend Simulator: Psycho Romance Game (¥3490)

Yandere Girlfriend Simulator: Psycho Romance Game (¥3490)

ILA: A Frosty Glide (¥2970: Tuesday)

Sedap: A Culinary Adventure (¥2800)

Adrenaline Rampage (¥2200)

Dreamed Away (¥2100)

Mega Match March (¥1980)

INC: The Beginning (¥1700)

The Good Old Days (¥1600)

OFC - Ultimate Fighting Club (¥1499)

Escapegoat: Azuma Eiji's False Accusation (¥1480)

Unfair Rampage: Nightfall (¥1475)

The Quarantine Sector (¥1299)

Windborn - Echoes of the Night (¥1200)

Mannequin Mayhem: Physics Ragdoll Shooter (¥999)

Run Chicken, Run! (¥890)

Zumba - Marble Zombie Invasion (¥860)

Trasmoz Legends (¥800)

Pacify (¥734)

Udon! Road to Mastery (¥700)

Coralina (¥680)

Redex (¥600)

Steampunch: Lost Tombs (¥499: Wednesday)

Bananitro (¥499)

Claim The Forest (¥499)

Cave of Illusions: Twistyland (¥489)

Gnomdom (¥440)

The Best Revenge (¥420)

World Heritage Hide & Seek Adventure (¥420)

Revealed Later

Switch 2

PowerWash Simulator 2 (¥2970)

Plants vs Zombies: Replanted (¥2900)

Midnight Landing (¥1100)

Switch

Korean Rail Celesti Express ITX-MAUM Taebaek Line (¥6980)

NBA Bounce (¥6600)

The Smurfs - Dreams (¥4400)

Rooftops & Alleys: The Parkour Game (¥3520)

Fast and Furious: Arcade Edition (¥3500: Friday)

H Secrets: Moonlight Kiss (¥2999)

Snapshot Girls 5 (¥2999)

Ultimate H Puzzle (¥2999)

GilGul (¥2980)

Plants vs Zombies: Replanted (¥2900: Friday)

Night Striker Gear (¥2800)

Special Combat (¥2300)

Nightmare Mandara Town (¥1600)

Faraway Train (¥1540)

Bloodshed (¥1500: Friday)

Dreamout (¥1490)

Drone Delivery: FPV Simulator (¥1490)

Bobby Six Seven (¥1200)

Candyland: Sweet Survival (¥1049)

Pixel Game Maker Series Shiki-Shiki Haunted Dungeons (¥1000)

Anime Girls: Puffy Pumpkin (¥899)

Sushi For Robots (¥899)

Midnight Landing (¥838)

Gruniozerca Trilogy (¥800)

Schoolteacher Simulator (¥730)

Lost Howl (¥700)

Lyca (¥580)

[And remember to always, always, always play around the AOE spam in the game of the week.]

19

TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - October 16, 2025

« on: October 13, 2025, 05:36:00 PM »

And remember to always, always, always play around the AOE spam in the game of the week.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72877/nintendo-downloads-october-16-2025

The biggest game of the week - and given that it's chucking Mario Kart World out of Switch 2 bundles on launch day, probably the year - is Nintendo's big holiday game in Pokemon Legends: Z-A as the ninth generation of Pokemon winds down. Obviously we'll be getting our Totodile or Tepig on (I'm doing Switch voucher -> Switch 2 upgrade, so maybe BOTH?) later this week and will have a review as soon as we can get it written. (Also going on sale Thursday is the DLC pack... and you don't HAVE to buy that now, just wait until the end of February when we get a launch or date in the 30th Anniversary Pokemon Presents we know is coming.)

Apart from Just Dance 2026 (feat. the one good Smash Mouth song), smaller releases are the just-launched Spindle and Devolver-published game I still can't describe in BALL x PIT. Because we don't talk about the narc game.

THINGS WE MISSED LAST WEEK: Konami action game Battlantis in Archives (and Archives 2).

IS THE EGGCONSOLE GAME PLAYABLE IN ENGLISH: It seems like it based on the screenshots of Revival Xanadu II, but caveat emptor.

North America

Switch 2

Pokemon Legends: Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (US$69.99/C$99.99)

Switch 2 Upgrade

Pokemon Legends: Z-A ($9.99/$14.99)

Switch

Pokemon Legends: Z-A ($59.99/$84.99)

Just Dance 2026 Edition ($49.99/$64.99: Tuesday)

The Elf on the Shelf: Christmas Heroes ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Chickenhare and the Treausre of Spiking-beared ($29.99/$39.99: Tuesday)

Deathless: The Hero Quest ($24.99/$32.50)

Ghost Traveleler: Adventures in Edo ($24.99/$23.30)

Lumo 2 ($24.99/$32.50: Friday)

Spindle ($19.99/$25.99: Monday)

H Secrets: Moonlight Kiss ($19.99/$19.99: Monday)

Captain Bones: A Pirate's Journey ($19.99/$22.79)

The Wild Age ($16.99/$21.99)

Adrenaline Rampage ($15.00/$20.00: Saturday)

Ball x Pit ($14.99/$19.49: Wednesday)

An English Haunting ($13.99/$17.99)

Cat God Ranch ($12.99/$16.99)

Charming Hearts ($12.99/$12.99)

Bumblebee - Spooky Night ($11.99/$18.99)

Desk Wars ($9.99/$12.99)

Randomax ($9.99/$12.99)

Retro Geek Shop Simulator ($9.99/$12.99)

Crownfall: Young Hero ($9.99/$9.99: Saturday)

Wrap Shop Simulator ($7.99/$10.99: Tuesday)

EggConsole Revival Xanadu II PC-9801 ($7.16/$9.54)

Scoop It! Crane Game ($7.00/$6.51)

LogIQ Boost ($6.99/$9.49: Sunday)

Time Treker ($6.99/$8.99)

Infernitos: Fiery Dishes ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Kotenok ($4.99/$6.29: Wednesday)

Puzzle Wars ($4.99/$6.99)

Infinios ($4.99/$6.90)

Infinios 2 ($4.99/$6.90)

Snack and Quack ($4.99/$6.83)

Neoteria ($4.99/$4.99)

Blaster Force 3000 ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Web Fishing - Relax and Fish ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Obby Kingdom ($4.99/$4.99: Friday)

Hole Digging Simulator 2025 ($4.99/$6.99: Saturday)

Turn It! ($3.00/$4.11)

The Cabin Factory ($2.99/$3.99)

Treasure Drop ($2.99/$3.99: Saturday)

Super Yellow Ballman ($2.80/$3.80)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Deulkkoch Arborteum ($1.99/$2.75)

Revealed Later

Switch

Korean Rail Celesti Express ITX-MAUM Taebaek Line ($44.99/$62.70: Friday)

H Secrets: Romantic Charm ($19.99/$19.99)

Snapshot Girls 4 ($19.99/$19.99)

Ultimate H Puzzle ($19.99/$19.99: Friday)

Mr Elevator ($14.99/$20.99)

Chronicles of Albian 3: The Vanishing Village ($9.99/$13.99)

Cozy Memory ($9.99/$13.90)

Amanda The Adventurer 2 ($9.99/$12.99)

Letters From The Past: Undusted ($9.99/$12.99)

Jelly Form ($9.99/$9.99: Saturday)

Kawaii Girls: Spicy Scientist ($8.99/$12.69)

Yabai Girls: Enchanted Exorcist ($8.99/$12.69: Friday)

Ragdoll Arena - Kick the Body ($7.99/$11.99: Friday)

Crayon Halloween ($6.10/$8.30)

Brass ($5.99/$7.79)

Cat in the Tomb ($4.99/$7.99)

Pixel Game Maker Series Tyraels Ascension: Hell Walker - The Video Game ($4.99/$6.49)

H Numbers ($4.99/$6.70: Saturday)

Word Quest: Pirates ($2.49/$3.39: Friday)

Archives

Munch Mobile ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: Even before the NBA season started, NBA 2k26 is on sale until November 4 (3035% off for Switch and Switch 2). PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Switch 2

Pokemon Legends: Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (€69.99/£58.99)

Switch 2 Upgrade

Pokemon Legends: Z-A (€9.99/£7.99)

Switch

Pokemon Legends: Z-A (€59.99/£49.99)

Just Dance 2026 Edition (€49.99/£44.99: Tuesday)

The Elf on the Shelf: Christmas Heroes (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Chickenhare and the Treausre of Spiking-beared (€29.99/£26.99: Tuesday)

Deathless: The Hero Quest (€24.99/£22.49)

Lumo 2 (€22.99/£19.99: Friday)

Spindle (€19.99/£17.99: Monday)

Captain Bones: A Pirate's Journey (€19.99/£17.99: Wednesday)

Star Titans: War of the Galaxy (€16.99/£14.99: Monday)

The Wild Age (€16.99/£13.49)

Ball x Pit (€14.99/£13.49: Wednesday)

Adrenaline Rampage (€14.99/£13.49: Saturday)

Ghost Traveleler: Adventures in Edo (€14.80/£12.75: Wednesday)

Bumblebee - Spooky Night (€11.99/£11.99)

Cat God Ranch (€11.99/£10.79)

Charming Hearts (€10.99/£9.89: Wednesday)

Retro Geek Shop Simulator (€9.99/£8.49: Wednesday)

Randomax (€9.50/£8.59)

Wrap Shop Simulator (€7.99/£7.99: Tuesday)

Scoop It! Crane Game (€7.00/£3.51)

LogIQ Boost (€6.99/£6.29: Sunday)

Time Treker (€6.89/£5.89)

EggConsole Revival Xanadu II PC-9801 (€6.09/£5.49)

Neoteria (€4.99/£4.99: Wednesday)

Infernitos: Fiery Dishes (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Infinios (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Infinios 2 (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Kotenok (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Puzzle Wars (€4.99/£3.99: Wednesday)

Snack and Quack (€4.99/£4.49)

Blaster Force 3000 (€4.99/£4.99: Friday)

Web Fishing - Relax and Fish (€4.99/£4.99: Friday)

Obby Kingdom (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Hole Digging Simulator 2025 (€4.99/£4.99: Saturday)

Penguin Panic! (€2.99/£2.69: Wednesday)

The Cabin Factory (€2.99/£2.69)

Treasure Drop (€2.99/£2.69: Saturday)

Super Yellow Ballman (€2.80/£2.50: Wednesday)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Deulkkoch Arborteum (€1.99/£1.79)

Revealed Later

Switch

Korean Rail Celesti Express ITX-MAUM Taebaek Line (€44.99/£40.49: Friday)

Snapshot Girls 4 (€19.99/£17.99)

Ultimate H Puzzle (€19.99/£17.99: Friday)

Mr Elevator (€12.99/£10.99: Wednesday)

An English Haunting (€11.99/£11.99: Friday)

Chronicles of Albian 3: The Vanishing Village (€9.99/£8.99)

Cozy Memory (€9.99/£8.99)

Amanda The Adventurer 2 (€9.99/£8.50)

Letters From The Past: Undusted (€9.75/£8.50)

Kawaii Girls: Spicy Scientist (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Yabai Girls: Enchanted Exorcist (€8.99/£8.99)

Ragdoll Arena - Kick the Body (€7.99/£7.19{ Friday)

Brass (€5.89/£4.99)

Crayon Halloween (€5.50/£4.99: Wednesday)

Cat in the Tomb (€4.99/£4.99)

Pixel Game Maker Series Tyraels Ascension: Hell Walker - The Video Game (€4.99/£4.49)

Hole Digging Simulator 2025 (€4.99/£4.99: Saturday)

H Numbers (€4.99/£4.49: Saturday)

Turn It! (€2.99/£2.69)

Word Quest: Pirates (€1.99/£1.79: Friday)

Archives

Munch Mobile (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Switch 2

Pokemon Legends: Z-A - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (¥8100)

Switch 2 Upgrade

Pokemon Legends: Z-A (¥1000)

Switch

Pokemon Legends: Z-A (¥7100)

Starbites (¥6380)

Just Dance 2026 Edition (¥5940: Tuesday)

Deathless: The Hero Quest (¥2800)

Ghost Traveleler: Adventures in Edo (¥2640)

Spindle (¥2300: Monday)

Bumblebee - Spooky Night (¥1989)

Charming Hearts (¥1599)

Crownfall: Young Hero (¥1500: Friday)

Cat God Ranch (¥1430)

Retro Geek Shop Simulator (¥1399)

Smoots Crazy Wave (¥1200)

Maze: Path of Light (¥1500: Saturday)

Wrap Shop Simulator (¥1199)

EggConsole Revival Xanadu II PC-9801 (¥980)

Desk Wars (¥800)

Time Treker (¥800)

Hole Digging Simulator 2025 (¥799)

Web Fishing - Relax and Fish (¥799)

Puzzle Wars (¥749)

Infinios (¥740)

Infinios 2 (¥740)

Scoop It! Crane Game (¥700)

Kotenok (¥500)

Infernitos: Fiery Dishes (¥499: Wednesday)

Snack and Quack (¥499)

Find It, Detective! (¥420)

How Do You Write It In Kanji? (¥420)

Survival Quiz: Reincarnated As A Villainess (¥420)

Super Yellow Ballman (¥400)

The Cabin Factory (¥349)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Deulkkoch Arborteum (¥200)

Revealed Later

Switch

H Party: Secret Garden (¥2999)

H Secrets: Velvet Touch (¥2999)

Snapshot Girls 4 (¥2999)

Captain Bones: A Pirate's Journey (¥2000)

Shantae: Risky's Revenge (¥200)

Mr Elevator (¥1980)

Ball x Pit (¥1700)

TCG Card Market Simulator (¥1698)

Cozy Memory (¥1500)

Amanda The Adventurer 2 (¥1200)

Letters From The Past: Undusted (¥1200)

There's No Cake (¥1159)

LogIQ Boost (¥999)

Kawaii Girls: Spicy Scientist (¥899)

Cat in the Tomb (¥860)

Crayon Halloween (¥850)

Munch Mobile (¥838)

Gekidan Musume Akane & Aoi (¥800)

Brass (¥700)

Blaster Force 3000 (¥680: Friday)

Castle Climb Obby (¥590)

Obby Kingdom (¥500)

Turn It! (¥400)

Word Quest: Pirates (¥330)

[Sadly, the News Editor will still not be able to get one of his roommate's half dozen "immersive" Giratina.]

20

TalkBack / Pokemon Mobile News: TCG Pocket Expanding Trading Again, Go Details Trainer Level Changes

« on: October 13, 2025, 03:11:38 PM »

Sadly, the News Editor will still not be able to get one of his roommate's half dozen "immersive" Giratina.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72880/pokemon-mobile-news-tcg-pocket-expanding-trading-again-go-details-trainer-level-changes

A pair of profitable Pokemon mobile titles are getting ahead of this week's Legends Z-A release with some major impending updates.

In a post on the Pokemon website today, it was confirmed that several updates to Pokemon TCG Pocket are planned to expand the pool of tradable cards (adding "2 star" and "shiny" cards to the existing tradable rarities), and a "sharing" feature will be added to allow for lower rarity cards to be sent to friends once a day no cost. The "Wonder Pick" will also be enhanced to prioritize missing cards from the collection and show quantities on hand for the pack.

Pokemon Go finally detailed the level update arriving Wednesday announced at the end of August as well: the new experience curve will see any trainer level 23 or higher go up at least one level, and it will only take about 203.5m experience to reach the new cap of level 80 (pending completion of tasks to be confirmed): for comparison, it previously took 176m experience and task completion to reach the prior level cap of 50.

[On the one hand, cool. On the other hand, terrible, terrible failure.]

21

TalkBack / Super Nintendo Nintendo Classics Adds Japan Only Game And Infamous Platformer

« on: October 08, 2025, 05:16:53 PM »

On the one hand, cool. On the other hand, terrible, terrible failure.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72840/super-nintendo-nintendo-classics-adds-japan-only-game-and-infamous-platformer

The Super Nintendo library in Nintendo's NSO-required Classics section has added three new games, including an import with an interesting developer pedigree and mouse support.

• Mario and Wario (SFC, 1993) is a mouse-controlled puzzle platformer developed by Game Freak, in which Wario has covered Mario's heads with objects such as barrels and buckets and a fairy has to move obstacles out of the way in a platforming challenge.
• Fatal Fury Special (1993) is a Super Nintendo version of the Neo-Geo fighting game which added four boss characters from Fatal Fury 2 as playable in a fashion similar to the Championship Edition of Street Fighter II. The inclusion of Ryo Sakazaki (from SNK's Art of Fighting series) was seen as a catalyst for the creation of the King of Fighters crossover series.
• Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind (1993) is an infamous mascot platformer developed by Accolade.

[Some very odd takes on horror as we head toward Halloween, dood.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - October 9, 2025

« on: October 06, 2025, 04:00:00 AM »

Some very odd takes on horror as we head toward Halloween, dood.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72835/nintendo-downloads-october-9-2025

The two big Switch 2 games of the week are both different takes on horror: you get horror comedy in Disgaea 7 Complete (all DLC included), or you get the horror platformer Little Nightmares III. Or you get acid flashbacks to collectathon 90s platformers (derogatory) with Yooka-Replayee: as the name SHOULD imply, it's a higher definition version of one of the last crowdfunding success stories before Shenmue III did what Shenmue III does.

Little Nightmares III is also on the Switch (with no upgrade path... Bamco, you had one job), alongside Dotemu fantasy brawler Absolum... and a crossover fighting game with characters from Ys and Trails in the Sky. I hear Adol's "Shipwreck Slam" is an infinite.

THINGS WE MISSED LAST WEEK: Namco's first game Gee Bee was the Archives 2 (and Archives) release, complete with Switch 2 mouse controls.

IS THE EGGCONSOLE GAME PLAYABLE IN ENGLISH: After looking at two screenshots for Hajya No Fuuin... nope. Nope. No way. Nuh-huh. See you space cowboy.

North America

Switch 2

Disgaea 7 Complete (US$69.99/C$89.99: Friday)

Little Nightmares III ($39.99/$53.49: Friday)

Yooka-Replayee ($29.99/$41.38)

Switch

Little Nightmares III ($39.99/$53.49: Friday)

Barbie Horse Trails ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Ys vs Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga ($34.99/$46.99: Friday)

Sonic Wings Reunion ($29.99/$38.99: Tuesday)

Battle Suit Aces ($24.99/$32.50: Tuesday)

Absolum ($24.99/$35.00)

Garden of the Greek Goddesses: Aphrodite, Artemis, and Athena Love Story ($25.90/$35.90)

Garden of the Greek Gods: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades Love Story ($25.90/$35.90)

Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch ($24.99/$33.49)

Bye Sweet Carole ($24.99/$31.99)

Rise Eterna 2 ($19.99/$27.70)

Nora: In Search of Hidden Ingredients ($19.99/$27.50)

Lapin ($18.99/$25.84)

Dawnfolk ($14.99/$20.99: Tuesday)

Lost in Fantaland ($14.99/$20.68: Wednesday)

Neffy -Moonlight Labyrinth X- ($14.99/$19.49)

Color Breakers 2 ($14.99/$15.59)

Scurge: Hive ($14.99/$20.99: Friday)

We Were Here Together ($12.99/$12.24)

RoKoPo For Nintendo Switch ($10.99/$13.99)

Survival Zombie ($9.99/$13.99: Tuesday)

Super Mining Mechs ($9.99/$12.49: Wednesday)

Prison Life Sim 2025: Survival ($9.99/$13.99: Friday)

Bike Runner ($9.99/$11.99: Friday)

Just Place Brain Training One Shot ($8.99/$11.49)

Object Factory ($8.99/$9.99)

Next of Kin: Fidelity ($7.99/$11.99: Friday)

Guchio: Rising Mountain ($7.00/not released: Wednesday)

EggConsole Hajya No Fuuin PC-8801 ($6.49/$7.34)

Evo Pop ($5.99/$7.99: Saturday)

Tameshi ($5.00/$7.00)

Mystic Pathways: Crystal Quest ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Battle Puzzle 2048 - Wicked Witches ($4.99/$7.49)

AxoBubble ($4.99/$6.83)

Meganoid Chronicles ($4.99/$4.99)

Flower Spinner Puzzle ($3.99/$5.39)

Cats and Seek: Kyoto ($2.99/$3.99)

Cross Pix 4 ($2.99/$3.99)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Ammyeon Temple ($1.99/$2.73)

And Then There Was No Light ($1.99/$2.59)

RPS Hunger ($1.02/not released)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 - Archives

Battlantis ($9.99/$13.72)

Switch

H Secrets: Sexy Women ($19.99/$19.99: Tuesday)

Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action ($19.99/$25.00)

H Party: Bikini Beach ($19.99/$19.99)

H Secrets: Velvet Touch ($19.99/$19.99: Friday)

Star Titans: War of the Galaxy ($14.99/$20.99)

Plus Ultra: Legado ($14.99/$19.99)

Five Nights With Tung Tung Sahur ($12.99/$17.99)

Eva ($12.00/$12.00)

Wukong Black Legend ($9.99/$13.99: Tuesday)

Hydraulic Press ($9.99/$13.95)

Twins of the Sun ($9.99/$13.99: Friday)

Bigfoot Hunting ($9.99/$13.99: Saturday)

Sugoi Girls: Wolf Romance ($8.99/$12.69)

Robot Warfare War Game ($7.99/$11.00)

Peak: The Adventure Begins ($6.99/$9.69)

Peak Climb ($4.99/$6.99: Monday)

Jurassic Island: The Legend of Makumaku ($4.90/$6.90: Friday)

Michelangelo: Stonemason Simulator ($3.99/$4.99)

Food Truck Kingdom ($3.99/$6.49: Saturday)

Dream Trials ($3.34/$4.00: Monday)

Cloud Roll ($2.49/$3.39: Friday)

Switch - Archives

Battlantis ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: Draknek puzzle games* are on sale until October 12. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Switch 2

Disgaea 7 Complete (€69.99/£62.99: Friday)

Little Nightmares III (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Yooka-Replayee (€28.99/£24.99: Wednesday)

Switch

Barbie Horse Trails (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Little Nightmares III (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Snoopy & The Great Mystery Club (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Sonic Wings Reunion (€29.99/£26.99: Tuesday)

Garden of the Greek Goddesses: Aphrodite, Artemis, and Athena Love Story (€24.90/£24.90)

Garden of the Greek Gods: Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades Love Story (€24.90/£24.90)

Wild West Shooter (€24.99/£19.99: Monday)

Absolum (€24.99/£22.49)

Bye Sweet Carole (€24.99/£22.49)

Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch (€24.99/£19.99)

Battle Suit Aces (€24.49/£22.09: Monday)

Nora: In Search of Hidden Ingredients (€19.99/£17.99)

Rise Eterna 2 (€19.99/£17.99)

Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action (€19.99/£17.99)

Lapin (€18.49/£16.69)

Dawnfolk (€14.99/£13.99: Tuesday)

Lost in Fantaland (€14.99/£13.49: Wednesday)

Lost in Fantaland (€14.99/£13.49: Wednesday)

Scurge: Hive (€14.99/£14.99)

Neffy -Moonlight Labyrinth X- (€14.79/£12.79)

We Were Here Together (€12.99/£10.99)

Color Breakers 2 (€11.39/£9.59)

RoKoPo For Nintendo Switch (€10.79/£9.29)

Survival Zombie (€9.99/£9.99: Tuesday)

Super Mining Mechs (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Bike Runner (€9.99/£9.99: Friday)

Prison Life Sim 2025: Survival (€9.99/£9.99: Friday)

Just Place Brain Training One Shot (€7.99/£7.99)

Next of Kin: Fidelity (€7.99/£7.19: Friday)

Evo Pop (€5.99/£5.40: Saturday)

Tameshi (€5.00/£5.00)

Mystic Pathways: Crystal Quest (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Meganoid Chronicles (€4.99/£4.99)

AxoBubble (€4.99/£4.49)

Battle Puzzle 2048 - Wicked Witches (€4.99/£4.49)

Cats and Seek: Kyoto (€2.99/£2.69)

Cross Pix 4 (€2.99/£2.59)

Flower Spinner Puzzle (€2.49/£2.24)

And Then There Was No Light (€1.99/£1.79)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Ammyeon Temple (€1.99/£1.79)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 - Archives

Battlantis (€8.99/£7.49)

Switch

Ys vs Trails in the Sky: Alternative Saga (€34.99/£29.99: Friday)

H Party: Bikini Beach (€19.99/£17.99)

Plus Ultra: Legado (€14.99/£14.99)

Five Nights With Tung Tung Sahur (€11.99/£10.99: Wednesday)

Eva (€10.00/£10.00: Monday)

Wukong Black Legend (€9.99/£9.99: Tuesday)

Twins of the Sun (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

Bigfoot Hunting (€9.99/£9.99: Saturday)

Sugoi Girls: Wolf Romance (€8.99/£8.99: Wedmesday)

Object Factory (€8.99/£7.99)

Robot Warfare War Game (€7.99/£7.19)

Peak: The Adventure Begins (€6.99/£6.99)

Peak Climb (€4.99/£4.99: Monday)

Michelangelo: Stonemason Simulator (€3.99/£3.49)

Food Truck Kingdom (€3.99/£3.59: Saturday)

Cloud Roll (€1.99/£1.79: Friday)

Switch - Archives

Battlantis (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Switch 2

Little Nightmares III (¥4950: Friday)

Yooka-Replayee (¥3400)

Ghost Cave 2 (¥2480)

Switch

Blackish House sideA - Retour (¥8580)

Little Nightmares III (¥4950: Friday)

Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch (¥2970: Friday)

Nora: In Search of Hidden Ingredients (¥2950)

Lapin (¥2490)

Drunk Bunny Garden (¥2480)

Neffy -Moonlight Labyrinth X- (¥2300)

Dawnfolk (¥2200: Tuesday)

Lost in Fantaland (¥2200)

Rise Eterna 2 (¥1999)

Cthulhu Mythos ADV Lunatic Whispers & The Isle Of Ubohoth (¥1980)

Brave x Junction (¥1650)

We Were Here Together (¥1600)

RoKoPo For Nintendo Switch (¥1500)

Survival Zombie (¥1499)

Color Breakers 2 (¥1400)

Maxi Truck Racing (¥1390)

Super Mining Mechs (¥1280)

Snow Aces League (¥999)

Guchio: Rising Mountain (¥990)

Millionaire Escape (¥900: Friday)

EggConsole Hajya No Fuuin PC-8801 (¥880)

Battle Puzzle 2048 - Wicked Witches (¥790)

Mystic Pathways: Crystal Quest (¥499: Wednesday)

AxoBubble (¥499)

Cats and Seek: Kyoto (¥440)

Spot The Strange Signs (¥420)

Cross Pix 4 (¥299)

And Then There Was No Light (¥240)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Ammyeon Temple (¥200)

RPS Hunger (¥150)

Revealed Later

Switch 2

Battlantis (¥1100)

Switch

Space Adventure Cobra: The Awakening (¥3850)

H Party: Cyber Girls (¥2990)

H Secrets: Sexy Women (¥2990)

Absolum (¥2970)

Battle Suit Aces (¥2800)

Xenotilt: Hostile Pinball Action (¥2500)

New York Mysteries: The Outbreak (¥2200)

Scurge: Hive (¥1990: Friday)

Five Nights With Tung Tung Sahur (¥1899)

Star Titans: War of the Galaxy (¥1800)

Eva (¥1500)

Bigfoot Hunting (¥1499)

Prison Life Sim 2025: Survival (¥1499)

Wukong Black Legend (¥1499)

Twins of the Sun (¥1479)

Hydraulic Press (¥1475)

Bodycam Shooter 2025 (¥1299)

Robot Warfare War Game (¥1200)

Peak: The Adventure Begins (¥1030)

Battlantis (¥838)

Psycho Mystery Series Vol.9 "CHAIN ​​- The White Horse Knight Serial Murder Case" (¥800)

Food Truck Kingdom (¥695)

Find the Difference: Spot It (¥600)

Michelangelo: Stonemason Simulator (¥490)

Cloud Roll (¥369)

Fishing Rush (¥330)

Cryzon Part 1 (¥140)

[Just in time for the digital preload warning.]

23

TalkBack / Pokemon Legends Z-A Overview Trailer Released, Tie-In Go Event Announced

« on: October 02, 2025, 12:00:00 PM »

Just in time for the digital preload warning.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72766/pokemon-legends-z-a-overview-trailer-released-tie-in-go-event-announced

With two weeks to go until Pokemon Legends: Z-A, the final overview trailer for the game has been launched.

The six minute trailer serves to recap most of the news released thus far for the game, including a demo of the "Z-A Battle Club" which will be used to unlock Mega Evolution stones for the original Pokemon X and Y starter trio. The trailer also reiterates that the Switch 2 Edition will have enhanced framerate and resolution.

A tie-in event with Pokemon Go has also been announced which will run from the 16th (10am local) to the 20th (8pm), and feature spawns of the Z-A starters Chikorita, Tepig, and Totodile with the ability to learn "legacy" moves when evolved to their final stage (respectively Frenzy Plant, Blast Burn, and Hydro Cannon). The center of the event will be a special Raid Day event for Mega Rayquaza on the 18th (Saturday) from 2 - 5 pm local time, the space noodle's first appearance in more than a year.

[The biggest releases this week are causing quite a bit of emotional whiplash.]

24

TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - October 2, 2025

« on: September 29, 2025, 04:00:00 AM »

The biggest releases this week are causing quite a bit of emotional whiplash.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72693/nintendo-downloads-october-2-2025

In a week that is interesting (derogatory) for crossing over a quarter which means having to track a part of the week separately... hey, did you know we crossed 2100 Switch releases for the year last week, even with the Switch 2 launching? There's three big games this week which straddle the quarter, and they're all remakes: the Nintendo console debut of the original Final Fantasy Tactics and the Switch debut of Super Mario Galaxy 2 (but not the original). Jordan reviewed Tactics, and the Galaxy games have extant reviews where the lowest one is for the original in a form that had a 1.5 point deduction for including Super Mario Sunshine in the package. Presumably.

Speaking of Mario, he's not appearing in the big party game of the week: LEGO Party. At least as far as we know. But the game is developed by SMG Studios, makers of the Moving Out duology and Switch launch title Death Squared if you're wondering what they got up to.

IS THE EGGCONSOLE GAME PLAYABLE IN ENGLISH: Action RPG, screenshots on the eShop show mostly English apart from the manual scans... we'll call it a "maybe".

North America

Switch 2

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (US$49.99/C$66.99: Tuesday)

Switch 2 Upgrades

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (no cost: Tuesday)

Switch

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles ($49.99/$66.99: Tuesday)

Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny ($49.99/$59.99: Tuesday)

LEGO Party! ($39.99/$51.99: Tuesday)

Super Mario Galaxy ($39.99/$54.99)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 ($39.99/$54.99)

Shujinkou ($29.99/$39.99)

A Wild Last Boss Appeared! ~Black-Winged Survivor- ($23.99/$32.99)

Love, Ghostie ($19.99/$25.99: Wednesday)

Candy Rangers ($14.99/$20.99)

Hidden Legends ($14.99/$14.99)

Castle of Heart: Retold ($14.99/$19.99: Friday)

Catching Spirits ($14.49/$18.99)

Buildest ($12.99/$16.99: Wednesday)

Smith & Dungeon: Crafting the Legendary Weapons ($12.99/$16.99)

Mouthole ($9.99/$13.29: Tuesday)

Off-the-Ground Survival ($9.99/$13.80: Wednesday)

Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer ($9.99/$12.49: Friday)

Snow Aces League ($9.99/$10.99: Saturday)

War Survival ($9.99/$9.99: Saturday)

Notice Me Leena-senpai! ($7.99/$9.99: Wednesday)

Torched ($7.99/$10.99)

Animal Strikers ($6.99/$9.49: Monday)

Chained Up Together ($6.99/$9.99: Tuesday)

EggConsole Aramo MSX ($6.49/$7.34)

Piggly Pagly Boom ($5.99/$8.99: Friday)

Lovely Spot The Difference ($5.49/$7.46)

Grill It! Sanma ($5.00/$4.64)

My Tiny Island ($4.99/$6.90: Tuesday)

Candy Trail ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Craft Your Way ($4.99/$8.99)

Colorama Cubes ($4.99/$6.99)

To Farm Lands ($4.99/$6.83)

No Brake No Gain ($4.99/$6.49)

Carlos The Taco ($4.99/$6.64: Friday)

Cats Visiting El Dorado ($3.99/$4.99)

Penguin Panic! ($2.99/$3.99: Wednesday)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Paldang Water Fog Park ($1.99/$2.75)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 Archives

Gee Bee ($9.99/$13.72)

Switch

Wild West Shooter ($29.99/$39.99)

H Party: Secret Garden ($19.99/$19.99)

H Party: Cyber Girls ($19.99/$19.99: Saturday)

Neptune Spear ($14.99/$20.99)

Lorn's Lure ($14.99/$18.99)

Quarantine Zone: Border Zombie Checkpoint ($9.99/$13.99)

Bodycam Shooter 2025 ($8.99/$11.99: Saturday)

Rounds ($8.49/$11.49: Tuesday)

Last House Survival: Zombie Defense ($7.99/$10.98)

Formula Auto Sport Racing ($7.99/$11.99: Friday)

Flight Simulator 2025 ($7.99/$10.99: Friday)

Peaked Climbing ($5.99/$8.20: Tuesday)

Castle Crumble ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Find the Difference: Spot It ($3.99/$5.50: Saturday)

Cryzon Part 1 ($1.39/$1.89)

Clicker Heroes (free to start)

Switch Archives

Gee Bee ($7.99/$9.87)

Europe

Switch 2

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (€59.99/£49.99: Tuesday)

Switch 2 Upgrades

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (no cost: Tuesday)

Switch

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles (€59.99/£49.99: Tuesday)

Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny (€49.99/£39.99: Tuesday)

LEGO Party! (€39.99/£34.99: Tuesday)

Super Mario Galaxy (€39.99/£33.99)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 (€39.99/£33.99)

The Ancient Magus's Bride Midsummer Pilgrimage (€35.40/£30.41)

Shujinkou (€29.99/£26.99)

A Wild Last Boss Appeared! ~Black-Winged Survivor- (€21.99/£18.99)

Love, Ghostie (€19.50/£16.75: Wednesday)

Candy Rangers (€14.99/£13.49)

Catching Spirits (€14.99/£13.49)

Hidden Legends (€14.99/£13.49)

Castle of Heart: Retold (€14.99/£13.49: Friday)

Buildest (€12.99/£11.69: Wednesday)

Smith & Dungeon: Crafting the Legendary Weapons (€12.79/£10.99)

Mouthole (€9.99/£8.99: Tuesday)

Snow Aces League (€9.99/£8.99)

Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

Myst House (€9.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Off-the-Ground Survival (€8.49/£7.69: Tuesday)

Notice Me Leena-senpai! (€7.99/£7.19: Wednesday)

Torched (€7.99/£7.99: Wednesday)

Chained Up Together (€6.99/£6.99: Tuesday)

Peaked Climbing (€5.99/£5.39: Tuesday)

Piggly Pagly Boom (€5.99/£5.99)

EggConsole Aramo MSX (€5.59/£5.39)

Grill It! Sanma (€5.00/£2.50)

My Tiny Island (€4.99/£4.49: Tuesday)

Colorama Cubes (€4.99/£3.99: Wednesday)

Candy Trail (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

To Farm Lands (€4.99/£4.49)

No Brake No Gain (€4.99/£4.49)

Carlos The Taco (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Lovely Spot The Difference (€4.63/£4.09)

Cats Visiting El Dorado (€3.99/£3.49)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Paldang Water Fog Park (€1.99/£1.79)

Revealed Later

Switch 2 Archives

Gee Bee (€8.99/£7.49)

Switch

H Party: Secret Garden (€19.99/£17.99: Wednesday)

H Party: Cyber Girls (€19.99/£17.99: Saturday)

Neptune Spear (€16.99/£14.99)

Lorn's Lure (€14.99/£13.49)

Quarantine Zone: Border Zombie Checkpoint (€9.99/£9.99: Wednesday)

Hydraulic Press (€8.99/£8.09: Friday)

Bodycam Shooter 2025 (€8.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Rounds (€8.49/£7.19: Tuesday)

Last House Survival: Zombie Defense (€7.99/£6.99: Wednesday)

Flight Simulator 2025 (€7.99/£7.99: Friday)

Formula Auto Sport Racing (€7.99/£7.99: Friday)

Shadow of the Five Moons: Code of the Ninja (€5.99/£5.39: Wednesday)

Castle Crumble (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Find the Difference: Spot It (€3.99/£3.59: Saturday)

Dream Trials (€2.99/£2.50-)

Cryzon Part 1 (€1.30-/£1.19)

Clicker Heroes (free to start)

Switch Archives

Gee Bee (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Switch 2

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (¥5800: Tuesday)

Switch 2 Upgrades

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (no cost: Tuesday)

Switch

Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles Nintendo Switch 2 Edition (¥5800: Tuesday)

The Ancient Magus's Bride Midsummer Pilgrimage (¥5280)

LEGO Party! (¥4950: Wednesday)

Super Mario Galaxy (¥4500)

Super Mario Galaxy 2 (¥4500)

Finish The Happy Route (¥3300)

A Wild Last Boss Appeared! ~Black-Winged Survivor- (¥3300: Saturday)

Catching Spirits (¥2480)

Castle of Heart: Retold (¥2000)

Hidden Legends (¥1999)

Off-the-Ground Survival (¥1500)

Smith & Dungeon: Crafting the Legendary Weapons (¥1500)

Soldner-X: Himmelssturmer (¥1380)

Torched (¥1300)

Buildest (¥1290)

Notice Me Leena-senpai! (¥1000)

Chained Up Together (¥999)

Mouthole (¥990)

Craft Your Way (¥899)

EggConsole Aramo MSX (¥880)

Piggly Pagly Boom (¥880: Friday)

Lovely Spot The Difference (¥800)

Parking Jam (¥750)

No Brake No Gain (¥580)

Grill It! Sanma (¥500)

Candy Trail (¥499: Wednesday)

Cats Visiting El Dorado (¥499)

To Farm Lands (¥499)

Spinning Flower Puzzle (¥420)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Paldang Water Fog Park (¥200)

Revealed Later

Switch 2

Gee Bee (¥1100)

Switch

H Party: Summer Paradise (¥2999)

Lorn's Lure (¥1999)

Neptune Spear (¥1800)

Quarantine Zone: Border Zombie Checkpoint (¥1499)

Ryunosuke Todo Detective Diary Vol.7 "The Dull-Colored Balance - The Onizuka Residence Serial Murders" (¥1200)

Formula Auto Sport Racing (¥1180)

Last House Survival: Zombie Defense (¥1169)

Flight Simulator 2025 (¥1100)

Rounds (¥1040)

War Survival (¥1000)

Project 7: Escape Room (¥990)

Yabai Girls: Enchanted Exorcist (¥900)

Shadow of the Five Moons: Code of the Ninja (¥882)

Peaked Climbing (¥880)

Gee Bee (¥838)

Colorama Cubes (¥749)

My Tiny Island (¥735)

From Cheese (¥700)

Clicker Heroes (¥free to start)

[A week, ironically, from Hades itself.]

25

TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - September 25, 2025

« on: September 26, 2025, 07:05:00 PM »

A week, ironically, from Hades itself.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/72652/nintendo-downloads-september-25-2025

So we're a little late to the party this week (save me Truck-kun), so let's hit the big ones. Hades II went 1.0 on both Switch 2 and OG, Pac-Man World Re-Pac 2: This Time It's Personal, a Switch 2 version of the Touryst which probably runs at 16k knowing Shin'en's history, and we have yet another mascot racer on the original Switch (blast processing not included). Or you can go full RPG sicko with the latest Atelier game.

Other things of note: We have the John Rairdin special in Wizordum, and NIS America brought over a Cladun RPG.

THINGS WE MISSED LAST WEEK: A Cho Aniki game, Archives 2 (and OG) had 1981 Taito game Steel Worker, and Kuukiyomi 4 got a Switch 2 upgrade. For some reason.

North America

Switch 2

EA Sports FC 26 (US$69.99/C$89.99: Friday)

Relayer Advanced Definitive Edition ($34.99/$44.99)

Hades II ($29.99/$38.99)

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac ($29.99/$39.99: Friday)

The Touryst Deluxe ($19.99/$26.99)

Switch 2 Upgrades

Hades II (no cost)

Switch

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds ($59.99/$84.99)

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist and the White Guardian ($59.99/$79.99: Friday)

EA Sports FC 26 ($59.99/$79.99: Friday)

NBA Bounce ($49.99/$64.99: Friday)

Court of Darkness: Temptation's Kiss ($39.99/$39.99: Monday)

Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile ($39.99/$53.49)

Cladun X3 ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

Road59 -A Yakuza's Last Stand- ($29.99/$38.99: Wednesday)

Hades II ($29.99/$38.99)

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac ($29.99/$39.99: Friday)

Sky Love Boys: Flight Attendant Crush ($25.90/$35.90)

Sky Love Girls: Flight Attendant Crush ($25.90/$35.90)

Mamorukun ReCurse! ($24.99/$33.99)

Hyper Team Recon ($19.99/$25.99: Tuesday)

Wizordum ($19.99/$25.99: Tuesday)

Heroes of Might Dragon ($19.99/$26.50)

Combat Zone ($19.99/$24.99)

Doku Girls 3 ($19.99/$19.99)

Snapshot Girls 3 ($19.99/$19.99)

Gearbits ($19.99/$27.80: Friday)

H Party: Summer Paradise ($19.99/$19.99: Saturday)

Kingdom Shell ($17.99/$23.49: Tuesday)

Blippo+ ($17.99/$19.99: Tuesday)

The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 4 ($15.90/$22.00)

Mai: Child of Ages ($14.99/$19.99)

Road Cafe Simulator ($14.99/$19.99)

Winter Games Collection + Advent Calendar ($14.99/$19.99)

Super Long Cat ($14.99/$14.99)

Meteorfall: Kermit's Tale ($14.99/$19.99: Friday)

The Order of the Snake Scale ($12.99/$17.89)

Detective - Scene Crime ($10.99/$14.99)

The Beast of the Princess ($10.99/$14.50)

Maxi Truck Racing ($9.99/$11.99: Wednesday)

Path of Legends ($9.99/$15.99)

Clothing Boutique Simulator: Store Manager ($9.99/$12.99)

Ninja Ming ($9.99/$12.99)

Trippy Trader: Schedule and Sell Candy ($9.99/$12.99)

Endoparasitic ($9.99/$11.49)

Scribed Castle ($9.99/$13.80: Friday)

Grief Like A Stray Dog ($9.99/$13.29: Friday)

Viking Colony Builder Valhalla ($9.99/$13.99: Saturday)

Kawaii Girls: Mighty Mongolian ($8.99/$12.69)

Car Parking - Garage Simulator ($7.99/$11.99: Tuesday)

Jamboy: A Jelly-cious Hero ($7.99/$9.99)

Car Stunt Hero Simulator 2025 ($7.99/$10.99: Friday)

Neko Ramen ($5.99/$8.30: Wednesday)

Shadow of the Five Moons: Code of the Ninja ($5.99/$8.33)

Extremely Powerful Capybaras ($5.99/$8.26)

From Cheese ($5.99/$7.99)

Project 7: Escape Room ($5.99/$7.99)

Pixel Game Maker Series Stray Witch and the Ghost Train ($5.99/$7.79)

Only Go Up 2 ($4.99/$6.89: Monday)

Out of Moves: Another Try ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Electronic Puzzle Lab 2 ($4.99/$6.29: Wednesday)

Drift Highway: Retro Console Edition ($4.99/$7.99)

Tidy Toys ($4.99/$6.83)

Airborne Justice ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

UNI 2 ($3.99/$6.00)

Jellyfish Girls ($3.40/$4.66)

Meow Moments: Celebrating Beats & Books ($2.99/$4.19: Wednesday)

Sherlock Spot DX ($2.99/$3.99: Friday)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Wonsan-do ($1.00/$1.37)

Archives

Dacholer ($7.99/$9.87)

Europe

Switch 2

EA Sports FC 26 (€69.99/£59.99: Friday)

Relayer Advanced Definitive Edition (€33.99/£29.50)

Hades II (€29.99/£24.99)

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac (€29.99/£34.99: Friday)

The Touryst Deluxe (€19.99/£17.99)

Switch 2 Upgrades

Hades II (no cost)

Switch

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (€59.99/£54.99)

EA Sports FC 26 (€59.99/£54.99: Friday)

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist and the White Guardian (€59.99/£49.99: Friday)

NBA Bounce (€49.99/£44.99: Friday)

Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (€39.99/£34.99)

Cladun X3 (€39.99/£35.99: Friday)

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Hades II (€29.99/£24.99)

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac (€29.99/£34.99: Friday)

Road59 -A Yakuza's Last Stand- (€28.99/£24.99: Wednesday)

Rise of Rana (€24.50/£21.90: Friday)

Combat Zone (€22.99/£19.99)

Court of Darkness: Temptation's Kiss (€22.99/£19.94)

Sky Love Boys: Flight Attendant Crush (€21.90/£19.90)

Sky Love Boys: Flight Attendant Crush (€21.90/£19.90)

Sky Love Girls: Flight Attendant Crush (€21.90/£19.90)

Hyper Team Recon (€19.99/£17.99: Tuesday)

Doku Girls 3 (€19.99/£17.99)

Mamorukun ReCurse! (€19.99/£17.99)

Snapshot Girls 3 (€19.99/£17.99)

H Party: Summer Paradise (€19.99/£17.99: Saturday)

Wizordum (€19.50/£16.75: Tuesday)

Heroes of Might Dragon (€18.99/£15.99)

Kingdom Shell (€17.99/£16.19: Tuesday)

Gearbits (€16.95/£14.99)

Winter Games Collection + Advent Calendar (€14.99/£12.99: Wednesday)

Mai: Child of Ages (€14.99/£13.49)

Super Long Cat (€14.99/£13.49)

Blippo+ (€13.99/£11.99: Tuesday)

Meteorfall: Kermit's Tale (€12.99/£11.69)

The Order of the Snake Scale (€12.99/£12.99)

The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 4 (€12.79/£11.49)

Detective - Scene Crime (€10.99/£9.99)

Maxi Truck Racing (€9.99/£9.99: Wednesday)

Path of Legends (€9.99/£9.99)

Clothing Boutique Simulator: Store Manager (€9.99/£8.99)

Endoparasitic (€9.99/£8.99)

Trippy Trader: Schedule and Sell Candy (€9.99/£8.99)

Scribed Castle (€9.99/£9.99: Friday)

Grief Like A Stray Dog (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

Viking Colony Builder Valhalla (€9.99/£9.99: Saturday)

The Beast and the Princess (€9.75/£8.69)

Ninja Ming (€9.75/£8.50)

Kawaii Girls: Mighty Mongolian (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Car Parking - Garage Simulator (€7.99/£7.99: Tuesday)

Jamboy: A Jelly-cious Hero (€7.99/£6.99)

Car Stunt Hero Simulator 2025 (€7.99/£7.99: Friday)

War Survival (€7.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Neko Ramen (€5.99/£5.39: Wednesday)

Project 7: Escape Room (€5.99/£4.99: Wednesday)

From Cheese (€5.99/£5.39)

Pixel Game Maker Series Stray Witch and the Ghost Train (€5.99/£5.29)

Extremely Powerful Capybaras (€5.17/£4.49: Wednesday)

Only Go Up 2 (€4.99/£4.49: Monday)

Electronic Puzzle Lab 2 (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Out of Moves: Another Try (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Drift Highway: Retro Console Edition (€4.99/£4.49)

Tidy Toys (€4.99/£4.49)

Airborne Justice (€4.99/£4.99: Friday)

UNI 2 (€3.99/£3.59)

Jellyfish Girls (€3.09/£2.79: Wednesday)

Meow Moments: Celebrating Beats & Books (€2.99/£2.69: Wednesday)

Sherlock Spot DX (€2.99/£2.59: Friday)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Wonsan-do (€1.00/£0.89)

Archives

Dacholer (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Switch 2

EA Sports FC 26 (¥8600: Friday)

Relayer Advanced Definitive Edition (¥5489)

Hades II (¥3980: Friday)

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac (¥3960)

The Touryst Deluxe (¥2950)

Switch 2 Upgrades

Hades II (no cost)

Switch

9 RIP Sequel (¥8580)

Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist and the White Guardian (¥8580: Friday)

Shirakoi Sakura*Gram Eternal snow blooming (¥7810)

Dynamic Chord feat. Liar-S (¥7480)

EA Sports FC 26 (¥7600: Friday)

Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds (¥6990)

Agatha Christie: Death on the Nile (¥5280)

Court of Darkness: Temptation's Kiss (¥3980)

Hades II (¥3980: Friday)

Mamorukun ReCurse! (¥3960)

Pac-Man World 2: Re-Pac (¥3960)

Road59 -A Yakuza's Last Stand- (¥3960)

Baki Hanma: Blood Arena (¥3800)

Sky Love Boys: Flight Attendant Crush (¥3790)

Sky Love Girls: Flight Attendant Crush (¥3790)

Doku Girls 3 (¥2990)

Snapshot Girls 3 (¥2990)

Gearbits (¥2980)

Starlair (¥2973)

Combat Zone (¥2300)

Heroes of Might Dragon (¥2300)

Wizordum (¥2300)

The Legend of Dark Witch Episode 4 (¥2200)

Road Cafe Simulator (¥2199)

PlateUp! (¥2090)

Kingdom Shell (¥2000)

Super Long Cat (¥1999)

Scribed Castle (¥1999: Friday)

Winter Games Collection + Advent Calendar (¥1650)

Meteorfall: Kermit's Tale (¥1520)

The Beast and the Princess (¥1500)

Viking Colony Builder Valhalla (¥1499)

Clothing Boutique Simulator: Store Manager (¥1400)

Trippy Trader: Schedule and Sell Candy (¥1299)

Ninja Ming (¥1200)

Car Parking - Garage Simulator (¥1199)

Car Stunt Hero Simulator 2025 (¥1199)

Grief Like A Stray Dog (¥990)

Kawaii Girls: Mighty Mongolian (¥900)

Ball Blast (¥900: Saturday)

Neko Ramen (¥885)

Extremely Powerful Capybaras (¥882)

Drift Highway: Retro Console Edition (¥859)

Dacholer (¥838)

Airborne Justice (¥680: Friday)

Pixel Game Maker Series Stray Witch and the Ghost Train (¥660)

Block Rush: Mega Obby (¥600)

Electronic Puzzle Lab 2 (¥600)

Jellyfish Girls (¥500)

UNI 2 (¥500)

Out of Moves: Another Try (¥499: Wednesday)

Tidy Toys (¥499)

Time Travel To The Past (¥420)

Trivia King Quiz (¥420)

Trivia Quiz: Animals and Fun (¥420)

Bang! Love Game (¥400)

Meow Moments: Celebrating Beats & Books (¥350)

Cross Pix 3 (¥299)

Sherlock Spot DX (¥299)

Korean Drone Flying Tour Wonsan-do (¥100)