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[And to think, that's not the weirdest racing game Expansion Pack holders got this year.]

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TalkBack / Expansion Pack Game Boy Advance Library Adds Pair Of F-Zero Games October 11 Including First Western Release

« on: October 01, 2024, 07:14:38 PM »

And to think, that's not the weirdest racing game Expansion Pack holders got this year.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68703/expansion-pack-game-boy-advance-library-adds-pair-of-f-zero-games-october-11-including-first-western-release

Two additional F-Zero games will be taking the green flag next week.

A late night announcement from NoA has confirmed the launch of F-Zero: GP Legend and F-Zero Climax into the Game Boy Advance library for Expansion Pack subscribers officially on October 11. For F-Zero Climax, this is the first international release of the game.

GP Legend (2003) was a story focused follow-up to the launch GBA game Maximum Velocity, while Climax includes a track editor.

[For the true Wild Area experience, be sure to disable enhanced graphics in the app.]

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TalkBack / Pokemon Go Announces New "Wild Area" Event Weekend

« on: October 01, 2024, 04:22:00 PM »

For the true Wild Area experience, be sure to disable enhanced graphics in the app.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68702/pokemon-go-announces-new-wild-area-event-weekend

Pokemon Go has had their Wrestlemania and SummerSlam, and now it seems they want a Survivor Series.

A new event weekend called the "Wild Area" has been announced for the game, with an in-person event in Fukuoka, Japan on 16-17 November and a worldwide event the following weekend (23-24 November) from 10am to 6:15pm local time. This joins the northern summer Go Fests (originally live only beginning in 2017 and made global in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic) and the northern winter "Tour" events themed around a particular generation which began in 2021.

The signature Pokemon for the event is Toxtricity, to go along with a larger introduction of Galar region (Sword and Shield) Pokemon and features, with available Pokemon themed around Toxtricity's Electric and Poison typing. "Mighty" Pokemon - evolved Pokemon with higher stat potential - will be introduced, alongside a new "Safari" ball that will be available for use during the event. Full details are available on the Pokemon Go website.

[If the site's been inconsistent in recent weeks, it's straining to hold up under a game database that has more than 10,000 games on Switch alone.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - October 3, 2024

« on: September 30, 2024, 04:00:00 AM »

If the site's been inconsistent in recent weeks, it's straining to hold up under a game database that has more than 10,000 games on Switch alone.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68672/nintendo-downloads-october-3-2024

Things we missed last week: Namco's Blast Off in the Archives, Ubisoft attempted to make up for delaying the new Assassin's Creed by, uh, launching another Monopoly game, and the bastard children of Midjourney and ChatGPT swarmed the eShop to the tune of SEVENTY FOUR GAMES (though I use that term incredibly loosely in most of the cases) released in the week overall in North America.

After a week that managed to require the Ripley Doctrine to navigate even with a great Zelda game, this week is looking downright Wii U-like by conparison. And yet it's still kind of suspect, especially over at Anime World Report with a new Sword Art Online game AND a Picross game from Jupiter based on The Rising of the Shield Hero. Had that last one been (ROT13: Erqb bs Urnyre) we'd be prepping the nukes. We also have the start of a long streak of Outright Games titles starting with The Patrick Star Game (as per the last partner showcase).

A couple of titles that look intriguing include a new multiplayer mayhem game from Q-Games in "All You Need Is Help", and the EggConsole adding Silver Ghost - a game that inspired, among other things, Shining Force.

North America

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream (US$59.99/C$79.99: Friday)

Meiji Tokyo Renka Full Moon ($46.65/$64.48)

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

IChu: Chibi Edition ($29.99/$41.38)

All You Need Is Help ($19.99/$26.99: Friday)

Kill Knight ($14.99/$20.50: Wednesday)

Skauthold: Into the Fray ($14.99/$18.99: Friday)

Planetiles ($12.99/$17.50: Monday)

Picross Records of the Shield Hero ($10.99/$14.59)

Gallop Glory: Obstacle Racing & Horse Simulator ($9.99/$13.99: Sunday)

Circus of TimTim ($9.99/$13.57)

Urban Skater ($9.99/$13.99: Friday)

Flight Simulator: Delivery ($9.99/$13.99: Saturday)

1000 Questions Quiz: National Flags ($8.99/$11.49)

Damikira ($7.99/$9.99: Wednesday)

Cyberpunk Hacker ($7.99/$10.99: Friday)

Nekograms ($7.49/$10.49)

Offroad Quest Simulator ($6.99/$9.99: Friday)

EggConsole Silver Ghost PC-8801mkIISR ($6.49/$7.34)

Tower Hover ($5.99/$7.99)

Dawngrown ($5.99/$6.49)

Block & Shot ($5.99/$5.99)

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel ($5.99/$8.99: Friday)

Macho Shot ($5.00/$4.70: Friday)

Dice Assassin ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Grand Gardens ($4.99/$6.77)

Korean Drone Flying Tour: Jeju Island-2 ($4.99/$6.70)

Zombie Derby: Pixel Survival ($4.99/$6.49)

Hide 'n Seek ($4.99/$6.70: Friday)

Submarine Orbit ($4.99/$5.99: Saturday)

Pour Cappucino 1000 ($3.99/$4.99)

Rolling Football Player ($3.20-/$4.44)

Revealed Later

Formula Racing: Grand Prix League ($18.99/$25.99)

Lakeview Cabin Collection ($17.99/$24.99: Friday)

Mine & Slash ($14.99/$: Wednesday)

Bridge Construction Simulator ($14.99/$19.99)

Pearls of Atlantis: The Cove ($12.99/$17.84: Tuesday)

Video Game Store: Supermarket Simulator ($12.99/$16.99)

Survival Float Simulator ($11.99/$16.99)

Wizards Tourney ($10.96/$14.79)

Perfect Klondike Solitaire ($9.99/$13.49)

Refined Self: The Personality Test ($9.99/$13.49)

Summer Tri-Peaks Solitaire ($9.99/$13.49)

100 Doors Escape: Let Me In ($9.99/$12.99)

Behold Battle ($6.99/$9.50: Friday)

Light - Die to Survive ($5.99/$8.13: Wednesday)

Getting There ($4.99/$6.99)

The Genie of the Wonderful Lamp ($4.90/$6.90: Monday)

The Treasure of Neverland ($4.90/$6.90: Tuesday)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ($4.90-$6.90: Friday)

Beauty and the Beast: The New Adventure ($4.90/$6.90: Saturday)

Coloring Book: Mandalas ($3.99/$5.45)

Marble Flow ($0.99/$1.29: Saturday)

Faaast Penguin (free to start/)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: Various Tokyo Game Show sales end this week, including a Square Enix sale with FFXII: The Zodiac Age going off tomorrow. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream (€59.99/£49.99: Friday)

Meiji Tokyo Renka Full Moon (€43.22/£36.40-)

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

IChu: Chibi Edition (€29.99/£24.99)

All You Need Is Help (€17.99/£16.19: Friday)

Kill Knight (€14.99/£12.49: Wednesday)

Skauthold: Into the Fray (€14.99/£13.49: Friday)

Planetiles (€12.99/£11.69: Monday)

Picross Records of the Shield Hero (€10.99/£9.89)

Gallop Glory: Obstacle Racing & Horse Simulator (€9.99/£9.99: Sunday)

Circus of TimTim (€9.99/£8.99)

Urban Skater (€9.99/£9.99: Friday)

Flight Simulator: Delivery (€9.99/£9.99: Saturday)

Submarine Orbit (€9.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Damikira (€7.99/£6.99: Wednesday)

1000 Questions Quiz: National Flags (€7.99/£7.99)

Nekograms (€7.49/£6.79)

Before Exit: Supermarket (€6.99/£5.99: Friday)

Tower Hover (€5.99/£5.39: Wednesday)

Block & Shot (€5.99/£5.39)

Dawngrown (€5.99/£4.99)

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel (€5.99/£5.99: Friday)

EggConsole Silver Ghost PC-8801mkIISR (€5.59/£5.39)

Macho Shot (€5.00-/£2.65: Friday)

Dice Assassin (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Zombie Derby: Pixel Survival (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Grand Gardens (€4.99/£4.99)

Korean Drone Flying Tour: Jeju Island-2 (€4.99/£4.49)

Hide 'n Seek (€4.99/£: Friday)

Rolling Football Player (€3.00-/£2.69: Wednesday)

Pour Cappucino 1000 (€2.99/£2.69)

Revealed Later

The Dawning Clocks of Time (€44.39/£40.00: Monday)

Formula Racing: Grand Prix League (€18.99/£18.99)

Lakeview Cabin Collection (€16.99/£14.25: Friday)

Survival Float Simulator (€11.99/£11.99)

Pearls of Atlantis: The Cove (€11.89/£10.69: Tuesday)

Perfect Klondike Solitaire (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Summer Tri-Peaks Solitaire (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Refined Self: The Personality Test (€9.99/£8.99)

Wizards Tourney (€9.89/£8.89: Wednesday)

Anime Girls: Beautiful Bride (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Light - Die to Survive (€5.49/£4.99: Wednesday)

The Genie of the Wonderful Lamp (€4.90/£4.90: Monday)

The Treasure of Neverland (€4.90/£4.90: Tuesday)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (€4.90/£4.90: Friday)

Beauty and the Beast: The New Adventure (€4.90/£4.90: Saturday)

Getting There (€4.49/£3.99)

Coloring Book: Mandalas (€3.99/£3.59)

Marble Flow (€0.99/£0.99: Saturday)

Faaast Penguin (free to start)

Archives

Moon Shuttle (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Honey Vibes (¥8580)

Sword Art Online: Fractured Daydream (¥8470)

Meiji Tokyo Renka Full Moon (¥7480)

SpongeBob SquarePants: The Patrick Star Game (¥5940: Friday)

Tavern Talk (¥2480)

Thunder Ray (¥2000)

Planetiles (¥1900)

Kill Knight (¥1750)

Flight Simulator: Delivery (¥1499)

Urban Skater (¥1499)

Picross Records of the Shield Hero (¥1200)

Damikira (¥1000)

Nekograms (¥990)

Zero the Kamikaze Squirrel (¥990: Friday)

8 Page Battle (¥980)

Circus Crush (¥880)

EggConsole Silver Ghost PC-8801mkIISR (¥880)

Tower Hover (¥879)

Block & Shot (¥849)

Zombie Derby: Pixel Survival (¥580)

Macho Shot (¥500: Friday)

Pour Cappucino 1000 (¥500)

Dice Assassin (¥499: Wednesday)

Korean Drone Flying Tour: Jeju Island-2 (¥499)

Rolling Football Player (¥470)

Revealed Later

Formula Racing: Grand Prix League (¥2700)

Survival Float Simulator (¥1699)

Season Match 3: Curse of the Witch Crow (¥1599)

100 Doors Escape: Let Me In (¥1380)

Refined Self: The Personality Test (¥1210)

Utakata no Sora (¥1200)

Hentai Girls: Autumn Crush (¥899)

Moon Shuttle (¥838)

Light - Die to Survive (¥580)

Faaast Penguin (free to start)

[They claimed it was for the children, but by the time half this stuff launches there'll be an entirely new set of children.]

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TalkBack / Level 5 Presentation Confirms Massive Scope Creep, New Transmedia Property

« on: September 24, 2024, 05:01:56 PM »

They claimed it was for the children, but by the time half this stuff launches there'll be an entirely new set of children.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68646/level-5-presentation-confirms-massive-scope-creep-new-transmedia-property

Level-5 held a pre-Tokyo Game Show presentation this morning, tastefully called "For The Children", and announced a new game alongside providing updates for some existing projects.

• A new update for April's Megaton Musashi W will be out in November.
• Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time (originally slated to launch in October but delayed in August) showed a new trailer and an April 2025 launch window, with the game adopting open worlds as well.
• Originally teased last year, Professor Layton: The New World of Steam received a new trailer and a "2025" release window.
• A planned Inazuma Elevan game subtitled "Victory Road" was slated for launch this year in Japan, and that has also been set over to June 2025 - a remake of the original Inazuma Eleven simply subtitled "Re" was also shown for 2026.
• DecaPolice, the suspense RPG originally slated for 2024 launch, was also shown with open world gameplay - and a 2026 launch window.
• The "one more thing" was a new cross-media property known as "Holy Horror Mansion", a "ghost craft" RPG which takes multiple cues from the Yo-Kai Watch games. Platforms have not been identified for the game, but more information will be provided in a standalone event next year.

[Good idea: Bring two classic Legacy of Kain games to modern consoles. Bad idea: Have Aspyr bring two classic Legacy of Kain games to modern consoles.]

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TalkBack / Fantasian: Neo Dimension Release Date Headlines Other Switch-Relevant Sony State Of Play Announcements

« on: September 24, 2024, 04:35:18 PM »

Good idea: Bring two classic Legacy of Kain games to modern consoles. Bad idea: Have Aspyr bring two classic Legacy of Kain games to modern consoles.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68644/fantasian-neo-dimension-release-date-headlines-other-switch-relevant-sony-state-of-play-announcements

The RPG news from Sony's State of Play wasn't just limited to the Lunar games, nor was the Switch-related news.

During the show, a new trailer aired for the release of Fantasian: Neo Dimension. Originally announced in June's Nintendo Direct for a 2024 launch, the State of Play confirmed the launch date for the Hironobu Sakaguchi-helmed RPG would be December 5.

Other items:

• A new "Radical Reptiles" DLC is now available for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge, adding Mondo Gecko and Mona Lisa as playable characters; the update to support the DLC also adds new remixed tracks from chiptune artists (including Anamanaguchi) to the soundtrack.
• The debut publishing effort of Blumhouse Games will be out for the spooky nights, as Fear the Spotlight tabbed an October 22 launch date.
• After airing a new story trailer during a Sonic presentation earlier in the day, Sonic x Shadow Generations announced DLC themed around the upcoming Sonic the Hedgehog 3 movie would be available in December - including a stage with Keanu Reeves providing the voice of Shadow the Hedgehog.
• After being leaked by a Sony webpage ahead of last month's Partner Showcase, Lego Horizon Adventures officially confirmed a November 14 launch.
• An Aspyr Media-developed version of Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver 1 and 2 will be available on December 12.
• Although not coming to Switch, the launch of PalWorld into PlayStation's early access program did proceed despite recent legal action by Nintendo and The Pokemon Company related to patents.

[Hoping for about 312% less early 1990s politics references by volume.]

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TalkBack / Original Two Lunar Games Being Remastered For Switch In 2025

« on: September 24, 2024, 04:11:17 PM »

Hoping for about 312% less early 1990s politics references by volume.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68642/original-two-lunar-games-being-remastered-for-switch-in-2025

The Sega CD wasn't exactly known as a RPG haven, but two of its examples are coming to a Nintendo console for the first time ever in 2025.

During Sony's State of Play presentation today, a collection of remastered versions of the original two Lunar RPGs - The Silver Star (1992/93) and Eternal Blue (1994/95) - was shown for a spring release: rightsholder and publisher GungHo later uploaded the trailer with confirmation that the pair would release on Switch as well.

The Lunar games were originally developed by Grandia developers Game Arts, and were released in English by Working Designs who infamously added references to early 1990s politics (notably the Clinton family) and added difficulty to the games, such as using magic points to save. The series's previous presence on Nintendo consoles was limited to the first RPG for the DS, 2005's distant sequel Lunar: Dragon Song.

[We may no longer have to make the choice between "original Zelda Switch game" and "good Zelda Switch game".]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - September 26, 2024

« on: September 23, 2024, 04:00:00 AM »

We may no longer have to make the choice between "original Zelda Switch game" and "good Zelda Switch game".

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68595/nintendo-downloads-september-26-2024

Things we missed last week: A new Touhou RPG (Touhou Gensou Wanderer -Foresight-) and Taito's Crime City in the Archives.

I would make a transition from crime here, but this would be the one week anyone else reads the article, so I'll just say that we have an original Legend of Zelda game this week which is the headliner anytime, And then you add in freedom of movement AND actually getting to control the title character? If the Switch is going out in the next year, at least it's going out with a bang seemingly. We'll find out for sure Thursday. Also on the major releases: EA's second kick at the non-Mafia fueled soccer/football can with EA Sports FC 25, and a certain Wii game from 2010 and a company that needs breaking up tries to see if it can beat the "Eh-pic Meh-key" allegations. We'll find out shortly.

But that's not all. NIS America and FuRyu are dropping a game I might be required by law to buy because of World Ends With You crossovers in Reynatis (check a look at Jordan L's review), and our premium-grade kusoge comes in two flavors this week with a GameMill game that somehow copped a Direct slot in Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports and an Earth Defence Force localization (World Brothers 2). There's also a Digital Eclipse-developed remake of Worms: Armageddon on the docket, and the Yogscast is still going at it with The Holy Gosh Darn. No EggConsole yet this week, but the retro front is brought up with the third Jalecolle game. Add in another advent calendar (IT'S SEPTEMBER FFS) and Peter Molyneux's Ballz and that's a typical eShop week.

North America

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (US$59.99/C$59.99: Tuesday)

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom ($59.99/$79.99)

EA Sports FC 25 ($59.99/$79.99: Friday)

Reynatis ($59.99/$74.99: Friday)

Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports ($49.99/$59.99: Friday)

Earth Defence Force: World Brothers 2 ($39.99/$51.99)

Bloomtown: A Different Story ($24.99/$32.50: Tuesday)

Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition ($24.99/$33.99)

Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles ($24.99/$32.50-)

3 Minutes To Midnight ($24.99/$29.50-)

Revive of the Moon ($19.99/$26.99)

Exographer ($19.99/$25.99)

Go Mecha Ball ($19.99/$25.99)

Iron Meat ($19.99/$25.99)

The Holy Gosh Darn ($19.99/$25.99)

Turbo Boost Racing ($19.99/$26.99: Friday)

Silver Axe: The Honest Elf ($18.99/$25.99)

Beyond Galaxyland ($17.99/$23.49: Tuesday)

Anarkade ($14.99/$18.99: Monday)

Games Advent Calendar 2024 ($14.99/$19.99)

Let's Castle ($13.99/$19.15: Friday)

Destructure: Among Debris ($12.99/$16.99)

Food Boy ($11.99/$11.99: Tuesday)

Ahro ($11.99/$16.49: Friday)

Dreamland Farm ($10.99/$14.90: Friday)

Golfing in Aether ($9.99/$12.99: Monday)

Night Slashers Remake ($9.99/$13.99)

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place ($9.99/$13.29)

Paper Dash - Las Vegas ($9.99/$12.99)

Luna-3X ($9.99/$12.79)

Rope Hope ($8.99/$11.99)

Samurai Katana Rampage: Stickman Saga ($7.99/$10.99: Sunday)

Jalecolle Famicom Ver Bio Warrior Dan The Increaser War ($7.99/$11.00: Wednesday)

Anime Girls Military Strike ($7.99/$10.99: Friday)

Firebat - Revolution ($7.99/$7.99: Friday)

Car Turning Simulator ($7.80/$7.27)

Restaurant Cooking Simulator ($6.99/$9.99)

Colorizing: Good Times ($6.99/$8.99)

Cash Cow DX ($5.99/$8.50)

ZombFarm ($4.99/$5.99: Wednesday)

BallZ DX ($4.99/$6.93)

Ricky Recharge ($4.99/$6.90-)

Zombie Attack: Zombies Survival Shooter ($4.99/$5.99)

Murder is Game Over: Deal Killer ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Parkour Bullet Frenzy ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Doll Dress-Up ($4.99/$6.70: Friday)

Drift Odyssey ($4.00/$5.00)

Zombie Survivors ($4.00/$6.00: Friday)

Ice Cream Wars ($3.99/$5.39: Monday)

Spinning Puzzle - Compare the Universe ($3.99/$5.39)

Resope ($2.99/$3.99)

Population Quiz ($2.59/$3.49)

Revealed Later

Cat Rescue Story ($39.99/$49.99)

Monopoly (2024) ($29.99/$39.99)

DanLab's Golf ($15.00/$22.50: Monday)

Anime Puzzle Quest: The Magical Girls Adventure ($14.99/$19.99)

Beardbarians ($11.99/not released: Tuesday)

Beach Boys: Tarot Hot Cards ($11.99/$11.99)

Zombie Slaughter: Dead Zone ($10.99/$14.99)

Lots of Things 2: Travel and Search ($9.99/$13.59: Monday)

Paint by Pixel ($9.99/$13.49: Tuesday)

Insectum: Epic Battles of Bugs ($9.99/$12.99: Friday)

Anime Girls: Beautiful Bride ($8.99/$12.49)

Liquidation: Zombie Apocalypse ($5.99/$7.99)

Winnie the Pooh: Honey for All ($4.90/$6.90: Monday)

The Jungle Book: New Wonder Adventures ($4.90/$6.90: Tuesday)

Toucan Adventure: Rio de Janeiro ($4.90/$6.90: Wednesday)

Animal Kung Fu ($4.90/$6.90: Friday)

The Super Bunnies: Scarlet Wonder Ninjas ($4.90/$6.90: Friday)

Bambi: A Life In The Woods ($4.90/$6.90: Saturday)

Live Action-Bit Theatre "Route Yonroku" ($2.26/not released)

Theme Park Jam ($0.99/$1.29: Saturday)

Archives

Blast Off ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: Perennial site favorite Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On is 33% off until October 3. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (€59.99/£49.99: Tuesday)

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (€59.99/£49.99)

EA Sports FC 25 (€59.99/£54.99: Friday)

Reynatis (€59.99/£53.99: Friday)

Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports (€49.99/£39.99: Friday)

Earth Defence Force: World Brothers 2 (€39.99/£35.99)

Bloomtown: A Different Story (€24.99/£22.49: Tuesday)

Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition (€24.99/£24.99)

3 Minutes To Midnight (€24.50/£20.99)

Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles (€24.50/£20.99)

Exographer (€19.99/£17.99)

The Holy Gosh Darn (€19.99/£16.75)

Turbo Boost Racing (€19.99/£17.99: Friday)

Iron Meat (€19.50-/£16.75: Wednesday)

Go Mecha Ball (€19.49/£16.99: Wednesday)

Beyond Galaxyland (€17.99/£14.99: Tuesday)

Revive of the Moon (€17.99/£16.19)

Silver Axe: The Honest Elf (€17.49/£15.79)

DanLab's Golf (€15.00-/£13.99: Monday)

Anarkade (€14.99/£12.99: Tuesday)

Games Advent Calendar 2024 (€14.99/£12.99)

Let's Castle (€13.99/£12.59: Friday)

Destructure: Among Debris (€12.79/£11.49: Wednesday)

Food Boy (€11.99/£9.99: Tuesday)

Ahro (€11.99/£10.79: Friday)

Dreamland Farm (€10.99/£9.89: Friday)

Paper Dash - Las Vegas (€9.99/£9.99)

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place (€9.99/£8.99)

Luna-3X (€9.99/£8.99)

Night Slashers Remake (€9.99/£8.99)

Golfing in Aether (€8.99/£7.99: Monday)

Rope Hope (€8.99/£7.99: Wednesday)

Samurai Katana Rampage: Stickman Saga (€7.99/£7.99: Sunday)

Jalecolle Famicom Ver Bio Warrior Dan The Increaser War (€7.99/£7.19: Wednesday)

Firebat - Revolution (€7.99/£7.19: Friday)

Car Turning Simulator (€7.80-/£6.99)

Colorizing: Good Times (€6.99/£6.29: Wednesday)

Restaurant Cooking Simulator (€6.99/£5.99)

Cash Cow DX (€5.99/£5.99)

ZombFarm (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Murder is Game Over: Deal Killer (€4.99/£4.99)

BallZ DX (€4.99/£4.29)

Parkour Bullet Frenzy (€4.99/£4.99: Friday)

Doll Dress-Up (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Ricky Recharge (€4.49/£3.99)

Zombie Survivors (€4.00/£4.00)

Ice Cream Wars (€3.99/£3.99: Monday)

Resope (€2.50/£2.99)

Spinning Puzzle - Compare the Universe (€2.49/£2.24)

Population Quiz (€2.29/£2.09)

Revealed Later

Cat Rescue Story (€39.99/£35.99)

Monopoly (2024) (€29.99/£24.99)

Anime Puzzle Quest: The Magical Girls Adventure (€14.99/£14.99)

Mine & Slash (€14.99/£13.49: Friday)

Beach Boys: Tarot Hot Cards (€11.99/£10.90)

Zombie Slaughter: Dead Zone (€11.99/£10.99)

Beardbarians (€10.99/£9.99: Tuesday)

Lots of Things 2: Travel and Search (€9.99/£8.99: Sunday)

Paint by Pixel (€9.99/£8.99: Tuesday)

Insectum: Epic Battles of Bugs (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

Cyberpunk Hacker (€7.99/£7.19: Friday)

Behold Battle (€6.99/£6.29: Friday)

Liquidation: Zombie Apocalypse (€5.99/£5.39)

Winnie the Pooh: Honey for All (€4.90/£4.90: Monday)

The Jungle Book: New Wonder Adventures (€4.90/£4.90: Tuesday)

Toucan Adventure: Rio de Janeiro (€4.90/£4.90: Wednesday)

Animal Kung Fu (€4.90/£4.90: Friday)

The Super Bunnies: Scarlet Wonder Ninjas (€4.90/£4.90: Friday)

Bambi: A Life In The Woods (€4.90/£4.90: Saturday)

Live Action-Bit Theatre "Route Yonroku" (€2.04/£1.77)

Theme Park Jam (€0.99/£0.99: Saturday)

Archives

Blast Off (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Maiden Taoist Priest -Haanyu Rengo- (¥8580)

The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom (¥7600)

EA Sports FC 25 (¥6700: Friday)

Disney Epic Mickey: Rebrushed (¥6578: Tuesday)

Lollipop Chainsaw Re-Pop (¥6490)

Worms Armageddon: Anniversary Edition (¥3850)

3 Minutes To Midnight (¥3200)

Souldiers (¥3080)

Uniform Girlfriend Mayoigo Engage (¥2980)

Silver Axe: The Honest Elf (¥2899)

Astrea: Six-Sided Oracles (¥2800)

Bloomtown: A Different Story (¥2800)

DanLab's Golf (¥2500)

Iron Meat (¥2350)

Exographer (¥2300)

The Unexpected Quest (¥2200)

Beyond Galaxyland (¥2000)

Ahro (¥1800: Friday)

Dreamland Farm (¥1600)

Paper Dash - Las Vegas (¥1600)

Gallop Glory: Obstacle Racing & Horse Simulator (¥1499)

Rope Hope (¥1290)

Golfing in Aether (¥1210)

Night Slashers Remake (¥1200)

Cash Cow DX (¥1000)

Colorizing: Good Times (¥999)

Creepy Tale: Some Other Place (¥990)

Jalecolle Famicom Ver Bio Warrior Dan The Increaser War (¥990)

1000 Questions: Flags of the World (¥980)

Midnight Report (¥990)

Restaurant Cooking Simulator (¥899)

Parkour Bullet Frenzy (¥799)

Car Turning Simulator (¥780)

Ricky Recharge (¥690)

Western Slot Machine (¥600)

Zombie Survivors (¥600)

ZombFarm (¥500)

BallZ DX (¥499)

Resope (¥250)

Revealed Later

Monopoly (2024) (¥4180)

Cat Rescue Story (¥3960)

All You Need Is Help (¥2530)

Go Mecha Ball (¥2299)

New York Mysteries: High Voltage (¥2199)

Anime Puzzle Quest: The Magical Girls Adventure (¥1990)

Let's Castle (¥1879)

Heavy Hand: Pixel Tree Forest Fury (¥1699)

Beach Boys: Tarot Hot Cards (¥1690)

Luna-3X (¥1650)

Destructure: Among Debris (¥1500)

Zombie Slaughter: Dead Zone (¥1300)

Highway Legends (¥1299)

Night Slashers Remake (¥1200)

Anime Girls: Natty Nurse (¥899)

Liquidation: Zombie Apocalypse (¥849)

Blast Off (¥838)

Murder is Game Over: Deal Killer (¥780)

Wukong's Child: Monkey King Myth (¥575)

Live Action-Bit Theatre "Route Yonroku" (¥330)

[Looks like the Chillet skating music will be silenced.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo, Pokemon Company Filing Patent Infringment Suit Against Palworld Developer PocketPair

« on: September 18, 2024, 05:04:03 PM »

Looks like the Chillet skating music will be silenced.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68573/nintendo-pokemon-company-filing-patent-infringment-suit-against-palworld-developer-pocketpair

Nintendo is lawyering up against infringment for the second time this year, but this time going after a specific game.

A release on the company's investor site earlier this evening has confirmed that Nintendo and The Pokémon Company have filed a patent infringement suit in Tokyo court against PocketPair, the creators of PalWorld. The specific patents are not identified, but "multiple patent rights" are alleged.

Colloquially known as "Pokémon with guns", the survival crafting game PalWorld released on Steam and Xbox's Early Access programs in January and became a brief sensation before settling down, with many similarities alleged between the game and Pokémon including use of models. The success of the game has led to an agreement to form "PalWorld Entertainment" with Sony in an attempt to make it a trans-media property.

[The adventures of Bimmy, Jimmy, Rush, Zits, and Pimple await.]

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TalkBack / Super Nintendo NSO Library Adds Three Imports, Rare Crossover

« on: September 17, 2024, 05:37:36 PM »

The adventures of Bimmy, Jimmy, Rush, Zits, and Pimple await.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68572/super-nintendo-nso-library-adds-three-imports-rare-crossover

The Super Nintendo library has received a few Super Famicom titles and a crossover brawler in a new update tonight.

• Battletoads Double Dragon (1993) is the sole Western domestic release in the update, a brawler starring the early and later stars of games distributed by Tradewest in their initial run. This is another fruit of the Nintendo / Rare (via Microsoft) partnership for NSO library releases.
• Big Run (1991) is a stage-based simulation racing game set in Africa which mixes high speed racing with the business of obtaining sponsors and using the provided funds to buy parts.
• Cosmo Gang The Puzzle (1993) is a falling block puzzle game in the same series as recent Arcade Archives game Cosmo Gang The Tank, which has single and 2 player game modes.
• Kunio-kun no Dodgeball da yo Zen'in Shūgō (1993) is a follow up to the Kunio-based dodgeball games previously released on the Famicom, which adds new options for evasive maneuvers to the point of having the nickname "SFC Dodge".

The actual Super Famicom app has also added Angelique, an early example of an otome visual novel.

[This member of the Edmonton Panopticon is EXTREMELY confused right now.]

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TalkBack / Bandai Namco Acquires Rights To Former PS Vita Exclusive Freedom Wars, Remaster Due In January

« on: September 17, 2024, 04:50:36 PM »

This member of the Edmonton Panopticon is EXTREMELY confused right now.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68570/bandai-namco-acquires-rights-to-former-ps-vita-exclusive-freedom-wars-remaster-due-in-january

There may be hope for Oreshika and Soul Sacrifice Delta, as one of the last first party titles for the PlayStation Vita is about to be remanded to some more prisons.

2014 action RPG Freedom Wars will receive a remastered version on January 10, according to a new trailer posted by Bandai Namco. Bamco will publish the Dimps-developed title, while Dimps has obtained the rights to the property according to director Takashi Tsukamoto.

In Freedom Wars, players create characters that are thrown into a prison cell immediately upon birth and forced to serve a million year prison sentence, but can get time off the sentence by fighting large monsters called "Abductors". The game supports co-op for up to eight players, and the previous release included a metagame where players could assign themselves to geographic areas known as "Panopticons" (also the name of the prison) to compete for ingame resources.

The announcement trailer, as well as a Famitsu trailer with additional gameplay footage, are below:

[You can get bundles with any pack-in you want, as long as it's Mario Kart.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Of America Announces Holiday Bundles For Switch

« on: September 16, 2024, 05:44:17 AM »

You can get bundles with any pack-in you want, as long as it's Mario Kart.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68569/nintendo-of-america-announces-holiday-bundles-for-switch

Nintendo is seemingly the only console maker not raising prices this year and is in fact offering a form of discount.

The company today announced that their traditional holiday bundle will be available again, with a standard Switch, a Mario Kart 8 Deluxe download code, and a 12 month NIntendo Switch Online code for US$299.99 (ie: MSRP). For the first time, the same additions will be made to the Switch OLED, at its MSRP of $349.99.

Both bundles will be available starting next month. The OLED was bundled with Super Smash Bros. Ultimate last year.

[A cute platformer, the most openly gay RPG in platform history and a train game walk into a tire fire...]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - September 19, 2024

« on: September 16, 2024, 04:00:00 AM »

A cute platformer, the most openly gay RPG in platform history and a train game walk into a tire fire...

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68528/nintendo-downloads-september-19-2024

Things we missed last week: In a blissfully small week for shadowdrops (+6 in NA), Vs. Battle City was the Archives release.

This is another very top heavy week, though not in the "not for good boys or girls" sense. The original big release of the week was The Plucky Squire, the first product of a new dev team that includes the designer of half of the latest Pokemon Go additions and the founder of the studio what brought us Fludiity, only for a curveball to come into the eShop today with a game described as "the gayest RPG ever made", Christina Love's Get in the Car, Loser!. Which is guaranteed to upset at least one moral guardian. Who I would like to invite to sit on a cactus and rotate.

Other items of note on the good end potentially: A Japanese rail sim that is on DEEP pre-launch discount - I normally list the regular price but this is 70% off until launch so it's a $20 US flier - a couple of games from this year's parade of presentations with Keylocker (musical RPG) and "BZZZZT" (platformer sizzle-reeled in April's Indie World), and a game that is one "Metroidvania" away from me censoring the entire title.

North America

Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone - Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs (US$49.99/C$68.39)

Matchbox Driving Adventures ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

The Karate Kid: Street Rumble ($39.99/$49.99: Friday)

The Tower of Nie ($43.22/$40.05)

Get in the Car, Loser! ($29.99/$38.99: Monday)

The Plucky Squire ($29.99/$38.99: Tuesday)

Cricket: Jae's Really Peculiar Game ($24.99/$32.20)

GINKA ($20.00-/$28.00)

Keylocker ($19.99/$27.56: Wednesday)

Byte the Bullet ($19.99/$26.99)

Loddlenaut ($19.99/$24.99)

Home Safety Hotline ($19.99/$25.99: Friday)

Between Horizons ($15.99/$19.99)

Aura of Worlds ($14.99/$20.49)

Boooom-Slang ($14.99/$20.00)

BZZZT ($14.99/$19.99)

Hunt and Fight ($14.99/$18.99)

I Got Isekai'd Into A Shmup ($12.99/$17.80-)

Heavy Hand: Pixel Tree Forest Fury ($12.99/$16.99)

Seasonscape ($11.99/$14.99: Friday)

The Last Shot ($9.99/$13.29: Wednesday)

Atama ($9.99/$13.99)

No Case Should Remain Unsolved ($9.99/$13.49)

Highway Legends ($9.99/$12.99)

Moonless Moon ($9.99/$12.99)

They Came From The Sky 2 ($9.99/$13.46: Friday)

Desktop Dodgeball 2 ($9.80-/$9.22)

Coloring Pixels Collection 4 ($7.95/$9.95)

Eggconsole Star Cruiser PC-8001mkIISR ($6.49/$7.34)

Tamagoneko ($5.99/$7.79)

Pixel Game Maker Series NyanXTech ($5.99/$6.69)

Dare to Spread ($4.99/$6.99: Sunday)

A Night on the Farm ($4.99/$5.99: Wednesday)

Ziggy ($4.99/$6.83: Wednesday)

Sinister Mansion ($4.99/$6.74)

City Driver: Police Parking Simulator ($4.99/$5.99)

Lumba: Redux ($4.99/$4.99)

Farm It ($4.99/$6.70: Friday)

Hidden Cats In Berlin ($3.99/$4.99)

Jump, Dodge, Die, Repeat ($3.99/$5.99: Friday)

Blokdoku ($2.99/$3.99)

Revealed Later

Touhou Genso Wanderer -Foresight- ($37.99/$50.99: Wednesday)

Zero Hour: Kill Zone ($19.99/$24.99)

Rainbow Sea ($14.99/$20.18: Friday)

Hot & Hentai ($11.99/$16.20: Friday)

Spot the Difference Food & Drink ($9.99/$9.99: Wednesday)

Hentai Girls: Crazy Cowgirl ($8.99/$12.49)

Pureya ($5.99/$7.79)

Bulbs 2.0 ($5.53/$7.47)

Synth Ark ($4.99/$6.76)

Penguin Detectives: Crash Patrol ($4.90/$6.90: Friday)

Wukong's Child ($3.99/$5.40)

Sacabambaspis Chronicle ($2.99/$3.89)

Reasoning of Courage Nori 8: Definition of Kindness ($1.50/not released)

Chase ($0.99/$1.29: Saturday)

Archives

Crime City ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: Digital Eclipse titles (including for the first time the Llamasoft game) are on same until September 25. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone - Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs (€49.99/£44.99: Wednesday)

Matchbox Driving Adventures (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

The Karate Kid: Street Rumble (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

The Tower of Nie (€39.92/£33.74: Wednesday)

Get in the Car, Loser! (€29.99/£26.99: Monday)

The Plucky Squire (€29.99/£26.99: Tuesday)

Cricket: Jae's Really Peculiar Game (€24.50-/£20.99)

Keylocker (€19.99/£15.99: Wednesday)

Byte the Bullet (€19.99/£18.00)

Loddlenaut (€19.99/£15.99)

Home Safety Hotline (€19.99/£17.99: Friday)

Between Horizons (€15.99/£14.39)

Hunt and Fight (€14.99/£13.49)

BZZZT (€14.99/£11.99)

Boooom-Slang (€14.00-/£12.59: Friday)

Heavy Hand: Pixel Tree Forest Fury (€12.99/£19.99)

I Got Isekai'd Into A Shmup (€12.99/£11.69)

Seasonscape (€10.99/£9.89: Friday)

The Last Shot (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

They Came From The Sky 2 (€9.99/£9.99)

Atama (€9.99/£8.99)

Highway Legends (€9.99/£8.99)

No Case Should Remain Unsolved (€9.99/£8.99)

Desktop Dodgeball 2 (€9.80/£5.16)

Moonless Moon (€9.75/£8.69: Wednesday)

Coloring Pixels Collection 4 (€7.30/£6.59)

Tamagoneko (€5.99/£5.49: Wednesday)

Eggconsole Star Cruiser PC-8001mkIISR (€5.59/£5.39)

Dare to Spread (€4.99/£4.99: Sunday)

A Night on the Farm (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Ziggy (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

City Driver: Police Parking Simulator (€4.99/£4.99)

Sinister Mansion (€4.99/£4.99)

Zombie Attack: Zombies Survival Shooter (€4.99/£4.99)

Lumba: Redux (€4.99/£4.49)

Pixel Game Maker Series NyanXTech (€4.99/£4.49)

Farm It (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Hidden Cats In Berlin (€3.99/£3.59)

Jump, Dodge, Die, Repeat (€3.99/£3.99: Friday)

Stretch Guy (€3.99/£3.59: Friday)

Blokdoku (€2.99/£2.59)

Revealed Later

Touhou Genso Wanderer -Foresight- (€36.99/£30.99: Wednesday)

Zero Hour: Kill Zone (€22.99/£19.99)

Rainbow Sea (€14.99/£11.34: Friday)

Hot & Hentai (€11.99/£10.79: Friday)

Hentai Girls: Crazy Cowgirl (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Spot the Difference Food & Drink (€8.99/£8.09: Wednesday)

Pureya (€5.99/£5.39)

Bulbs 2.0 (€4.99/£4.49)

Synth Ark (€4.99/£4.49)

Penguin Detectives: Crash Patrol (€4.90/£4.90: Friday)

Wukong's Child (€3.99/£3.59)

Sacabambaspis Chronicle (€2.99/£2.69)

Chase (€0.99/£0.99: Saturday)

Archives

Crime City (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Death end re;Quest Code Z (¥8580)

Japanese Rail Sim: Hakone - Town of Natural Beauty and Hot Springs (¥7480)

The Tower of Nie (¥6930)

Born of Bread (¥4980)

Kamaitachi no Yoru X3 (¥3960)

Garden Witch Life (¥3500)

Keylocker (¥3077)

GINKA (¥3000)

Cricket: Jae's Really Peculiar Game (¥2800)

Loddlenaut (¥2500: Friday)

BZZZT (¥2000)

Hunt and Fight (¥1750)

Between Horizons (¥1700)

Seasonscape (¥1600)

The Last Shot (¥1500)

They Came From The Sky 2 (¥1480: Friday)

Moonless Moon (¥1200)

Tamagoneko (¥1200)

Samurai Katana Rampage: Stickman Saga (¥1199)

Mech Wars (¥1190)

Coloring Pixels Collection 4 (¥995)

No Case Should Remain Unsolved (¥990)

Desktop Dodgeball 2 (¥980)

Eggconsole Star Cruiser PC-8001mkIISR (¥880)

City Driver: Police Parking Simulator (¥749)

Zombie Attack: Zombies Survival Shooter (¥749)

Pixel Game Maker Series NyanXTech (¥660)

A Night on the Farm (¥600)

Hidden Cats In Berlin (¥600)

Jump, Dodge, Die, Repeat (¥599)

Lumba: Redux (¥580)

Ziggy (¥499)

First Creatures In Space (¥420)

Blokdoku (¥299)

Revealed Later

Touhou Genso Wanderer -Foresight- (¥4950)

The Plucky Squire (¥3400: Tuesday)

Boooom-Slang (¥2500)

Zero Hour: Kill Zone (¥1990)

Normies Should Burn (¥1980)

Rainbow Sea (¥1800: Friday)

Hot & Hentai (¥1750)

Spot the Difference Food & Drink (¥1449)

Hentai Girls: Crazy Cowgirl (¥899)

Crime City (¥838)

Pureya (¥700)

Sacabambaspis Chronicle (¥350)

Reasoning of Courage Nori 8: Definition of Kindness (¥150)

[Or other lessons from SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS.]

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TalkBack / The Switch Successor May Be A Pricey Proposition

« on: September 10, 2024, 04:15:47 PM »

Or other lessons from SIX HUNDRED AND NINETY NINE US DOLLARS.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/editorial/68509/the-switch-successor-may-be-a-pricey-proposition

Well, the absolute madlads did it. In the announcement today of Sony’s greatest upgrade since the 8GB SPOSTDFW or the PSVR 2, I’m not sure which, they managed to outdo the infamous $599 US launch price of the PlayStation 3 in 2006 with the PlayStation 5 Pro at $699.99. And since I don’t live in the United States but rather its hat, I would then have to shell out $959.99 before tax (minimum 5% if I buy it visiting my brother or 15% anywhere else). Throw on another $100+tax for an add-on disc drive if I want to be able to burn through games as fast as I did with the PS4 in 2016-18 and… let me just quote a text I sent my roommate when I found out the local price:

“So Sony announced a PS5 Pro today and we could split the cost or pay the rent”.

Now, my rent is depressed by a decade of loyalty discounts and five years of pandemic-induced statutory rent increase caps. I know of someone moving in a couple of floors up who is looking at $2000 for a two bedroom apartment. But the fact that I can even make the comparison means the PS5 Pro is completely untenable for me, especially since I don’t have a 4k TV and refuse to get one that isn’t inspired by Moose Mason. (My next TV needs to be big, but also needs to be as dumb as a brick. Please leave suggestions in the Talkback or on our Discord.) If for some reason I get a hair up and decide I have to play the two relevant exclusives Astro Bot and, uh, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission I’ll stick with a used “Slim” model, thanks.

US, UK: Arm. EU: Arm + leg. Japan: First-born child.

But Sony has shown their hand for the next five years. Microsoft has said they’re not doing a mid-cycle upgrade in the tradition of the Xbox One X The World’s Most Powerful Game Console. And Valve only introduced the Steam Deck OLED after I finished my cooling off period for the original model. So the next major hardware manufacturer to step up to the plate is Nintendo. And based on today, I’m afraid of what we’re going to see from Nintendo whenever “Switch Successor-mas” comes around.

Currently, the Switch occupies three of the four lowest hardware prices for dedicated gaming hardware - US$199 for a Lite, $299 for a standard (tied with the Xbox Series S), and $349 for the OLED. $349 is the highest price Nintendo has ever launched a console with historically, with the Switch OLED tied with… the launch Wii U. It definitely feels like they’re going to bring the successor in at a record price, whether due to general production costs, flash memory pricing given how much oxygen Apple sucks up in that space, or just in the interest of Nintendo-like profits. Even if they’re treating it as a fourth, more powerful Switch 1 with some exclusives, that would still suggest a $400 price point, which puts it at the price of a digital PS5 or an entry-level (LCD) Steam Deck. Unless they drop the price of Switches across the board this holiday in an attempt to move systems - and time is running out to make that unprecedented-for-this-generation move - that’s the minimum buy-in.

The other expense point may be the cost of games; $70 has become the standard for new tentpole releases to buy outright on PS5 and Xbox Series. Nintendo has only gone there once, and that was a game in Tears of the Kingdom that required the “in case of emergency break glass” 32GB Switch card. Does the successor have a higher capacity for physical media that would allow a game running “at gen 8 hardware levels” to ship without extra consumer cost? And maybe without requiring large downloads while we’re at it, not that I’m mentioning any names 2K? We can’t tell right now, and won’t until Nintendo comes out and actually says something beyond “the successor exists and we’ll talk about it before March 31, 2025”.

I’m mentally preparing for a US$400/C$550 Switch successor - and a quick iteration with a major selling point removed at a lower cost for the 30th anniversary Pokemon release in 2026. You can’t tell me that the 2DS launching in September 2013 and the Lite in 2019 is a coincidence. I’ll also probably need to drop a Borden (a Canadian Benjamin) on a massive microSD card in the same window, and either load up on credit for game vouchers if that’s coming to the successor or prepare to actually pay $94.59 for a game. At least then if Nintendo comes in under price - or just puts the screws to Japan like Sony did, holy crap the PS5 Pro is almost ¥120,000 there - I can be pleasantly surprised.

[Still awaiting word on a Rockapella soundtrack or a speedrun challenge in Africa.]

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TalkBack / New Carmen Sandiego Adventure Game Announced, Features First Playable Appearance Of Title Character

« on: September 10, 2024, 06:25:00 AM »

Still awaiting word on a Rockapella soundtrack or a speedrun challenge in Africa.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68507/new-carmen-sandiego-adventure-game-announced-features-first-playable-appearance-of-title-character

In 2025, Switch owners will get to sneak around the world from Kiev to Carolina.

Nintendo of America's YouTube channel has uploaded a trailer for a new adventure game based on the Carmen Sandiego franchise, scheduled for launch next year. Although the series has existed since the 1980s, this game will mark the first time the titular thief is a playable character; the game is based on a 2018 - 21 Netflix animated series.

Carmen Sandiego was originally the title character in a series of educational computer and console games (including NES releases) involving chasing the thief and her henchfolk around the world, through time, or through the United States. The series spawned a prior animated series before the Netflix show, as well as two different game shows based on geography ("Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?") and history ("Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?").

[You could buy everything releasing this week, or you could stick to Marvel vs Capcom and buy a used car to take yourself for a ride.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - September 12, 2024

« on: September 09, 2024, 04:00:00 AM »

You could buy everything releasing this week, or you could stick to Marvel vs Capcom and buy a used car to take yourself for a ride.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68454/nintendo-downloads-september-12-2024

Things we missed last week: Apart from the Archives release (Lead Angle aka Dead Angle) was the annual Switch-and-everything-else launch of SGA's Shut Up And Shoot Threes 25... or as it's better know, NBA 2k25.

I had plans this past weekend. I was going to pick up some extra large candy for a certain thing that escaped from the bag during Pokemon Go Fest, put up a good score in the final Splatoon 3 Big Run, and hopefully take down a Triumverate (three big bosses) in the process of the second. However, it took so long to prep the release list that I didn't get a chance to do the last of those, thanks to what no less of an authority than my roommate (the Ric Flair to my Road Warrior Hawk) called a ridiculous release list. It's 55 strong in North America.

Anyway, the headliner of course is the Marvel vs Capcom collection from Capcom, as we finally get Mahvel baby on a Nintendo system - and now that Wheel of Fortune is changing hosts, maybe they can use "I Wanna Take You For A Ride" for the background music in the Express like they should have since day 1. Also being rescued, though perhaps more questionably, is Lollipop Chainsaw, while new games see Wild Bastards (the sequel to Void Bastards), Yars Rising, a Rugrats party game from the people who produced The Mix indie show, an M-rated Jackbox Party Pack (note the ending on the prices for all of them), and a self-reflective title called Selfloss.

From the extremely relevant to my interests department: A spiritual successor to the Portopia Serial Murder Case (set in Hokkaido) from Yuji Horii is getting worldwide release. The ancestor to the Trails of series is coming to Switch via the EggConsole in the form of the PC-8801mkII release of Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes, while Japan gets a collection of the Tenshi no Uta series, the first title of which was on the PC Engine Super-CD as one of the dozen games that platform ever had.

North America

Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics (US$49.99/C$67.99)

Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP ($44.99/$62.99)

The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhtosk Disappearance ($44.99/$57.99)

Wild Bastards ($34.99/$47.99)

Yars Rising ($29.99/$38.99: Tuesday)

Celestia: Chain of Fate ($29.99/$40.49)

Garden Witch Life ($29.99/$38.99)

Selfloss ($29.99/$38.99)

Elsie ($24.99/$32.99: Tuesday)

Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland ($24.99/$32.50: Tuesday)

Eden Genesis ($24.99/$32.50-)

Caravan SandWitch ($24.99/$30.99)

Fabledom ($24.99/$30.99)

Beneath Oresa ($24.99/$29.99)

Jackbox Naughty Pack ($21.69/$28.69)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York ($19.99/$24.99: Tuesday)

Crossy Road Castle ($19.99/$26.99: Wednesday)

Metro Quester: Osaka ($19.99/$27.99)

NanoApostle ($19.99/$27.59)

Beseige ($19.99/$27.20)

Edge of Sanity ($19.99/$26.99: Friday)

DeliSpace ($14.99/$19.99: Sunday)

Hard Time III ($14.99/$19.99: Monday)

Doomsday Paradise ($14.99/$19.49)

Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines ($14.99/$19.49)

Nuubla 2 ($12.99/$16.00)

10-Second Ghost ($9.99/$13.72)

Nubla ($9.99/$13.60)

GoobnBalloons DX ($9.99/$12.99)

Supermarket Simulator Pro ($9.99/$12.99)

Warzone Chronicles 2 ($9.99/$13.99: Friday)

Deep Beyond ($9.99/$13.82: Friday)

Absolute Fear -Aooni- ($9.99/$12.99: Friday)

Mech Wars ($9.99/$11.99: Saturday)

Gold Digger: The Simulator ($7.99/$10.99: Sunday)

Customers from Hell ($7.99/$10.99: Tuesday)

Aidan in Danger ($7.99/$10.99)

Real Cake Maker ($7.99/$10.76: Friday)

Supermarket 3D Tycoon Business Simulator ($7.99/$10.99: Saturday)

Pixel Game Maker Series The Willow Man ($6.99/$8.99)

Supermarket Manager Empire 2024 ($6.99/$6.99: Friday)

EggConsole Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes PC8801-mkIISR ($6.49/$7.34)

Downfall ($5.99/$8.31)

Line Time ($5.99/$7.99)

Nimbusfall ($5.99/$7.79: Friday)

Make It! Crepe ($5.00-/$4.36)

Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer ($4.99/$5.99: Wednesday)

Road Defense: Outsiders ($4.99/$6.99)

Samurai Kento ($4.99/$6.99: Friday)

Moe Waifu H Genius ($4.99/$5.99: Friday)

Brain Training: Hiragana and Katakana Search ($3.99/$5.39)

Just 1 Minute! Memory Test With Masterpieces ($3.99/$5.39)

Spot the Difference Ukiyo-e Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji ($3.99/$5.39)

Next of Kin ($1.99/not releasing)

Alian Planet ($1.30/$1.80)

Revealed Later

The Dawning Clocks of Time "Remake" ($50.00/$67.92: Wednesday)

Hashihime of the Old Book Town Append Fullscreen ($17.07/$23.55)

Sugoi Girls: Mighty Mecha ($8.99/$12.49)

Robot vs Monsters ($7.99/$9.99)

Loopy Tennis ($0.99/$1.29: Saturday)

Archives

Vs Battle City ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: On the import tip, the Cosmic Fantasy collections are 40% off until the 26th. PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics (€49.99/£39.99)

Lollipop Chainsaw RePOP (€44.99/£37.99)

The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhtosk Disappearance (€43.99/£37.99)

Wild Bastards (€34.99/£27.99)

Garden Witch Life (€29.99/£26.99)

Celestia: Chain of Fate (€29.99/£24.99)

Selfloss (€29.99/£24.99)

Yars Rising (€28.99/£24.99: Tuesday)

Elsie (€24.99/£19.99: Tuesday)

Eden Genesis (€24.99/£22.49: Wednesday)

Caravan SandWitch (€24.99/£22.49)

Fabledom (€24.99/£22.49)

Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland (€24.50/£22.09: Monday)

Beneath Oresa (€21.99/£19.99)

Jackbox Naughty Pack (€21.69/£19.69)

Vampire: The Masquerade - Reckoning of New York (€19.99/£17.99: Tuesday)

Beseige (€19.99/£19.99)

Metro Quester: Osaka (€19.99/£17.99)

NanoApostle (€19.99/£16.99)

Edge of Sanity (€19.99/£16.74: Friday)

Crossy Road Castle (€19.95/£17.99: Wednesday)

Hard Time III (€14.99/£14.99: Monday)

Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines (€14.99/£12.99: Wednesday)

Doomsday Paradise (€14.79/£13.99)

Nuubla 2 (€12.99/£11.69: Wednesday)

DeliSpace (€9.99/£9.99: Tuesday)

Nubla (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Supermarket Simulator Pro (€9.99/£8.99)

Warzone Chronicles 2 (€9.99/£9.99: Friday)

Deep Beyond (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

GoobnBalloons DX (€9.75/£8.69)

Absolute Fear -Aooni- (€9.75/£8.69: Friday)

10-Second Ghost (€8.99/£8.09)

Gold Digger: The Simulator (€7.99/£7.99: Sunday)

Customers from Hell (€7.99/£7.99: Tuesday)

Aidan in Danger (€7.99/£7.19)

Real Cake Maker (€7.99/£7.20: Friday)

Mech Wars (€7.99/£7.99: Saturday)

Supermarket Manager Empire 2024 (€6.99/£6.29: Friday)

Pixel Game Maker Series The Willow Man (€6.89/£6.00)

Downfall (€5.99/£5.39)

Nimbusfall (€5.99/£5.39: Friday)

Line Time (€5.89/£5.29)

EggConsole Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes PC8801-mkIISR (€5.59/£5.39)

Make It! Crepe (€5.00-/£2.56)

Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Road Defense: Outsiders (€4.99/£4.49)

Samurai Kento (€4.99/£4.99: Friday)

Moe Waifu H Genius (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Brain Training: Hiragana and Katakana Search (€2.49/£2.24)

Just 1 Minute! Memory Test With Masterpieces (€2.49/£2.24)

Spot the Difference Ukiyo-e Thirty-Six View of Mt. Fuji (€2.49/£2.24)

Next of Kin (€1.99/£1.79)

Alian Planet (€1.20/£1.10: Wednesday)

Revealed Later

Hashihime of the Old Book Town Append (€17.07/£13.31: Wednesday)

Absolute Fear -Aooni- (€9.75/£8.69: Friday)

Sugoi Girls: Mighty Mecha (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Robot vs Monsters (€7.99/£7.19: Wednesday)

Supermarket 3D Tycoon Business Simulator (€7.99/£7.99: Saturday)

Drift Odyssey (€3.99/£3.59: Wednesday)

Loopy Tennis (€0.99/£0.99: Saturday)

Archives

Vs Battle City (€6.99/£6.29)

Japan

Trouble Magia (¥8580)

Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics (¥5990)

Wild Bastards (¥5400)

Tenshi no Uta Collection (¥5280)

Selfloss (¥4890)

The Hokkaido Serial Murder Case: The Okhtosk Disappearance (¥4800)

Celestia: Chain of Fate (¥4790: Friday)

Yars Rising (¥3400)

Crossy Road Castle (¥3150)

Edge of Sanity (¥3100)

Caravan SandWitch (¥2950)

Fabledom (¥2950)

Eden Genesis (¥2860)

Elsie (¥2800)

Metro Quester: Osaka (¥2200)

Doomsday Paradise (¥1999)

Grapple Dogs: Cosmic Canines (¥1700)

Supermarket Simulator Pro (¥1499)

Warzone Chronicles 2 (¥1499)

10-Second Ghost (¥1470)

Aidan in Danger (¥1400)

Customers from Hell (¥1200: Tuesday)

Absolute Fear -Aooni- (¥1200)

GoobnBalloons DX (¥1200)

International 3 Hint Quiz (¥980)

EggConsole Dragon Slayer: The Legend of Heroes PC8801-mkIISR (¥880)

Pixel Game Maker Series The Willow Man (¥880)

Dare to Spread (¥799)

Samurai Kento (¥780: Friday)

Road Defense: Outsiders (¥720)

Line Time (¥680)

Kiki - A Vibrant 3D Platformer (¥600)

Moe Waifu H Genius (¥600)

Downfall (¥580)

Make It! Crepe (¥500)

Children's Court Quiz (¥420)

East Japan vs West Japan Quiz (¥420)

Bubble Blaster DX (¥299)

Alian Planet (¥200)

Revealed Later

The Dawning Clocks of Time "Remake" (¥8136)

Turrican Anthology Vol 1 (¥6578)

Turrican Anthology Vol 2 (¥6578)

Shogun Showdown (¥3480)

Island Flight Simulator (¥3199)

Beneath Oresa (¥2800)

Rugrats: Adventures in Gameland (¥2800)

Hashihime of the Old Book Town Append Fullscreen (¥1480)

New York Mysteries: Secrets of the Mafia (¥2199)

Robot vs Monsters (¥1099)

Deserted Island Science and Social Studies (¥900)

Elementary School Monster Adventure (¥900)

Math Card Battle Quiz (¥900)

Running Quiz Battle (¥900)

Territory Battle (¥900)

Sugoi Girls: Mighty Mecha (¥899)

Vs Battle City (¥838)

Conquer The Nation At Camp (¥500)

Throw It To The Rhythm (¥500)

History All-Star Quiz (¥300)

World Map Panel Battle (¥300)

Lost Lands: Dark Overlord (free to start)

[One of the departing execs had a 35 year run at NoE.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Announces Updated European Executive Team, Subsidiary Name Change

« on: September 02, 2024, 04:40:56 AM »

One of the departing execs had a 35 year run at NoE.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68425/nintendo-announces-updated-european-executive-team-subsidiary-name-change

On this North American Labo(u)r Day, there are some changes in both Europe and Japan to report.

In Europe, longtime Nintendo employee Stephan Bole - who replaced Satoru Shibata as NoE President in 2018 - is retiring after 35 years with Nintendo. His replacement will be Luciano Pereña, whose three decade career with Nintendo previously saw him become the company's Chief Financial Officer: his new duties will include the titles of president, CEO, and chariman of the management board. Pereña will have a new COO and managing director, with Laurent Fischer assuming the former office and the latter being taken by Tom Enoki.

This is part of a larger shakeup in NOE: a series of changes have also been announced for Nintendo's Benelux (Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg) operations with former general manager Frank Rittinghaus being promoted to the managing director of marketing for Europe. Rittinghaus's old role will be filled by Frédéric Michaux. A new head of marketing (Mirjam Hoogendoorn-de Jong) and senior brand manager (Gerben Kaup) have also been appointed.

On the Japanese side, the Nintendo subsidiary previously known as "ND Cube" appears to be renaming itself to "Nintendo Cube", as the company's web address (https://www.nd-cube.co.jp) is now redirecting to https://www.nintendo-cube.co.jp/. Originally formed as a partnership between Nintendo and Japanese advertising firm Dentsu, Nintendo has acquired additional shares in the company to the point that they owned 99% of its shares as of last year. Nintendo Cube originally started out as a support studio which also developed F-Zero Maximum Velocity for the GBA, before restructuring in 2010 and hiring a large portion of the staff of Hudson Soft (acquired by Konami around that time) that had worked on previous Mario Party titles. They have continued work on party titles (Mario Party series, Wii Party games) since, as well as working on Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp and bearing partial responsibility for Everybody 1-2 Switch.

[I trust there'll be no objections to this week's main event.]

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TalkBack / Nintendo Downloads - September 5, 2024

« on: September 02, 2024, 04:00:00 AM »

I trust there'll be no objections to this week's main event.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68424/nintendo-downloads-september-5-2024

Things we missed last week: The combination Partner Showcase / Indie World dropped six games - though one of them was only shown in Japan - with Pizza Tower, Peglin, and Pico Park 2 in the Indie World portion and the Castlevania DominuS Collection, Goat Simulator 3, and "that ****ing Kairosoft Doraemon game" (tm RFN) in the Partner Showcase half. Also, Panic (Thank Goodness You're Here!, Untitled Goose Game) published Nour: Play With Your Food, and the Archives had Finalizer - Super Transformation from Konami.

Capcom's dropping consecutive weeks of hot collections with unreleased games, with this week's big game being the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection bringing a good Edgeworth game west for the first time. (Allegedly.) There's also a localization for the Good Feel-developed Goemon spiritual successor Bakeru, and if you prefer to work out to vocaloid music instead of, I dunno, Billie Eilish there's a Hatsune Miku Fitness Boxing.

On the retro front - though I suppose that last trio would also apply - we have four items for the older crowd: Gimmick 2 (NA only, possibly apocryphal), the Sunsoft Is Back collection reviving three older unreleased Famicom games... Aero the Acro-bat 2, and a second version of the original Hydlide in the EggConsole line. Wow, that descended quickly.

North America

Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku (US$49.99/C$68.56)

Bakeru ($39.99/$49.99: Tuesday)

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection ($39.99/$54.99: Friday)

Gimmick! 2 ($24.99/$34.99)

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography ($20.00/$25.99: Tuesday)

Badminton Time ($19.99/$27.99)

Scotland Yard - Hunting Mister X ($19.99/$27.00-)

Shogun Showdown ($14.99/$18.99)

The 257th Element ($13.00/$17.80)

Ultimate Holidays ($11.99/$16.59: Friday)

Billy's Game Show ($9.99/$13.29: Wednesday)

Sunsoft Is Back! Retro Game Selection ($9.99/$12.79: Friday)

Flick Erasers Battle Royale ($7.00/$6.58)

EggConsole Hydlide MSX ($6.49/$7.34)

Aero the Acro-bat 2 ($5.99/$8.99: Friday)

What Happened - Through Worlds ($5.99/$8.99: Friday)

The Knight's Path ($4.99/$6.99: Sunday)

Holyhunt ($4.99/$6.91: Tuesday)

Mining Mechs ($4.99/$5.99: Wednesday)

Shield King ($4.99/$6.83)

Super Shaking Girl! ($4.99/$6.49)

Buffet Boss ($4.99/$6.70: Friday)

Animal Water Pang ($2.99/$4.11)

V-Hunter Puzzler DX ($2.99/$3.89)

Revealed Later

NBA 2K25 ($59.99/$79.99: Friday)

Touhou Danmaku Kagura: Fantasia Lost ($29.99/$38.99: Wednesday)

Mahjongus: Mystery of Fortescue ($19.99/$26.99)

Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open ($16.99/$23.00)

Garlant: My Story ($15.99/not released)

Panic in Sweets Land ($13.99/$19.12)

Cyborg Force ($9.95/$12.99: Tuesday)

Hentai Girls: Lovely Lieutenant ($8.99/$12.49)

Tiny Battles ($7.99/$10.80: Friday)

Flipbook ($5.99/$8.20: Monday)

John The Zombie ($4.99/$4.99: Saturday)

Tsetesg's Adventure ($3.99/$5.19)

Heli City Demolition Man ($1.99/$2.99)

Space Bouncer ($0.99/$1.36)

Jump Ball ($0.99/$1.29: Saturday)

Archives

Lead Angle ($7.99/$9.87)

Sales and Price Drops

Highlights: A "Blockbuster" sale until September 9 has 40% off Pentiment, half off the original Capcom Fighting Collection, and half off all of the recent Persona (including 5 Tactica). PSPrices, DekuDeals

Europe

Fitness Boxing feat. Hatsune Miku (€49.99/£44.99)

Bakeru (€39.99/£34.99: Monday)

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection (€39.99/£34.99: Friday)

Touhou Danmaku Kagura: Fantasia Lost (€28.99/£26.09: Wednesday)

Badminton Time (€19.99/£17.99)

Scotland Yard - Hunting Mister X (€19.99/£17.99)

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography (€18.99/£16.00: Tuesday)

Shogun Showdown (€14.99/£12.49)

The 257th Element (€12.80/£11.49)

Ultimate Holidays (€11.99/£10.79: Friday)

Billy's Game Show (€9.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

The Backrooms: Survival (€9.99/£11.99)

Sunsoft Is Back! Retro Game Selection (€9.99/£8.99: Friday)

Flick Erasers Battle Royale (€7.00/£3.77)

Aero the Acro-bat 2 (€5.99/£5.99: Friday)

What Happened - Through Worlds (€5.99/£5.99: Friday)

EggConsole Hydlide MSX (€5.59/£5.39)

The Knight's Path (€4.99/£4.99: Sunday)

Holyhunt (€4.99/£4.00: Tuesday)

Mining Mechs (€4.99/£4.49: Wednesday)

Shield King (€4.99/£4.49)

Super Shaking Girl! (€4.99/£4.29)

V-Hunter Puzzler DX (€2.99/£2.99: Wednesday)

Animal Water Pang (€2.99/£2.69)

Revealed Later

NBA 2K25 (€59.99/£49.99: Friday)

Gimmick! 2 (€24.99/£22.49)

Mahjongus: Mystery of Fortescue (€19.99/£17.99)

Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open (€16.99/£14.99)

Garlant: My Story (€15.79/£14.19)

Panic in Sweets Land (€13.99/£12.99)

MFC: Midnight Fight Club (€9.99/£9.99: Friday)

John The Zombie (€9.99/£8.99: Saturday)

Hentai Girls: Lovely Lieutenant (€8.99/£8.99: Wednesday)

Tiny Battles (€7.99/£7.19: Friday)

Flipbook (€5.99/£5.39: Monday)

Buffet Boss (€4.99/£4.49: Friday)

Tsetesg's Adventure (€3.90/£3.40)

Heli City Demolition Man (€1.99/£1.79)

Space Bouncer (€0.99/£0.89)

Jump Ball (€0.99/£0.99: Saturday)

Archives

Lead Angle (€6.99/£9.87)

Japan

Cats On Duty (¥5478)

Daymare: 1994 Sandcastle (¥5478)

Ace Attorney Investigations Collection (¥4990)

Touhou Danmaku Kagura: Fantasia Lost (¥3960)

Grand Prix Formula One (¥1990)

Ultimate Holidays (¥1750)

The 257th Element (¥1200)

Gold Digger: The Simulator (¥1199)

Let's Spin It: Train Sign Collection (¥1000)

What Happened - Through Worlds (¥999)

Aero the Acro-bat 2 (¥990)

EggConsole Hydlide MSX (¥880)

Flick Erasers Battle Royale (¥700)

Mining Mechs (¥700)

Super Shaking Girl! (¥500)

Shield King (¥499)

V-Hunter Puzzler DX (¥400)

Animal Water Pang (¥330)

Revealed Later

NBA 2K25 (¥6600: Friday)

Shashingo: Learn Japanese with Photography (¥2300)

Paper Ghost Stories: Third Eye Open (¥2300)

Garlant: My Story (¥2000)

The Helpful Fox Senko-san (¥1200)

Hentai Girls: Lovely Lieutenant (¥899)

Kalinur (¥899)

Flipbook (¥890)

Lead Angle (¥838)

Harvest Moon Mobile: Life & Love (¥800)

Tsetesg's Adventure (¥479)

Find the Difference: 36 Views of Mt Fuji (¥420)

Space Bouncer (¥100)

[The last release for Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter in English was contemporaneous with Xenoblade Chronicles X, for the record.]

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TalkBack / Whose Trails Is It Anyway? The Mystery Of The Partner Showcase's Most Stunning Remake Announcement

« on: August 31, 2024, 05:54:00 AM »

The last release for Trails in the Sky 2nd Chapter in English was contemporaneous with Xenoblade Chronicles X, for the record.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/editorial/68383/whose-trails-is-it-anyway-the-mystery-of-the-partner-showcases-most-stunning-remake-announcement

For my money, the biggest announcement of the August 27 double dip of Nintendo shows was actually tucked into a sizzle reel for Western consumption. During the Partner Showcase, the announcement of Trails In The Sky: The 1st led off the first of two different sizzle reels, presumably to keep the combined show under 45 minutes. Still, the game that was a chief reason why I asked for a PSP literally as its successor was launching in Japan is now going to be playable portably on modern hardware with all of its features intact.

Presumably this remake will come to Steam as "verified". It's Cold Steel I & II that are currently "no".

But the reason why I was worried this day wouldn't come was due to the publishing situation. The game's page isn't live on the Nintendo website yet, and the Partner Showcase only credited the game to original developer Nihon Falcom. When Trails in the Sky was originally published in 2011, it was localized by XSEED (now Marvelous) as per the above screenshot. This remained true with other Trails games until 2017, when NIS America took over localization for all of Falcom’s major releases (the Ys and Trails series), starting with Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana. Although a lot of the staff who localized Trails games crossed the metaphorical parking lot, XSEED still owned the rights to the actual text and wasn't going to give them up.

So now we have a remake being announced - from the ground up - and it debuted in a worldwide Direct presentation. But who's going to localize this?

The simplest explanation is that Falcom decided “fine, I'll do it myself” and set to work, but that doesn't seem likely. Falcom has, at most, 75 full time employees, and this would represent their first time ever taking on a project for worldwide distribution on multiple platforms without outside help. And Trails in the Sky is in no way a short game. There are experienced fan translators - NIS America hired a group known as the “GeoFront” for the 2022-23 Crossbell duology (Trails From Zero/Trails to Azure)  - but would Falcom bother working with fan translators even on a contract basis? Most likely not.

The second possibility assumes objects at rest tend to stay at rest, and that NIS America is handling the localization. Since NISA has already revealed their next Trails release (Trails Through Daybreak II, early 2025), they may not want to Osborne Effect the game with a highly demanded remake. As such, they let Falcom take the lead on it for now and then they can announce a distribution deal once Daybreak II is out. They could give the game a new translation using their own teams and wouldn't have to worry about the old XSEED localization. On paper, this is the most likely option.

There is a third possibility, though - it's secretly a Marvelous (nee XSEED) project. The terms of the agreement with NIS America and Falcom have never been disclosed publicly, but the NISA projects have had some rough patches on occasion. The original localization of Ys VIII comes to mind with its "big hole". Maybe Falcom is making a deal for the original localizations not on modern consoles (or, let's face it, handhelds) with Marvelous to just get them out and be done with it.

A few other possibilities exist, though we can discard some parties immediately - specifically Nintendo themselves. If it was a Nintendo published game, the Direct identifier would have said Nintendo instead of Falcom. (The last three Partner Showcases have had examples of this: Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes with Koei Tecmo in June 2022, Endless Ocean: Luminous with Arika in February of this year, and Fitness Boxing 3 in this week's showcase.) And the whole point of this is to get Trails in the Sky on PS4/5 and Switch. Falcom has worked with other localizing companies as recently as last month with the Switch version of Tokyo Xanadu ex+ from Aksys Games, or going a little farther back DotEmu for Ys Origins. Heck, Falcom has released at least a dozen games this year with D4 Enterprises - though that was legacy work from the 1980s in the EggConsole line of retro releases. Still, if they wanted to make a splash with a modern title, this would certainly do it.

I honestly can't believe that Falcom would hire enough contractors to do a ground up remake like this: they do one original game a year with a miniscule-by-modern-standards team, and the rest of the versions get outsourced. But as the Switch winds down, the Falcom Trails train is going to keep rolling along - likely with help. Don't be surprised if we get Sky 2nd and 3rd chapter in 2026 or even 2027 either: 2nd Chapter previously released for the PSP in North America in October of 2015, or a full three and a half years after the PSP successor launched outside Jaoan and several months after the PSP successor was left for dead by Sony. Backwards compatibility is a hell of a drug.

[Passes? We don't need no stinking passes.]

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TalkBack / Guilty Gear -Strive- Officially Go For January Switch Launch

« on: August 30, 2024, 08:33:48 AM »

Passes? We don't need no stinking passes.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68382/guilty-gear-strive-officially-go-for-january-switch-launch

The Switch's worst kept secret is now official: Guilty Gear -Strive- is coming.

Arc System Works released a trailer today confirming the 2d fighter will release on Switch January 23. Online play and several training modes, plus character specific story modes, will be included in the package; there was no mention of the online being cross-platform in the trailer.

28 characters will be in the game at launch, which includes fan favorites such as Bridget and Testament that were previously sold as part of content passes on PC and PlayStation platforms.

[No official announcement yet from ArcSys, but it might be possible to get your Sol Badguy fix on the go soon.]

20

TalkBack / UNCONFIRMED: Banner At Pax West Showing Guilty Gear -Strive- Receiving Switch Version

« on: August 28, 2024, 06:36:55 PM »

No official announcement yet from ArcSys, but it might be possible to get your Sol Badguy fix on the go soon.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68376/unconfirmed-banner-at-pax-west-showing-guilty-gear-strive-receiving-switch-version

A major player in the fighting arena might be coming to Switch, if a banner reportedly hanging in Seattle is any indication.

A picture has been posted on Reddit sourced to a deleted post on the former Twitter showing what appears to be a banner hanging in the Seattle Convention Center. The banner, located outside the Atrium Lobby, is advertising a Switch port of 2021's Guilty Gear -Strive- with an invitation to preorder.

Arc System Works has ported some of their previous fighting games to Switch in the past, including Dragon Ball FighterZ and DNF Duel.

[Though given the last release, this might as well be the debut of the series.]

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TalkBack / Yakuza Series Returns To Nintendo Hardware With Kiwami Release October 24

« on: August 27, 2024, 07:24:53 AM »

Though given the last release, this might as well be the debut of the series.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68349/yakuza-series-returns-to-nintendo-hardware-with-kiwami-release-october-24

The "one more thing" for the Partner Showcase/Indie World doubleheader was something surely nobody expected.

Yakuza Kiwami, a remake of the original PlayStation 2 open world brawler originally released in 2016 for PS3 in Japan only and 2017 worldwide for PS4, will release on Switch on October 24. Although an earlier game exists chronologically (Yakuza Zero), this is the first going by release order.

The first two Yakuza games were infamously bundled in the first year of the Wii U in Japan only and sold under 5000 copies lifetime on that system: developer Ryu Ga Gokotu (RGG) Studios had previously expressed reluctance to come to Nintendo hardware as at least an indirect result.

[Some of this might have already come out.]

22

TalkBack / Other News From The Partner Showcase

« on: August 27, 2024, 07:19:00 AM »

Some of this might have already come out.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68347/other-news-from-the-partner-showcase

Other announcements from the Partner Showcase portion of today's doubleheader:

• The Switch will get its goat today as Goat Simulator 3 is available digitally now, while a physical version will follow in November.
• A Disney Dreamlight Valley event will begin next Wednesday (Sept. 4).
• Epic Mickey: Rebrushed had a demo come out ahead of its September 24 launch
• A Digital Eclipse-developed remake of 1999's Worms: Armageddon will be available on the 26th of September
• The next season of 2K's Star Wars: Hunters will kick off on September 26.
• Children's game specialists Outright Games announced Spongebob Squarepants: The Patrick Star Game for October 4
• Preorders are now open for the HD-2D Dragon Quest III, which will also add a "Monster Wrangler" vocation on November 14
• Lego Horizon Adventure was in a late sizzle reel with just a "holiday" date, though a listing on Sony's website listed the game for November 14
• A pair of MySims games - the original and MySims: Kingdom - will be bundled together by EA for November 19 launch
• A trilogy of games in the S.T.A.L.K.E.R franchise (the "Legends of the Zone" trilogy) will launch in November.
• Five Nights at Freddy's: Help Wanted 2 was announced for this winter, along with a free update to Security Breach called simply "Ruin"
• A remastered version of Tales of Graces F (the PS3 version of a game that also released in a fashion on the Wii) was shown for January 17 release, with previous DLC included
• Footage of Civilization 7 (February 11) was shown following its appearances at Gamescom
• The newest title in the Rune Factory series ("Guardians of Azuma" will sprout next spring
• Dear Villagers announced a hoverboard-based 3d action game in Star Overdrive, which will be out in 2025.
• Also in 2025 is Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories and the Envisioned Land, the start of a new trilogy in the action RPG/crafting series.

[If you're wondering, it'll be published by Imagineer in Japan which is how it gets in a Partner Showcase (aka the "Three Hopes" rule).]

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TalkBack / Fitness Boxing 3 To Round Out Nintendo's 2024 Lineup December 5

« on: August 27, 2024, 07:08:41 AM »

If you're wondering, it'll be published by Imagineer in Japan which is how it gets in a Partner Showcase (aka the "Three Hopes" rule).

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68345/fitness-boxing-3-to-round-out-nintendos-2024-lineup-december-5

For regions outside Japan, there was still a first party announcement for the Switch in the Partner Showcase.

Fitness Boxing 3: Your Personal Trainer was shown in the Partner Showcase today and confirmed to be Nintendo's final first party release of 2024, launching on December 5. The third in the direct lineage of Fitness Boxing games includes a new quickplay mode and new trainers, plus the ability to customize all the hairstyles of the trainers.

This will be the second Fitness Boxing game of 2024 for the Switch, as a Hatsune Miku-themed game is due from Aksys later this year as well.

[Does Sony have a blood pact with Konami that makes it so we'll never see Symphony of the Night on a Nintendo system?]

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TalkBack / Konami Announces Castlevania DS Collection And Updates Suikoden Remasters Status

« on: August 27, 2024, 07:04:00 AM »

Does Sony have a blood pact with Konami that makes it so we'll never see Symphony of the Night on a Nintendo system?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68343/konami-announces-castlevania-ds-collection-and-updates-suikoden-remasters-status

Konami has continued their quest to bring more of their old games to modern platforms with a newly announced compilation out today and an update on a long-awaited one.

The Castlevania DominuS Collection compiles the three DS Castlevania exploration games (Dawn of Sorrow, Portrait of Ruin, Order of Ecclesia) as well as the original and remastered versions of arcade game Haunted Castle. This collection is available now on the eShop.

Konami also updated the status of remasters of the first two Suikoden RPGs, which are due in one package in March of 2025. The battle system will include options for auto-battling as well as a speedup of up to 4x.

[What's more exciting - Power Stone coming back or a Street Fighter Alpha 3 with the World Tour mode, presumably?]

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TalkBack / Capcom Fighting Collection Brings Multiple Lost Classics To Switch In 2025, Release Date Revealed For Marvel Collection

« on: August 27, 2024, 06:59:11 AM »

What's more exciting - Power Stone coming back or a Street Fighter Alpha 3 with the World Tour mode, presumably?

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/68341/capcom-fighting-collection-brings-multiple-lost-classics-to-switch-in-2025-release-date-revealed-for-marvel-collection

Capcom is continuing the onslaught of fighting game rescues on Switch into 2025.

The Partner Showcase today revealed Capcom Fighting Collection 2 for Switch release in 2025. The eight games in the package will be:

• Capcom vs SNK
• Capcom vs SNK 2
• Project Justice
• Capcom Fighting Evolution
• Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper
• Plasma Sword
• Power Stone
• Power Stone 2

Each game will have a bespoke training mode as well as online play options and galleries.

The Marvel collection announced in June's general Direct will also be available digitally on September 12, with a limited physical release to follow on November 22.