Category: Nintendo

We have liftoff!

Well, the weekend has rolled around once again so it’s time for a spot of gaming, we’d say.

Before we get to that, however, does anyone fancy a quick round-up of the Nintendo highlights from this week? We’ve been taking a look at what classic SEGA franchises you’d like to see return, keeping up with everything going on in Fortnite and gawping at how long we have all played a certain Hylian adventure thanks to Nintendo dropping our years in review.

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The Coasts of Croakia has arrived.

Earlier this week the relatively new farming sim Fae Farm got a free DLC update Coasts of Croakia – taking players to the Archl-pal-igo Park, where they can learn the language of the many critters roaming the park.

In addition to this, there’s been a bunch of updates to the game adding in new dialogue, an increase to house storage, and much more. We’ve not got the full list of patch notes, detailing exactly what this latest update has added to the game. Here’s the rundown:

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The Blueberry Pokédex has been added.

Alongside the launch of Pokemon Scarlet & Violet: The Indigo Disk, an update has also arrived for the storage service Pokemon Home.

This bumps the application up to Version 3.2.1 and most importantly adds compatibility for the Part 2 DLC. Here’s a bit about what you can expect from this update, which also comes packed with the Blueberry Pokédex, new challenges and stickers:

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Here’s what the critics had to say.

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet‘s second DLC expansion ‘The Indigo Disk‘ arrived earlier this week and now the reviews are starting to surface online.

If you haven’t already caught our review here on Nintendo Life, we thought this new part took a few steps forward but could still use some work in other areas, awarding it six out of 10 stars:

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It was inevitable…

Remember the stunning The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX PC port we reported about just the other day? Well, it’s sadly no longer.

Nintendo has issued a takedown notice for the fan-made port, and it has now been removed from its itch.io page (thanks to CM30/GamingReinvented!). The HD version of the Game Boy Color version of Link’s Awakening was made by user ‘linksawakeningdxhd’ and added widescreen support, gorgeous HD visuals, and 120fps scrolling.

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“Without that element of trust, I couldn’t continue working there”.

Earlier this year, Hideki Kamiya shocked his fans by announcing that he would leave PlatinumGames. Now unemployed, he’s spent much of his time watching streaming content and creating YouTube videos, but after sitting down with IGN, we now have a clearer picture of why he left the company.

He’s touched on this before, of course, stating in a previous YouTube video that “I left the company because I wanted to follow my beliefs as a game creator and to choose the path I think is right and move on“. There’s not a lot to go on, admittedly, so this new statement brings a bit more clarity on Platinum’s role in Kamiya’s decision:

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Something fishy’s going on here.

The diving/restaurant management roguelike Dave The Diver had us hooked (heheh) when it swam onto Switch earlier this year, but now things are set to get a whole lot more spooky as its collaborative Dredge DLC (yes, the Lovecraftian fishing game) has sailed into view today. Enough nautical puns for you? We’ve got more…

This collaboration was first announced at The Game Awards, but today it’s finally here and we get to see what’s actually going down. For reel.

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Rescue, Parallel Play and Monster Dojo all detailed.

Thanks to confirmation from Spike Chunsoft back in October, we know for sure that Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island (catchy little title, huh?) is heading West on 27th February. But what will the latest entry in the roguelike RPG series have in store? What new features can we expect? If only there was some kind of trailer to extinguish these burning questions!

Well, there is. Spike Chunsoft has today pulled back the curtain on Shiren the Wanderer’s upcoming adventure, detailing a handful of the new mechanics that we can expect to find in the game and providing a brief overview of the story at hand.

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New season, new DLC characters and much more.

This week marks the “early access” arrival of Quan Chi in Mortal Kombat 1. This is the second DLC character in the Kombat Pack and follows on from the release of Omni Man. EventHubs has also confirmed the Kameo Fighter in this update (Khameleon) will be arriving at some point in January 2024.

In addition to all of this, Mortal Kombat 1 has today kicked off its third season (focused on Sub-Zero), and it has released a new update as well. Here are the full patch notes, which also covers the latest update for the Nintendo Switch version of the game:

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Fox also composed for the main game.

Remember how the music superstar Ed Sheeran did a song for Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet? Well, as highlighted by our friends at VGC, this same song ‘Celestial’ has now been remixed by the Undertale developer Toby Fox in the latest DLC.

As noted by the source, Fox worked on some other music for Scarlet and Violet, and now this new remix is credited “exclusively” to him. You can have a listen in the YouTube video below:

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