Launching next month on Switch.
Square Enix is beginning to ramp up its marketing campaign for Dragon Quest Monsters: The Dark Prince ahead of its December 1st release date on the Switch.
Following a gameplay introduction last week, it’s now shared a three-minute monster showcase, detailing some of the wild and whimsical monsters players can expect to encounter on their quest to become the master of monsterkind.
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Jam out to the new Chirpy Chips music video.
Earlier on, Nintendo announced “Chill Season 2023” for Splatoon 3. It will be arriving in-game next month on 1st December.
As part of this announcement, Nintendo has shared a new trailer where fans can jam out to a new Chirpy Chips single and music video. In terms of details about this new season update, it looks like there’s another weapon and stage on the way.
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Is it RP-Great?
At the end of the week, Nintendo will release the very last of its 2023 first-party Switch line-up with Super Mario RPG, a faithful remake of the 1996 SNES classic.
Judging from our own review, it looks like Nintendo is closing out the year with a bang, as we’ve awarded the remake a score of 9/10, noting that it “sets a new standard for how to do a faithful remake right”. We highlighted the gorgeous new visuals and soundtrack, the excellent combat, and the post-game content, but noted that it might prove a bit too easy for some.
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Paper, Partners, and everything in between.
Mario, the world’s favourite platforming plumber, has done everything — kart racing, tennis, golf, partying, and a little bit of turn-based RPG-ing.
1996 saw Mario’s RPG debut in the Super NES favourite, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars, and since then, he’s starred in 14 different RPGs (plus three remakes). Sometimes he’ll partner up with his brother in the Mario & Luigi subseries, while other times, he’ll get all crafty in the Paper Mario series.
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It’s-an-RPG!
On paper, Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars is a game that probably shouldn’t exist. It brought together Nintendo’s platforming icon with RPG giant Square in a way that seemed impossible, imbuing the denizens of the Mushroom Kingdom (and beyond) with bucketloads of personality beyond the hops, jumps, and yelps they were previously known for. It’s got humour in spades, from tongue-in-cheek jokes to characters pantomiming events whenever they retell them. It’s weird and hilarious, and it knows it — and that’s why people love it.
So it’s a darn good thing that Super Mario RPG, the Switch remake of 1996’s turn-based favourite, retains the weirdness that gave the SNES original a special charm. Not a hair is out of place in this remake. We said in our preview that this is one of the most faithful HD adaptations we’ve ever played, and now that we’ve seen everything the game has to offer, we stand by that statement, and it’s all the better for it. This is a magical experience reworked to near perfection with high-definition clarity.
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New graduates will also benefit.
Atlus, the developer behind the Persona and Shin Megami Tensei franchises, has announced that it is raising the average annual salary for its employees by 15%.
In a stark contrast to the seemingly endless lay-offs hitting the industry of late, new graduates at Atlus will see their starting salary rise by 300,000 yen (about $1,977) and all employees will see an annual salary rise of 15%. In a translated press release (thanks, Game Developer), Atlus states that the move is to ensure the company can attract and retain talent as it “promotes global expansion”.
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Vote for your favourite creator island in-game.
The insanely popular battle royale game Fortnite will be celebrating this year’s Game Awards, with players able to vote for “The Best Creator Made Fortnite Island of the Year” in-game.
This new update by ‘Nighttimes’ and ‘Studio 568’ is a hub world that links players to ten creator-made islands, which players can explore and then vote for. In the main section, players can also collect Game Awards statues for an in-game XP boost.
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Download it now.
Baten Kaitos I & II HD Remaster have been out for a few months now and Bandai Namco is still showing support with regular updates.
As highlighted by Perfectly-Nintendo, this new update comes with some stability and usability improvements for both games. Here’s the full rundown for Version 1.0.3 from the official game website:
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Europe and Australia got lucky.
After being delayed last week, Nightdive Studios’ upcoming release Turok 3: Shadow of Oblivion has now been released on the Switch eShop in Europe and Australia ahead of schedule.
The game was meant to be released at the end of the month across all platforms, but due to some “recent confusion,” it seems the Turok 3 has gone live early in this region. As a result, these versions will include a number of known bugs and be missing some quality-of-life improvements.
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There’s always room for one more good one.
In 2019, a small French studio called Hibernian Workshop released a game called Dark Devotion, a promising 2D soulslike that was met with mixed reviews, but managed to garner a passionate fanbase. A couple of years later, the team returned with a Kickstarter pitch for a new roguelite called Astral Ascent, which hit its funding goal within two days and managed to blow past it considerably in the weeks to come. Since then, the crew has been busily working away at it while sharing periodic updates, and the day has now come that Astral Ascent is seeing its full release. We’re happy to report that this is a tremendous new entry in the Switch’s packed roguelite library, quickly inserting itself amongst the very best.
Astral Ascent is set in a modern fantasy land called the Garden, which is a lush and beautiful prison guarded by 12 godlike jailers, each based on a Zodiac symbol. You play as one of the prisoners in this magical place, trying your absolute hardest to break out and secure freedom for both you and your allies. Each of the Zodiacs has a unique personality and clearly knows their prisoners personally, and as you engage in your endless attempts to escape, more of the backstory is slowly revealed that highlights the connections between these characters and why they find themselves locked in this seemingly eternal loop.
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