“While supplies last”.
If you’re planning on attending Nintendo New York’s midnight launch celebration for Super Mario Bros. Wonder this week, there will be some special items up for grabs.
Apart from the game itself, Nintendo’s store will also be offering a special “framed art print” of Super Mario Bros. Wonder that you can display. It’s limited to one per person and will be available while supplies last.
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Take up the tactical task next month.
We are a little under a month away from the release of Persona 5 Tactica on Switch and publisher/developer Atlus has today revealed a handful of features that we can expect to see when we finally get our hands on the tactics title on 17th November.
Chief among today’s additions is the reveal of the game’s replay features. It seems that this is a game which invites replayability, with previously cleared stages being made up for grabs with new challenges so you can continue to level up your Personas. We also have today heard of the game’s New Game+ option, which carries your completed data over to a new file so you can try to complete the Persona Compendium or try out the challenges with different difficulty modifiers.
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And we knead it.
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The appetite for a ‘true’ return of Paper Mario has long been on the lips of many who grew up with the N64 and the GameCube. Despite the series’ attempts to reinvent itself multiple times, fans have come to relish the taste of the original duo , a pair of turn-based RPGs that were the best thing since sliced bread. But in place of a new ‘proper’ paper game, many indie developers have risen to the challenge to create their own paper-thin homage to the beloved series.
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Kawaiite interesting.
Publisher Rogue Games and developer Dabadu Games have today announced that the rhythm dance game, Hello Kitty and Friends Happiness Parade, will be bringing some cute choreography our way on 26th October.
This one will see you teaming up with the titular Kitty and a handful of familiar faces including Kerokerokeroppi, Badtz-Maru and Pompompurin as you “bring joy to the universe” through the medium of — you guessed it — dance. There are 40 different tracks for you to shake your Joy-Con to and a boatload of unlockables to pick up along the way.
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Let’s ride.
After being revealed back in the hazy days of this summer, Atari has today announced that the deluxe edition of the rollercoaster park management sim, RollerCoaster Tycoon Adventures Deluxe, will be speeding its way onto Switch digitally on 1st November and physically just two days later on 3rd November.
There’s a brand-new trailer for the upcoming deluxe package that you can check out above which showcases some of the 80 new rides and attractions that developers Graphite Lab and Nvizzio Creations have added to this one. Alongside these newbies, the game also sees a fresh interface and performance optimisations so that park building should run smoother than ever before (we hope).
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Fans might already know who it is…
The release of the Metal Gear Solid: Master Collection Vol. 1 on Switch is fast approaching and it seems Konami has now teased a collaboration with a Hololive VTuber.
This special stream will be taking place on 20th October, 6 pm JST and more details will be revealed at a “later date”. Right now, it’s not entirely sure what the plans are, but there is a silhouette of a Hololive VTuber wearing a bandana similar to the one worn by Solid Snake and Big Boss.
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Xbox’s goal is parity across all platforms.
After a lot of court drama, Microsoft last week announced it had officially acquired Activision Blizzard as well as mobile giant King. Head of Xbox Phil Spencer has now appeared on the Official Xbox Podcast to discuss the acquisition and Call of Duty has once again come up in conversation.
Phil took a moment to clarify players on all platforms will be part of the “Call of Duty nation” going forward and that Xbox would not be locking certain exclusive content to its own platforms. It also strives for parity in terms of the “launch and content” across all systems:
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The race starts tomorrow.
Nintendo’s new battle royale game F-Zero 99 has been receiving regular updates, and the next one will add three more tracks to the game.
As highlighted on Nintendo’s Japanese website, speed demons can look forward to Mute City III, Red Canyon II, and Fire Field on 19th October.
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A mushroom with some bite.
If you have ever thought even remotely deeply about the reality of the Super Mario universe (which we wouldn’t recommend doing, seriously), then you might have bumped up against the most simple of questions: why does Mario get hurt when a Goomba hits him? As it turns out, this is something that Miyamoto was asked back in the days of the NES, and only with Super Mario Bros. Wonder, has Nintendo managed to visualise the reason.
According to a new ‘Ask the Developer‘ interview that Nintendo has published today, Miyamoto’s answer back then was because the Goombas bite Mario on impact (at least, that’s the way that Wonder’s art director, Masanobu Sato remembers it), and so the Wonder developers decided to add an animation into the upcoming platformer to make this statement a reality.
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RNG my bell.
It takes a lot to make a game about giant robot battles feel dull, but somehow Front Mission 2: Remake manages it. While it improves on some of the shortcomings of Front Mission 1st: Remake, the combat system isn’t fun enough to fully salvage this tactical RPG. While it might be worthwhile for strategy fans eager to test out G-Craft’s 1997 PlayStation game that never got released outside of Japan, we can’t see Front Mission 2: Remake offering much to anyone else.
It’s a shame that the actual combat in Front Mission 2: Remake is so frustrating because the story is much improved over the previous entry. You control a group of soldiers who find themselves on the losing side of a coup and are trying to flee the nation of Alordesh. Warfare in this setting takes place almost exclusively in Wanzers, which are highly customisable mechs of varying levels of effectiveness depending on how you outfit them.
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