You can purchase “Suika Game” from Japan’s eShop.
A Japanese Switch eShop exclusive known as Suika Game (Watermelon Game) has recently gone viral thanks to its popularity among streamers and VTubers. Earlier this year it started gaining traction with Japanese influencers, and now it’s caught on here in the West.
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Never A Minute consultants assess our killer game idea.
I have an idea for a video game. Actually, I’ve been making it for about six months now.
My video game is a rhythm-based game. It’s also an American football game. To play it, you choose between plays, just like any sports game … but your play only succeeds if you push the buttons in rhythm with the music. (The other player plays as the defense, and they will be trying to send you the wrong notes, to distract you.) My friend, well, ‘co-developer,’ he’s writing all the music for me.
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Get your act together.
Welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
Let’s take a look at what happened last week before we crack on, shall we? We picked the Game Boy version of Yoshi’s Cookie, pitting the Western design against the Japanese variant.
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Following its Nintendo Direct announcement.
At Nintendo’s Direct broadcast last month, Bandai Namco lifted the lid on an adventure game adaptation of the popular manga and anime series Spy x Family.
SpyxAnya: Operation Memories will be released on the Switch and multiple other platforms in Japan on 21st December 2023 and will follow with a worldwide launch in 2024. To build up some excitement, Bandai Namco has released the first proper trailer for the game.
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See how the Switch version holds up.
Borderlands 3: Ultimate Edition is out now on the Nintendo Switch and if you’re curious to know how this version looks alongside a next-generation version, you’ve come to the right place.
The folks at GameXplain have put together a side-by-side graphics comparison of Borderlands 3 on the Switch and the PlayStation 5. Given the dated hardware the title is working with, it’s doing a decent job recreating the third entry. The most noticeable difference is probably the muddier textures.
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Your wish is granted.
For several years, it felt like if you’ve played one of Omega Force’s famed Musou action games, you’ve played them all. It seems the team took note of this souring sentiment, however, resulting in more nuanced takes on the formula in more recent titles such as Fire Emblem: Three Hopes and Persona 5 Strikers (the latter co-developed with P-Studio). It’s continued this push with Fate/Samurai Remnant, a new standalone entry in the sprawling Fate franchise that provides an engaging action RPG experience that can appeal to fans both new and old.
The Fate series has expanded to become a vast and confusing multimedia soup of various canon and non-canon works, which can make following the narrative a rather tricky proposition, but Fate/Samurai’s story can readily be enjoyed both by franchise fans and newcomers. The story takes place in Edo period Japan and primarily follows a young man named Miyamoto Iori, a skilled swordsman who finds himself haplessly dragged into a supernatural conflict called the Waxing Moon Ritual.
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Tell us! Do it now!
The weekend is here once again folks, so it’s time to sit down, relax, and play some games.
Before we do so, however, let’s just go over what’s been going on this week. First, we got another teasing look at Hotel Chocolatier, the new game from the creator of Stardew Valley, and it’s looking mighty fine indeed. We also learned that Nintendo plans to continue to support the Switch well into FY24/25, which… yeah, that seems obvious.
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A new entry was announced in March.
Back in March of this year, Bandai Namco announced it was working on a brand new Dragon Ball Budokai Tenkaichi game.
Now, in an update, Dragon Ball fans have discovered a trademark for “Sparking! Zero” was filed in the US at the end of last month. The Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi series is known as the Dragon Ball Z: Sparking! series in Japan and the original three titles all include “Sparking!” in their name.
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Pikachu The Electric Mouse Detective.
Detective Pikachu returns in the aptly-tilted Detective Pikachu Returns… today!
If you’ve snapped up the game for yourself — whether you’re a first-time detective or you’re coming back for a second cup of coffee — you might be wondering what the differences are between the 3DS original and this Switch follow-up. Good thing the lovely Zion has got you covered over on our YouTube channel, then!
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LEGO to the City.
Following rumours that LEGO was set to team up with Nintendo and unleash Animal Crossing-themed sets on unsuspecting wallets the world over, a short teaser yesterday revealed… well, very little really. But the leaks were true, and Animal Crossing Lego exists! Yes, official Tom Nook and Isabelle minifigs will be available to purchase at some point in the hopefully near future.
It’s been a long time coming. For years, the Lego Ideas scheme — which lets fans submit designs for votes, with any that receive over 10,000 being judged by an official Lego panel with one being selected for production — has received Animal Crossing-themed submissions, and the massive mainstream popularity and cross-generational appeal of New Horizons on Switch made this collaboration feel like a no-brainer. Following the release and success of the Lego Super Mario sets, it was only a matter of time.
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