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As we continue our trip down memory lane before the 3DS (and Wii U) eShops close up for new purchases, firing up our old consoles recently has reminded us just what a bounty of gaming joy 3DS presents every time you crack open that clamshell. What a wonderful little console! (Check out our ‘Countdown’ series if you’re looking for eShop recommendations before new purchases cease on 27th March 2023.)
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Coming to Switch Spring 2023.
Mooneaters, Untold Tales, and VARSAV Games have announced Everdream Valley, a brand new 3D farming sim that – in their words – is looking to be “your new favourite cosy farming game”.
Launching on the Switch in Spring 2023, the game sees you restore your special corner of the valley during the day, and take part in magical dreams at night that will let you embody various farmland creatures.
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Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star! Pronty! Meg’s Monster!
The latest Nintendo Download update for North America has arrived, and it’s bringing new games galore to the eShop in your region. As always, be sure to drop a vote in our poll and comment down below with your potential picks for the week. Enjoy!
Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star (Imagineer, 2nd Mar) – Fitness Boxing returns with Fist of the North Star characters appearing as your instructors! Punch your way through the many enemies that stand in your way and aim for victory in boss battles. The Fitness Boxing series is a boxing exercise game that uses the Joy-Con controllers to let you throw different punches to a beat like a rhythm game, all while receiving directions from in-game instructors voiced by popular voice actors. Fitness Boxing Fist of the North Star is available today!
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“So many girls!”.
Ever played Zone of the Enders and thought “hmm, this could do with more girls”? Well, you might be in luck, because Alice Gear Aegis CS Concerto of Simulatrix is just a couple of weeks away from a western release on March 16th, 2023.
Originally released as a mobile title in Japan in 2018 before the console version arrived in 2022, its western release is being handled by publisher PQube. You’ll have a choice of several different “Actresses” who you can interact with during dialogue sequences and customise with a range of different gear and weaponry. When you’re ready, you can head into battle and put your skills to the test to “become a champion”.
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Sorry, Japan.
The 3DS eShop is scheduled to shut down this month, and in response to this, publisher and developer Atlus (known for series like Persona and Shin Megami Tensei) was planning on hosting one “final” sale on the platform in Japan.
Instead of going live today, yesterday the company announced it would no longer be happening. It apparently suspended the sale due to a “variety of reasons” and issued an apology to fans – thanking them for understanding. The sale was scheduled to run from 2nd March until 28th March.
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The joys of the cloud.
While in most cases you’re required to buy a cloud game outright on the Nintendo Switch, over in Japan, there are certain cloud releases that can actually be rented. Resident Evil 7 (known as the Biohazard series in this region) happens to be one of them, but it seems this offer will soon be removed from the local Switch eShop.
As highlighted by the folks at Siliconera, the option to redeem the “rental version” of Resident Evil 7 Cloud will end on 29th May 2023. Capcom has already cut off sales of the rental version, but anyone who purchased a rental pass before 1st December 2022 will still be able to redeem it up until the end of May.
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A Season Pass exclusive.
The award-winning title Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope today receives its very first DLC offering, officially titled the ‘Tower of Doooom‘. As part of this Ubisoft and Nintendo have now rolled out a new update for the game.
The patch notes at the moment are only available in Japanese. Below is a rough translation (via Google), which mentions adding support for the game’s Season Pass.
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Moon’s haunted.
Though the JRPG has remained the de facto king of the RPG space for the last few decades, one could argue that the popular genre would never have existed were it not for DRPGs. What started in eons past with titles like Ultima and aimed to translate a traditional D&D gameplay experience to the screen has given way to more approachable dungeon-crawlers like Etrian Odyssey and Demon Gaze. In 2018, Nippon Ichi tried its hand at the subgenre with the enjoyable Labyrinth Of Refrain: Coven Of Dusk and it’s now opted to follow up on that experiment with Labyrinth of Galleria: The Moon Society. Though it’s clearly designed for a relatively narrow audience, there’s a lot to love about Labyrinth of Galleria.
Labyrinth of Galleria places you in the role of Eureka, a bright-eyed young girl responding to a job posting that sees her visiting a sketchy abandoned manor in the woods. Here, she is welcomed by the witchy Madame Marta, who quickly bonds her with a cute green ghost that Eureka names ‘Fantie’ and prompts her to use her spooky new friend to explore the vast labyrinth below Galleria Manor in search of powerful magical artifacts that the manor’s mysterious owner desires. No human can enter the labyrinth and return unharmed, so Marta teaches her how to use Fantie’s powers to imbue various puppets with life and direct them to explore the dungeon on her behalf. Eureka thus sets out on a vicarious quest into the depths below, while slowly learning more about her eccentric employers.
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Soul food.
In the magazine business, the Back Page is where you’d find all the weird goofs that we couldn’t fit in anywhere else. Some may call it “filler”; we prefer “a whole page to make terrible jokes that are tangentially related to the content of the mag”. We don’t have pages on the internet, but we still love terrible jokes — so welcome to our semi-regular feature, Back Page.
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Squishing bugs.
Last week saw the launch of the Fractal update in No Man’s Sky which brought additions such as new ships, expeditions and even gyro controls to the Switch. Now, Hello Games has released the follow-up patch to solve any issues with the new content.
The ver. 4.12 update is mainly focussed on sorting out bugs that arose with the latest additions to the game. Many of these were focussed on consoles outside of the Switch, though the Nintendo version will see some of the fixes come its way.
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