Issue #15 – August 2024.
Hello there. We’re back once again for another good ol’ rummage through the Nintendo Life Mailbox.
It’s been a relatively quiet few weeks on the gaming front, as people head off on holidays for a break from their inboxes. We, however, are here to check ours!
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Lock n’ load.
Hello everyone, and welcome back to another edition Box Art Brawl!
We had a doozy of a brawl last week as we looked at The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past and Four Swords for the GBA. You folks really surprised us with this one, though: we weren’t too keen on the Japanese box art for this, deemed it to be fairly busy in comparison to the others, but your votes are the ones that matter, and so Japan won the day with 47% of the vote. Europe came in second place with 29%, and North America managed 25%.
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Square Enix is publishing this enhanced version.
During Nintendo’s June Direct, Square Enix announced an enhanced version of Mistwalker’s turn-based Apple Arcade RPG Fantasian on multiple platforms including the Switch.
FANTASIAN Neo Dimension (from the creator of the Final Fantasy series Hironobu Sakaguchi) has now been rated by the ESRB, and it’s revealed a little bit more about what to expect from this new enhanced release. The game was also previously locked in for a ‘Holiday 2024‘ launch on the Switch – so it seems it’s still on track for this window.
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Here’s what you can expect.
Back in June, it was discovered The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom would include amiibo support. We’ve got a little bit of extra information revealing how exactly amiibo functionality will work in the game.
This information comes from the official Japanese game website, and according to a translation, amiibo will unlock useful items for Zelda’s adventure, as well as different colours of clothing.
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Lucky, lucky star.
Wheeeeey, the weekend’s here again, which means it’s time to pop on our most comfortable slippers and get some gaming done.
Looking back on this week, the most interesting piece of news (well, “interesting” in an oh-god-when-will-it-end kind of way) was that the ‘Switch 2’ likely won’t be launching until after the current fiscal year, which ends March 31st, 2025. This seems pretty obvious when you think about it, but it’s still nevertheless noteworthy if you’re someone who’s literally counting down the days.
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Gumshoe: “We’ve gotta buy it right now”.
Capcom’s Ace Attorney Investigations Collection is out next month on 6th September 2024 and if you’re looking for a reason to pre-order it, the prosecutor Miles Edgeworth has put forth a strong case.
Players who pre-order the game now will get the bonus of “5 arranged tracks from the second game, “Prosecutor’s Gambit”, that you can use in-game”. Detective Gumshoe has no objections and suggests “we’ve gotta buy it right now”.
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“I’ll see you all again at the closing ceremonies”.
The 2024 Pokémon World Championships is currently taking place and it’s been confirmed there will be some Pokémon game news shared at the end of the weekend.
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Fit for an Alien Queen.
Toward the beginning of Perfect Organism: An Alien: Isolation Companion, author Andy Kelly asks a question that, to an outsider, might seem particularly pertinent: why write an entire book about one game? However, to those who have ever held a deep passion for a piece of pop culture, whether it be a film, a book, or a game, there’s an innate sense of understanding right from the start. After all, who hasn’t felt a burning desire to harp on about their favourite game for hours on end to anybody willing to sit down and listen? It’s only natural that when we love something so completely, we want to talk about it.
This, ultimately, is what makes Perfect Organism such a pleasant read; it could only have been written by someone who loves Alien: Isolation from top to toe. I’ve experienced far too many books based on the world of video games that felt like they were written out of some begrudging obligation, but Andy Kelly’s exploration of Creative Assembly’s outstanding survival horror is simply overflowing with love and enthusiasm. As somebody who holds a similar passion for the game and the Alien franchise as a whole, it resonated with me deeply.
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“Welcome to the hellish meat-dimension”.
Vampire Survivors is the bargain-priced video game that Poncle just keeps delivering on. Alongside a few paid updates, the developer has continuously been giving us several free updates too. And today, another one has landed on all platforms.
This “super secret” update, called Darkasso, includes a brand new stage, a new relic, five new arcana (called Darkana), new skins for a couple of characters, and plenty of bug fixes.
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And it’s out in October.
Publisher Hyper Real has revealed Telebbit, an intriguing 2D platformer that utilises teleportation as its main gameplay hook.
Launching on the Switch eShop on 24th October 2024 and developed by IKINAGAMES, it’s currently giving off heavy Celeste vibes, albeit with a more cyberpunk-esque aesthetic with a hefty dollop of attitude. Heck, it looks like it’s even got bits of fruit floating around the stages that require collection.
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