A portable party.
Hey everyone, welcome to this week’s edition of Box Art Brawl!
Last time, we saw three 3DS covers go head-to-head as we matched up the regional variants for Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask. Despite having all those options, it was Europe that walked away with a commanding win after taking 56% of the vote. North America followed behind with 27%, while the paired-back Japanese edition brought up the rear with 17%.
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Feature updates, bug fixes and more.
The retro fighter SNK vs. Capcom SVC Chaos this week received a new update adding feature improvements and bug fixes.
This includes some handy new additions as well as fixes and corrections which will resolve “rare crashes” and a few other things. Below are the full patch notes, courtesy of Code Mystics on social media:
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New features, fixes and improvements.
Since arriving on the Switch and other platforms in August, the turn-based action title SteamWorld Heist II has received ongoing support from the development team, and the latest update (Version 1.5) is now live.
“The headliner” according to the team, is that you can now “buy back rare items” you’ve sold from the new ‘Used Goods’ section at ‘Argent’s Articles’. There are also some new options to improve the ‘ship firing angle’ and adjust the text speed.
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Celebrating one million sales.
Vanillaware’s smash-hit tactical RPG Unicorn Overlord is currently celebrating more than one million sales, and as part of this, the game’s developers recently held a special program. This included Atlus revealing the top 10 most popular characters in the game, as voted by players.
These picks were based on each character’s design, personality as well as their usefulness in combat. Nigel was also apparently on the list (between Benrengaria and Virginia) but according to the source “he’s not technically part of the ranking”.
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In the c(Link).
My first hour in The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom left me with a single, unshakeable thought: God, Hyrule’s prisons are terrible.
Yes, I was besotted with how traditional the whole thing felt and still somewhat in shock that I had a brand new Zelda game in my hands a mere 18 months after its predecessor. But all that went out of my mind the second I saw our titular hero get thrown into a cell. Come on, there’s a flipping massive hole right above that bench that may as well have “Climb me!” etched into it!
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Slipped through the net.
Oh, hello there. You must be here for our bi-annual Games We Missed callout.
It’s a familiar story. Loads of Switch games — too many, perhaps — and while the majority of the eShop deliveries each week are a load of old AI-generated pap, there’s also a load of great games which, unfortunately, we just aren’t able to cover with a review.
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Is there an echo in here? in here..? in here……?
Well folks, another week and come and (almost) gone, and it’s been another fun-filled one in the world of Nintendo.
First up, our preview for Super Mario Party Jamboree went live and we think it’s looking absolutely fabulous so far. We also got a look at a rather fetching Zelda Switch Lite which had been modded to include an OLED screen, hall effect joysticks, and a bigger battery.
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Out this November.
Last month during Sony’s State of Play broadcast, a new trailer was released for LEGO Horizon Adventures alongside the release date.
Nintendo of America has now shared the official Switch version of this trailer ahead of the game’s 14th November 2024 release date. It still looks quite stunning on the Switch, but we don’t know what the performance will be like on the hybrid platform.
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Another blast from the past returns.
In June, the talented team at Nightdive Studios announced it would be teaming up with Ziggurat Interactive to release Killing Time: Resurrected – a remaster of the classic comedy horror first-person shooter dating back to the ’90s.
Now, in an official update, it’s been revealed this title will be revived later this month on 17th October 2024 across all platforms including the Nintendo Switch. Just in time for Halloween!
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Natural selection.
We’ve been playing The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom pretty consistently over the past week and it’s safe to say we’re really rather fond of it. Sure, the frame rate could be improved (not that it bothers everybody) and the lock-on can be a little fiddly, but overall it’s a jolly good time and a fine return for top-down Zelda.
There is, however, one issue that we’ve come up against time and time again. A single thorn amongst the roses that makes every piece of adventuring feel more like a chore than it really should. We’re talking about that darn Echo selection menu.
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