Category: Nintendo

Feature: “I’m Going To Be A Grandfather Very Soon” – Is Neo Dimension Hironobu Sakaguchi’s Final Fantasian?

“…so I have to work and buy many toys”.

In case you haven’t heard, Hironobu Sakaguchi, the father of Final Fantasy, is returning home to Square Enix, so to speak, for the first time in 21 years, bringing Mistwalker’s one-time Apple Arcade-exclusive RPG Fantasian to Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5 (both physically and digitally) and to PlayStation 4, Xbox Series X|S, and Steam (digitally) on December 5, 2024, in the form of Fantasian Neo Dimension.

To investigate more about his latest effort, which was first announced in 2018 and released three years later, Nintendo Life met up with Sakaguchi-san a few weeks ago (before the birth of his grandchild!) in Los Angeles to discuss his newest game’s second life, and whether it would be his final Fantasian.

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Level-5 CEO Implies Nintendo Is To Thank For Professor Layton’s Comeback

All thanks to “Company N”.

Professor Layton and the New World of Steam was one of the biggest surprise announcements of 2023. While the return of Level-5’s polite professor might have felt like a no-brainer to some, it appears that the studio was initially hesitant about a comeback. That is until certain big names in the industry started pushing for it (thanks, Automaton).

This is according to Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino who, in a recent Tokyo Game Show chat with Dragon Quest’s Yuji Horii, confessed that the team was content to leave the Layton series alone after it had reached a “beautiful” conclusion.

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Round Up: The Latest Previews Are In For Super Mario Party Jamboree

The party is just getting started.

Super Mario Party Jamboree lands on the Switch later this month and another lot of impressions are now rolling in.

So far think everything is pointing towards this new entry being quite the get-together. It’s certainly looking to be the biggest and most feature-packed version of Mario Party to date.

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Opinion: I Didn’t Realise How Much I’d Missed ‘Traditional’ Zelda Dungeons

(Boss) Key to my heart.

Last year, hot off the back of Tears of the Kingdom, I wrote a piece expressing my love for Zelda’s ‘Modern’ dungeons. These puzzle-centric areas had been a little hit or miss, sure, but I found that there was a lot to like in each once I got past the general terminal-activation-ness of it all.

I thought I was over Zelda’s ‘Classic’ dungeon format — moving from one room to another via a series of puzzles, opening chests of increasingly flamboyant design and picking up unique items along the way. I thought the series was striding towards something new and I was excited by the prospect of that. I thought the Divine Beast formula was the future and I was ready to welcome it with open arms.

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Castlevania Dev Steps Down From Bloodstained 2 After Cancer Diagnosis

“It is a great blow to have him step away from the project”.

Shuntaro Ida, a veteran designer on the Castlevania franchise and director of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, has sadly stepped down from the development of Bloodstained 2 following a cancer diagnosis.

Ida announced his decision on social media (thanks, VGC), stating that although he had already come up with ideas for the upcoming game, he will pass these on to others while he receives treatment. Koji Igarashi, long-time producer of the Castevania series, reposted this message to express his sadness while wishing Ida a quick recovery.

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Gallery: Here’s The Switch Lite Hyrule Edition In All Its Zelda-Themed Beauty

He loves only gold.

The release of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom hasn’t just given us a new Hyrule adventure to embark on – it has also delivered a new piece of hardware in the form of the Switch Lite Hyrule Edition.

Continuing the tradition of releasing golden, Zelda-themed hardware – which dates all the way back to the GBA era – this new Switch Lite is a gorgeous-looking object, complete with the usual iconography the series is famous for.

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Shadow’s Sonic Generations Campaign Runtime Reportedly Revealed

The Switch release is fast approaching.

Sonic X Shadow Generations is fast approaching and it seems we might now have a rough idea of just how long the new Shadow campaign will be.

During a chat with Famitsu at the Tokyo Game Show recently, producer Shun Nakamura mentioned how the new Shadow-themed adventure would apparently be around the same length or possibly a little less than the main Sonic Generations offering (translation via ResetEra).

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