Friday, April 22, 2016

Nintendo News: 18.04.2016 - 22.04.2016

Hello and Welcome to Dillians Nintendo News Recap.

Apart from the Release of Star Fox Zero and Star Fox Guard this proved to be quite the tame week, so let's not lose any more time


New Releases:


  • Star Fox Zero - Wii-U
  • Star Fox Zero – Download Version (Wii-U)
  • Dan McFox: Headhunter – Nintendo 3DS Download-Software
  • Queen's Garden – Wii-U Download-Software
  • Mario Party DS – Virtual Console (Wii-U)
  • Mario Party 2 – Virtual Console (Wii-U)
  • Langrisser Re:Incernation-Tensei – Nintendo 3DS Download-Software
Well the obvious highlight this week was without a doubt Star Fox Zero. I'm currently playing the game, and expect to have the Review up by Monday or Tuesday. Apart from that Game there is your usual chunk of e-shop titles and virutal console releases. Mario Party DS and 2 are Ok entries of the series, so if you're in the mood to end some friendships grab those.



Tokyo Mirage Sessions#FE:



Let's start this weeks recap with some great news. As many of you probably know I, and many others, weren't to thrilled with the translation work Nintendo did for Fire Emblem Fates. So there was a valid concern regarding Tokyo Mirage Sessions#FE (still a great and easy to spell title by the way). But luckily Atlus announced that they would handle the translation of the game themselves. Looking at other Atlus games I don't think we have to worry to much now.


Another piece of Information regarding the game was the announcement of the Fortissimo edition for Europe and America. This came as somewhat of a surprise because of the sluggish sales of the game in Japan. The Fortissimo edition will include the game, an artbook, a soundtrack CD, lyric cards for sing along enthusiasts, stickers as well as several costume DLC worth 1,99$ each. In America this edition is exclusive to Amazon and GameStop and will cost you 80$. For Europe there currently is no further information, except that the Fortissimo edition will release here as well.



Star Fox Zero: 


To celebrate the launch of Star Fox Zero Nintendo released a 15 minute animated video, which details the first mission of the game. It's a lot of fun, good animation and cheesy dialoge. So right up my alley. And it has once again, after Smash Bros. and Kid Icarus, made people beg for an anime adaption of a popular Nintendo IP. Maybe one day they'll fullfill this wish. Till then enjoy Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins.




Nintendo:


Several months after the tragic passing of Nintendo president Satoru Iwata Tatsumi Kimishima was elected as new Nintendo president. On March 21st he celebrated his 66th birthday. The first as president of Nintendo. Congratulations Mr. Kimishima (even if its late and you'll never read this.)




Metroid Prime: Federation Force:



After its announcement this game received a lot of backlash. The fan frustration was quite understandable, but in the end still pretty unfair to a game that honestly looks like it could be a lot of fun. Soon the question if the game is fun or not will be answered. And I use soon here very loosely. The Japanese Twitter account of the game announced that its release was pushed backwards to make further to the balance. But at least we now have the official release.
Metroid Prime: Federation Force will release on August 19th in America, on August 25th in Japan and finally on September 2nd in Europe.



Splatoon:



Splatoon is huge in Japan. Really, really huge. The Japanese truly love Nintendos quirky and unique shooter. To celebrate this the Squid Sisters will have their second live concert on April 29th. On this occasion Callie and Marie would like the attendees to dance with them. That's why Nintendo released a video with the dance, so that all Splatoon fans have a chance to train at home. Watching hundreds of people perform this dance with two holographic squid girls will be quite the sight... and very Japanese.




The Legend of Zelda:



This week several impressive videos of a Zelda: Ocarina of Time remake surfaced. You better take a look at them before Nintendo inevitably takes them down. All in all it looks very impressive and shows what could be possible. For his fan project the creator, CryZENx, uses the Unreal 4 engine. Especially the showcase of his version of Gerude Desert is quite impressive. Take a look:




Summer Games Done Quick:



While these are not strictly Nintendo News many SNES, N64 and NES games are important parts of these events, and I always love to follow them. If some of you don't know Awesome Games Done Quick (Each year in January) and Summer Games Done Quick are two events, where several speedrunners gather to show us their skills and gather money for a good cause. If you want to see your favorite games absolutely obliterated in no time at all there is no better place. The runs at these events are generally very entertaining and the runners and commentators to their best to explain everything to the audience. If you're interested in the world of speedrunning this events are always a great place to start. And if not they are still a blast to watch.

This years Summer Games Done Quick will happen from July 3rd to July 10th. If you're interested what games they'll play and when those games are on, then take a look at the schedule.



Pokemon:



And lastly for this week we have a small tid bit of Pokemon rumors. It seem the names of the new legendary Pokemons have been leaked by their trademarks. It seem the Sun legendary will be called Solgaleo, which indicates a Lion. It's counter part will be called Lunaala. Ala is the word for wing in several languages so it could be another legendary bird.

Now these two names are still rumors, but several sites are trusting the source and so I'm willing to post about them here. Take from this leak what you will. In May with new CoroCoro News we hopefully will know more.



And that was it for this week. Enjoy your games and enjoy the weekend.

And as always

thanks for reading  





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