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!
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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%.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
JDM: Rise Of The Scorpion is a free prologue for JDM: Japanese Drift Master, a racing game about – who could guess – drift racing in Japan. It’s got an open world set in rural towns to burn rubber around as well as several story missions to play. You can download it from Steam now.
I’ve got a real soft spot for Trombone Champ, a rhythm game about tooting along to music that works perfectly with the mouse. I’m also a huge fan of Beat Saber, a rhythm game in which you slice at blocks that whizz towards you in VR.
You can see where this is going. Trombone Champ: Unflattened transports that 2022 tooting into 2024 virtual reality.
Minecraft‘s Realms servers have been down for most of the past four days. Mojang’s official account for reporting service status updates noted that “intermittent failures or slowdowns” began on August 13th, and despite similarly intermittent reports of uptime in the days since, the servers remain inaccessible to most players today.
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.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
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”.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
“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.
Read the full article on nintendolife.com
