Issue #4 – September 2023.
Welcome back to the Nintendo Life Mailbox. You hear that? That’s the sound of 2024 creeping up on you as we plough into the last week of September.
Yes, we’re back (slightly later than planned — hey, last week turned into a busy one!) with another selection of your correspondence for our monthly letters page feature.
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Some assets have been changed.
We’re running out of months in 2023 and there’s still no sign of Hollow Knight: Silksong arriving on the Nintendo Switch any time soon.
With this in mind, fans have been searching for any sign of a possible upcoming release, and it seems the game’s web and store assets have been updated and changed this week. As highlighted by SteamDB (via ‘Wario64’ on social media), these are the first significant backend updates to the game page on Steam since earlier this year.
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Online and local play included.
Sonic Superstars arrives on the Switch next month and ahead of launch Sega has shared some brand new details about the game’s multiplayer ‘Battle Mode’ feature. This mode will allow up to eight players online, or four players locally to go head-to-head in a variety of challenges.
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This remaster of the spin-off series returns next year.
Publisher and developer Rocket Panda Games has announced it will be bringing its anime side-scrolling beat ’em up Phantom Breaker: Battle Grounds Ultimate to the Nintendo Switch in 2024.
This game is a complete remaster of the original title, rebuilt “from the ground up” on Unreal Engine 5. Players can expect enhanced visuals, improved gameplay mechanics and exciting new features. This title will also support 8-player cross-platform online play.
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Pre-orders are now live.
Earlier this week, Capcom confirmed the Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney Trilogy would be launching on the Nintendo Switch early next year on 25th January 2024.
Now, in an update, a physical release is coming to Japan and other Asia regions. The good news is that you can pre-order it from websites like Playasia and it will include language support for “English, Japanese, French, German, Korean + Traditional & Simplified Chinese”.
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Spending time with Samus.
It’s the weekend! That means it’s time to sit back, relax, and enjoy some games.
Before we do so, however, let’s take a look back at what’s been going on this week. One of the biggest stories was actually in relation to the massive leak suffered by Xbox in which Phil Spencer expressed a rather blunt desire to acquire Nintendo. Good luck with that, Phil.
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Tell us your own thoughts.
The first DLC part of Pokémon Scarlet & Violet – The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero arrived on the Nintendo Switch last week and there have now been multiple reviews shared online, so we’ve put together a roundup.
Here on Nintendo Life, we said The Teal Mask was a fun diversion for Scarlet & Violet players even if there are shortcomings:
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Update: The third season pass character is Battle Mage.
Update #2 :
The third Season Pass character Battle Mage has now been revealed. This fighter is set to join the roster this December. Below is a brief teaser:
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“Thank you for giving us hard feedback”.
It only took just over a week for Unity to make changes to its brand new Runtime Fee policy, but that’s exactly what it has done.
Announcing the changes in an open letter published today on the Unity Blog (shared on social media), the revamped model includes some pretty sweeping changes from the initial policy. Unity Create lead Marc Whitten started the letter off with an apology, acknowledging that “We should have spoken with more of you and we should have incorporated more of your feedback” before making last week’s announcement.
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Too much background noise?
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Ollie looks back on how Tears of the Kingdom’s launch hype on social media may have affected his own enjoyment of the game…
On May 12th, 2023, I, like countless other Switch owners, booted up The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom almost as soon as I was physically able and dove headfirst — quite literally, it seemed — back into the world of Hyrule.
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