Category: Nintendo

“You won’t see a 30th or 40th anniversary”.

Certain series never stop, but it seems the Trails games (which are now 20 years old) are getting to the point of completion.

Speaking to GameSpot recently, the Nihon Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo (who is also one of the key devs behind Trails) mentioned how the main story is now “about 80-90% complete” and while there could be “another arc”, whatever happens next wouldn’t continue much longer and don’t expect to see a “30th or 40th anniversary”. Here’s the full exchange:

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And it’s confirmed for Switch.

Canari Games, the studio behind 2023’s fantastic cinematic platformer Lunark, revealed an adorable Link’s Awakening-inspired adventure earlier this year. Back then, the game was only confirmed for PC, but today, the developer has revealed that the game is indeed coming to Switch — and soon!

Castaway launches on Nintendo Switch and all other platforms on 16th August 2024 and will only set you back USD $7.99 / GBP £6.99. In the game, you play as Martin, an adventurer who crash-lands on an island. His pet soon gets kidnapped (pet-napped?) and he has to go and save him.

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Every Persona game and spin-off, ranked by you.

Persona has become one of the most recognisable RPG series of the modern era. Starting life as a Shin Megami Tensei spin-off in 1996 with Revelations: Persona on PS1, Persona took a while to reach a wider audience. A shift in tone, some more slice-of-life and school elements, and a gradual upgrade and explosion in style and aesthetics put Atlus’ turn-based RPG series on the map. It’s far eclipsed SMT in popularity nowadays, with Persona 5 being one of the most recognisable games in the genre.

While Shin Megami Tensei has a storied history with the Big N, Persona took much longer to make the jump to Nintendo systems. A few years of spin-offs on the 3DS and Switch paved the way for Persona 5 Royal and, eventually, the other “modern” Persona games to come to Switch.

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Including Mushihimesama.

Clear River Games has revealed that it’s releasing four critically acclaimed Switch shmups in physical form in Europe.

Three Cave classics — DoDonPachi Resurrection, Espgaluda II, Mushihimesama — and Treasure’s celebrated Radiant Silvergun will all be getting a physical release across Europe soon. More details will be announced in the future.

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“I felt robbed, but in an all too familiar way”.

Multiple external translators who worked on games like Animal Crossing: New Horizons, Super Mario RPG and The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom say that Nintendo’s miscrediting policies have become “ridiculous” after the company repeatedly failed to credit their work.

This is according to a new article from Game Developer in which several anonymous freelance translators confessed to having to sign decade-spanning non-disclosure agreements by Nintendo, preventing them from being able to discuss their work.

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Following last week’s major update.

Nintendo dropped a sizable update for the Switch Online racer F-Zero 99 last week and this week it’s now rolled out a patch resolving some issues.

According to the official support page, Version 1.4.1 fixes an issue with Lucky Ranks and comes with fixes for some “other” problems. Here are the patch notes in full:

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“Starfy dives onto the Nintendo Switch”.

Breaking: Nintendo has added three more classic games to the Switch Online Game Boy Advance library. They include Densetsu no Starfy 1,2 and 3. Enjoy!

Densetsu no Starfy – No sleep ’til Pufftop! A sudden storm has caused Starfy, prince of the floating sky kingdom Pufftop, to plummet from his lofty home into the sea below. Luckily, he is rescued by an old lobster named Lobber who sets the adorable hero on a grand journey back to Pufftop. The way home is full of dangers, though, and Starfy will need to employ a variety of abilities – including Star Spin and Glide – and vehicles like the mighty Mole Tank, to overcome the challenges that await. The legend begins here!

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The Famicom’s crown has been taken.

The Switch is now Nintendo’s longest-serving home console – with some caveats to consider.

This revelation comes thanks to peerless research from our friends over at VGC, who have determined that the Switch has surpassed the Famicom in terms of time on the market before the arrival of a successor.

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Get with the times.

If you head onto the Switch eShop now, chances are you probably won’t have a good time. Unless you go into it knowing what you want to buy ahead of time, the significant slowdown and copious shovelware making up the majority of the ‘Recent Releases’ section will likely be enough to scare you off long before you discover anything worth purchasing.

There are a lot of games on the eShop in 2024; far more than we’re comfortable with, frankly. It might be difficult to imagine now, but when the Switch launched in 2017 with little more than Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Fast RMX, Snipperclips, 1-2 Switch, and a handful of other software titles, the eShop actually ran pretty smoothly. This, coupled with its simplistic design, actually made the user experience reasonably pleasant. Sure, it might have lacked the personality of the Wii U and 3DS eShops, but it worked, and that’s really all that matters.

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Plus, Square Enix reveals new character art.

Just when we thought we couldn’t be any more excited for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, Square Enix comes along and pushes our hype levels into overdrive. The remake’s official Japanese site has today been updated with new information and screenshots and several Japanese outlets have published extended gameplay footage showcasing the adventure in action.

Let’s start with the biggie and take a look at some of the new footage. Six different Japanese outlets have been permitted to share up to half an hour of gameplay and each showcases different elements ‚ so yes, there’s a lot to catch up on. Dengeki Online’s capture drops us into the game’s random encounters from the get-go, Famitsu’s contains a good deal of environmental exploration and 4Gamer’s shorter clip gives a whistle-stop tour of several locations in bite-sized chunks.

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