Category: Nintendo

Blood-meltingly beautiful.

Tsukihime is responsible for a lot of things. Back in 2000, Type-Moon’s classic visual novel captivated audiences with a story crammed full of occult mystery, thrilling action, and heart-pounding character drama. Like jagged lines splintering out of a unified core, its success spread out in many different directions: adaptations across manga and anime, the production of a number of sequel VNs, the birth of Type-Moon’s mega-popular Fate franchise, and, of course, the creation of its very own fighting game series Melty Blood. It’s no stretch to say that Tsukihime is a cornerstone of the industry, which is exactly why the title’s fade into relative obscurity is such a surprise.

For all the waves it made in the time during and after its release, Tsukihime has never been graced with an official Western localization. Moreover, the original Japanese release has long since become abandonware, with the task of preserving the game online falling to diehard fans. Suffice to say, it’s not the fate that a game many champion as one of the best in its genre deserves. Fortunately, Type-Moon has seen fit to rectify that problem by way of a full-on remake project.

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Roguelite in disguise.

Outright Games has today announced Transformers: Galactic Trials, an all-new adventure for the robots in disguise that combines on-track arcade racing and third-person robot combat. What’s more, it’s coming our way on 11th October.

It feels like a slightly weird combination, but these are the Transformers, driving and shooting is kind of their thing.

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“Even if you’ve tried it before”.

If you’ve been wanting to give the Switch Online service another shot, but don’t necessarily want to fork out the monthly sub for it, Nintendo is now offering Switch users a free 7-day trial.

This allows you to “retry the benefits” of this membership service, even if you’ve tried it out in the past. This will give you access to the base tier which comes packed with the NES, Super Nintendo and Game Boy libraries. As noted by Nintendo, this allows you to access more than “100+ classics”.

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Another “rebootless” update has gone live.

Following a system firmware update in June (bumping the Switch up to Version 18.1.0), Nintendo has now rolled out another “rebootless” update.

This has been detailed by dataminer ‘OatmealDome’ on social media, who once again mentions how these updates “do not require the console to be restarted and often contain minor changes”. This latest build has (you guessed it) updated the “bad words list”. We won’t go into specific details but it appears to block a “censor-evading way” to write a certain word in Japanese.

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Cleanin’ up?

Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD is out now, offering fans of the original a new way to experience the game with cleaner visuals, better controls, and strong use of the Switch’s motion controls and HD rumble.

The wonderful PJ O’Reilly took the game for a spin for our official review and came away feeling pretty impressed, awarding it a score of 8/10 and praising it as “the best way to play the game as of 2024”. Now, we want to hear from you fine people. What did you think of Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD?

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“My son calls it ‘The Plucky Square’”.

“It’s a new adventure,” is what James Turner, co-director of the absolutely delightful The Plucky Squire, told us when we asked him what it was like to leave Game Freak and The Pokémon Company.

Before forming his own game studio, All Possible Futures, with Jonathan Biddle, Turner was most well-known for being an artist on the long-running monster-catching RPG series, even becoming lead art director on Pokémon Sword & Shield. But he has experience creating unique and charming games outside of Pokémon, directing 2012’s HarmoKnight and the Sega-published Tembo the Badass Elephant.

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Furukawa talks combating scalpers.

During Nintendo’s recent shareholder meeting, president Shuntaro Furukawa touched on a subject that will no doubt be playing on the minds of gamers worldwide as we move ever closer to the reveal of the Switch successor: scalpers.

Last year, Nintendo already expressed its interest in reducing the number of scalping incidents relating to new hardware by simply ensuring that the company “produce and ship in numbers that can meet customer demand”. At June’s shareholder meeting this year, Furukawa reiterated this desire but crucially indicated that the component shortage issue plaguing the gaming industry over the last few years is seemingly no longer affecting Nintendo.

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Hop in!

Sega’s upcoming reboot of the Crazy Taxi franchise might still be a ways off, but thanks to a recruitment video and a smattering of job listings, we now have a slightly firmer idea of what the game will have in store for us.

As spotted by VGC, SEGA is describing the reboot as a ‘massively multiplayer driving game’ in online job listings, with the recently posted recruitment video expanding on this by stating that development is currently focused on adapting the classic Crazy Taxi gameplay into an online world with multiple players.

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Another Anime Expo 2024 leak…

It seems another game localisation announcement may have been accidentally revealed ahead of Anime Expo 2024.

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Note: No relation to NoA’s ex-President.

Playing around with gravity in platformers isn’t anything new; Super Mario Galaxy is a prime example of the concept done right, but Limbo also performed a commendable job during the latter stages of its short campaign. Being able to manipulate gravity throughout an entire game, though? That’s a pretty new one (shush, Gravity Rush and VVVVVV fans), but if our hands-on time with the demo for Reggie: The Game is anything to go by, then we’re in for a treat when it eventually launches in 2025.

To use its full name, Reggie, His Cousin, Two Scientists and Most Likely the End of the World is a 2D platformer from Dutch developer Degoma in which you navigate stages by flipping the world’s gravity, effectively allowing you to zip to the ceiling and back down again, or even zig-zag in mid-air, bopping enemies on the head (or their backsides) as you go. It’s pretty similar to VVVVVV in some respects, but the ability to flip the gravity while mid-air and utilise physics to manipulate your momentum sets this one apart quite nicely.

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