Category: Nintendo

To hell with it.

The working week is over and it’s time to settle in for the weekend. Welcome back to another edition of What Are You Playing!

What’s been going on in the world of Nintendo recently, then? Well, we got a boatload of NSO drops as Nintendo served up a whopping seven additions to the NES library including Donkey Kong Jr. Math, Urban Champion, Golf and more. We also ran down all of the discounted delights in North America’s ‘Recollection Collection’ eShop sale, checked out more Nintendo lawsuits and shared our games of the year so far (because somehow we’re already halfway through 2024).

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Open network test takes place this month.

Bandai Namco is bringing together Gundam Breaker 4 and the Pac-Man series in the ultimate collaboration later this month.

Between 18th July – 20th July 2024, Gundam Breaker 4 will host a special “open network test” featuring a special Pac-Man level filled with appropriately-themed Pac-Man content including ghosts and more. There’ll also be some unlockable decals.

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Following last month’s eShop release.

Towards the end of last month, Limited Run Games revealed Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition would be getting a physical release on 12th July 2024. It’s now shared a first look at the standard edition of the game along with a special Collector’s Edition.

The standard edition is priced at $34.99 USD and will come with a copy of the game. Pre-orders will be open until 11th August 2024 and the game is estimated to ship between “Dec 1 – 31”.

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Coming ‘early 2025’.

NIS America has announced that The Legend of Heroes: Trails Through Daybreak II will be making its way to the Switch in ‘early 2025’.

The news comes as the first instalment launches, at the time of writing… today! Crikey, NIS doesn’t hang about, does it? It’s part of the much larger ‘Trails’ franchise which started in 2004 with Trails in the Sky for the PC, and comes after an initial Japanese launch on PS4 and PS5 in 2022.

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Emile Morel sadly passed away in 2023.

Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition launched on 25th June 2024, boasting revamped visuals and bonus content that resulted in an experience that’s, in our opinion, well worth checking out.

It turns out, however, that the game also includes a rather thoughtful tribute to Emile Morel, the creative director of Beyond Good & Evil 2 who sadly passed away in 2023.

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Let’s do the timeline again.

Much to our shame, it took approximately 30 seconds of The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom reveal trailer for us to start thinking about the dreaded timeline.

In the weeks since, we’d wager that a similar thought has appeared in the minds of most Zelda fans out there. Whether that was a happy thought or an “Oh god, here we go again” will depend on how deep you are in the trenches of Hylian chronology. For some of us at Nintendo Life (eg. this writer — hello!) it landed firmly in the former camp and so, after an intense period of digesting, research, and trailer breakdowns, we think we’re just about ready to get into things.

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Addressing performance mode issues and more.

The RPG Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes has this week received another update for the Switch, dealing with some performance mode issues, graphics issues, and various other problems. Here’s the full list of what’s been resolved in the latest patch update as of 3rd July 2024:

Platform: Switch
Issues resolved:

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After launching in Japan last September.

It has felt like a long time coming, but NIS America has today announced that Ys X: Nordics will finally make its Western debut on Switch on 25th October 2024.

This comes roughly one year after the latest entry in the long-running Ys series arrived in Japan last September, but we’re excited to finally see it come our way.

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‘Classic’ Shadow..?

Sonic X Shadow Generations is already gracing us with the return of Shadow the Hedgehog, but according to a page on the official Japanese website for the game, it seems that there may be a secret fourth playable character that has yet to be announced.

As spotted by Tails’ Channel on social media (thanks, VGC), the website displays modern Sonic, classic Sonic, Shadow, and a fourth slot that’s currently blank with the words ‘coming soon’ displayed underneath. You’ll need to click the blue star icon on the right-hand side if you want to swap between Sonic and Shadow.

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“I almost live in Final Fantasy XIV”.

Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi has confirmed in a recent interview with Bloomberg (thanks, VGC) that he is not interested in revisiting the franchise.

Granted, given that he left Square Enix in 2003 to establish Mistwalker, this shouldn’t necessarily come as much of a shock, but what’s interesting is the reasoning behind his decision. According to Sakaguchi, he loaded up Final Fantasy XIV in 2021 with the intention of spending just a few hours with the game before attending an event.

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