He also worked on games like Dragon Quest.
There’s some incredibly sad news coming out of Japan today, with the official Dragon Ball social media account revealing the legendary manga creator and character artist Akira Toriyama passed away at the age of 68 on 1st March 2024 from acute subdural hematoma.
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Pre-orders are now live.
The Star Wars: Battlefront Classic Collection lands on the Switch next week and to build up some excitement, Nintendo has shared a new launch trailer.
It shows off plenty of famous faces from the Star Wars galaxy including several heroes and villains. You can also see plenty of firefights as well as some lightsaber battles, and it’s all looking quite promising at the moment.
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Deal me in.
Soapbox features enable our individual writers and contributors to voice their opinions on hot topics and random stuff they’ve been chewing over. Today, Jim is laying all his cards on the table…
It’s early March and I am already filled with embarrassment at the thought of my 2024 Nintendo Year in Review. Last year’s results were to be expected — “You didn’t see enough daylight once Tears of the Kingdom was out, but here’s another 43 games you played, too” — though this time I am fearful that things might be a little less jolly. “You logged 2,000 combined hours on Balatro and Pocket Card Jockey: Ride On!, are you okay?”
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Baldur’s Gate 3 is the one to beat, though.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts — commonly known as BAFTA — has announced the nominees for the BAFTA Games Awards 2024.
The Best Game category is stacked, as it has been for all game awards ceremonies over the past few months. Nintendo has both The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom and Super Mario Bros. Wonder competing for the top prize alongside Alan Wake 2, Baldur’s Gate 3, Marvel’s Spider-Man 2, and Dave The Diver — the biggest surprise in the line-up.
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My kingdom for a unicorn.
How do you follow up a game like 13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim? Before that ambitious, phenomenal sci-fi adventure, developer Vanillaware found its niche in creating rich, beautiful-looking worlds with a magical, medieval twist. Sometimes it was traditional Western fantasy, while others it jumped back to Edo Japan. Unicorn Overlord marks the developer’s return to the former, taking place in a fantasy realm overtaken by an evil lord. That sounds like the exact opposite of 13 Sentinels’ winding plot, but Unicorn Overlord is ambitious in an entirely different way. It’s also absolutely brilliant, effortlessly blending multiple systems to create a wonderful tactical RPG with a twist.
At the start of the game, you witness the fall of the Kingdom of Cornia thanks to a revolt led by General Valmore. At the same time, the young prince Alain flees the kingdom with the Holy Knight Josef, to ensure the bloodline survives. The revolt, however, is successful, and the Zenioran Army rises up and gradually overtakes all five nations of Valmore. Ten years later, Alain returns to build a liberation army to take back his kingdom and restore order to the continent of Fevrith.
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Glad tide-ins.
Everything is cosy these days. Cats? cosy. Bakeries? cosy. Middle Earth? cosy. The apocalypse? apparently.
Publisher Rogue Games has today announced that Highwater — a game all about making friends at the end of the world — will be loading up on supplies and sailing over to Switch on 14th March. Get the thick blanket out and snuggle up to the thought of impending doom.
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Introducing Siugnas.
Following some other trailers today, Square Enix has now shared a new look at the upcoming RPG Switch release SaGa Emerald Beyond.
This title was first unveiled during Nintendo’s September Direct Showcase last year and is the next major entry in the long-running SaGa series. Today’s trailer puts the spotlight on ‘The Dismal King’ Siugnas, who has been forced from his throne. He also happens to be one of the game’s six protagonists.
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Like the game, they’re not available locally.
Last month, Nintendo surprised fans by adding Mother 3 to the Switch Online’s Game Boy Advance library. The only downside is this title hasn’t actually been added to the service locally.
Now, to add to the suffering, Nintendo has made new Mother 3 icons available to Switch Online subscribers in Japan. The characters will set you back 10 Platinum Points each and the borders and backgrounds will cost 5 Platinum Points each.
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Hey, everybody. Want to kill all humans?
There is no shortage of terrible things buried deep underground, but, in Ancient Weapon Holly, you get to be the worst of them. This roguelike from Acquire, one of the studios behind the Octopath Traveler series, puts you in control of a powerful robot that seeks revenge on the humans that buried it for thousands of years. Reaching the surface and killing all humans will take a bit longer than you’d expect, though.
At first glance, Ancient Weapon Holly is a serviceable, fun, action-packed roguelite. The game consists of ten levels to play through, each one increasing in difficulty. Holly starts with a basic ranged attack and the ability to open up pits in the floor for enemies to fall into. These can be closed up to instantly kill most enemies, particularly once you’ve upgraded your attack power through the game’s version of a sphere grid. It is an interesting mechanic and the combat is chaotic enough to keep you interested for a few hours, but the game’s lack of depth makes it feel repetitive long before Holly reaches the surface.
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New Horizons on the block.
Nintendo’s latest collaboration with Lego has resulted in a handful of Animal Crossing sets, a crossover that fans have been begging for ever since the firms’ first collaboration, the LEGO Super Mario sets, were announced back in March 2020 — coincidentally Animal Crossing: New Horizons‘ launch month.
In the years since, we’ve seen a bunch of Nintendo-themed Lego sets encompassing the more play-focused Super Mario series to the grander, more expensive sets like the Nintendo Entertainment System, the Mario 64 ‘?’ Block, and the mighty Bowser, which are aimed at older gamers.
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