Mario Kart 8 – retro track comparison
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U screenshot (4/3/14)
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Along with today’s screenshot, Sakurai passed along the following message on Miiverse:
Pikachu’s Thunder now starts off with a thundercloud that deals a Meteor Smash! From left to right, you can see this combo starting with Pikachu throwing the opponent upward, Meteor Smashing with the lightning strike, and then directly attacking. Foes can dodge, of course, so the attack won’t hit consistently, but when it does, it sure feels good!
4 more characters confirmed for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call
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This week’s Jump has four more character confirmations for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy: Curtain Call. Eiko from Final Fantasy IX, Jecht from Final Fantasy X, Fran from Final Fantasy XII, and Noel from Final Fantasy XIII-2 will be included in the game. You can check out a scan showing off the characters above.
M2 developed the GBA Virtual Console for Wii U
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Did you know that Nintendo’s GBA Virtual Console for Wii U wasn’t an entirely internal effort? Far from it, actually.
A notice posted on M2’s website reveals that the company led development of the GBA Wii U VC. You may know the studio for its work on SEGA’s 3D Classic series on 3DS.
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Japanese eShop update (4/2/14)
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This week’s Japanese eShop update is as follows:
3DS
Downloadable Titles
Simple DL Series Vol. 25 The Solitaire Klondike Spider – 300 yen
Kashiramoji D (Initial D) Perfect Shift Online – FREE
Sensha 3D – 700 yen
Dokopon Choice Dragon Ball Color-ban Jis?ningen, Cell-hen 1 – 8-kan + Omake Pack – 3,600 yen
Maru G?kaku! IT Passport Shiken Heisei 26-nendo-ban – 2,800 yen
Dorakazu Nobita no S?ji Daib?ken (retail title) – 4,937 yen
Virtual Console
Super Donkey Kong GB (Donkey Kong Land, Game Boy) – 411 yen
Wii U
Downloadable Titles
Alphadia Genesis – 1,944 yen
Virtual Console
F-Zero for Game Boy Advance (F-Zero: Maximum Velocity, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen (from 4/3)
?gon no Taiy?: Hirakareshi F?in (Golden Sun, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen (from 4/3)
Game Boy Wars Advance 1 + 2 (Advance Wars 1 + 2, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen (from 4/3)
Super Mario Advance 2 (Super Mario Advance 2: Super Mario World, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen (from 4/3)
Hoshi no Kirby: Kagami no Daimeik? (Kirby and The Amazing Mirror, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen (from 4/3)
Made in Wario (WarioWare, Inc.: Mega Microgame$, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen (from 4/3)
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Even more GBA Wii U Virtual Console footage
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Kamen Rider: Battride War II trailer #2
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Art of Balance and FAST Racing Neo are using Shin’en’s second-gen Wii U engine
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Several months ago, Shin’en revealed that the company was hard at work on its second-generation engine for Wii U. Both of the studio’s upcoming titles for the console – Art of Balance and FAST Racing Neo – are taking advantage of the upgraded tech, Manfred Linzer confirmed to us.
Linzer, CEO of Shin’en, said that the two games are actually just using “a subset of our new engine”. However, “we are pretty happy with the results,” he told us.
Linzer explained, “With FRN we wanted to get more realism. That was not possible with our old tech. So we implemented a lot of new stuff that allows us to get there. We are still learning but we think we are on a good way to create a really special Wii U game.”
While Art of Balance and FAST Racing Neo are taking advantage of the new engine, “Art of Balance is more on the ‘stylized’ side and FAST more on the realism side.”
We are sworn to secrecy regarding the engine’s capabilities, but know that Shin’en has managed to implement a number of improvements and a few new graphical effects. Some of these were previously used “in an ad hoc way, and not in a unified system.” According to Linzer, “Now everything blends nicely together which we need to get on a new level.”
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Another round of Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth details
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More details for Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth have come in from Famitsu. You can find them below.
– Can visit the Velvet Room over the course of the game
– Persona 3‘s Elizabeth and Theodore, and Persona 4?s Margaret and Marie will provide support
– While Marie is singled out as not being an official resident of the Velvet Room for this game, she is still set to give her unique brand of mouthy assistance
– Specifics on this haven’t been detailed yet
– Every party member will now be able to enter the Velvet Room instead of only the protagonists
– Velvet Room’s layout will change
– Has a pair of mysterious locked doors
– Elizabeth has two main jobs this time
– She’ll have requests that players can go out and fulfill in exchange for rewards
– Nature of these requests are mostly mum
– They’re said to be jotted down in a specific “Request Notebook” whose contents are based on the Seven Wonders of Yasogami High School that previous trailers have depicted
– Complete quests to trigger special events
– Elizabeth’s second role is as a nurse that players can visit after making trips to the game’s labyrinths
– Heal your party health-wise and status effects-wise
– Theodore runs the workshop
– Defeat the Shadows in the labyrinths to obtain the raw materials necessary for developing equipment and consumable items at Theodore’s workshop
– He wears pink and red apron with a heart in the middle
– There’s a backstory to this but the details haven’t been shared
Retro City Rampage: DX update launching tomorrow, trailer
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Retro City Rampage: DX’s first update will launch tomorrow, Vblank Entertainment has confirmed. A trailer for the patch can be found above.
