Phonics Fun with Biff, Chip & Kipper Vol. 3 footage
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Smash Run in Smash Bros. 3DS doesn’t support online play
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The 3DS version of Super Smash Bros. has a special mode called Smash Run. It does support local play, but the mode doesn’t work online.
That confirmation comes straight from Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai. While Japanese magazine Famitsu recently indicated that Smash Run can be experienced over the Internet, Sakurai told one fan on Twitter that this was a mistake.
Pre-orders open for the Smash Bros., NES, and Persona Q 3DS XL systems
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Update: Best Buy has now opened pre-orders for the Smash Bros. systems: blue and red.
GameStop has now started to take pre-orders for the new 3DS XL systems revealed today. These include the Smash Bros. Editions, NES Edition, and Persona Q Edition.
Links to each are posted below:
Smash Bros. Edition (blue)
Smash Bros. Edition (red)
NES Edition
Persona Q Edition
We only have GameStop links at the moment, though the NES and Persona Q systems will be exclusive to the retailer. If other stores open pre-orders for the Smash Bros. versions, we’ll add them in.
NES and Persona Q 3DS XL systems won’t be coming to Europe
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Nintendo announced a few new bundles for North America yesterday. These included two special Smash Bros. systems, a NES-inspired design, and a Persona Q bundle.
Regarding the latter two, it turns out that they won’t be released in Europe. The company confirmed to Eurogamer that there are “no plans” to bring either hardware option to the continent.
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This is the final Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS roster
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The final roster for the new Smash Bros. games is in. Early buyers of the 3DS version have completed unlocking characters, so the fun is sadly over.
Head past the break for the full list.
The ladies of Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley
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Natsume has shared new information about Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley. This time around, we have details regarding the game’s bachelorettes.
Check out overviews of each below.
Emily serves as a waitress at her mother’s restaurant as she learns the ropes of the business. Always quick to smile, she is both very energetic and active! Emily is terrified of insects, but otherwise is adventurous, and practically fearless. Like her mother Hanna, she’s very straightforward, and loves working at the restaurant, carrying on the family tradition. As you’d expect, Emily is a force to be reckoned with in the Cooking Festival! You’d better give it everything you’ve got if you want to beat her cooking!
April is a gentle girl, and the daughter of Iris, who travels to the Lost Valley to hunt for and purchase flowers. She has her mother’s eyes, as well as sharing the same soft blonde hair. April is training to take over her mother’s duties when she retires…if she can get over her crippling shyness! April loves flowers, and wants to gather those that grow in the Lost Valley. Gentle, generous, and good-natured, it’s unusual to find April in a bad mood. April is very talented at making beautiful bouquets, but she doesn’t see it that way, and is very critical of herself.
Catherine has grown up living a posh life in a mansion. With a no-nonsense attitude, her cold shoulder has scared away any potential friends she may have made within the Lost Valley. If you’re willing to get close to this prickly cactus, you’ll discover in truth that she’s a lonely young woman. Catherine has spent many hours alone in her mansion, so she’s had to grow up with a sense of self-reliance, and doesn’t trust others easily. Although she is loath to admit it, deep down, she wants and needs friends, human contact, and love.
Screenshots featuring Emily, April, and Catherine can be found in our gallery above.
Source: Natsume PR
Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS – more character confirmations
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Per usual, head past the break for the latest Super Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS character confirmations. These characters are being unlocked by players with Japanese copies of the game.
Bandai Namco bringing a board game to Wii U and 3DS
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Bandai Namco has announced a new board game-based title for Wii U and 3DS.
Take a second to absorb this title: Gotouchi Tetsudou: Gotouchi Kyara to Nihon Zenkoku no Tabi. That roughly translates to Local Railroads: Local Characters and a Journey All Around Japan.
Local Railroads is based on Sugoroku, a board game similar to snakes and ladders. Here’s a quick overview of the game flow:
1. Select which local characters will accompany the player
2. Select which part of the railway network is your destination. You can choose any place that isn’t home to any of your local characters.
3. You head for that place. Movement is done with dice. At times you can use skills of your local characters, too.
4. Various events happen depending on the circle you land on. You may gain fans for your local characters from events.
5. Arrive at the destination. If you are first to arrive, you’ll gain fans and the local character of the destination.
6. Choose the next destination and so on.
Although it’s important to rush to the destination, sometimes it may be useful to take a longer road if you can land on a circle with beneficial effects. There are circles where you can obtain famous products of that area, and there are circles where you compete against rival local characters with dice throws. If you win, a rival local character joins your team. If you lose, you’ll lose fan(s).
Players can gain fans while travelling around Japan, and there are more than 120 local characters in the game. Special skills may help your movement or hinder your opponents. It will be advantageous to collect more local characters as you’ll have more special skills.
Local Railroads: Local Characters and a Journey All Around Japan launches in Japan on November 27. The 3DS version is priced at 5,210 yen while the Wii U version will cost 6,170 yen.