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A little bit of extended 3DS maintenance taking place on Wednesday

Posted on 10 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 0 comments

The 3DS’ online services will be unavailable for about an hour on Wednesday. Nintendo will be conducting maintenance from 5:55 PM PT to 7 PM PT. This will affect online play, rankings, and other network aspects.

On a similar but less important note, Pokemon X/Y’s online elements will be experiencing downtime on Monday between 7 AM PT and 1 PM PT. Once again, online play, rankings, and more will be affected.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Tomodachi Life – “Miiteraction Madness” footage

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Tomodachi Life – “Sweet Weird Dreams” footage

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Silicon Studio president on Bravely Default’s action RPG origins, prototype

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Bravely Default wasn’t always the straight-up JRPG that we know of today. Originally, developer Silicon Studio tossed around the idea of making it an action RPG.

President Takehiro Terada told Siliconera:

“We developed the first version with action combat, but overall we felt it was not the best form for the game so we went to turn based.”
“The city part was the same, the battle system was action based.”

Silicon Studio had created a prototype in which players would walk around a city, and when a monster was touched, an action-based battle would ensue. It only featured one playable character who could attack with a weapon and use a number of spells. No job system was included at this point.

Speaking about the prototype, Terada added: