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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 0 comments

The Fire Emblem Fates Special Edition returned to GameStop for a few hours on Sunday, and proceeded to sell out a few hours later. Now it’s available once again. If you still need to reserve it, do so here.

Thanks to CyryusNylram for the tip.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 3 Comments

Best Buy has just now opened pre-orders for the Mega Man Legacy Collector’s Edition. Get yours in here. The item, which includes a gold Mega Man amiibo, will be available on February 23.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 11 Comments

This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:

Net High (PSV) – 9/8/9/8
Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival (Wii U) – 8/8/8/8
Taiko no Tatsujin: Atsumete Tomodachi Daisakusen! (Wii U) – 8/8/8/8
Aikatsu! My No.1 Stage! (3DS) – 8/8/8/7
Criminal Girls 2 (PSV) – 7/8/8/7
Chou Jigen Taisen Neptune VS Sega Hard Girls Yume no Gattai Special (PSV) – 7/8/8/7
Tsuki ni Yorisou Otome no Sahou: Hidamari no Hibi (PSV) – 7/8/8/6
Farming Simulator 15 (PS4/PS3) – 7/8/7/7
Goes! (PSV) – 7/7/8/7
Kissato (PSV) – 7/8/7/6
Ryuuyoku no Melodia -Diva with the Blessed Dragonol- (PSV) – 7/7/7/6

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 1 Comment

Famitsu has a few details about the newly-revealed Puzzle & Dragons X. According to the magazine, the game features stronger RPG elements plus enhanced gameplay and volume. GungHo Online Entertainment is including over 500 monsters that can be evolved if trained. It’s possible for the hero to use skills via equipment endowed with the power of monsters as well.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 2 Comments

Another batch of Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam details have been published through a new preview on Nintendo World Report. We’ve rounded up the various tidbits below.

– Luigi is in a storage room high in Peach’s Castle, where leaks are a normal occurrence
– He and a Toad find a mouse that made a hole in the wall and chase after it
– After some crazy hijinks, Luigi falls from a bookcase and it is here where a magical book is discovered
– That’s when the book unleashes the Paper Mario universe into the Mario & Luigi one
– The opening starts to bring in the paper characters fairly quickly and it doesn’t take long before you take control of Mario & Luigi
– Some banter between both versions of Bowser Jr
– The Princess Peach versions discuss the irritation of being kidnapped constantly
– After wandering around for a bit and an initial Toad Rescue mission, you bump into Paper Mario and your true travel can begin
– Luigi loses the book that contains the world of Paper Mario and it lands in the hands on Bowser’s minions
– He’s upset, and Paper Mario decides to cheer him up by allowing himself to be used as a napkin
– Big goal seems to be to reach Bowser’s Castle, save a variety of Paper Toads and Princesses and bring the Paper characters back to their own world
– Paper Toads are terrified of the new world that they have entered
– Because of this, they hide themselves somewhere in the world, simply to ensure that they won’t be spotted
– While walking through the game or accepting missions at Lakitu Center, you get tasked with finding Toads in an isolated area
– There are puzzles where you have to break certain blocks to get the Toads to you
– There are moments where you have to move the Toads to a certain part of the map and make sure that they don’t escape
– Other times you’re battling enemies to free the mushrooms from their clutches
– Mario and Luigi have their usual array of Jump and Hammer attacks
– Some new Bros. Attacks
– Rocket Blast: Mario and Luigi will fly high and drop down on their opponents; if you do both button presses correctly, the last brother flies off with the rocket and gets one extra chance to hurt the opponent even more
– Drill Shell: the brothers lift each other up into the air and you have to press at right time to drill directly into the enemy; this will rack up the hits and causes a ton of damage at impact
– 3D Red Shell and Fire Flower are back
– Get Bros. Attacks in a unique way
– In special chase segments, you follow Nabbit around
– When you are able to catch him, it earns you new attacks that can be used in combat
– Can earn Trio Attacks this way
– Paper Mario’s first basic ability is that he can make up to five extra copies of himself
– This protects his low Hit Points from harm and lets him do more damage in battle
– When he jumps, every copy follows up him up in quick succession
– Need to time your presses of the Y button just right
– With the hammer, his copies will spread across all of the opponents on the field
– Paper Mario’s flutter jump allows him to stay in the air longer
– His hammer will charge and automatically moves if you don’t let go
– Trio Racquet: entire party on the court shoots the ball back to the wall where the enemies are strapped onto it
– Trio Kite: choose one enemy that will be strapped to the flying object
– Mario, Luigi and Paper Mario have to press their buttons in quick succession and get the enemy high up into the air
– The higher it comes, the bigger the impact will be when Paper Mario slams that opponent to the ground
– Badges are gone
– Can still equip certain suits and gear to adjust stats
– Leveling system is back
– With every new rank, you are rewarded with rewards that will change up your character in some unique ways
– Battle Cards added
– These can be used after obtaining Star Points
– These stars are earned by pulling off perfect moves and having enough can be your savior in battle
– Card effects include raising your defense by 25% for a limited time, nullifying your damage for a single turn or giving every enemy on the field 20 points of damage
– Can purchase cards
– Cards come in special sets of ten
– Manage cards from the menu screen
– amiibo character cards as well
– If you have other data saved to the figurine, you can’t use the abilities that this feature offers
– By finding or buying special ?-cards and scanning in the amiibo, you get one new card from that set
– amiibo character cards don’t take up any Star Power and can be used any time it is your turn
– Battle Cards can only be used once per battle and you have to scan the amiibo to access the card set
– Paper and regular versions of enemies
– Regular Hammer Bros. throw their hammers high up into the air
– Paper version shoots them straight at the enemy
– One boss has you fighting two big Pokeys (regular and paper)
– Paper Pokey will shoot regular Pokey’s body parts to the trio
– With Papercraft battles, you stand on a gigantic Mario or Luigi and use dash and charge attacks to outsmart your opponents
– Attacks use energy and you will have go to specific spots to refill it
– Here you will play a small rhythm mini-game to replenish your health and get back to business
– Paper variations of Goombas, Pokeys and Kamek all come along for the ride and each of them moves differently across the field
– Toadette is in charge of it all, and she constantly makes inventions with an army of Paper Toads
– Events start to unfold in the lush green area of Sunbeam Plains
– This is followed up by the Doop Doop Dunes and the grotto of that same area
– Environments use the trio mechanics in Paper Jam
– Ex: can jump and dash together with the X-button, which will allow you to walk through the terrain rather quickly and even escape some enemy attacks if you want to
– This is also important at special ramps that will launch you to other places on the map
– The Toad missions will also use this a lot
– Trio Hammer allows you to break huge blocks together so that the way to new areas can be cleared
– Trio Grab lets you reach poles and obstacles that are far away
– Paper Mario takes a cylinder type and this stretches Mario and Luigi to places more easily
– Find new towns
– Play or replay (harder versions available) missions at the Lakitu Centers, buy your gear and items and talk to various NPCs
– Some of them have fun mini-games for you to play, puzzles to solve or extra items to give you
– There is usually also a block to bring your characters back to full health
– Can save almost anywhere you want and come back to it later
– Tutorials are relegated to text books that you can easily skip

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS, News | 2 Comments

The latest issue of Famitsu revealed that some characters from Shin Megami Tensei IV will reappear in its sequel Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final. One of them, Isabeau, will even join your party. Here are the full details from Famitsu (translations from Gematsu):

Famitsu also revealed that if you already have save data from Shin Megami Tensei IV on your 3DS, you can transfer it and receive items and equipment as a bonus.

Shin Megami Tensei IV: Final will be released in Japan on February 10th, 2016. A Western release date has not yet been announced.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments

NintenDaan has uploaded quite a lot of footage from the upcoming 3DS RPG Mario & Luigi: Paper Jam Bros. Check out footage from the title screen below, and 7 more videos past the break:

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Posted on 8 years ago by Matt(@OnePunchMaz) in News, Wii U | 0 comments

Another weapon is being added to Splatoon free of charge: the Bamboozler 14 Mk II will be available at the usual times today / tomorrow (morning in Japan, nighttime in Europe and evening in North America). It’s a variant of the regular Bamboozler weapon with the Disruptor sub-weapon and the Echolocator special.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GameCube, News | 4 Comments

In the early 2000s, Zoonami (Zendoku, Bonsai Barber) was developing an sandbox action platformer for the GameCube. Sadly, it never made it to market. Very little about the project was known, but that’s changed now through a new report on Unseen64.

Here’s what we know:

– Cancelled because it was too complex for its time because of technical and marketing reasons
– Set in destructable voxel levels
– Could mine rocks and terrains
– Gain items and resources to build new structures
– Destruction and building of voxels in Game Zero were too RAM-intensive to be suitable for consoles or PCs hardware at the time
– Zoonami did not want to continue working on something that was not keeping pace with their plans
– The console gaming market was also one of their concerns, since popular gameswere in contrast with the sandbox, open-ended gameplay design planned for Game Zero
– In 3 years Zoonami did many experiments and created a playable prototype
– Game Zero’s protagonist would have been a female character
– The game was set in a fantasy alien planet inhabited by strange yellow creatures
– Explore different areas of the planet using vehicles and laser guns
– Cartoony graphic style created with simple voxel geometries

Screenshots of Game Zero are in the gallery below. There’s more on the title over at the source link.

Thanks to Jake for the tip.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U eShop | 0 comments

Later this week, the downloadable 3DS game Noah’s Cradle will be hitting the Japanese 3DS eShop. Check out the title’s trailer below.

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