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New details about Etrian Odyssey: Millennium Girl are featured in this week’s Famitsu. The magazine particularly touches on the new Classic Mode, difficulty settings, and Grimoire feature.

You can find a roundup of the latest information below.

– Can play through the game with your own characters in Classic Mode
– Pick between the Story Mode and Classic Mode
– Story Mode: play as the five characters introduced previously
– Classic Mode: play as the characters you’ve created from start to end
– Choose between live performed music and FM audio (synthesized tracks)
– Yuzo Koshiro has composed everything
– Three difficult settings: Picnic, Standard, Expert
– Picnic: A relaxing and fun mode, with less intense battles. Certain items can be used an infinite amount of times, making it easier for beginners.
– Standard: The regular Etrian Odyssey challenge you’ve grown accustomed to, which is still challenging.
– Expert: This mode is for the players that want to take it to the next level. Enemies are much stronger, making it them that much more satisfying to defeat.
– Optional BGM and difficulty levels can be changed at any time during the game
– Can customize party members with the “Grimoire” feature
– Character classes are restricted to their own set of skills
– Grimoire lets them to further branch out their abilities
– Grimoire are rocks that contain skills from other classes, which can then be equipped on any character to teach them those skills
– Obtain Grimoire through a “Grimoire Chance” that occurs during battles

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Build public works, customise your town or simply unwind – what would you do as mayor?

18th April 2013 – Imagine an idyllic town filled with animal friends where you can do almost anything you wish, where you can let your creativity run wild to customise your surroundings and at any time visit a tropical resort to play around in or just unwind… Welcome to the world of Animal Crossing: New Leaf, where you’re the mayor of your own virtual town! Exclusive to the Nintendo 3DS family of consoles, here’s a game you’ll always want to carry with you, as real time affects the events, things to do and friends to meet, starting less than two months from now, on 14th June.

To celebrate the upcoming launch of this unique game, which has already taken Japan by storm, it was revealed in the latest Nintendo Direct presentation that the Special Edition Animal Crossing: New Leaf Nintendo 3DS XL will be coming to Europe as well. This special version of the Nintendo 3DS XL console features a colourful Animal Crossing-themed design and comes with the game itself pre-installed on the system.

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So basically I pulled an IGN “rewind theatre” thing on The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past II, pointing out some things you may not have noticed in the original trailer. Enjoy!

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Bringing titles such as The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D and Star Fox 64 3D to the 3DS eShop was a smart move for Nintendo. In the US, 20% of sales for both games have come from digital this year. Art Academy and Brain Age also managed to see 15-25% digital penetration, according to a report from Shacknews.

We heard earlier today that a third of Fire Emblem: Awakening’s sales in North America resulted in digital sales. Nintendo says that “over half” of those who purchased the game have also bought downloadable content.

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Eiji Aonuma visited Miiverse today and left a couple of messages for fans following the Zelda news announced during today’s Nintendo Direct.

Aonuma first commented on the Link to the Past sequel for 3DS. He imagines that series aficionados “could imagine what kind of game this would be”, but feels “you’ll be surprised at quite how different it is when you actually play it”. Aonuma added that developing is steadily progressing, so it won’t be long before a new update about the game is shared.

The message in full:

Hello everyone, Eiji Aonuma here! In the latest Nintendo Direct, we announced an entirely new Zelda game for Nintendo 3DS that takes place in the world of The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past! I’d like to introduce it to all of you in the Miiverse community, too. We announce it towards the end of this video.

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Japanese gamers and western players have different tastes. Call of Duty may sell millions of copies overseas, but will only make a small dent in the Japanese market.

That’s just one example of how the two audiences differ. In the case of new handheld purchases, Nintendo’s Bill Trinen believes that Japanese consumers tend to pick up new handhelds quicker than in the US, which is why we’ve seen slower growth of the 3DS in the states. Now that the portable has a quality library and lots of new software to look forward to, however, “3DS is really going to take off.”

“We have noticed that in the US in particular, people tend to, at least when it comes to handheld gaming, they tend to shift generations a lot more slowly than they do particularly in Japan. In Japan, once a new handheld system comes out it’s like everybody just goes right to it. GameBoy Advance was the same way; DS was the same way; 3DS now. It does take a couple of years. But then once it does, it really builds steam and so with the lineup that we’re seeing this year, to me it really feels like this is the year that 3DS is really going to take off.”

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A number of Ace Attorney 5 releases are coming to Japan. The first, known as the “Extended Edition” contains a 3DS carrying case. Capcom is also preparing a “Figure Edition” that provides consumers with a Phoenix figure. If you want both, you’ll need to pick up the Limited Edition.

Pricing for all editions are as follows: standard (regular game) – 5,990 yen; Extended Edition – 7,590 yen; Figure Edition – 8,990 yen; Limited Edition – 9,990 yen.

You can get a look at each edition as well as Ace Attorney 5’s newly revealed boxart above.

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For all intents and purposes, the new Zelda game for 3DS is A Link to the Past 2. Nintendo of Japan more or less called the project by this name during the Japanese Nintendo Direct broadcast today.

Nintendo is being slightly more nebulous about its title overseas. While the company has acknowledged that the new game takes place in the Link to the Past world, they’re not calling it A Link to the Past 2 just yet. The final title for North America is still under consideration, according to Nintendo of America’s Bill Trinen.

He told Joystiq:

“There is a ‘2’ in the Japanese title. So, yeah, I think as I described today, it’s an all-new game, it is an all-new story. From a story perspective there are connections, so it does fall after A Link to the Past. And it’s set in the same world, but introduces that new gameplay mechanic. So, yeah, I guess by that definition …”

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