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This month’s issue of Nintendo Dream has a massive Fire Emblem: Three Houses developer interview. Directors Toshiyuki Kusakihara and Genki Yokota addressed a variety of topics, including inspirations, world-building and character writing, depictions of characters, themes, and lore, plus more. As part of this, we get to hear about Byleth and keeping his facial expressions to a minimum as well as Dimitri’s eyepatch.

You can read out full translation of the second half. In case you missed it, we shared a translation of the first half here. Note that the final page contains information related to spoilers, so please keep that in mind before proceeding.

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Grand Hero Battle – Iago: Nohr’s Tactician has kicked off in Fire Emblem Heroes as the game’s latest event. Igao uses cruel schemes and malicious magic, but if you defeat him, he’ll become your ally. Look for him in Special Maps.

Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 5 is also up and running in Fire Emblem Heroes today. 5-star Heroes who appeared before the start of Book II appear as focus Heroes, and the focus lineup changes each week.

We’ll also mention that the 30th Anniversary Grand Hero Battle Revivals have started to return. There will be a series of battles every two days. First up is Julius: Scion of Darkness, along with some limited-time quests. This event will be active until April 13 at 11:59 PM PT / April 14 at 2:59 AM ET.

Nintendo and Cygames have announced Lazry and Gaibhne & Creidhne as the next summon showcase in Dragalia Lost. It’ll feature adventurers and dragons such as the 5-star adventurer Lazry and 5-star dragon Gaibhne & Creidhne.

Here’s some additional information as well as a trailer:

White Owls has offered up a new look at The Good Life. In a recently-published video, we’re able to see how the life sim RPG’s visuals have been updated. We’ve included it below.

The Good Life launches on Switch later in 2020.

Bit Dragon’s neon-soaked arena brawler Hyper Jam will appear on the Switch eShop next week, the developer has announced. A release is expected on April 17.

Here’s an overview of Hyper Jam, along with a trailer:

Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy debuted on Switch alongside last month’s Nintendo Direct Mini. This week, Aspyr distributed a new update for the game.

Version 1.0.2 is now live on Switch. The main point of the update involves taking care of unintentional cross-play with PC players, which you can read about here.

Below are the official patch notes:

Streets of Rage 4

Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Streets of Rage 4, Dungeon of the Endless, Yumeutsutsu Re:Master and Re:After, and more.

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As is the case with Atlus, a number of SEGA games are currently on sale on the 3DS eShop. These include a ton of the classic “3D” titles, Sonic, and more.

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On our podcast last week, voice actor Joe Zieja was kind enough to stop by and discuss his work on Fire Emblem: Three Houses. Zieja played the part of Claude, leader of the Golden Deer house.

Aside from Claude, Zieja actually auditioned for other potential characters as well, including Dimitri and Dedue. Zieja spoke about his readings for those parts, telling us:


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