Sonic boss says Sonic Frontiers and Zelda: Breath of the Wild are “not similar at all”
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Sonic Frontiers has drawn some comparisons to The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild since its initial reveal, but Sonic boss Takashi Iizuka has indicated that the two are “not similar at all”.
Iizuka’s comments came about during an interview with Shacknews. When asked if the team was inspired by Breath of the Wild, he said:
UK software sales for the week ending October 29, 2022
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The latest UK software sales are in for the week ending October 29, 2022, and we’ve got some news about recent Switch releases.
Bayonetta 3’s opening week performance saw a four percent increase compared to the Switch port of Bayonetta 2. Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope experienced a 52 percent dip week-over-week. While that’s actually not too bad, the original first week sales were down by more than half of Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle. GamesIndustry points out that Switch physical software sales are down 9 percent year-to-date.
Below is the latest UK sales chart:
Famitsu’s most wanted games – October 30, 2022
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It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom falls to second, but only by a few votes.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between October 13 and October 19.
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Charon’s Staircase launch trailer
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SOEDESCO and Indigo Studios have gone live with a launch trailer for Charon’s Staircase . The game, a first-person horror mystery game, has now arrived on Switch.
Further information can be found in the following overview:
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Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits launch trailer
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Bandai Namco is celebrating the release of Ace Angler: Fishing Spirits with a new trailer. We’ve got another look at the Switch title in today’s video.
If you’re interested in checking out further information, read the following overview:
Pre-order updates – October 30, 2022
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Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope character guide: Bowser
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Nintendo Everything has created a series of character guides for Mario + Rabbids Sparks of Hope, looking at the best skills to acquire, party members to use with them, and Sparks to give them to maximize their potential. This is a guide for Bowser.
Oddworld: Soulstorm Switch launch trailer
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Oddworld: Soulstorm has started to launch on Switch, and we have a new trailer to celebrate. The game is out in Europe with the North American release happening soon.
You can get caught up on Oddworld: Soulstorm by checking out the following overview:
Octopath Traveler II devs on having the protagonists interact
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Octopath Traveler II is making some notable improvements over the first game, including how the protagonists have more interactions with each other. In the series’ first entry, the characters never really acknowledged each other.
Octopath Traveler II producer Masashi Takahashi and director Keisuke Miyauchi have now spoken about the approach to the main cast for the new title as part of an interview with Famitsu. Here’s what the two shared, as translated by Nintendo Everything:
Bayonetta 3 devs on game’s origins, Kamiya says he’s “forever indebted to Nintendo”
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PlatinumGames supervising director Hideki Kamiya and Nintendo producer Makoto Okazaki have talked about the origins of Bayonetta 3. The information comes from this week’s issue of Japanese magazine Famitsu, as the two participated in an in-depth discussion about the Switch title.
Kamiya confirmed that PlatinumGames started working on a proposal and prototype after its previous project, Scalebound, was cancelled. Nintendo was already moving forward with ports of Bayonetta 1 and 2 for Switch, and Kamiya then shared a video message which Okazaki believes “was the final push that made this game into a reality.” Meanwhile, Kamiya mentioned that he’s “forever indebted to Nintendo.”
Below are Kamiya and Okazaki’s comments about the origins of Bayonetta 3, as translated by Nintendo Everything:
