Nielsen provides a look at the most anticipated games this holiday
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 13 Comments
Nielsen is continuing its annual tradition of providing a look at the most anticipated games of the holiday season. The company’s results are based on games scheduled between October and the end of the year.
On Wii U, Paper Mario: Color Splash is ranked highly, which makes sense as there’s not much else to look forward to. Pokemon Sun/Moon, Mario Party: Star Rush, and Disney Magical World 2 are the anticipated 3DS titles.
As for how Nielsen collects its data, the company says:
“Nielsen Game Rank represents the overall anticipation level among gamers on each platform, based on a combination of several key measures (including awareness, purchase interest, consumer rating and others). The percent value shown reflects how strong the overall anticipation level is for the title, relative to the pre-release anticipation levels of all previous titles that released on the platform(s). Values shown for multi-platform titles are averages of the values from each release platform. Titles included are those being released between Oct. 1, 2016 – Dec. 31, 2016, that have a Game Rank of 75% or higher. Data was collected by surveying 6,000 gamers age 7 to 54 between Aug. 21, 2016 – Sept. 24, 2016.”
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[Review] Paper Mario: Color Splash
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Reviews, Wii U | 79 Comments
System: Wii U
Release date: October 7, 2016
Developer: Intelligent Systems
Publisher Nintendo
To a certain degree, Paper Mario might just be the most popular spin-off series that the overall Mario franchise has spawned. What Paper Mario lacks in number of titles, it more than compensates with its fleshed out and devastatingly charismatic worlds – for the most part. Home to some of Nintendo fans’ favorite titles, it’s no understatement to say this collection of games might just be one of the best the big N continues to put out, which is why it so confusing they haven’t been treating it that way. With a more than all over the place prequel on 3DS, Color Splash brings this series back to the home console, and hopes to right the wrongs Sticker Star caused. Now, despite looking, feeling, and sounding just like Sticker Star 2, rest easy, because Paper Mario: Color Splash is anything but.
Paper Mario: Color Splash reviews roundup
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Ahead of Friday’s launch, Nintendo has lifted the reviews embargo for Paper Mario: Color Splash. Continue on below for a roundup of notable verdicts thus far.
Nintendo Everything – “Thumbs Up”
IGN – 7.3 / 10
GameSpot – 7 / 10
GamesRadar – 3.5 / 5
Destructoid – 8.5 / 10
Nintendo Life – 8 / 10
Nintendo World Report – 9 / 10
GameXplain – “Liked A Lot”
USGamer – 3.5 / 5
Kotaku – N/A
Game Informer – 8.5 / 10
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night dev partners with 505 Games
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 3 Comments
The developers of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night are indeed working with a publisher, but not with Deep Silver as previously thought. 505 Games is being brought in to assist the team as work on the project kicks into full gear. The company will also be able to handle the publishing-side of things.
Creator Koji Igarashi explained the move in a new video shared by 505:
“For our development of Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, 505 Games will be working with us. Although we have started this project through Kickstarter, we wanted more people to play now that we are in full production. However, we believe this isn’t possible with our power alone. We are so grateful that a publisher with a vast marketing power such as 505 Games will be working with our small production team. Now that we cannot let everyone down, let’s work harder to develop Bloodstained together.”
Here’s the full announcement video:
Zelda: Wind Waker Easter egg lets you defeat one of the bosses right away with an unconventional item
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in GameCube, News, Random, Wii U | 12 Comments
In The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker, the Forest Water is primarily used to heal Withered Forest Trees during an early part of the game. However, YouTube user Fish_waffle64 recently came across another usage: to essentially kill one of the game’s bosses instantly.
The Kalle Demos boss fight is normally a battle that would take the average player several minutes to complete. But if you use the Forest Water after exposing its core with the boomerang, it’ll go down right away.
Here’s a look:
What’s amazing about this is that the Easter egg works in the original Wind Waker on GameCube as well as the HD version on Wii U. That means, technically, the opportunity for it to be spread widely online has been there for years. It doesn’t really seem like something that’s really been publicized though!
Thanks to Jake for the tip.
Splatoon devs pick sides on various Splatfest topics
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Over on Nintendo of Europe’s website, Splatoon producer Hisashi Nogami and Katsuya Eguchi fielded a number of questions about the game. Most of the talk was about Splatfest topics, but they were also asked about things like their favorite weapon and who’s behind the Squid Research Lab.
Find Nogami and Eguchi’s answers below. A second portion of the interview is on the way, so look for that soon as well.
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Media Create sales (9/26/16 – 10/2/16)
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, New Nintendo 3DS, News, Wii U | 3 Comments
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
PS4 – 36,251
New 3DS LL – 13,701
2DS – 10,595
Vita – 9,357
New 3DS – 2,655
Wii U – 2,111
PS3 – 907
3DS – 406
Xbox One – 121
3DS LL – 67
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
PS4 – 49,652
New 3DS LL – 15,491
2DS – 14,492
Vita – 9,817
New 3DS – 3,379
Wii U – 2,731
PS3 – 1,105
3DS – 462
Xbox One – 124
3DS LL – 74
And here are the software charts:
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Paper Mario: Color Splash – Rescue V Episode 7 (official)
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Nintendo has now officially uploaded the final episode in its “Rescue V” video series for Paper Mario: Color Splash. We have it below.
Famitsu review scores (10/4/16)
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This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Forza Horizon 3 (XBO) – 8/9/9/10
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (Wii U/PS4/PS3) – 9/8/9/8
Severed (PSV) – 8/8/9/7
Kangokutou Mary Skelter (PSV) – 8/8/8/8
Plastic Memories (PSV) – 8/8/8/7
LEGO Star Wars: The Force Awakens (3DS/PSV) – 8/7/8/8
ReCore (XBO) – 7/8/8/7
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Lots of Zelda talk, Breath of the Wild, original planning documents at 30th anniversary concert in Japan
Posted on 7 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News, Switch, Wii U | 14 Comments
This past weekend, Nintendo hosted a special 30th anniversary Zelda concert in Kyoto, Japan. It was a big event as key staff involved with the series were present – Shigeru Miyamoto, Eiji Aonuma, Takashi Tezuka, and Koji Kondo. Famitsu shared an in-depth report of what occurred and what was said.
Voice actress Ruriko Aoki hosted the concert. She was actually planning on buying a ticket for the event in Nagoya, and even asked her agency to free up her schedule. However, she was eventually told that she got the job for this concert. Series producer Eiji Aonuma also appeared and introduced Aoki. The two showed up together during a Niconico Majora’s Mask 3D live stream last year, and since she’s a big fan of Zelda, he asked her to be the MC.
