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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 50 Comments

Paper Mario: Color Splash will have a big emphasis on story. Humor is a big part of that, as producer Risa Tabata told GameSpot.

She said:

“When we think of what we cannot do in a traditional Mario game, what we came to was, ‘Well, definitely humor.’ So we wanted to focus on humor as much as possible. All these different people got together in meetings room and basically very, very diligently and seriously thought of how we could do the stupidest, craziest things possible.”

Color Splash takes inspiration from the last game in the series, Sticker Star, through the use of cards. You’ll use cards in battle gathered throughout the adventure to take down enemies. They can also be painted to perform more powerful attacks.

Tabata said of the card variety:

“There are tons of different cards in the game. Obviously Mario is going to be throwing fireballs at some point. There’s kind of like a spring jump where you can actually jump a ton of different times on one end.”

Tabata also elaborated on the cards by saying that it’s possible to “open up more card slots, [and] the amount of paint you’re able to store in your hammer will expand.”

Something else fans can look forward to in Color Splash is variety. According to Tabata, levels will offer different types of challenges.

“We kind of focused on trying to have each course have a different feel. One course might be more focused on battle, but another course might focus more on puzzle-solving. There are definitely different places where you will need to have platforming skills.”

Lastly, Tabata had this to say on the game’s style:

“The artists spent a lot of time thinking like, ‘Maybe we can try this and it’ll look really like paper. Maybe we’ll have to do this to make it look like paper.’ The base of everything is made from cardboard and then on top of that you’re layering different types of paper.”

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Evo 2016 day two is about to begin. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Smash Bros. Melee, and Pokken Tournament will all be represented at the tournament. Head past the break to watch today’s matches as they happen.

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Wii U | 6 Comments

This month’s review scores are in from EDGE #296. The full listing is as follows:

Mirror’s Edge: Catalyst – 6
Monster Hunter Generations – 8
Umbrella Corps – 3
Star Ocean: Integrity and Faithlessness – 5
Mighty No. 9 – 4
Inside – 9
Furi – 6
Trials of the Blood Dragon – 3

You’ll notice that with the pictured attached above, Zelda: Breath of the Wild has a big feature in the latest issue of EDGE. It’s unclear if there’s anything new or just an article based on the game’s E3 appearance (likely the latter), but it’s nice to see in any case!

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 4 Comments

Paper Mario: Color Splash was featured on Nintendo’s stage at Hyper Japan Festival just a short while ago. We have the recording in full below.

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We knew that the Super Mario Maker Wii U bundle was on its way out in Japan, but now it’s official. Nintendo’s website confirms that no additional units are being made available. Any stock delivered to retailers will be the last. Once consumers snatch up the final Super Mario Maker packages, that’ll be it for the bundle.

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Splatoon’s final Splatfest, which pits Marie and Callie up against each other, isn’t too far off. Nintendo is gearing up for the big event in various ways: like with some printable alternative boxart, for example. We’ve attached both to this post, but they’re also located on the Splatoon Tumblr here.

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Evo 2016 is about to begin. Super Smash Bros. for Wii U, Smash Bros. Melee, and Pokken Tournament will all be represented at the tournament. Head past the break to watch the first day of matches as they happen.

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Super Mario Maker will be seeing some maintenance next week. This will impact all services for roughly two hours.

Here’s when the maintenance is scheduled for:

– 5:50 PM PT (July 21) – 8 PM PT (July 21)
– 8:50 PM ET (July 21) – 11 PM ET (July 21)
– 1:50 AM in the UK (July 22) – 4 AM in the UK (July 22)
– 2:50 AM in Europe (July 22) – 5 AM in Europe (July 22)

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Posted on 8 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 15 Comments

Back during the Wii U’s launch, THQ ported Darksiders to Wii U. Now several years later, the system may be receiving the series’ original entry. GameFly lists Darksiders for Wii U as “coming soon”.

Nordic Games business and product development director Reinhard Pollice mentioned last month that the company has an action-adventure title planned for Wii U. There’s no announcement yet, but this certainly could be it.

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This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:

01./00. [3DS] Culdcept Revolt (Nintendo) {2016.07.07} (¥4.700) – 29.321 / NEW
02./17. [WIU] Splatoon # (Nintendo) {2015.05.28} (¥5.700) – 16.351 / 1.415.016 (+211%)
03./03. [3DS] Story of Seasons: Trio of Towns (Marvelous) {2016.06.23} (¥4.980) – 15.432 / 146.677 (-50%)
04./05. [WIU] Minecraft: Wii U Edition (Microsoft Game Studios) {2016.06.23} (¥3.600) – 9.762 / 42.830 (-7%)
05./04. [WIU] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo) {2016.06.23} (¥5.700) – 9.329 / 38.285 (-13%)
06./01. [PS4] Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers # (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.06.30} (¥8.200) – 9.080 / 79.471 (-87%)
07./06. [PSV] Refrain no Chika Meikyuu to Majo no Ryodan # (Nippon Ichi Software) {2016.06.23} (¥5.980) – 7.476 / 34.572 (-21%)
08./08. [3DS] Kirby: Planet Robobot (Nintendo) {2016.04.28} (¥4.700) – 6.850 / 344.903 (-11%)
09./02. [PS3] Super Robot Wars OG: The Moon Dwellers (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.06.30} (¥8.200) – 6.603 / 45.318 (-83%)
10./12. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition (Sony Computer Entertainment) {2015.03.19} (¥2.400) – 6.423 / 818.113 (-3%)
11./07. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Don Don! Mystery Adventure (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.06.16} (¥4.800) – 5.410 / 57.210 (-30%)
12./00. [PSV] Shin Hayarigami 2 (Nippon Ichi Software) {2016.07.07} (¥5.800) – 5.351 / NEW
13./00. [PS4] Tales of Zestiria (Bandai Namco Games) {2016.07.07} (¥3.800) – 5.045 / NEW
14./14. [PS4] Overwatch (Square Enix) {2016.05.24} (¥7.800) – 4.957 / 115.725 (-22%)
15./15. [PSV] Dragon Quest Heroes II: The Twin Kings and Prophecy’s End (Square Enix) {2016.05.27} (¥6.800) – 4.425 / 212.434 (-27%)
16./19. [3DS] Mario & Sonic at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Nintendo) {2016.02.18} (¥4.700) – 4.363 / 187.339 (-3%)
17./10. [3DS] Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice # (Capcom) {2016.06.09} (¥5.800) – 3.959 / 245.424 (-48%)
18./25. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire (Pokemon Co.) {2014.11.21} (¥4.571) – 3.518 / 2.819.752
19./22. [PS4] Grand Theft Auto V [New Price Edition] (Take-Two Interactive Japan) {2015.10.08} (¥4.990) – 3.136 / 130.380
20./18. [WIU] Super Mario Maker # (Nintendo) {2015.09.10} (¥5.700) – 3.003 / 908.424 (-37%)

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