The Kickstarter for Heart Forth, Alicia now includes stretch goals for potential Wii U and 3DS versions. We’ll see the game on Nintendo’s home console if funds hit $200,000, and if donations reach $245,000, it’ll be on Nintendo’s handheld as well. Both versions are realistic possibilities, as the Kickstarter has already reached $164,000 in donations with about two weeks remaining.
Check out the Kickstarter page for Heart Forth, Alicia here. It’s a pretty neat-looking ’90s-inspired Metroidvania RPG.
Thanks to Spookoyo for the tip.
System: Wii U
Release Date: April 3rd, 2014
Developer: Armature Studios
Publisher: Warner Bros. Interactive
Author: Jack
Think prison life’s bad? Having been there twice already, let me tell you, it’s worse than what the movies and books would have you think. Imagine having to shape your masticatory and gastrovascular secretionary actions around predetermined intervals of time throughout the day, with no exceptions. Imagine a life devoid of privacy in being forced to share a toilet bowl in a confined space with a burly ex-construction worker named Red. Now, with that gruesome reality in mind, picture being in a prison taken over by three maniacal super-convicts bent on causing mayhem and destruction upon their escape. Seems like just enough to drive you over the deep end, right? Well, in Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate — Deluxe Edition for Wii U, you, the player, as the eponymous Batman, find yourself in that very peculiar predicament.
Bravely Default wasn’t always the straight-up JRPG that we know of today. Originally, developer Silicon Studio tossed around the idea of making it an action RPG.
President Takehiro Terada told Siliconera:
“We developed the first version with action combat, but overall we felt it was not the best form for the game so we went to turn based.”
“The city part was the same, the battle system was action based.”
Silicon Studio had created a prototype in which players would walk around a city, and when a monster was touched, an action-based battle would ensue. It only featured one playable character who could attack with a weapon and use a number of spells. No job system was included at this point.
Speaking about the prototype, Terada added:
NintendoWorldReport has published a new preview for Mario Kart 8. Information rounded up from the report (mostly a recap of what we knew previously, with a few extra bits) can be found below.
– Unlock tracks by racing in Grand Prix mode, which is standard
– Given 1-3 stars depending on your performance in races
– This is based on coins collected and finishing place
– Unlockable gear returns
– Each piece unlocks for every 50 coins
– These include tires, bodies, or specific gliders that will impact your stats
– Stats alter significantly if they are applied to the right character
– Time Trial and Vs. Race modes
– Time Trials: play alone or compete against a ghost
– Race against Nintendo staff member ghosts
– Beat a Nintendo staff ghost to receive a Miiverse stamp
– Pull more ghosts from Miiverse and race them
– More racing battles can be had in the Vs. Mode, where you fight randomly a bunch of computer opponents
– Play any track you have unlocked in Vs. Mode
– Again, Battle Mode features existing courses
– Play all of these modes with four players locally
– Create private lobbies for your friends online
– From here, you can also join a friend if he or she is already playing a match
– Set up tournaments that can be held weekly, daily, fixed period of your choosing
– You will get a bunch of tools to make the tournament to your liking and allow only a certain group of players
– After each race, you can go into a menu and view the best moments of that race for Mario Kart TV
– You can then cut it down from 30 to 60 seconds, and let the clips focus on specific elements like action, items, drifting, among others
– You can also watch the full race if you’re interested
– Upload clips to Miiverse and YouTube
In news that is far from shocking, Retro Studios’ next game will probably have enemies and bosses. Of course, this should be hardly surprising given the company’s previous titles.
Retro Studios put up a job listing earlier today for an AI engineer, who “develops, writes and debugs code for video game software and tools with a specific focus on AI programming for enemies & bosses and various other game-play systems as required.”
So yes, expect enemies and bosses in Retro Studios’ next game, whatever it may be.
