During a recent Iwata Asks, director Hideki Kamiya teased a secret collaboration character for The Wonderful 101. But as it turns out, there are three such heroes to find.
The characters were shown for the first time during a PAX Prime 2013 panel a short while ago. Each one comes from the same title.
You can find an image of the three after the break.
CYBER is releasing a new 3DS accessory in Japan in just a few days. The peripheral is a game card cover – designed to prevent the card from accidentally jumping out of the slot while in use. It fits snugly into the slot in the 3DS/3DS XL and protects important data.
The cover comes in black and silver colors. Also worth mentioning, it’s made up of stainless steel material.
Consumers in Japan can purchase the game card cover starting on September 3.
Polygon has published a new interview with Keiji Inafune regarding his new Kickstarter project, Mighty No. 9. Inafune had a lot to say about the new game, plus off-beat topics like Twitter.
You can find a good chunk of Inafune’s comments below. There’s even more to find on Polygon.
Librica plans to release even more manga on the 3DS in Japan. Series such as Dragon Ball and Monster Hunter will be available starting on September 4.
Below is the full lineup:
Dragon Ball Color Version 1-4 (1,150 on sale at launch, usually 1,800 yen)
Magical Lyrical Nanoha ViVid Volumes 1-5 (2,950 yen)
Monster Hunter: Hunter of Flash Volumes 1-4 (2,250 yen)
Neon Genesis Evangelion Volumes 1-5 (2,850 yen)
Zekkyo Gakkyu Volumes 1-10 (3,500 yen)
More details from the Shantae and the Pirate’s Curse PAX Prime 2013 demo have appeared. For the latest information, check out the summary below.
– Shantae’s pirate abilities include a pistol
– Pistol is a good projectile weapon
– Can also be used to solve puzzles such as hitting targets that Shantae’s prehensile ponytail can’t reach
– 2 stages in the PAX demo
– One is a dungeon, the other is a boss fight
– Each room in the dungeon has a hint as to where to go next
– Boss fight has players whipping bombs back at an enemy tanker that’s shooting them at you
– Faster paced controls than the DSiWare game
– Larger field of vision included
– No longer an issue to see what’s coming up ahead, above and below you
– Map isn’t in the demo, but will be in the final game
– Map is improved from Risky’s Revenge
There’s no denying that Mighty No. 9 has many similarities to Mega Man. There are obviously differences between the two, but some aspects are comparable. This should come as a big surprise given how both games come from the same creator Keiji Inafune.
Despite these similarities, Capcom hasn’t initiated any legal proceedings… at least not yet.
Keiji Inafune told Kotaku that he has yet to hear anything from the company:
“We haven’t heard anything from Capcom at this point. If it turns into a legal battle, then obviously it’ll be lawyers that hash out what the solutions are. However, from my perspective, Mega Man is something that I created. It would be like having a child, then having somebody adopt that child and then saying that child isn’t really yours. That child has your DNA in it, no matter what anybody says. So, since my style, my spirit isn’t something that I can’t change as a human being, if I create anything and it’s something that looks like [Mega Man], well, it was created by the same person, me. To say that Mighty No. 9 looks like Mega Man is to say that my work looks like my work.
But we have been careful. The base gameplay is not the same as Mega Man. The naming, the character, all that is not the same. The details are very different. Personally, I’ve gone out of my way to make sure that this is something original. And if Capcom does come back and say something, I would be surprised.”
With The Wonderful 101’s development complete, director Hideki Kamiya will soon move on to a new project. Perhaps it’ll be a Bayonetta game for 3DS.
Speaking with Siliconera, Kamiya expressed interest in creating a title based on Jeanne:
“Given the chance, I’d like to make a game based on Jeanne from Bayonetta. Something that’s not as big in scale. Something that’s portable, that you could play in quick sessions, where she’s a history teacher and the kind of fun things that could come out of a scenario like that.”
Another 3DS game Kamiya would be open to? An Okami spin-off for 3DS.
“If I could get away with it, I’d also like to come up with a spin-off of Okami, less focused on the grand idea of saving the world, but [rather] something focused on the smaller world of the fairy Issun.”
