This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U VC
Kid Icarus – $4.99
3DS download
Chain Blaster – $6.99
Picross e2 – $5.99
3DS demo
Chain Blaster
3DS retail
Angler’s Club: Ultimate Bass Fishing 3D – $29.95
DSiWare
Cute Witch! Runner – $1.99 / 200 points
Source: Nintendo PR
In previous interviews, Masahiro Sakurai has said that the new Smash Bros. game will not include “a similar story mode” to Brawl. Of course, Sakurai was referring to the Subspace Emissary.
Now it would seem that there won’t be any sort of story mode, based on a new translation from Famitsu.
Sakurai reiterated in a new bi-weekly column this week his disappointment in seeing players upload the Subspace Emissary’s cutscenes online, which ruined the surprise in one sense. This time around, the team has concentrated on making videos for the new characters. For these clips, they’re making them so that it may be beneficial to share them with others.
“Unfortunately, the movie scenes we worked hard to create were uploaded onto the internet. You can only truly wow a player the first time he sees [a cutscene]. I felt if players saw the cutscenes outside of the game, they would no longer serve as rewards for playing the game, so I’ve decided against having them.”
Later in the column, Sakurai did mention one new, mysterious addition for the 3DS version, which will “act as a separate mode from the standard versus play.”
And Sakurai reconfirmed a couple of previous details: the Wii U and 3DS versions will include different stages, and there will be customization elements. Customization will impact character performance and this data can be exchanged between the two versions.
Masahiro Sakurai doesn’t sound too big on bringing fighting game characters into the Super Smash Bros. series.
Sakurai explained to GamesTM this month:
“The biggest feature we look at in Smash Bros. is, ‘What does this character bring to Smash Bros. that other characters don’t?’ If you look at… someone from a fighting game already, and people like fighting with this character, from my point of view, it’s like ‘this guy does what this guy already does. He fills the role that this character already has. So while you may like this character and he’s interesting, that doesn’t really merge well, here.”
Only one new third-party character has been confirmed for the new Smash Bros. game: Mega Man. Based on Sakurai’s comments, fighters from well-known franchises like Street Fighter, Tekken, and Soulcalibur are unlikely to be represented.
Thanks to joclo for sending this quote our way.
The Mushibugyo 3DS site is now open for business. You can find it here. Visitors can watch the game’s first trailer, or check out a Japanese commercial.
