Downtown Special: Kunio-kun no Jidaigeki da yo Zen’in Sh?g?! will be hitting the Japanese eShop as a Famicom download on July 10 for 500 yen. Screenshots of the game can be found above.
How did this year’s E3 events stack up in the eyes of Japanese gamers? Sony came out on top with its press conference in a recent Famitsu survey, taking in 75 percent of the vote. Nintendo followed with 16 percent for its Nintendo Direct presentation, and Microsoft took the remaining 7 percent for its own media briefing. A total of 506 responses were recorded.
Famitsu also asked readers about the games they are most excited about. Final Fantasy XV, Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Kingdom Hearts III, the new Super Smash Bros., and Watch_Dogs rounded out the top five.
The director and producer of Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode recently took part in interviews with Famitsu and Dengeki Online. Most of the discussion was devoted to development – why the 3DS was chosen, adding new items, appealing to a different audience, and more.
For a summary of what was shared during the interviews, read on below.
– Going with 3DS was simple
– PSP was chosen for the original game because it had a strong audience with Digimon fans
– Was a powerful system that had a big portion of children and parents
– By going to the 3DS, the producer and director hoped to attract new fans and exploit the system’s functions to make Re:Digitize more in-depth
– Dual screens are used to make choices such as in the training mini-games and to input during battle
– The new Digitter function is also displayed
– Originally planned to make a straight port
– Director and producer felt they were given a new opportunity, so they wanted to add as much content as time allowed
– They did so to the point that even they felt a “sequel” might fit better than just a port with “additional content”
– Everything that’s new was created after the PSP game had been released, so even they felt that they had pushed their limits
– Director and producer feel as though they were learning about Digimon and its material for the original PSS game
– For the 3DS version, they had already grown attached and were focused instead on making the game more “Digimon”
– “Decode” is originally “a program that decompressed data back into information”
– For 3DS, they used it to mean “to analyze a previous work and reconstruct it in a better incarnation”
– Decode also refers to the new Decode function of the main character
– This “reconstructs a Digimon’s soul [after death] and gives them stronger abilities”
– Digimon World Re:Digitize was for those who played the original PlayStation game
– Decode is to focus on an enormous increase of content, on fine-tuning what already existed based off player comments, and on making changes the developers had wanted to previously, but couldn’t fit into the PSP game either due to space or time restrictions
– Team also wanted to reach a wider audience
– Focus on high school students and higher, since “the majority of Digimon fans are now in their twenties”
– Character designer Suzuhito Yasuda was therefore asked to create catchier, more unique designs such that players could tell the approximate age and personality of the character just from a glance
– Ex: new character Rina Shinomiya was asked to be a “lively, active girl”
When Level-5 shared the first screenshots of The Little Battlers Wars, it also provided a bunch of information about the game. We now have details thanks to a translation from Siliconera. You can find a summary below.
– Choose your appearance from over 20 avatars
– This is the first time that the series is allowing this
– Represent the virtual nation of Harness on the cardboard battlefield
– Fight against Arata and others from Jenock
– Occasionally cooperate with them as well
– Val Sparos, Dot Phasor, and Orvane are three key LBXs that will be going wild in the Second World of The Little Battlers Wars, and will also be participating in The Little Battlers W Super Custom
– New Multi-Gimmick Sack
– This is a special weapon that’s equipped on the back of LBXs, which also has transforming and fusing attributes
– Dot Phasor and its equipped Z Shield has a sword and gun stored within it, which can be mixed up to a total of five different weapon combinations
– Its different forms are Z Sword, Z Rifle, Z Shooter, Z Hammer, Z Lance
– Aravista Alliance will also be battling
– They’re made of six allied forces, united for the single purpose of taking on the opposing Rosius nation
– They seem to be trying to get Jenock to join their alliance as well
– Keith Jones is the commander of the Aravista Alliance
– Musashi Hakuga is the 19th platoon captain
– Aona Shinji and Akahoshi Kanji are two 19th platoon players
– Vernel and Zirant are two Aravista Alliance LBXs
– Their abilities are unknown
– Phantom: mysterious LBX that has suddenly appeared on the battlefield of the Second World
– Origins are unknown
– Said to be capable of hiding itself with an optic camouflage
– Can use its boosters as laser weapons
