This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:
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Dinosaur Office: Romance (available Feb. 14 at 9 a.m. PST) – Craig deals with matters of the heart. Rawr! (For Nintendo 3DS™)Nintendo eShop
Maru’s Mission™ – Play as the ninja Maru in this action-packed side-scrolling game that will take you on a journey across the world. To rescue his girlfriend, Maru must face a number of mythological monsters. (For Nintendo 3DS)
A new third-party interview has gone live on the Iwata Asks website.
Tekken series producer Katsuhiro Harada and Tekken 3D producer Kouhei Ikeda discuss how they became interested in the fighting game genre and share their stories about how they got into Namco. Of course, the two also go into detail about Tekken 3D’s development.
Head past the break for a roundup of details!
Last month, Ubisoft closed its Vancouver subsidiary. This was the studio behind the likes of Academy of Champions for Wii.
Before Ubisoft Vancouver shut down, they may have been working on MotionSports Wii U as a launch title for the console. The project was likely cancelled as the studio is now defunct.
Superannuation tweeted earlier today:
“Also, it sounds like Ubisoft Vancouver was working on a MotionSports WiiU launch title—now presumably dead—at the time of their closure.”
In addition to being the first game in the “Little Tail Bronx” series, Tail Concerto was also CyberConnect2’s first project. The title didn’t sell particularly well, and I’m sure Mamoru-kun met a similar fate.
Due to Tail Concerto’s poor sales, Namco Bandai wasn’t too interested in CyberConnect 2’s pitch for Solatorobo: Red the Hunter.
You might be wondering how the studio persuaded Namco Bandai into publishing the game given this fact.
Director Takayuki Isobe provided an explanation in an interview with Gamasutra:
“To overcome the weak points with Tail Concerto, we created massive amounts of assets, generating multiple concept documents, each time refining the world and settings to create a game with a very deep story and a detailed world view that even a mature audience could enjoy, and eventually were able to get the green light from our client.”
Famitsu recently published a few new Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai details. The magazine has shared new details about the game’s PV Theater viewer mode and AR modes.
The new information is as follows:
– Nico Nico Video-like comment feature in the game
– Write comments that will be shown on the screen like the comments in Nico Nico videos in the game’s PV Theater viewer mode
– Group element to comment writing
– Share comments with other players through StreetPass
– AR mode: Miku dances around in the location of your choosing
– Songs include Shinkai Shojo (Deep Sea Girl) and Haro Hawayu (Hello, How Are You)
