It’s time for the latest North American Nintendo Download report for the week of October 7, 2021. The latest releases include Metroid Dread, Disco Elysium: The Final Cut, Gang Beasts, Tetris Effect: Connected, and more.
Here’s the full lineup:
Studio Somewhere has announced Bonito Days, “a multiplayer game with a City Pop inspired soundtrack, designed to transport you back to those lazy summer days when life was less stressful.” It will launch exclusively for Switch on October 14.
Here’s an overview of the game:
Publisher Feardemic and developer King’s Pleasure today unveiled Cosmic, an action adventure game for Switch set in a multilayered universe where light and shadow dictate its metaphysical rules. It will be available in 2022.
Here’s an overview of the game:
Atlus has shared the latest daily demon video for Shin Megami Tensei V, this latest one highlighting the demom Parvati. Check out the video and some additional details below the break.
Puzzle platformer The Lightbringer arrives on the Switch eShop today. Check out some gameplay footage and additional details below.
Several new pieces of content are available today in Fire Emblem Heroes, including a new Summoning Event. Check out the details on what’s being added below the break.
The composer for the Dragon Quest series, Koichi Sugiyama, has passed away at the age of 90. Square Enix Japan has put out a statement about the composer’s passing on their official Dragon Quest website and listed his cause of death as septic shock. He passed on September 30, 2021.
Koichi Sugiyama has created music for the Dragon Quest series since its inception and is listed as contributing to over 500 songs for the game series over the years. Square Enix says in their statement that his last task before his death was composing the score for the upcoming 12th mainline game in the series, Dragon Quest XII: The Flames of Fate. What progress he made on this task was not listed in the statement.
Finally, in their statement Square Enix thanks him for his contributions to the Dragon Quest series and says that the music will be a part of his legacy. Comments by his collaborators, such as Yuji Horii (principle game designer and scenario writer for Dragon Quest) and Akira Toriyama (creator of Dragon Ball), can be seen on his obituary page and a memorial is being planned by Square Enix, scheduled to take place in Sugiyama at some point in the future.
The Mushroom Mania solo event in Pokemon Masters EX is live now. In this event, players gather mushrooms to feed Snorlax. There are special missions that can be completed to unlock a new story segment. This event is live until October 13, 2021 at 10:59pm PT.
There are also a couple of rallies going on in Pokemon Masters EX – the Special Rally and the Training Area Reward Boost Rally. The Special Rally gives different missions to complete based on stamina that reward players with items such as five star guaranteed Scout tickets. The Training Area Reward Boost Rally temporarily increases the amount of rewards earned in the training area and the full details of this rally are included below.
