More than twenty years after it caused issues for Nintendo originally, the company is bringing back Tug o’ War for Mario Party Superstars – though it now comes with a warning.
A wild thing happened with the original Mario Party on N64 way back in the day. Certain mini games – notably Tug o’ War – caused issues for some players due to the controls. With the way in which they needed to quickly rotate the analog stick, those that were affected could end up injuring their hands. The New York’s attorney general’s office received quite a number of complaints, forcing Nintendo of America to agree on a settlement. The company allowed families that were impacted to obtain up to four gloves.
Nintendo has a few periods of maintenance scheduled, all of which will be happening tomorrow evening (or early Tuesday morning for those in the UK/Europe). This should all be related to the new Expansion Pack service for Switch Online.
Here’s the full schedule:
Bandai Namco is celebrating the latest milestone in Pac-Man 99 with a new Warp & Warp theme. If you have the game, look for this under the name “Namco Classic 7”. It is entirely free to download.
Since launch, Pac-Man has been downloaded over five million times, Bandai Namco also announced this week. We had previously heard that downloads had surpassed four million at the start of August.
Publisher Akupara Games and developer Die Gute Fabrik have announced new “Penpal” DLC for the adventure title Mutazione. Switch players can access the content now as part of a free update.
With Mutazione having been released two years ago, the “Penpal” DLC also takes place a couple of years later and lets players return to the game world to catch up with their favorite characters, expanding on the original conclusion. They’ll draft letters, catch up on the gossip, and see photographs from their old friends. The experience lasts for a week since each letter will take 24 hours to unlock. Also available are small seed gifts and sounds from old friends.
Saber Interactive has been behind some notable Switch ports, including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and the Crysis Remastered games. The studio is also about ready to ship another impressive release in the form of World War Z. Many wouldn’t have thought that we’d be seeing this game on Nintendo’s console, but Saber managed to make it happen in the end.
Even though World War Z has been the toughest Switch port for Saber Interactive thus far, lead game designer Dmitry Grigorenko doesn’t believe that Nintendo is in need of a more powerful iteration of the hardware. In fact, Grigorenko stated that his team along with other companies “have already proven that there is no such thing as an impossible port.”
BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad, a 2D action game, made it to Switch this week and we now have gameplay. A video is available coming in at 17 minutes with a good chunk of footage.
Check out the following overview on BATS: Bloodsucker Anti-Terror Squad for more details:
Charles Martinet has no intention of leaving the role of Mario anytime soon.
Martinet has been handling the character in games now for almost three decades, having started out with Mario Teaches Typing in 1992. He has also played other key characters in the series, including Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi.
Atlus has released a new demon trailer for Shin Megami Tensei V showing Kali. It appeared in the original Megami Tensei, and has had a large presence in the series since then.
Here’s some background information on Kali, courtesy of the Megami Tensei Wiki:
Happy Humble’s Burger Farm, a horror adventure cooking sim game from publisher tinyBuild and developer Scythe Dev Team, has a new release window on Switch. It will now launch on the system in early 2022.
Happy Humble’s Burger Farm was announced for Switch in September with a Q4 2021 release window. Most platforms will be getting the game on December 3, though the Switch version won’t be ready to go until the start of next year.
Here’s some additional information about the game:
