Now that Nintendo’s embargo on Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury has lifted, Digital Foundry has come out with a new video for the Switch release. Both parts of the game have been examined from a technical perspective.
Below are the notable tidbits:
In just a couple of days, the Wii U classic Super Mario 3D World will be returning on Switch, and with new extra content to boot. Nintendo has included the brand new Bowser’s Fury mode to round out the experience.
Reviews for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury are now starting to come in. We’ll be rounding up some of the early verdicts below.
The latest issue of CoroCoro provides details on the next major update for Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y – Waiwai Gakuen Seikatsu. A new mode will be added alongside a series of special costumes.
Level-5’s new Werewolf game-style mode begins with four characters tasked with defending the base, but one of them is an enemy spy. You’ll randomly be chosen as the spy or a student who must uncover the spy.
This month’s issue of CoroCoro provides a release date for Solomon Program, Konami’s strategy RPG for Switch. It’ll be available in Japan starting on February 25. Konami will be offering the title digitally in free-to-play form.
Below are a couple of new gameplay videos:
Choice-based narrative adventure Choices That Matter: And Their Heroes Were Lost out today on Switch
Switch already has two Choices That Matter games in the forms of And The Sun Went Out and And Their Souls Were Eaten. A third entry in the series, And Their Heroes Were Lost, is out today.
Here’s an overview of Choices That Matter: And Their Heroes Were Lost, along with a trailer:
Mages has shared a pair of new character trailers for Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed. We’ve included videos for Sena Kitada and Mana Kitada below.
In case you missed it, we have character trailers for the protagonist and Suzu Moriizumi here.
Akiba’s Trip: Hellbound & Debriefed is slated for May 20 in Japan and Asia. XSEED will be in charge of the game in the west, but we’re waiting to hear if they’ll be publishing the Switch version as well.
Thunder Cross is this week’s Arcade Archives game on Switch, Hamster has announced. A worldwide release is planned for February 11.
Konami was behind Thunder Cross, which first came to arcades in 1988. It’s a shoot ’em up with a total of seven stages.
Pricing for Arcade Archives Thunder Cross is set at $7.99 / €6.99 / £6.29.
Source: Hamster PR
Yesterday, author and game developer Matthew Taranto announced and opened and funded a Kickstarter campaign for Gamemaster Classified: Inside Stories and Secrets from Nintedo’s History. This book covers a lot of Nintendo’s history as a company from the perspective of Taranto, as well as co-authored by Howard Phillips, Nintendo of America’s 1980s spokesperson. Here’s the official overview:
Coral Island has achieved huge success on Kickstarter. It was funded in less than 36 hours, with the total currently at around $350,000 and quickly rising. A Switch stretch goal has also been unlocked in the process.
Coral Island is described as “a re-imagined farm sim game inspired by classics.” We have more information about the project plus a trailer below.
Although Summer Catchers isn’t out on the Switch eShop quite yet, a demo for the game did go live. Check out some footage in the video below.
Summer Catchers, a road trip adventure game, releases for Switch on February 11. Learn more about the title here.
