It’s time for the latest Famitsu’s most wanted games chart. This week, Monster Hunter Rise takes the overall top spot for the first time while Disgaea 6 makes its first appearance.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between November 26 and December 2.
A major patch has gone live for AeternoBlade II on Switch. Players can now access version 2.0.0, known as the Director’s Rewind update.
It comes with the following improvements:
Switch eShop deals – Blossom Tales, Iconoclasts, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, Oceanhorn, more
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King, Iconoclasts, Monster Boy and the Cursed Kingdom, Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas, and more.
Here are the full highlights:
Bandai Namco has shared a new One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4 trailer featuring upcoming DLC character Kozuki Oden. Give it a look below.
Kozuki Oden will be featured in the Wano Country Pack DLC pack for One Piece: Pirate Warriors 4, which arrives on December 17. Okiku and Kin’emon are included in the same pack. You can find their trailers here and here.
Update (12/13): Play-Asia has opened pre-orders for the Lyn figure here.
Original (12/8): As we heard a couple of months ago, Lyn – otherwise known as Lyndis – from Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade is getting a new 1/7 scale figure. A new status update was provided today.
Intelligent Systems is directly involved with the figure. It’s also based on the illustration from Sachiko Wada, who worked on the GBA game.
Below are a few photos:
This week on Nintendo Everything Podcast, we’re doing a little giveaway. Listen to the opening portion of the episode for how to enter. Then, it’s the big stuff: Sephiroth in Super Smash Bros Ultimate. And our cynical look at The Game Awards 2020, all its announcements, and rewarding industry crunch…
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System: Switch
Release date: November 20, 2020
Developer: Koei Tecmo / Omega Force
Publisher: Nintendo
In true Musou/Warriors fashion, the original Hyrule Warriors was Koei Tecmo’s take on a completely original story that introduced new characters like Lana, Cia, and Linkle and saw a darker, more mature take on the Zelda IP. Omega Force used the studio’s hack-and-slash prowess to give us one of the most intense and action-oriented Zelda titles to date, and now the follow-up takes us back – way back – to long before the Calamity plagued Hyrule in the timeline of Breath of the Wild. The game brings with it the usual Musou greatness Omega Force is known for while featuring Breath of the Wild’s aesthetic and storyline instead of the more stylized Musou approach that we saw with the original Hyrule Warriors.
Around the release of Persona 5 Strikers in Japan, Atlus released a demo on the Switch eShop. Unfortunately, it appears that there won’t be anything similar for the west. Atlus said that there are currently no plans for a demo in North America and Europe.
Regarding the voice acting, it turns out that this was all done remotely in light of the pandemic that’s taken place this year. Those that prefer the Japanese voices will still have that as an option.
Persona 5 Strikers releases for Switch in the west on February 23, 2021.
No one could have predicted a couple of years ago that both Ori games would end up on Switch, yet that’s exactly what happened. Moon Studios managed to bring Ori and the Blind Forest over in September 2019. It was followed a year later by the sequel, Ori and the Will of the Wisps.
Moon Studios co-founder Gennadiy Korol and lead artist Daniel van Leeuwen recently spoke with Nintendo Everything about the challenging task of bringing Ori and the Will of the Wisps to Switch. We also got to speak with Jon M. Gibson and Amanda White from iam8bit – the game’s publisher – who spoke discussed the special physical release, Switch sales and reception, and more.
Here’s our full discussion:
