Animal Crossing: New Horizons datamining has already led to the finding of what appears to be the steps for upgrading Nook’s Cranny. Ninji, who made that original discovery, today shared another batch of interesting information pertaining to the Switch title.
Ninji has been poking through the files and code for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, which may hint at some upcoming features. We’ve rounded up the various tidbits below. Of course, if you’re not interested in potentially being spoiled in any way, keep that in mind before proceeding.
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light is celebrating its 30th anniversary today. In honor of the occasion, a treat is now available for Nintendo Switch Online members in Japan.
The Famicom app has updated with a pair of special versions for the game. In the first one, the action picks up right as players are about to trigger a Triangle Attack with Palla, Catria, and Est. The second one begins at the endgame chapter, where Marth must battle Medeus to save the day.
Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon and the Blade of Light never came out in the west, so these bonuses and the game itself aren’t available in North America or Europe. However, if you create a Japanese Nintendo Account and download the Famicom app, you should be able to access them – just without any English.
Unravel Two is currently available on Switch via the eShop. The same can’t be said of the series’ first entry, but perhaps that could be changing soon.
Over in Brazil, Unravel 1 was recently rated for Switch. The classification was just added to the official database on April 17. The only slightly confusing part of the rating is that PS4, Xbox One, and PC are also included from this same day despite being available on all three platforms since 2016.
Here’s an overview of Unravel, along with a trailer:
A number of new deals are up and running on the North American Switch eShop. These include Cuphead, Disney Classic Games: Aladdin and the Lion King, Friday the 13th: The Game Ultimate Slasher Edition, the Guacamelee titles, Monster Boy, Picross releases, and more.
Here are the full highlights:
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Nintendo’s maintenance schedule for this week looks a lot like the one from last week. As previously announced, there will be downtime involving the distribution of update data for Switch.
The full schedule is as follows:
Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 6 has returned in Fire Emblem Heroes. 5-star Heroes who showed up before the start of Book II appear as focus Heroes, and the focus lineup changes each week.
You’ll be able to partake in Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 6 until April 12.
Digital Crafter and Part Goose will release the four-player action party game Gerritory on Switch, according to an eShop listing. The game is slated for May 7.
We have the following overview and trailer for Gerritory:
Exit the Gungeon was updated on Switch this week to version 2.0.6. Dodge Roll implemented changes related to controls, gameplay, and balancing while also taking care of numerous bugs.
Below are the full patch notes:
