Hello my lovely listeners! This week on Nintendo Everything Podcast, we’re talking two great releases this week: Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition, and The TakeOver. We’ve got more video game updates on Animal Crossing, Bug Fables, and even Yu-Gi-Oh!, then some Pokemon Sword and Shield DLC news. We have an excellent listener mail question about hidden gem series like Hotel Dusk, Famicom Tantei Club, and other obscure text-based, point-and-click adventures.
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Earlier today, Mario Kart Tour updated with a Gold Pipe featuring 50 things in it. Dry Bowser (Gold), Gold Egg, and Gold Crane make their debut. Gold drivers, karts, and gliders from past tours have returned as well.
For the high-end pulls, Gold Koopa (Freerunning), Dry Bones (Gold), and Dry Bowser (Gold) have an appearance rate of 0.6667 percent. The gliders Gold Glider, Gold Swooper, and Gold Crane also have the same appearance rate. As for karts, Gold Train and Gold Egg have an appearance rate of 1.0000 percent.
The Gold Pipe will be available in Mario Kart Tour until June 12.
A few events have started up this weekend in Fire Emblem Heroes. Players can access Daily Focus: Heroes with Bond Skills, Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 13, and Grand Hero Battle – Gangrel: Plegi’s Mad King.
Here’s the rundown of each:
E-Line Media has uploaded a trailer for Beyond Blue, its new single-player narrative adventure. Get a look at the video below.
While the Switch version of Beyond Blue doesn’t have a release date, news on that front should be coming soon.
In a recent news post sent out to Switch owners, Nintendo provided a listing of the top 15 European eShop downloads for May 2020.
This month, NBA 2K20 leads the way thanks to a big sale. We also see Minecraft Dungeons and Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition appear for the first time at #3 and #10 respectively.
The full list is as follows:
Animal Crossing: New Horizons director Aya Kyogoku and producer Hisashi Nogami have talked about adapting the franchise for a global audience.
In an interview with Spanish outlet La Vanguardia, the developers were asked about Japanese customs like bug catching and how the team goes about making local customs into something that can be universal. The two said in response:
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Summer in Mara, House Flipper, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
When Ninjala lands on Switch this month, it will be mostly be released as a free-to-play game. There will be paid elements, but anyone will be able to download it at no extra cost from the eShop to see what it has to offer.
We recently asked game designer Kazuki Morishita about the approach behind making Ninjala free-to-play. Speaking with Nintendo Everything, Morishita explained:
