Hello my crypto currency miners! This week on Nintendo Everything Podcast, we’ve got quite the wild news. There’s reports of physical imports of Animal Crossing: New Horizons being banned in mainland China, and a weird and wacky story of Cooking Mama: Cookstar. We’ve got game critique aplenty with Resident Evil 3, Hob: Definitive Edition, and more. Our listener mail is chock-full of JRPG goodness as we discuss Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, and learning to appreciate media that you don’t love. Come have a chill game time with us!
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Fishing Tourney: Fun Bunny Day Land has arrived in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. For this tourney, the rewards have a Bunny Day theme. The event will be live for a full week.
Zipper – a character Animal Crossing: New Horizons players should know well – has also come to visit. If you place Zipper’s dance stage in your campsite or cabin, he’ll show up for a visit.
Grand Hero Battle – Iago: Nohr’s Tactician has kicked off in Fire Emblem Heroes as the game’s latest event. Igao uses cruel schemes and malicious magic, but if you defeat him, he’ll become your ally. Look for him in Special Maps.
Summoning Focus: Weekly Revival 5 is also up and running in Fire Emblem Heroes today. 5-star Heroes who appeared before the start of Book II appear as focus Heroes, and the focus lineup changes each week.
We’ll also mention that the 30th Anniversary Grand Hero Battle Revivals have started to return. There will be a series of battles every two days. First up is Julius: Scion of Darkness, along with some limited-time quests. This event will be active until April 13 at 11:59 PM PT / April 14 at 2:59 AM ET.
Nintendo and Cygames have announced Lazry and Gaibhne & Creidhne as the next summon showcase in Dragalia Lost. It’ll feature adventurers and dragons such as the 5-star adventurer Lazry and 5-star dragon Gaibhne & Creidhne.
Here’s some additional information as well as a trailer:
White Owls has offered up a new look at The Good Life. In a recently-published video, we’re able to see how the life sim RPG’s visuals have been updated. We’ve included it below.
The Good Life launches on Switch later in 2020.
Bit Dragon’s neon-soaked arena brawler Hyper Jam will appear on the Switch eShop next week, the developer has announced. A release is expected on April 17.
Here’s an overview of Hyper Jam, along with a trailer:
Star Wars Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy debuted on Switch alongside last month’s Nintendo Direct Mini. This week, Aspyr distributed a new update for the game.
Version 1.0.2 is now live on Switch. The main point of the update involves taking care of unintentional cross-play with PC players, which you can read about here.
Below are the official patch notes:
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Streets of Rage 4, Dungeon of the Endless, Yumeutsutsu Re:Master and Re:After, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
As is the case with Atlus, a number of SEGA games are currently on sale on the 3DS eShop. These include a ton of the classic “3D” titles, Sonic, and more.
Here’s the full lineup:
A new month rolled right on in last week. Now that we’re in April, we want to know what you’ve been playing.
Still setting up your island in Animal Crossing: New Horizons? Trying out anything from the recent Nintendo Direct Mini like Good Job or the Bravely Default II demo? No matter the case, let us know in the comments below.
