This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Retail
DreamWorks Dragons Dawn of New Riders – $39.99 (available February 15)
Steins;Gate Elite – $53.99 (available February 19)
Team17 and Pathea Games are back with the latest trailer for My Time at Portia. View the video below for a look at the villagers that you can meet, befriend, and romance.
We have a bit of extra information about the Switch version of Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice, which was announced during last night’s Nintendo Direct.
QLOC is confirmed to be handling the game. Previously, the studio ported Dark Souls: Remastered to PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Square Enix published a new English gameplay video for Dragon Quest Builders 2, along with the game’s opening movie (in boy / girl versions). We have all of the videos rounded up below.
Nippon Ichi Software has released the boxart for its survival adventure game To All Mankind, which we have above. You can also access the new Japanese website here.
To All Mankind launches May 30 in Japan.
Trine 2: Complete Story launches on Switch a week from today. Have a look at some early footage in the video below.
Back in 2017, we heard that publisher Nnooo was considering several games for Switch – including Anodyne. Today we have confirmation that the game will indeed be released on the platform.
Here’s an introduction to the “Zelda-lite” game:
Team Cherry shared some additional news tidbits about Hollow Knight: Silksong, which they announced earlier today, in a new blog post. The original Hollow Knight started out as a Kickstarter project, and all 2158 backers will receive Hollow Knight: Silksong for free. Backers can choose to receive a code for either the Switch or the PC version.
The blog post also reveals that the original Hollow Knight has sold a total of 2.8 million copies so far across all platforms. While we don’t have an exact breakdown by platform, we know that the game sold 250,000 copies on Nintendo Switch in its first two weeks.
Finally, here are some in-game screenshots from Hollow Knight: Silksong:
Two fairly brief news tidbits on Fire Emblem Heroes today. It’s Thursday, which means that a new map is available in Tactics Drills. “Armored Alliance” can be found in the Grandmaster section. You get one orb for clearing this map.
Also, a new round of Grand Conquests battles will start in two days. You can pre-register for them now. This time, the battles will take place on Tellius, the continent from Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn. Titania, Ike and Soren will be the three commanders.
The Fire Emblem series has been constantly changing and evolving over the years, and this is especially true for the character designs. Usually, the series sticks with a character designer for one or two games, then brings in a new one. This also holds true for the next game in the series, Fire Emblem: Three Houses. The identity of the new character designer has been the source of much speculation since the game was revealed last year, but Nintendo has now confirmed on their Japanese website that Chinatsu Kurahana is the one who got the job.
Kurahana is a freelance artist who is most famous for her work on the Uta no Prince-sama series in its various incarnations, from game to manga to anime. She was also the character designer for the Samurai Flamenco anime and the Tokyo Twilight Ghost Hunters game.
