We are currently halfway through the Choose Your Legends 3 voting event for Fire Emblem Heroes, and Intelligent Systems published the current standings of the vote today. You can vote here if you want to influence the final results. As a reminder, special versions of the top 2 male and top 2 female characters will be added to Fire Emblem Heroes later this year. Here are the top 20 male characters as of today:
- Alm
- Marth
- Eliwood
- Chrom
- Robin
- Bruno
- Reinhardt
- Lif
- Sigurd
- Takumi
- Leo
- Soren
- Ranulf
- Black Knight
- Seliph
- Surtr
- Alfonse
- Ryoma
- Haar
- Zelgius
And here are the top 20 female characters:
- Camilla
- Micaiah
- Robin
- Eirika
- Corrin
- Anna (Awakening)
- Azura
- Loki
- Anna (Heroes)
- Tharja
- Nino
- Louise
- Cordelia
- Selkie
- Lilina
- Mia
- Tiki (adult)
- Nephenee
- Thrasir
- Tiki (child)
The Nintendo Switch version of Two Tribes’ Swords & Soldiers is available now on the eShop. Here’s a new trailer for the Switch version to give you an idea of what the game is about:
Two weeks after North America and a whole month after Japan, Mario & Luigi: Bowser’s Inside Story + Bowser Jr.’s Journey is finally launching in Europe today. Nintendo shared the following trailer today, which gives an overview of the story, gameplay and changes from the DS version:
This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [PS4] Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown # (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.17} (¥7.600) – 202.379 / NEW
02./01. [NSW] New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe (Nintendo) {2019.01.11} (¥5.980) – 88.840 / 255.143 (-47%)
03./02. [NSW] Super Smash Bros. Ultimate # (Nintendo) {2018.12.07} (¥7.200) – 49.533 / 2.726.273 (-21%)
04./00. [PS4] Yakuza 4 (Sega) {2019.01.17} (¥3.990) – 18.440 / NEW
05./06. [NSW] Super Mario Party # (Nintendo) {2018.10.05} (¥5.980) – 16.752 / 971.945 (-12%)
06./09. [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo) {2017.04.28} (¥5.980) – 15.062 / 2.085.952 (+0%)
07./08. [NSW] Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Let’s Go, Eevee! # (Pokemon Co.) {2018.11.16} (¥5.980) – 12.351 / 1.427.298 (-20%)
08./05. [NSW] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix) {2018.12.20} (¥7.800) – 11.490 / 210.493 (-41%)
09./10. [NSW] Minecraft # (Microsoft Game Studios) {2018.06.21} (¥3.600) – 11.107 / 573.451 (-12%)
10./11. [NSW] Splatoon 2 # (Nintendo) {2017.07.21} (¥5.980) – 9.469 / 2.903.350 (-14%)
11./07. [PS4] Dragon Quest Builders 2 (Square Enix) {2018.12.20} (¥7.800) – 9.330 / 206.392 (-48%)
12./12. [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild # (Nintendo) {2017.03.03} (¥6.980) – 7.731 / 1.263.023 (-10%)
13./00. [PS4] Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet – Complete Edition (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.17} (¥7.200) – 7.474 / NEW
14./00. [PS4] PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG Corporation) {2019.01.17} (¥3.056) – 7.447 / NEW
15./03. [PS4] Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition # (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.11} (¥5.700) – 7.446 / 48.955 (-82%)
16./13. [NSW] Go Vacation (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.12.27} (¥4.980) – 5.151 / 47.862 (-32%)
17./04. [NSW] Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition # (Bandai Namco Games) {2019.01.11} (¥5.700) – 4.598 / 31.186 (-83%)
18./14. [PS4] Judgment (Sega) {2018.12.13} (¥8.290) – 4.527 / 244.820 (-34%)
19./15. [PS4] Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII (Sony Interactive Entertainment) {2018.10.12} (¥7.900) – 4.341 / 524.140 (-23%)
20./16. [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco Games) {2018.07.19} (¥6.100) – 3.720 / 294.679 (-21%)
Following some demo time during the recent World Hobby Fair Winter 2019 in Japan, CoroCoro has published six minutes of offscreen gameplay for Yo-kai Watch 4.
The footage of the anticipated next installment of the series can be viewed below.
A new special item is now available to be crafted in Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp in the form of the Snowfall Snowman.
From the limited time section of the Craft menu, players can create the new seasonal item at the cost of 350 leaf tickets. This will be available until March 26th.
Images of the item can be viewed below.
A new event is now live in Dragalia Lost that doubles the amount of daily bonuses that are received in certain modes.
Fittingly titled the Double Daily Bonus Event, players will receive double the bonuses in both Dragon Trials and Imperial Onslaught until January 31st. In fact, this actually stacks with and previous double bonus packs that a player has active, quadrupling the payout.
In addition, a Tenfold Summon Voucher is now available as a login bonus until February 1st.
The announced Spirit Board event for this week — “The More the Merrier” — is now live in Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the weekend.
Players can expect to encounter more Spirit fights on the Spirit Board that involve more than one character this time around. This includes Spirits like Articuno, Zapdos, & Moltres, Donkey Kong & Lady, and Octoling Boy and Girl.
Prior to the game’s release on the Switch eShop at the end of the month, some early gameplay footage of Stray Cat Doors has been published by Nintendo Hall.
The first 24 minutes of gameplay for the escape game can be viewed below.
This week’s Famitsu scans are now available. Highlights include SD Gundam G Generation Cross Rays, Kill la Kill the Game: IF, Chocobo’s Mystery Dungeon Every Buddy, Girls und Panzer: Dream Tank Match DX, and Ninja Box. Scans of all games can be found below.