During Nintendo’s financial results briefing last week, president Shuntaro Furukawa was initially asked a flurry of questions. Topics included the company’s strategy for Switch this holiday, the user base that will popularize the console, and how pre-orders are going for Pokemon: Let’s Go, Pikachu / Eevee and Smash Bros. Ultimate.
Here’s Furukawa’s full response:
Over the past several weeks, Nintendo has been cycling through its regular events in Super Mario Run. The latest one is now live.
As of today, the appearance rate of 5-star items in the Bonus Game will be increased. This extra incentive will be live until November 17.
Nintendo held its financial results briefing for the second quarter of the current fiscal year last week. As always, there was a Q&A session with inventors after the briefing. Nintendo has now provided an official transcript and English translation of the Q&A session, which you can find here. As is most often the case, don’t expect any breaking news from this, but there are a couple of interesting tidbits and insights into Nintendo’s business philosophy.
We’re slowly but surely approaching the release of Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes on January 18th. Today, Nintendo revealed a special little tidbit about the game: Travis can wear a variety of t-shirts in the game, and many of them feature indie games. The picture above shows shirts themed after Golf Story, Hollow Knight, Dandara, Bit.Trip Runner and many more.
The Super Smash Blog update got a second update today, which once again details Spirits. The accompanying screenshots also reveal some new Spirits.
There are two kinds of spirits. Primary spirits boost the physical abilities of the fighter you equip them to, while support spirits provide special skills. Try out different combinations to power up your fighters!
Atlus have uploaded a lengthy gameplay video of Persona Q2 to their Youtube channel. The video contains footage from near the beginning of the game, showing the Persona 5 crew in the first dungeon of the game:
Koei Tecmo and Gust Corporation shared some new info on Atelier Lulua: The Scion of Arland, detailing the game’s story and some of its characters. We’ve summarized the new info below (credit goes to Gematsu for the translation):
Story
A story of “inheritance” that revolves around “ancient records.” The setting is Arklys, a town on the frontier of the Arland Republic.
An alchemist girl lives in this town. As the alchemist disciple of Piana, who is said to have aimlessly visited the town, the girl strives to master synthesis day after day. Her dream is straightforward: “to surpass the great alchemist that is my mother.” And her mother’s name—Rorolina Frixell.
This girl, who inherited the Frixell name, one day comes across a book. This book, which cannot be read by anyone other than herself, is incredibly difficult to understand. After managing to decipher the first page, she feels with certainty that some sort of power dwells within her.
Holding on to her natural curiosity and dreams, she makes the decision to decipher the book. That decision will eventually lead to the unraveling of the truth of not only Arklys, but of Arland as well.
Lulua’s circumstances
Lulua doesn’t have her own atelier; instead she uses the covered carriage atelier of her teacher to synthesize items. Lulua’s dream is to one be as skilled an alchemist as her mother, but right now she simply isn’t good enough. This all changes, however, when Lulua finds a book called “Alchemy Riddle”, which can only be read by her and will grant her great power.
Piana
Major additions just arrived for Fire Emblem Heroes. The Adrift summoning event teased earlier arrived, featuring new Heroes from Fire Emblem Fates. Here are some additions.
- A new set of Story Maps, and more precisely a Paralogue Story called “Adrift” (featuring the usual 3 maps);
- A new set of Quests related to the Paralogue Story;
- Athe usual set of Log-in Bonuses, with 13 Orbs to get in total.
Finally, Fire Emblem Heroes launched a brand new mode. You can participate in Aether Raids, where you can “defeat your rivals and set your sites on distant skies.” The first time you play you’ll receive 500 Aether Stones to set up your map ahead of battle.
Koei Tecmo announced earlier that they’re bringing a bundle of two Harukanaru Toki no Naka de 6 DX games to Switch in Japan and now we have a trailer for it. Check out a glimpse at the romance adventure package below.
The primary developer of the Pokémon games is finally jumping on the social media train. Game Freak just opened its own YouTube and Twitter accounts. They already have a Facebook account which you can find here. They’re expanding their social presence a week before the Pokémon: Let’s Go games, and also ahead of their brand new RPG tentatively titled Town coming to Switch in 2019.
