This weekend, Splatoon 2 will be hosting a worldwide Splatfest in celebration of Halloween. As usual, Nintendo has prepared a special piece of art to promote the event. We have it above.
Ground Shatter and Ant Workshop are bringing SkyScrappers to Switch, the two companies announced today. A release is planned for October 29.
SkyScrappers is described as “a retro-inspired vertically scrolling platform fighting game” in which “players scrap and scale their way to the top of a falling skyscraper – as it crumbles around them – in the ultimate thrill-seekers, daredevil race”. Find more details and a trailer below.
Nintendo published an overview trailer for Dark Souls: Remastered on their Japanese Youtube channel. The video shows off quite a bit of gameplay from various areas in the game:
This week’s Switch/ Wii U/3DS-specific UK software sales are as follows:
Switch
1. Super Mario Party – Nintendo
2. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe – Nintendo
3. Minecraft – Nintendo
4. Super Mario Odyssey – Nintendo
5. Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy- Activision Blizzard
6. The World Ends With You -Final Remix- – Nintendo
7. FIFA 19 – EA
8. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild – Nintendo
9. Splatoon 2 – Nintendo
10. Mario Tennis Aces – Nintendo
Wii U
1. Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival – Nintendo
2. Super Mario 3D World – Nintendo
3. Minecraft: Wii U Edition – Nintendo
4. Mario Party 10 – Nintendo
5. Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze – Nintendo
6. Wii Party U – Nintendo
7. The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD – Nintendo
8. Paper Mario: Color Splash – Nintendo
9. Splatoon – Nintendo
10. Just Dance 2018 – Ubisoft
3DS
1. Mario Kart 7 – Nintendo
2. Animal Crossing: New Leaf – Nintendo
3. New Super Mario Bros. 2 – Nintendo
4. Donkey Kong Country Returns – Nintendo
5. Tomodachi Life – Nintendo
6. Super Mario Maker – Nintendo
7. Pokemon Ultra Moon – Nintendo
8. Super Mario 3D Land – Nintendo
9. Pokemon Ultra Sun – Nintendo
10. Luigi’s Mansion 2 – Nintendo
Source: Chart-Track
NIS America published another trailer for Yomawari: The Long Night Collection on Nintendo Switch. Titled “I don’t want to leave you!”, this one focuses on Haru and Yui from Midnight Shadows:
Superb Corp. has announced the piano-themed rhythm game Pianista: The Legendary Virtuoso for Nintendo Switch. The game features 77 songs from 23 famous composers. According to the game’s official website, it’s supposedly “out now” on the eShop, although that isn’t actually the case. Perhaps it will be released this Thursday with the regular weekly eShop update? Either way, here’s an overview of the game’s various modes:
MATINÉE – Choose 4 keys or 6 keys to perform, and select 3 songs to play. Challenge highest score to compete with others in Rank, also hidden stages are available when you achieve special missions.
CONCOURS – Packaged challenge sorted by different themes. This mode features various difficulty and missions. Show your best performance in concours.
ENSEMBLE – Using Joy con to perform a duet. Customize your own play style using different piano skins, speed options, and more options with friends for best result.
LIBRARY – Check your play status, and also world’s famous composers and their songs.
PIANO – There are many piano skins to collect, which inspired by world’s famous paintings. Achieve special missions to complete your collection!
And finally, the annoucement trailer:
Trick or Defeat, last year’s special Halloween Summoning Focus, is back until November 15 in Fire Emblem Heroes. This means you have another shot at getting Nowi: Eternal Witch, Henry: Happy Vampire, Sakura: Gentle Nekomata and Jakob: Devoted Monster.
Nintendo has published a new trailer for Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu / Eevee; this one doesn’t really show anything new, but instead gives a nice overview of the game:
The latest Persona Q2 character trailer is here, and it focuses on Goro Akechi, the detective genius from Persona 5:
