Team17 and Villa Gorilla released a new trailer for Yoku’s Island Express focusing on the main character’s abilities. In the pinball platformer mashup, Yoku the dung beetle will be able to discover many quirky hidden abilities and collectibles to discover including:
• The Noisemaker, a party whistle that acts as Yoku’s postal horn
• The Slug Vacuum, capable of sucking up the pesky slugs that litter the island and utilising their explosive power to clear stubborn rocks and reveal new routes to explore
• Take the plunge with the Dive Fish, which will allow Yoku to dive the depths of the island
• & more
The new abilities trailer for Yoku’s Island Express can be found below.
This week’s issue of Famitsu contains a Dragon Quest Builders 2 interview with producer Noriyoshi Fujimoto and assistant producer Takuma Shiraishi. The two developers shared the latest details about the game. Fujimoto and Shiraishi talked about the reason for moving ahead with the sequel, where development is at currently, multiplayer and story teases, and more.
Here’s the full roundup of information, courtesy of Siliconera:
Grindstone Games prepared a new trailer for Hellmut: The Badass from Hell to celebrate the launch on PC – the Switch version is due out later in Q2. View the trailer called “The Gates of Hell Open” below.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Tower of Babel (NSW) – 7/6/7/7
Your Four Knight Princesses Training Story (NSW/PS4/PSV) – 8/7/7/7
Crossing Souls (PS4) – 7/8/8/7
Fortissimo (PSV) – 8/8/8/8
Hokuto ga Gotoku (PS4) – 9/9/9/8
Immortal Redneck (PS4/XBO) – 7/7/8/7
Lucky Dog 1 (PSV) – 8/8/8/8
Splatoon 2 is getting another version update. The patch bringing the game to version 2.3.0 will be available tomorrow at 10 AM JST. As per usual, this patch will bring with several balance changes to weapons, sub-weapons and specials. Currently the patch notes are only available in Japanese; we will update this post once we have a translation of them.
The newest event of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp is now live. The Spring flower event has you growing Spring flowers and collecting lady bugs. You will recieve colorful floral prizes for your efforts, event ends March 8th.
A set of new quests are now available that pretain to using heroes with water blessing, you’ll have a chance to earn some more orbs. There have also been adjustments to the arena match making in that were mentioned earlier.
Merge Games has officially announced that it has signed with Digerati to bring out a retail version of the survival-horror game The Coma: Recut on Switch. Though it’s already out on the eShop, a physical release is set for May.
Here’s a rundown of The Coma: Recut for those who haven’t played the title previously: