This week’s issue of Famitsu has a year-end feature with tons of developers and industry members. Representatives from Square Enix, Capcom, Bandai Namco, Koei Tecmo, PlatinumGames, and other companies were asked to rank their top five games played from January to December. Others participated as well such as several voice actors.
The ranking for all platforms is as follows:
Do you remember Little Devil Inside? Neostream funded the action-adventure RPG on Kickstarter way back in May 2015.
When the campaign originally ran, Wii U support was achieved. However, things are quite different these days, and Switch has essentially replaced the older console. A release on Wii U is probably unlikely at this point, but the developer did recently tell Inven Global that they’re interested in a Switch version after the initial PC launch.
Neostream still has a long road ahead as the QA phase for Little Devil Inside is planned for the end of 2018. Perhaps we’ll see it on Switch sometime in 2019? In the meantime, here’s the latest video which was just shared last week:
Nintendo is celebrating Christmas with the release of Style Savvy: Styling Star in North America. Take a look at the launch trailer below.
At the end of August, it was announced that Nicalis will be publishing Save me Mr Tako: Tasukete Tako-San on Switch. Originally, the plan was to have it ready sometime this year. With 2017 just about over, unfortunately, we’ll have to wait until 2018 for Save me Mr Tako.
In a blog update, Deneos states that Save me Mr Tako “is now almost ready for submission”. Additionally, “it will be released as soon as possible next year.”
L.F.O.: Lost Future Omega was announced for Switch earlier this year. Today, Mebius confirmed that it’s slated for December 28 in Japan.
In L.F.O., the music played has its sound synced based on the player’s actions and the changes on screen. Some of the sounds from the previous stage can be chosen to be brought to the next stage. Therefore even reaching the same stage may result in different arrangements based on the routes chosen in the playthrough.
Here’s something that’s a bit interesting. Today, Nintendo posted a new job listing on its website for a Splatoon 2 level designer. The game has obviously been out for awhile, but Nintendo is still updating it new content and patches.
The designer will be involved with the adjustment of stages, weapons, and rules. These include adjustments to existing levels.
D3Publisher currently has a total of four games lined up for Switch. In the latest issue of Famitsu, the magazine outlines the full lineup.
Two visual novels, The Men of Yoshiwara: Ohgiya and The Men of Yoshiwara: Kikuya, will be out this winter. D3Publisher is also planning tennis and billiards games for late-January and mid-February respectively. Finally, D3Publisher’s The Escape Trick series will be making an appearance this winter.
This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Pinball FX2 VR (PS4) – 8/7/8/8
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (XBO) – 8/8/8/8
Dragon Fang Z (Switch) – 7/8/7/6
Ultimate Chicken Horse (PS4) – 7/8/8/6
Gungrave VR (PS4) – 7/7/8/6
Brawlout (Switch) – 8/7/7/7
Dustoff Heli Rescue 2 (PS4) – 7/7/7/8
One More Dungeon (Switch) – 8/7/7/7
The official Japanese Valkyria Chronicles 4 website has been updated with some new info on the game’s characters as well as some gameplay systems such as Orders, the various classes, Potentials and more. The folks at Gematsu have kindly translated all this new info.
Characters
Angelica Farnaby
An energetic civilian girl suffering from memory loss. The army’s physician took her in and offered her protection, but she proposed to earn her keep by helping with daily chores such as cooking and cleaning. Her cheerful and kind personality has made her very popular with the soldiers.
Cube Creator X, the latest entry in Arc System Work’s sandbox construction series, has been announced for Nintendo Switch. It will be released in Japan in April 2018.
This was announced via preview images of this week’s Famitsu magazine. We will have more detailed information on the game once the full issue is out on Wednesday.
