This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Yakuza Kiwami 2 (PS4) – 9/10/9/9
Star Wars Battlefront 2 (PS4/XBO) – 8/8/8/9
Neo Angelique Tenshi no Namida (PSV) – 8/8/8/8
Taishou x Alice: Heads & Tails (PSV) – 8/8/8/8
Need for Speed Payback (PS4/XBO) – 8/8/8/8
Earth Defense Force 5 (PS4) – 8/8/7/8
Agents of Mayhem (PS4) – 8/8/7/8
Splasher (PS4) – 8/7/7/7
Sumikko Gurashi: Sumikko Park he Youkoso (NSW) – 8/7/7/7
Kamen Rider: Climax Fighters (PS4) – 7/7/8/7
ZombieVital DG (PS4) – 7/7/8/7
Star Ghost (NSW) – 7/6/6/7
Ninja Shodown (NSW/PS4) – 6/6/7/6
This week’s issue of Famitsu features a 14-page article on Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which will finally be released this Friday. Included in that article is an interview with director Tetsuya Takahashi and main composer Yasunori Mitsuda. Japanese blog Hachima Kikou has a summary of the interview up on their website, and Perfectly Nintendo has kindly translated that. Here are some key points from the interview:
We have two more rare blades shown off before the game’s release. The first character is the older looking ice girl, Tsuki, who is designed by Risa Ebato (satellite corporation) and voiced by Naomi Shindou . The younger looking girl is Nanakori, designed by Risa Ebato (satellite corporation) as well and voiced by Rina Hidaka. Check out their images and videos down below.
The huge Fire Emblem Heroes update became available not too long ago and now we are getting its first summoning focus. The focus will include newcomer Fjorm as well as a ton of rare heroes like Ike, Hector and Spring Xander. All the heroes in the list will have an 8% chance of showing up, so good luck. On top of all that there is also so weapon refinery quests for players to try as well.
Shiny Gardevoir is being distributed for all players in Pokemon Shuffle, so if your looking to get yourself a free Pokemon this would be a good time to login. Celesteela and Froakie (Winking) stages have started, as well as returning stage Mudsdale, all lasting til December 5th. Another new stage featuring Ribombee has started with returning Alolan Raichu accompanying it til December 12th.
The new update for Fire Emblem Heroes went live earlier today. It encompasses a whole bunch of content and features such as Book II, the Weapon Refinery, Legendary Hero abilities, expanded Barracks, and much more. That’s on top of other changes, improvements, and adjustments.
Over in Europe, Aqua Moto Racing Utopia has finally launched on Switch. Get a look at some footage in the video below.
The first global mission for Pokemon Ultra Sun and Pokemon Ultra Moon has drawn to a close. Unfortunately, it didn’t go entirely well. The mission ended up as a failure.
Players were tasked with catching 10,000,000 Pokemon by November 28. When all was said and done, only 5,442,088 were captured.
While the mission wasn’t a success, players will be given a consolation prize. 1,000 Festival Coins (2,000 if you have a Pokemon Global Link account) will be handed out to those who participated.
The last update for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp was version 1.0.1 for iOS and version 1.0.2 for Android. Today, Nintendo released another patch for the iOS release. It’s now at version 1.0.2, in line with the Android version.
Nintendo says that the update addresses connection issues. We should also point out that Nintendo has updated the patch notes for version 1.0.2 on Android, also highlighting that connection issues have been addresse.
Source: iOS / Android
Miitomo has been updated with more content. Users will find returning stages with more items.
“Never forget to be fashionable! Style Safari” is the returning theme. The stages provide the following:
