Last week’s launch of Romancing SaGa 2 on Switch was pretty monumental. It was actually the first time the RPG released outside of Japan on dedicated gaming platforms. It’s mostly the same game as the Super Famicom title, but with a few extras like updated graphics and audio, new character classes, a new dungeon, and New Game+.
Prior to this week’s launch, VG247 caught up with producer Masanori Ichikawa original director Akitoshi Kawazu to talk about Square Enix’s classic. They commented on a variety of topics, including the amount of work involved needed to re-release Romancing SaGa 2, the decision to stick with pixel art as opposed to going the 3D route, and more.
You can read a few excerpts from the interview below. For the full discussion, head on over here.
Atlus hosted a live talk show event for Etrian Odyssey’s 10th anniversary last week. A few vague details were shared about the project, including that it will not be Etrian Odyssey 3 Untold and surprising content will be included.
Some additional tidbits have now surfaced. We have the following information from the talk show:
Nintendo recently kicked off a Christmas event for Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. The Big N is also thinking about another big event for the game based around New Year’s.
The image above was sent out on the Japanese Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp Twitter account a few hours ago. Nintendo hasn’t said what’s planned for the New Year’s event, but we should be finding out fairly soon.
The latest issue of Nintendo Dream has an update on the sales of a bunch of third-party Switch games in Japan. We have the latest sales data for bigger titles like Monster Hunter XX and Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2, plus data for some smaller releases such as LEGO City Undercover.
Here’s the full listing:
Fire Emblem Heroes has updated, and the Navarre Grand Hero Battle has returned. Players can take on the challenge in Special Maps. If you defeat Navarre, you’ll add him to your party, and doing so on Infernal difficulty is awaiting those who completed the challenge previously
Nintendo has also make limited-time special quests available. Even if you’ve beaten them previously, you can earn an additional Grand Hero by clearing quests.
The Grand Hero Battle event lasts until December 30.
Source: Fire Emblem Heroes
With Atelier Lydie & Suelle: Alchemists of the Mysterious Painting hitting Japan this week, Famitsu held an extremely lengthy live stream with tons of footage. You can watch the full recording below.
Frozenbyte has confirmed that the new Nine Parchments patch for Switch has been submitted. The primary highlight is the addition of multiple saves, allowing players to have ten games stored at the same time. Some other fixes are also incoming.
Here’s a full breakdown of the update from Frozenbyte:
My Nintendo has updated again with a number of new rewards in North America. A couple are specific to Zelda: Breath of the Wild, featuring the latest 3DS theme and a January calendar. You can also use your points on the latest discounts.
Here’s a full roundup of the latest rewards:
Breath of the Wild was a complete reinvention of the Zelda formula, and many past staples were either discarded or reworked. One example of this is the dungeons. Whereas past Zelda titles featured long, unique dungeons with and a particular item to obtain, Breath of the Wild instead mostly has a ton of smaller Shrines scattered throughout the world and a few Divine Beasts that are thematically similar.
Zelda series producer Eiji Aonuma and Breath of the Wild directed Hidemaro Fujibayashi commented on Nintendo’s approach to Shrines and dungeons in the debut episode of the Nintendo Power podcast. We’re first able to hear from Fujibayashi, who explains that big dungeons would mean that players would spent too much time there.
This week’s Switch eShop charts are as follows:
Software
1. Rocket League
2. Enter the Gungeon
3. Super Mario Odyssey
4. Overcooked: Special Edition
5. Stardew Valley
6. Brawlout
7. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
8. Zelda: Breath of the Wild
9. Xenoblade Chronicles 2
10. Human: Fall Flat
11. SteamWorld Dig 2
12. Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition
13. Yooka-Laylee
14. Nine Parchments
15. The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
16. Romancing SaGa 2
17. Splatoon 2
18. Sonic Mania
19. Snipperclips
20. Resident Evil Revelations 2
Source: Switch eShop
