Nintendo has once again uploaded a video in which Mario responds to a fan letter. You can watch the fourth episode below (technically the third letter read as the first video was a general introduction).
Shogakukan’s Ciao has the first details on the new Layton anime. Layton Mystery Detective Agency: Kat’s Mystery-Solving Files will debut in Japan in Spring 2018, according to the magazine.
The new anime is based on Layton’s Mystery Journey, which stars Katrielle “Kat” Layton. It will take place in London and follows Katrielle and her dog Sherl. The mystery-solving show has a “high-speed comical mystery-solving story”. Additionally, Ciao shows the silhouette of a character resembling Professor Layton.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen an uptick in Nintendo’s dedication to DLC. President Tatsumi Kimishima just said yesterday that the company intends to beef up its approach in that area next year. And almost all of Nintendo’s releases this year have seen free or paid DLC.
Shinya Takahashi, Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning and Development Division general manager, recently spoke to IGN and talked about why DLC is a good fit on Switch. He explained to the site:
Nintendo released a new video today showcasing a few European digital game highlights from December 2017. You can watch it below.
This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Download
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters ’96 – €6.99
Arcade Archives Double Dragon – €6.99
DragonFangZ – €19.99
Energy Cycle – €2.99
Mecho Tales – €6.79 until January 4; regularly €8.49
Sparkle Unleashed – €7.99
SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition – €19.99
Stikbold! A Dodgeball Adventure Deluxe – €15.99 until January 12; regularly €19.99
Tactical Mind – €2.99
This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Download
Arcade Archives Vs. Super Mario Bros. – $7.99
ACA NeoGeo The King of Fighters ’96 – $7.99
Guns, Gore and Cannoli – $9.99
SteamWorld Heist: Ultimate Edition – $19.99
Woodle Tree Adventures – $4.99
Flyhigh Works announced a pair of new titles for Switch during a presentation today. OPUS: Rocket of Whispers and Ninja Striker are both due out sometime in 2018.
OPUS: Rocket of Whispers is the next game in the series following The Day We Found Earth. It’s a third-person adventure that takes place in a snowy post-apocalyptic wilderness of an unknown world many years in the future.
Flyhigh Works provided an update on the sales of two Switch games during a video presentation today.
Kamiko, released at the end of April, has surpassed over 160,000 downloads worldwide. The most recent number confirmed in October was 150,000 downloads.
The rhythm game Voez also seems to be doing pretty well. The game has been downloaded over 50,000 times.
In Japan, Switch owners started receiving surveys from Nintendo for different games. One question asks if they would recommend that title to a friend or family.
Nintendo published the results today based on data collected by December 27. A game was only eligible if it received over 300 responses.
The current standings are as follows:
Shin Megami Tensei V was first teased at the Switch reveal event back in January and was officially announced in October with a brief trailer. That trailer didn’t feature any gameplay footage – because, as it turns out, there really isn’t any gameplay that’s fit to be shown off yet. In the same group interview with various Japanese developers that also revealed Level-5’s Switch focus next year, Shin Megami Tensei series producer Kazuyuki Yamai touched on the game’s current state of development.
They are currently in the “scrap and build” phase, meaning that they are trying out various gameplay concepts to find out what works and what doesn’t on a trial-and-error basis. Yamai states that since this is the first mainline Shin Megami Tensei title on a home console in a while, he’d like to develop the game properly without any compromises. He would also like to properly reveal the game soon to show off how it plays, but asks fans to be patient for a while longer.
