This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Middle-earth: Shadow of War (PS4/XBO) – 10/9/9/9
The LEGO Ninjago Movie Video Game (PS4) – 8/8/8/9
No Heroes Allowed! VR (PSVR) – 8/8/9/8
City Shrouded in Shadow (PS4) – 8/8/7/8
forma.8 (PS4/NSW) – 7/7/8/8
Itadaki Street: Dragon Quest & Final Fantasy 30th Anniversary (PS4/PSV) – 8/8/7/7
Penguin Wars (NSW) – 7/8/7/8
36 Fragments of Midnight (NSW) – 6/6/8/7
There has always been a bit of confusion about whether or not Fire Emblem Warriors would include both English and Japanese voice-overs for its Western release. When showing off the game during the last couple of months at various events and expos, the game had both English and Japanese voice-overs concurrently, though this was only for development reasons as they hadn’t been fully implemented yet. On Nintendo’s official websites and on press material, the game was always only stated to have English voices in its Western release. However, at Japan Expo in July, a Nintendo representative said that it would have both English and Japanese voices available at release.
Statements by these reps at events should be taken with a grain of salt though, as they aren’t always well-informed – just like in this case. Copies of the Western version of Fire Emblem Warriors have now gone out to the press, and these do not have an option to activate Japanese voices, only English ones. This was confirmed by Derrick Bitner from GameXplain.
Pokemon Sun and Moon’s Global Link will be going down November 10th and will stay down til November 16th for maintenance. This will be due to Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon being opened up for connectivity, all features using the Global Link will not be usable for this period of time. Apparently, you will also receive a special gift by registering Pokemon Ultra Sun or Moon to your account when the game releases.
Another day another Pikachu, this time the Unova cap Pikachu has become available for players to download. The download method remains ultimately the same using the PIKACHU20 code to download the special Pikachu. Remember you can only choose one Pikachu, so if this is the one you want you might want to take advantage of it right now. This Pikachu will remain available until October 16th.
Some new images and some details about story mode for Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates has been provided. The gallery can be found under all the information and here is the info on story mode as listed out by Gematsu:
– Story Mode
The Story Mode of Attack on Titan 2: Future Coordinates uses scene images, video, and music from Season 2 of the Attack on Titan television, enabling players to re-live that story in the game. In addition to the “Future Coordinates Chapter,” “Reiner, Annie, and Bertholdt Chapter” and “Ymir and Christa Chapter,” there are also two new side story chapters.
– Ilse’s Notebook Chapter
Ilse is a member of the Survey Corps who is in a desperate situation, trying to return home after losing both her horse and her comrades. This is the story about the mysterious titan she encountered.
There was an issue with arena mode October 3rd and as an apology everyone will be receiving 5 orbs in their present list. The gift must be claimed by October 25th. It’s just a rather nice little gift.
Poliwrath has it’s special stage appear as well as a unique Camerupt stage. There will also be a competitive Mega Camerupt stage for players to try out. Politoed and Volcanion will also start repeat runs.
We’ve got a video, slightly under half an hour, of Yono and the Celestial Elephants gameplay from the Vooks YouTube channel. The video shows off the early parts of the game, check it out down below.
NintenDaan has uploaded a video of 88 Heroes – 98 Heroes Edition for the Nintendo Switch from the European eShop, you can check out the gameplay down below.
Nintendo closed out its series of interviews for the Super NES Classic Edition with a bang. Masahiro Sakurai spoke about Kirby Super Star in depth, which is a game he directed 25 years ago.
One notable part of the interview touches on how a request from Shigeru Miyamoto led to the inclusion of two-player co-op. Sakurai also goes over how Donkey Kong Country’s visuals influenced Kirby Super Star, a planned game that was cut, and the development name.
You can read about these topics and more below from the full interview with Sakurai.
