This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Switch Retail
Cars 3: Driven to Win – $59.99 (available Tuesday)
Switch Download
ACA NeoGeo Shock Troopers 2nd Squad – $7.99
GoNNER – $9.99
Shantae: Half-Genie Hero – $19.99
Level-5 has been ramping up its promotional efforts for The Snack World with the 3DS game set to launch in Japan last month. Continue on below for the game’s latest commercial.
The Super Nintendo World Groundbreaking Ceremony was held at Universal Studios Japan to kick off the official construction of the theme park. If you’re interested, you can watch the full event below.
Another week, another new round of Dragon Quest XI details from Weekly Jump magazine. This time, we learn more about Silvia, what he can do in battle and the Samadhi Kingdom. Full credit to Gematsu for the translation.
Silvia is a traveling entertainer who lives a freewheeling life and has the wonderful dream of “making people around the world smile through his own performance.” He is always cheerful and positive, and is the top mood maker among the party. He has magnificent poses and seems to get instinctively entranced. He can participate in battle through attacks, support, and recovery, and can equip one-handed swords, whips, and daggers.
Spells he can use include:
- “Oomph” – Raises an ally’s attack power. A spell useful in boss battles and such.
His special skills include:
- “Hustle Dance” – An lively dance that restores HP to all members of the party.
- “Miracle Sword” – A one-handed sword skill that can recover HP while dealing damage.
- “Whip of Love” – A whip skill that deals great damage to multiple enemies.
- “Viper Fang” – A dagger skill that targets a single enemy and occasionally induces poison.
The Samadhi Kingdom is a country of knights surrounded by a desert. It is a historic kingdom that reigns over the desert and values its chivalry. It is rumored that the young prince is himself an outstanding knight. Horse races are also carried out there.
FDG Entertainment revealed today that their Zelda-inspired action adventure game Oceanhorn: Monster of the Uncharted Seas will launch on Nintendo Switch on June 22nd. The game will run at 60fps in 1080p while the Switch is docked and in 720p while in handheld mode.
It’s been almost a year now since Pokemon GO launched, and developer Niantic is celebrating that occasion (and the milestone of 750 million downloads) with a variety of events.
Starting on June 13th, the Solstice Event will go live. Fire and Ice-type Pokemon will be more frequently encountered, there will be XP bonuses for throwing Poke Balls accurately and Lucky Eggs will be discounted in the shop.
The Splatoon Twitter account has confirmed that another fan favorite weapon from the first game will return in Splatoon 2 – the Dynamo Roller. However, it now has the Ink Mine sub-weapon and the Sting Ray special.
The Ink Mine has seen a couple of modifications – you can now place two of them at the same time, and if an opponent is hit (but not splatted) by one, they are tagged as if they were hit by a Point Sensor.
Another returning weapon is the Splash-o-matic. Its sub and special weapons have also changed – it has the recently revealed poison mist sub-weapon and the Inkjet special.
Need a break from the Tempest Trials? Or do you want to strengthen your team for it? Then you’re in luck, since the Zephiel Grand Hero Battle will return to Fire Emblem Heroes tomorrow. As always, this is your chance to get 3-star and 4-star versions of Zephiel if you missed them the last time around, or get additional copies of him via new quests.
Nintendo has opened up the full Japanese website for Hey! Pikmin. The site contains some info on the various types of Pikmin, the game’s story and the specifics of how the game plays. There are also quite a few screenshots to look at. You can find the website here.
The new 1.4 content is now live in Fire Emblem Heroes. Most importantly, the new Tempest Trials event is now available. For the next two weeks, you can attempt to clear this challenge as often as you can manage to earn rewards such as 4-star and 5-star versions of Masked Marth and two new seals. New quests are also available that require you to clear the Tempest Trials at various difficulty settings.
To help you with the Tempest Trials, a new summoning is also available until June 22nd. It features the bonus units that increase your score by 40% if you use them in the trials: Lucina, Robin (male), Tharja and Nowi.
Finally, Xenologue 2 is now available as well. It can be found under Main Story -> Paralogues, alongside the rest of the periodically released side stories.
