Gamer.ne.jp recently conducted an interview with Kenichiro Takaki, the producer of the Senran Kagura series, and a famous Japanese video game collector known as Sakekan. Among other things, they talked about their experience with the Switch so far, playing it in public places as well as the upcoming Switch title Shinobi Refle: Senran Kagura. The folks at Siliconera translated the interview; below are a few choice quotes:
A balance update will be applied to Pokemon Duel after the regular maintenance tomorrow. Several Steel and Rock types will see some changes to their moves and stats.
Aggron:
- Counter replaced with Heavy Slam
- Metal Claw replaced with Roar
- Iron Tail’s damage increased from 90 to 120
Armaldo:
- Ability Battle Armor replaced with Swift Swim (increases movement by 1 when adjacent to Water Pokemon)
- Added Aqua Jet as a move
- Iron Tail’s damage increased from 40 to 70
- Decreased size of the Miss bar
Skarmory:
- Removed one Air Cutter piece and replaced it with the smaller Swords Dance
- Increased size of the Steel Wing Piece
Geodude, Graveler, Golem, Rhyhorn, Magnemite:
- Decreased size of the Miss bar
Ursula’s is the next Grand Hero Battle to make a return in Fire Emble Heroes. If you missed her the first time around, you will get a second chance starting tomorrow. You can also get additional copies of Ursula if you complete some special quests that will also be available during this Grand Hero Battle.
Pokemon Shuffle has been updated today with some new content. All of the following special stages will be available until May 23rd.
Special stages for Lunala, Alolan Sandslash and Popplio have been added.
A new special stage for Cosmoes has been added – however, you can only challenge that one once per day.
A new rotation of daily Pokemon has been added. You can challenge Oricorio Pa’u Style on Monday, Alolan Grimer on Tuesday, Dewpider on Wednesday, Alolan Sandshrew on Thursday and Brionne on Friday.
A new Pokemon Safari featuring Alolan Rattata, Alolan Raticate, Alolan Diglett, Alolan Dugtrio and Rockruff has been added.
Finally, a new competition featuring Decidueye has begun. As always, you can get better prizes the higher you rank in that competition.
The World of Radiance quests added a while ago to Fire Emblem Heroes added a new victory condition: having to stay alive for a certain number of turns while fighting off reinforcements. Today, several special maps featuring that theme have been added to the game. A total of five maps with two difficulty modes each are now available; beating them nets you one orb the first time you clear each map.
Special quests centered around those maps have also been added. The maps and quests will be available until May 25th.
Our video coverage of NBA Playgrounds is mostly coming to a close, but we’re ending things with a ton of gameplay. Check out over two hours of footage below.
We published an interview with Saber Interactive about NBA Playgrounds this past weekend. For those of you that missed it, it’s up on the site here.
The sixth Pokemon Global Mission has come to an end, and the seventh event has been announced. Pokemon Sun / Moon players will be tasked with fishing for Pokemon at the bubbling fishing spots.
Pokemon Global Mission #7 starts on May 30. We should have more information about it before then.
One complaint some Switch users have had is the system’s inability to store credit card information on the eShop. Each time something is purchased, you’ve needed to reenter the details. But following some maintenance tonight, this changed.
When buying a digital download, you’ll now have the option to save your credit card information. You’ll see this information under your user profile when it’s stored. Users also have the option to enable / disable password entry for purchases when credit card information has been saved.
Below are a few photos showing the new credit card settings:
Nintendo appears set on improving the Switch eShop and making it more convienent to use, which isn’t too surprising. Last month, the company added in a best sellers chart.
Elliot Quest finally hits 3DS this week after the port was announced a couple of years ago. On the portable, it’ll take up 733 blocks. That amounts to 91.63MB.
Nintendo is back with the continuation of the Squid Sisters Stories for Splatoon 2. This new initiative intends to tell the tale of Callie and Marie following the final Splatfest.
Read up on the fourth chapter in the story below. For previous entries, head on over here.
