This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Tekken 7 (PS4 / XBO) – 9/9/9/9
Death Mark (PS Vita) – 8/8/8/7
Tsukitomo. Tsukiuita. 12 Memories (PS Vita) – 7/7/7/8
Doukutsujima (3DS) – 6/8/7/7
Mini-Golf Resort (3DS) – 4/6/6/4
Galaxy Blaster (3DS) – 4/3/4/3
Read more at http://gematsu.com/2017/05/famitsu-review-scores-issue-1486#eqIplfxlKtfEeDrB.99
Hamster is keeping up with its NeoGeo releases on Switch this week with yet another title. On Thursday, The King of Fighters ’99 will be available, according to Nintendo of Europe’s website.
Here’s an overview:
“THE KING OF FIGHTERS ’99 is a fighting game released by SNK in 1999 in Japan.
This entry in this series marks the beginning of the NESTS chapter of the KOF story, and focuses on the new character K’ instead of Kyo Kusanagi.
This entry introduces a new Striker Match mode, adding an even more strategic element to the classic KOF game system.”
While The King of Fighters ’99 hasn’t been officially announced for all territories, NeoGeo games tend to launch at the same time around the world. That should happen with this title as well.
Magikarp Jump is now out in Japan, and as such, a release trailer for the game has been published, which gives a brief overview of its gameplay and features. Check it out:
Koji Igarashi has talked about his upcoming Kickstarter project Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night at the recent BitSummit event in Kyoto. He revealed that development of the game is roughly 20 to 30% complete and he has acknowledged that he needs to “increase his pace” if he wants to complete the game by its intended release date of 2018. Igarashi also stated that the reason the Wii U version was cancelled was because the Wii U would not be a relevant system anymore in 2018. Since the game is using the Unreal engine and is being ported from PC, developing the Switch version is a lot easier. Finally, he’s thinking about showcasing the game at E3 since there are a lot of North American backers (although it is not clear if he meant this year’s E3 or next year’s).
As we reported yesterday, Magikarp Jump is now available on the Japanese Google Play and iOS stores. However, what’s noteworthy is that this release came with a new patch for the game, which brings it to version 1.0.1. This version includes language support for English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean and Traditional Chinese. If you can access the Japanese web stores, you can now play the game in the language of your choosing. Even if you can’t do that though, it shouldn’t be too much longer until the game is properly released in more countries.
The recent update for Pokemon Shuffle has quite a few new event stages to check out.
Special stages for Rowlet and Mudsdale are currently available, as well as new daily Pokemon: Tuesday is Pyukumuku, Wednesday is Oricorio Sensu Style, Thursday is Mudbray, Friday is Dartrix and Monday is Oricorio Baile Style.
A new Pokemon Safari is now live with the Pokemon being Grubbin, Charjabug, Vikavolt, Crabrawler and Crabominable.
Finally a new competitive stage is available with Incineroar. These events will run until June 5th.
CEO of Level-5, Akihiro Hino, talked with Nikkei Trendy about his personal experiences with the Nintendo Switch and at the very end states that the company is working on games that support the Nintendo Switch. You can check out the excerpt below.
Hino:“I think Switch is good. The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild is extremely fun. It’s almost dangerous. (Laughs.) Actually, playing with Switch myself, my impression [of the system] has changed a lot from when it was still in development. I was hesitant about its ‘play both inside and outside’ style, but I feel like there is a considerable potential there.
“Anyway, Zelda is a lot of fun, so I personally carry it around and play it as much as I can, even on airplanes. The model that Nintendo gave me is the one with the red- and blue-colored controllers, so when I carried it around a lot, the looks I got made me self-conscious. I bought the black controller that they released myself and attached it. (Laughs.)
“I think the Style of Switch is a wonderful fit for competitive games. You can play if you’re gathered in real life, as well as online. For example, I think the fact that the game lovers within a company can get together and play Mario Kart is really fascinating and interesting. And while I can’t say the content quite yet, we’re working on game(s)* that support [Switch].”
505 Games readied a new trailer for the sandbox action RPG Portal Knights. Take a look at the video below.
Portal Knights is coming to Switch, but we don’t have a release date as of yet. We’ll give you a heads up when that changes.
Earlier today, brand new images emerged showing map sketches from Sonic the Hedgehog 2. These were shown by Hirokazu Yasuhara, who worked on the game as a planner.
You can see the images for yourself below. One map is particularly noteworthy, as it shows the cut Genocide City level which never made it into the final game.
Next week, the Switch eShop is adding another game with Astro Duel Deluxe from Panic Button. Keep in mind that the download takes up 278MB of space. It launches on May 30.
