This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Download
Brick Race – $1.49
Plantera – $4.99 (cross-buy)
Words Up! Academy – $2.99
Y.A.S.G – $1.99
Wii U Virtual Console
Mario vs Donkey Kong – $6.99
Update (2/9): Play-Asia is now taking pre-orders here.
Original (2/2): Hyrule Encyclopedia was revealed as the second entry in the Zelda 30th anniversary book series last month. Now Amazon Japan has shared the cover, attached above.
The book has 320 pages. It covers 50 keywords in-depth, over 2,000 items, enemy characters, and more, plus explanatory notes and storylines of each game.
Amazon Japan lists Hyrule Encyclopedia for March 1. However, we can confirm that this is an error, and it’s actually due on February 28.
Nintendo issued the latest update for Miitomo a few hours ago to bring in some new features. Take a look at what the mobile release added below.
Nintendo published another video showing off one of 1-2-Switch’s mini games, Dish Spin. Give it a watch:
【1-2-Switch ゲーム紹介「皿まわし」】Joy-Conをくるくる回して皿まわし！ Joy-Conを皿まわしの棒に見立てて、長くまわし続けたほうが勝ち。相手に直接ちょっかいを出して皿を落とさせる高度な遊び方も？https://t.co/ikoI5F1NIF pic.twitter.com/GQahJSkRCi
— 任天堂株式会社 (@Nintendo) February 9, 2017
Quite a bit of new Monster Hunter XX info was released lately, partly through Famitsu, Gamer.ne.jp and the game’s official website. Adam “Gaijinhunter” Evanko has kindly translated this avalanche of new details, and Perfectly Nintendo have compiled them. A fair bit of new screenshots and artwork was also released alongside these new details.
First up, some details about the monsters. The Ouma Diablos can enter rage mode, in which its body starts boiling. The steam it emits can literally blow you away if you get too close. The new Deviant monster is the “Hidden Dragon” Malfestio, who has a variety of tricks up its sleeve: it can become invisible, steal items and create shockwaves with its wings. Finally, the following returning monsters will be in Monster Hunter XX: Nerscylla, Gravios and Basario.
Nintendo UK just published the image seen above on their Twitter account – it shows off all of the various features of the Joy-Con controllers that are not immediately apparently by looking at them, like the HD rumble, the NFC sensor, the IR motion camera and so on. Nothing new, but it’s nonetheless a nice overview and a reminder that there really is a lot of tech packed into these little controllers.
Following a required update and a brief maintenance period, the first major event for Pokemon Duel is now live. The Flying Gym Cup will last until February 16th, 4:59 UTC. During this event, getting win streaks will get you special Gym Boosters, which in turn can contain rare figures like Magikarp and Gyarados. Special trophies will also be given out at the end of this event. During the event, Flying-type Movement 1 and 2 figures will get an additional 1 Movement and Ice-type white and gold attacks get a boost of +20.
My Nintendo has seen two small updates. One is a new Gold Bowser Statue for your kingdom in Super Mario Run, which will cost 300 Platinum Coins to unlock. There is also a new mission to earn a few Platinum Coins through Miitomo. By writing a bio for their Mii (one of the new features in the latest Miitomo update), My Nintendo members will earn an extra 100 Platinum Coins.
Pokemon Duel has recieved a small update for some minor bug fixes. The patch upgrades the game to version 3.0.1 and requires 163 MB of space to install.
Fire Emblem Heroes is providing some rewards to players with its latest update. First up, all players are receiving 10,000 Hero Feathers upon logging in, as thanks for this week’s retweet event. Second, all players can get a one-time bonus of 10 Dueling Crests just for logging in by March 13. Finally, there are new Quests available for completing challenges in the Arena. These are available until March 1. The challenges and rewards are as follows:
