Update: Results of the Michalis preview event: 54,666 players cleared the Hard battle, and 13,415 cleared the Lunatic battle. Everyone gets 10 Orbs, 10 Stamina Potions, and 5,000 Hero Feathers (thanks Brian).
Original: As was previously announced, the second Starter Support bonus map in Fire Emblem Heroes is now live. It’s available in two difficulties, Normal and Hard, and you get 3 orbs each for clearing them.
Also, this next piece of news flew a bit under the radar. The next Grand Hero Battle featuring Michalis will begin on Friday, March 24th, as the in-game notice describes – however, for some reason only the Japanese version of the game announced the following on top of that: on Monday, March 20th from 12:15 PM CET to 1 PM CET (roughly 90 minutes after this post went live), a special early preview of the Michalis Grand Hero Battle will be available. During that time, players can attempt both the Hard and Lunatic versions of the battle to try and get Michalis early. There will also be rewards sent out to all players the more people can beat the map during this limited time frame:
Hard & Lunatic clear rewards:
With Azure Striker Gunvolt 2’s DLC having been released in the west this month, footage of the content is spreading online. Several videos showing what’s new are posted below.
Link can’t really go underwater in Zelda: Breath of the Wild. But Twitter user Swiffy22 stumbled upon a glitch that makes it possible, albeit in a very unconventional way. Videos he shared shows Link walking underwater as if he was on solid ground. Check it out for yourself below.
Uhhhhh, so, I found a glitch. pic.twitter.com/DsPf5G6RjK
— Swiffy22 スウィフィー (@Swiffy22) March 19, 2017
Underwater Glitch pt.2 pic.twitter.com/vqtQzIvPUX
— Swiffy22 スウィフィー (@Swiffy22) March 19, 2017
Towards the end of last week, Bandai Namco published new details about Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission X. We have a better idea about some of the modes.
In Ultimate Heroes Mode, players can enjoy an original story that’s only available in this game. It’s an adventure to rescue two worlds: the Dragon Ball Heroes world which has unusual events, and the real world which has also been affected To solve the unusual events happening in the Dragon Ball Heroes world, players will need to capture the Time-Space Door.
Countless incidents happen beyond the Time-Space Doors. They are split into stages where players have to solve each one.
The Mana series Twitter showed footage of Seiken Densetsu 3 running on the Nintendo Switch. It’s unclear if this is the Switch’s Virtual Console or another form of port, but it is still pretty exciting to see. Check it out below:
#聖剣伝説 pic.twitter.com/uXD0hey02H
— 聖剣伝説 -公式- (@Seiken_PR) March 20, 2017
We have another couple of videos for Fire Emblem Echoes stemming from its appearance at PAX East last week. View the gameplay below.
Thanks to Tom Z for the tip.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu‘s most wanted games chart. In its final appearance, Monster Hunter XX stands at the third position. Super Mario Odyssey also jumps up ten spots.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between March 2 and March 8.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime is still showing up at various places for interviews. Recently, he stopped by Fox Business to chat about Switch and show off the system. While he touches on many of the same topics we’ve heard before, it’s almost worth a watch just for the awkward play of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.
Back in January, Limited Run Games spoke about wanting to go “all-out” with support for Switch. We may begin to see that in just a few months from now.
Gaming Trend asked Limited Run Games co-founder Douglas Bogart about plans for Switch. To that, he said: “It’s looking very positive and we hope to have our first title out this summer, fingers crossed!”
The company hasn’t yet given any sort of idea about the kinds of physical games we could be seeing on Switch. Limited Run often partners with indies, so we should probably look forward to something in that space.
