This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
NBA 2K17 (PS4/XBO/PS3/360) – 9/8/8/9
Beyblade Burst (3DS) – 8/8/8/8
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (PS4) – 7/8/8/8
Fate/Extella: The Umbral Star (PS Vita) – 7/8/8/8
PriPara Mezameyo! Megami no Dress Design (3DS) – 7/8/8/8
Pika Pika Nurse Monogatari: Shounika Haitsumo Oosawagi (3DS) – 7/7/7/7
Saiki Kusuo no Psi-nan: Shijou Psi Dai no Psi Nan!? (3DS) – 7/6/6/8
Update: Added in a higher-quality version of the trailer.
Original: Another new character has been confirmed for the arcade version of Pokken Tournament. However, the roster addition comes as a bit of a surprise. While many expected Empoleon to be announced, Croagunk will instead be joining the fighting title.
Here’s a trailer as shown during a Niconico live stream today:
And some footage:
Croagunk joins Pokken Tournament arcade on November 10.
Square Enix hasn’t had much to say about Dragon Quest XI in quite some time. In about a couple of months, that will be changing.
Square Enix will be hosting a special Dragon Quest program on NHK on December 29. It’s here that we’ll hear/see something about the latest entry as well as the series as a whole. Series creator Yuji Horii, composer Koichi Sugiyama, and other staff members will be in attendance. Japanese actor and singer Takayuki Yamada will also be stopping by.
The new My Nintendo rewards for November are now available. Here’s what’s new:
Europe:
- 20% off Pocket Card Jockey (3DS) – 10 Gold Coins
- 50% off KORG M01D (3DS) – 80 Gold Coins
- 30% off Typoman (Wii U) – 250 Platinum Coins
- 25% off Zack & Wiki: Quest for Barbaros’ Treasure (Wii U) – 300 Platinum Coins
- 15% off Ultimate NES Remix (3DS) – 300 Platinum Coins
Update: The pre-load is now live in Europe as well. You will get 12 Quick Balls in-game as a reward for downloading.
Pokemon Sun and Moon are now available to preload in North America, Australia, and Japan. This will allow 3DS owners to purchase the game digitally and be able to play it as soon as it launches. The games fully launch on November 18, and you will need 3.2 GB of space to download.
Some new information about the latest entry in the Monster Hunter series, Monster Hunter XX, has been revealed via the latest issue of Famitsu. The folks at Gematsu have kindly translated it.
The biggest news is the new Brave Style, a style which focuses on continuous attacks. However, you can only equip one hunter art when using this style. The style’s biggest feature is its Brave State, which you can achieve by filling your Brave Gauge. You can accomplish that by parrying the attacks of monsters. While you are in your Brave State, the Brave Gauge gradually decreases again – however, continuously attacking and parrying will keep it from falling. Brave Style is intended as a “sharper” style which is easy to grasp.
When you’re in the Brave State, your evasiveness with certain weapon types increases and you are able to use powerful link attacks and special techniques. Here are some examples of these special attacks:
- “Strong Charged Moving Slash” (Great Sword): a charged attack while moving
- “Step Shot” (Light Bowgun): shoots a special bullet while moving
- “True Charge” (Hammer): two extra strong charged attacks following the regular charged attack
Another new style is the “Renkin Style”, though there are few details available about it at the moment. Supposedly it is intended for people who want to “vigorously enjoy hunting”.
Some other new details:
- The Meowstress’ little sister will appear in XX
- XX’s director is Daisuke Ichihara and the main planner is Takurou Hiraoka; both of them were planners on Generations. Generations’ director, Yasunori Ichinose, oversees the work flow and provides concept supervision for XX
- Balfark is an ancient dragon type monster that lives at a really high altitude. Both it and Ouma Diablos are connected to the main story
- Development on the game us currently 70% complete
The Q&A section of Nintendo’s latest Financial Results Section has now been officially translated into English and is available here.
We’ve already provided translations for a couple of the questions here, but it’s nice to have official translations available. Beyond that, Kimishima doesn’t really provide any big new details in his answers, but the Q&A is an interesting read nonetheless.
We’ve known since the last Nintendo Direct that there would be an Animal Crossing-based Direct on November 2, but Nintendo has now announced the times as follows:
– 7 AM PST
– 10 AM EST
– 2 PM UK
– 3 PM CET
The Direct will be focused on the New Leaf update that adds amiibo compatibility. The Japanese version of the Direct is also slated to have some information on Miitopia, a game teased during the last Direct. The Direct will not have any information on Switch or mobile games.
This week’s Pokemon Shuffle update not only brings a round of temporary Special stages, but also a new set of main stages. Starting with Stage 471, devoted players will find even more to enjoy in the game.
The Special stages are also updating. There is a daily set of stages, where players will only be able to catch the Pokemon for their specific day. These will be Torchic (Winking) on Tuesday, Treecko (Winking) on Wednesday, Mudkip (Winking) on Thursday, Castform (Winking) on Friday, and Pikachu (Sleeping) on Monday. Lastly, there will be several stages running until November 15. These are Hitmontop, repeat runs for Machamp and Manaphy, and a safari (featuring Carvanha, Sharpedo, Spinda, Cherubi, Cherrim, Sunkern and Sunflora). Sharpedo will be an especially good catch, because next week’s Mega competition will be for Mega Sharpedo.
The Kirby Cafe has come to an end in Japan. However, a decision has been reached to make the merchandise available to a greater amount of fans.
Starting on November 23, a selection of goods from the Kirby Cafe will be sold at various retailers. This includes the special CD, “The Sound of Kirby Cafe”.
Physical stores that will be selling the CD and goods will be Yamashiroya, select Kiddy Land stores, and select Village Vanguard outlets. Online stores will be Amazon Japan and ebten, though the former will only sell the CD without any other items.
Items that will be also sold in stores other than Amazon:
