Nintendo has released a trailer showing off the newest Fire Emblem Heroes characters, from the Sibling Bonds event. You can watch it below:
Fire Emblem Heroes has updated with new Heroes and a new Summoning Event, offering up a Focus chance to obtain them. The new Heroes are as follows:
There are also a new set of Paralogue maps available in the Story Mode, as well as Quests to go along with them. The Summoning Event and Quests will last until March 14 at 2 AM (EST).
A 15 MB update is necessary for playing the game.
A shiny Tapu Koko will be distributed to Pokemon Sun and Moon players in Japan. The legendary guardian will be available at 7-11 stores from March 17 to April 9, via serial code.
For Switch’s launch this coming week, PDP is bringing out the Elite Player Backpack. We have some exclusive photos of the product below.
Bandai Namco has prepared a commercial for Pro Yakyuu Famista Climax, which is releasing in Japan on April 20. You can see it below.
It’s time for the latest Famitsu‘s most wanted games chart. Zelda: Breath of the Wild on Switch is now in the top five, Splatoon 2 and Fire Emblem Echoes move up several spots, and Dragon Quest XI for Switch plus Xenoblade Chronicles 2 make their first appearances.
Head past the break for the full chart. All votes were cast between February 2 and February 8.
Arc System Works has two games lined up for the Japanese Switch eShop launch. On March 3, the company will release Othello and Frontier Days. Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream provides an early look at both in this month’s issue.
In Othello, you can battle against 16 different levels of CPU opponents. You can also take advantage of wait / undo and hint functions. Of course, two players are supported as well. Othello will cost 500 yen on Switch.
Arc System Works’ other Switch title is New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers. Nintendo Dream doesn’t say much, but confirms that more modes are included compared to the 3DS version and it features HD visuals. A price point is not listed.
New Frontier Days: Founding Pioneers should be coming west, and perhaps sooner rather than later. Arc System Works already has a teaser site open here.
The latest episode from the “Teens React” series has various people sharing their thoughts about Switch while watching various trailers, including games. The system itself, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, and Super Mario Odyssey are featured. Check out the full video below.
Just a Chat finally returns after a very lengthy hiatus. What better time to bring it back now that we have access to the final Switch hardware and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?
It wouldn’t be a return without some audio issues! I ended up having some problems, but fortunately it didn’t affect the discussion much since Dennis did most of the talking. After all, Dennis has been the one playing Zelda: Breath of the Wild a ton over the past few days!
Over the past couple of weeks, Famitsu and 4Gamer both conducted interviews with The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild director Hidemaro Fujibayashi. A lot of what was said has been covered extensively in previous interviews with Shigeru Miyamoto and series producer Eiji Aonua, but there were still some noteworthy excerpts. This was also one of the first times that we actually heard from Fujibayashi about the game.
According to Fujibayashi, the developers’ main goal was to break conventions, but they weren’t sure how far they should go to do so. During development, they took a look at what was core to Zelda games, and decided it was the sense of relief you feel after solving a puzzle. So with that as a base, they tried bringing dungeon gameplay to the field, and field gameplay to the dungeons. Puzzles were created with certain solutions in mind, but left open to the possibility of being solved by using other methods. They tried to fix the parts of puzzle-solving people found boring while keeping the interesting parts intact, and changed anything they saw as “standard” to be “nonstandard.”
