We have an updated Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of August 27, 2023 is now available. Wii U and 3DS are being thrown into the mix, and there’ll be some downtime for the Switch eShop.
Here’s the full maintenance schedule for the week of August 27, 2023:
Colorgrave brought Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils to Switch this week, and new gameplay has now surfaced. You can get a look at the latest 2D platformer on the system.
Here’s an official overview with more information:
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: All-Star Battle R is set to receive a new version 2.1.0 update, and we have the patch notes. It will be going out alongside the new Leone Abbacchio DLC.
Many balance adjustments are included here. Various characters will have changes implemented and more.
Here’s the full rundown:
We finally have an update on Luna-3X, which was previously known as LUNAXXX.
The title, which is being led by Pygmy Studio, was one of the first games we heard about for the console as it was announced in May 2017. We later learned that original Chibi-Robo director Kenichi Nishi is involved. Years have gone by without any news.
Hamster added Bosconian to its Arcade Archives this week on Switch, and we have a new round of gameplay. The classic Namco title was shown off during one of the company’s regular live streams.
Here’s an official overview, via Hamster:
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Sonic Superstars, MythForce, Avatar: The Last Airbender – Quest for Balance, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
When Star Ocean: The Second Story R was revealed, some may have thought that the game is using an HD-2D art style like Octopath Traveler and Triangle Strategy. But while the two are similar in some ways, they’re actually different.
Producer and director Yuichiro Kitao clarified things in a recent interview with Famitsu. Kitao explained that the backgrounds “were made with real time 3D, and the characters were drawn with a special shader in a way that really sticks in the player’s memory.”
The Pokemon Company chief operations officer Takato Utsunomiya has again commented on Pokemon designs and Game Freak specifically.
Utsunomiya recently said in an interview that coming up with new ideas on that front “is an area that Game Freak really excels in.” Another aspect of creativity stems from the fact that younger staff are now becoming a part of the company and are “creating new Pokemon or coming up with new ideas for Pokemon”.
