This week’s Famitsu review scores are as follows:
Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm 4 (PS4) – 10/9/9/10
Asdivine Hearts (Wii U) – 8/7/8/9
Double Focus: Aya and Momiji’s Bullet Coverage Travelogue (PSV) – 6/7/7/7
As previously announced, on January 30th, Nintendo will hold a Splatoon concert in Chiba, Japan in celebration of the game having sold 1 million copies in Japan. Select pieces of the soundtrack will be played and the Squid Sisters will perform as well. Watch the trailer below for some footage from the rehearsals and a look at the CGI performance of Callie and Marie.
IGN has shared the opening 15 minutes of the just released LEGO Marvel’s Avengers. Check out the video below:
It’s Tuesday, and so Pokémon Shuffle has had another update, for both the 3DS and mobile versions. This time, it adds in two new battles. The first will give players the chance to catch Kyurem. It will run until February 9th.
Mega Sharpedo is a returning battle, and it will run until February 2nd. This battle will see players earning different prizes depending on their ranking. The details, from Serebii:
On the 3DS version, the top 50,000 in Japan, 20,000 in the US and 12,000 in Europe get the Sharpedonite. The top 5,000 in Japan, 2,000 in the US and 1,200 in Europe also get a Mega SpeedUp. If you don’t get the Sharpedonite but are in the top 80,000 in Japan, 30,000 in the US or 18,000 in Europe you’ll get an Attack Power. All other players will get a Disruption Delay. On Shuffle Mobile, the top 80,000 will get the Sharpedonite, while the top 15,000 also get a Mega Speedup. If you don’t get the Sharpedonite but are in the top 120,000, you’ll get an Attack Power and a Jewel. All other players get a Jewel
Jet Force Gemini only made its way to the Nintendo 64, but a Game Boy Color version was once in the works as well. Although it seemed to be nearly complete, the project was cancelled in 2000 or so.
Screenshots of Jet Force Gemini on the Game Boy Color found their way online previously. Just recently though, an off-screen video of the game’s intro showed up on YouTube. You can watch it below.
Final Fantasy Explorers is out today, and so are the reviews. Here’s a roundup of the early verdicts:
IGN – 6.8 / 10
GameSpot – 7 / 10
Destructoid – 7 / 10
Nintendo Life – 7 / 10
Nintendo World Report – 7 / 10
Game Informer – 7.75 / 10
A few new screenshots of Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty running on Wii U were let out on the series’ Twitter account earlier today. You can find them below.
Just to reiterate, Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty’s release on Wii U is very, very close. The developer hopes to nail down a final date this week.
Thanks to Jake for the tip.
Yet another new tweet has been posted on the Japanese Zelda Twitter account. Today’s message is a little more interesting, as it contains concept art of Midna.
Here’s the translated tweet:
“…It’s Malo. This is Midna, the gal who is profusely well-informed about the Twilight Realm. Seems like there were various kinds of designs until her appearance became like this. Speaking of which, her name seems to come from midnight… “shadow” = “night” is simple, isn’t it.”
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— ?????? (@ZeldaOfficialJP) January 26, 2016
Hyrule Warriors Legends does not currently have an option to reset save data. For some players, they’ve found this to be a problem when they want to sell it to the used games market.
There is good news though! The official Hyrule Warriors Legends Japanese Twitter account acknowledged that you can’t clear save data, but they would like to implement this as soon as possible. It should be added in via an update sometime in the future.
Update: Updates notes are in, and Nintendo didn’t surprise us! It’s the standard line: “Further improvements to overall system stability and other minor adjustments have been made to enhance the user experience”. There’s been talk about the previous version causing issues with SD card corruption, so perhaps today’s patch addresses that.
Following last week’s firmware release, the 3DS has once again received another update. Version 10.5.0-30 is out now.
Nintendo has yet to share any notes about today’s update. Once they’re available, we’ll add them in here. I’d be surprised if it’s anything beyond improved stability though!
