Nintendo and Koei Tecmo officially revealed Hyrule Warriors Legends during the Digital Event that took place on Tuesday. In an interview with Famitsu this week, producer Yosuke Hayashi shares more information about what we can expect from the game.
In one of his responses, Hayashi notes that planning started for the 3DS version after the Wii U title released. He said:
That was after the release of the Wii U version. The Wii U version got a positive reception from people who played it, but as there are already many Zelda titles on the Nintendo 3DS, many Zelda fans said “I’d like to play this on 3DS”. The development of the Nintendo 3DS version took off from there.
E3 2015 has come and gone. This is our E3-themed podcast where we were all really tired. I’m still tired so this is all I’m going to write on this post.
Chapters today:
Opening Shenanigans
00:00 – Intros, welcomings, etc
03:41 – Picture of the day
04:54 – Game of the week: Balloon Kid!
Other stuff
08:49 – E3 2015! Our gut reactions.
55:30 – Our secret E3 2015 predictions. How’d we do?
Ending Shenanigans
1:10:04 – Balloon Kid quiz + ending
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Xenoblade Chronicles X has a feature that allows players to obtain and fly various mechs known as “Skells”. Just don’t count on gaining access to a Skell right away. Speaking with IGN, senior director and chief creative officer Tetsuya Takahashi said that it takes about 30 hours before mechs become accessible.
He said:
“The reason we decided to do that was because the scale of the game changes once you get a Skell. We wanted to make sure that the initial difficulties you might have had maneuvering across terrain or trying to figure out how to reach a certain spot would be something you had a full sense of before you got the Skell.”
“We didn’t want people from the very beginning being able to be to zip towards the exact opposite end of the continent. We wanted people them to have the experience of knowing that distance first hand by running it. Once you do have the opportunity to control a Skell, it really does change the feel of the game. And we feel like these are gradual steps that ease you into that process.”
“When people hear 30 hours of gameplay, they might be reacting to that number a little bit. But I think that something that’s going to be familiar to MMO players is the idea that 30 hours is not necessarily a really long time if you think about the total gameplay time that might pick up. Now, certainly in traditional JRPG terms that may feel like that’s quite a ways out, but I think that we’ve designed the content in such a way that it feels fast as you’re going through it.”
Xenoblade Chronicles X launches in North America and Europe in December.
Nintendo has prepared a new commercial for Smash Bros. Wii U/3DS in Japan to promote the DLC offered in both games. Check it out below.
At E3 2015 this week, GameXplain sat down with Grant Kirkhope and Andy Robinson to talk about Yooka-Laylee. You can watch the full half-hour discussion below.
This week’s expanded Japanese software sales are as follows:
01./00. [3DS] Rhythm Heaven: The Best+
02./00. [3DS] Dragon Ball Z: Extreme Butouden
03./01. [WIU] Splatoon
04./00. [PSV] The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky Evolution #
05./06. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 #
06./07. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition
07./05. [PS4] The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
08./00. [PS4] Alien: Isolation
09./02. [PSV] Shiren the Wanderer 5 Plus: Fortune Tower and the Dice of Fate
10./12. [3DS] Style Savvy 3: Kira Kira Code
11./11. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition
12./00. [PSV] Moujuutsukai to Oujisama: Flower & Snow
13./14. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire
14./04. [3DS] Stella Glow
15./13. [3DS] Ansatsu Kyoushitsu: Korosensei Daihouimou!!
16./09. [3DS] Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai Deluxe
17./16. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS
18./19. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf #
19./10. [PS3] Natsuiro High School: Seishun Hakusho
20./23. [3DS] Yo-kai Watch 2: Shin Uchi
Skip has been the primary developer of the Chibi-Robo! games. The studio is making the latest entry, Chibi-Robo!: Zip Lash, but they’re also receiving some help. A listing from the Australian classification board reveals that Dillon’s Rolling Western creator Vanpool is working on the 3DS project as well.
Rhythm Heaven: The Best Plus was the best-selling game in Japan during the week of June 8. It moved 158,000 copies, and Media Create reveals that it sold through 81.56 percent of its initial shipment.
The Japanese sales tracker offers up a couple of reasons for Rhythm Heaven 3DS’s success. Commercials probably helped things, and because it’s a compilation of the series’ previous installments, dedicated fans held it in high demand.
3DS hardware as a whole – including the new Pearl White color – sold 26,000 units. This was an increase of 44.05 percent. While many individual hardware have been on the decline since last week, 3DS has driven the hardware market to an increase compared to last week, just like the sales of software increased from last week.
Update (6/20): Brian here, and I’m bumping this to the top to give an update on things. This rumor is looking likely, as an Xbox One version of “Zombi” has been rated in Australia.
ZombiU was an exclusive to the Wii U at launch, but was never able to really gain any traction on the console and never generated a profit for publisher Ubisoft. Originally there had even been talk of a sequel but due to lackluster performance in sales that idea had to be scrapped. Now according to Unseen64, Ubisoft might be looking for another alternative for the title. It would appear as if Unseen64 has heard from a very reliable source that Ubisoft might be looking to port the game over to Playstation 4 and Xbox One, which could mean pretty significant changes to the gameplay not to mention the title needing to happen if that were done. At the moment this is still a rumor but considering Unseen64’s track record, you just might see this happening in the future.
Update: Another couple of videos:
Last night, Nintendo brought out the Bluefin Depot as the latest map in Splatoon. Take a look at some additional footage of it below.
