This week’s issue of Famitsu has another update on The Great Ace Attorney. Specifically, we’ve received new information about one of the game’s episodes. Continue on below for a roundup of the latest information.
– New episode: “The Adventure of the Friend and the Speckled Band”
– This is a homage to the Holmes short story “The Adventure of the Speckled Band”
– Takes place on the London-bound steamship Alaclear
– Ryuunosuke finds himself the prime suspect in a certain “incident” involving a locked room and an adder
– Decides to clear his name
– Wherever mysteries are, so is Holmes, and so Ryuunosuke and the Great Detective meet for the first time
– New characters Nikomina Borschbich and Mitrofan Stroganov
– Nikomina Borschbich: fifteen-year-old ballet dancer Nikomina Borschbich
– Mitrofan Stroganov: sailor who was patrolling the area of the ship where the incident occurred
– Nikomina is running away from the Russian ballet corp she was once a part of to America
– Can examine an area, speak to people, move around, and present evidence
– Areas you’ve already looked at will have a check mark displayed by the cursor
– When choosing where to go, Susato will let you know if anything more needs investigating there
– The preview for the next report shows Iris and an unnamed character in the English lobby
Famitsu has gone live with new Project X Zone 2 screenshots and art, which show off new characters like Phoenix Wright and Maya Fey from the Ace Attorney series. All of the latest images are included in the gallery below.
This week’s issue of Famitsu has extensive coverage of Nintendo games. Here’s a quick rundown of what’s covered:
– Fire Emblem If
– The Great Ace Attorney
– PoPoLoCrois Farm Story
– Project X Zone 2
– Rhythm Heaven: The Best Plus
– Splatoon
– Stella Glow
– Yoshi’s Woolly World
You can find scans of these games (and more!) in the gallery below.
Update: Well, it looks like @trintran is a master troll. He was joking, folks! Bill is still at Nintendo.
Wait a second… It's not 9 AM PT yet??? #JapanTime #Trintroll
— Bill Trinen (@trintran) May 13, 2015
Longtime Nintendo employee Bill Trinen has apparently left the company. His Twitter profile states that he “used to work at Nintendo”, and Trinen also sent out the following tweet:
I guess nothing can last for ever.
— Bill Trinen (@trintran) May 13, 2015
Ultratron’s file size has now come in. The game only requires about 188 MB to download, which isn’t much at all.
Ultratron will be available tomorrow in North America and Europe via the Wii U eShop.
A listing for an Xenoblade Chronicles X guide popped up on Amazon UK, with Prima listed as its publisher. It appears to have been somewhat of a mistake, but Prima does indeed “hope to publish” a guide for Nintendo’s Wii U RPG.
Prima told one fan on Twitter earlier this week:
@DRayX7 that's not our listing, but we hope to publish it
— Prima Games (@primagames) May 11, 2015
Xenoblade Chronicles X launched in Japan on April 29. It’s coming to North America and Europe later this year.
This month’s issue of CoroCoro has more Pokemon news, much of which pertains to Hoopa.
Hoopa Unbound’s signature move is “Hyperspace Fury”. The Pokemon changes form in-game through the Prison Bottle that is obtained from a clerk in the PokeMart after fulfilling specific conditions.
We have a tiny update on The Archdjinni of the Rings – Hoopa as well. According to CoroCoro, Mega Latios and Mega Latias will be present in the film.
The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
New 3DS LL – 17,875
Vita – 17,273
PS4 – 15,992
Wii U – 11,137
New 3DS – 5,446
PS3 – 4,351
3DS – 1,413
3DS LL – 1,358
Vita TV – 665
Xbox One – 187
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
Wii U – 22,898
PS4 – 19,782
Vita – 17,748
New 3DS LL – 17,062
New 3DS – 5,901
PS3 – 3,956
3DS – 1,520
3DS LL – 1,465
Vita TV – 687
Xbox One – 341
And here are the software charts:
1. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons: Super Mario Bros. Edition – 38,914 / 218,839
2. [3DS] Girls Mode 3 – 21,784 / 120,791
3. [PSV] Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition – 18,025 / 143,976
4. [WIU] Xenoblade Chronicles X – 11,689 / 97,275
5. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 9,454 / 983,902
6. [3DS] Bravely Second – 9,403 / 129,645
7. [3DS] Pokemon Omega Ruby/Alpha Sapphire – 8,557 / 2,618,841
8. [WIU] Mario Party 10 – 7,406 / 137,759
9. [3DS] Super Smash Bros. for 3DS – 7,057 / 2,227,483
10. [3DS] Yo-Kai Watch 2: Shinuchi – 6,163 / 2,603,483
11. [3DS] Theatrhythm Dragon Quest – 4,866 / 115,089
12. [WIU] Dragon Quest X: Inishie no Ryuu no Denshou Online – 4,719 / 103,042
13. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 4,687 / 3,970,494
14. [WIU] Super Smash Bros. for Wii U – 4,483 / 634,070
15. [3DS] Assassination Classroom: Grand Siege on Kurosensei – 3,767 / 67,581
16. [3DS] Future Card Buddyfight: The Fired Up Friendship Fight – 3,654 / 26,948
17. [3DS] Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D – 3,608 / 427,697
18. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 – 3,559 / 2,502,286
19. [3DS] Xenoblade Chronicles 3D – 3,511 / 82,403
20. [3DS] LEGO City Undercover: The Chase Begins – 3,372 / 46,056