Several new titles are coming to the Japanese eShop next week. Here’s a look at the upcoming digital downloads:
Wii U Virtual Console
WarioWare: Touched! (DS, 950 yen)
Donkey Kong Jr. Math (Famicom, 514 yen)
Power Sports (PC Engine, 617 yen)
Mr. HELI (PC Engine, 617 yen)
Gofer’s Ambition Episode II (MSX, 823 yen)
3DS Download
Our Seven Day War: Friendship Adventure (600 yen)
The games above launch in Japan on April 15.
This month’s EDGE scores are now online. They are as follows:
Axiom Verge – 8
Battlefield Hardline – 7
Bloodborne – 10
Hotline Miami 2 – 5
Kirby and the Rainbow Curse – 8
Ori and the Blind Forest – 7
Titan Souls – 5
We’re also attaching the cover for the latest issue of EDGE. Splatoon takes center stage!
Thanks to joclo for the tip.
This week’s issue of Famitsu reveals a new Run for Money game for 3DS, which is based on a popular TV program. Super Run for Money: Assemble! The Strongest Runaways will be available later this summer, according to the magazine.
The new game supports local communications, co-operative missions, and personal Miis. New stages include a fantasy map, a gold rush of America stage, and a pyramid stage.
Bandai Namco is preparing Super Run for Money: Assemble! The Strongest Runaways for a July 9 release. A special edition with hunter’s sunglasses (child size) is planned.
The previous Run for Money title, Run for money: Escape From the Strongest Hunters in History!, was a huge success for Bandai Namco. It went on to sell 650,000 copies in Japan.
Nintendo of America’s headquarters in Washington has a store that’s for employees only (under most circumstances). While the company doesn’t allow for any photos/videos to be taken, IGN did purchase a few items from the store and showed them off in a new video. You can find that above.
Meme Run was taken down from the Wii U eShop last month. Once the dust settled, it was revealed that the move came about due to a copyright claim involving the trollface meme.
Kotaku reached out to trollface creator Carlos Ramirez about the situation and was told the following:
“People message me. ‘Hey, look, your trollface was used here! You oughta sue these guys.’ I just say ‘Okay, I’ll look at it.’ And I look at it. If it’s a really minor thing, I can’t be bothered with it. It’ll take too much time, and let people have their fun. If they’re not making any significant money on it, it’s like, eh, not a big deal. If you’re publishing a game on a major platform and it’s using my image, it’s kind of hard to ignore.”
“It’s really troublesome when you’re making a game comprised entirely of memes. It’s a big problem of copyright infringement, all across the board, and I guess I was the only one with enough time to go out of my way and shake it down.”
A patch for Citizens of Earth is coming very soon. Eden Industries’ Twitter account confirms that the update will be out “in the next few days” for both Wii U/3DS, and in all regions. It could be available as soon as tomorrow.
Eden Industries wrote on Twitter:
We are happy to announce that the Wiiu and 3DS patches for @CoEGame will be coming out in the next few days (hopefully tomorrow)!
— Ryan Vandendyck (@EdenIndustries) April 7, 2015
Level-5 unleashed a bunch of details about Yo-Kai Watch 3 as part of today’s announcement. You can find them rounded up below.
– Takes place in St. Peanutsburg
– This is a town located somewhere in the United States of America
– Keita moves there after his father is transferred overseas
– St. Peanutsburg has Yo-kai just like Sakura New Town
– Keita will see a number of “American Yo-kai” here
– Their looks and abilities will have an “American” feel
– Dasocks: the redundancy Yo-kai; snake, has two legs with a sock on each; when he possesses someone, they’ll always say a word too many when speaking
– Pinto Corn: never seems to understand anything that’s said to him, and his eyes are always distant; when he possesses someone, they, too, tend to say things of little importance and have a dubious grasp of what all is going on; has a habit of saying, “Huh? I don’t get it.”
– Nikuyaki: middle-aged Yo-kai who loves to eat meat; when he possesses someone, they’ll randomly begin treating people to barbecue.
– New heroine character is Inaho Misora
– Inaho’s ghost pal is USA-Pyon
– USA-Pyon (voiced by Kotori Shigemoto): Jibanyan and Koma-san-grade main Yo-kai
– USA Pyon pretends to be tough and often brags, but hates being alone in his lonely shop
– Much like Koma-san ends his phrases with “zura,” USA-Pyon has a similar “dani” phrase
– USA Pyon met with NASU (the game’s spoof of NASA) doctor Pyuri and was one of the first small animals supposed to go into space
– Inaho Misora (voiced by Aoi Yuki): acknowledges herself as “a bit of an otaku”
– Inaho is shy and does not speak to others much as school
– Inaho isn’t a particularly dark personality-wise, but has a tough time with school
– As an overly avid TV watcher, she’s also easily influenced by many things
– She loves sci-fi and is obsessed with the thought that everyone at her school might be possessed by aliens without even realizing it
– She has a mother, father, and younger brother name Riku
– Inaho has various classmates
– Yuuka Ishinomori: Inaho’s childhood friend; they have a relationship where they can discuss various things
– Yuuka is not an otaku
– Kirara Hoshikaze: girl who comes from a rich family and is always followed by her two escorts
– Inaho’s story is focused in Sakura New Town, Japan
– Inaho’s story is a Yo-kai detective team-like story, while Keita’s is about settling the trouble-making of Yo-kai in a foreign country
– Yo-Kai Watch U Prototype introduced for the game
– This has a surprise feature
– It’s compatible with “American Medals”
– At least 3 large updates for the game
– Will eventually be pushed to version 4.0
Layton 7 was first announced in 2013. At the time, it was slated for 3DS in addition to mobile platforms.
Layton 7 finally resurfaced today at Level-5 Vision 2015, but as a much different title. It’s now all about cards, a plot in which players must locate vampires among a crowd, and a 3DS is no longer planned. That being said, a Nintendo version hasn’t been ruled out.
Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino has said that he would like to bring Layton 7 to Wii U. Whether that interest pans out remains to be seen.
