Nintendo has partnered with the folks hosting Apex for this year’s event.
The news was announced today on Apex’s official Twitter account:
We are pleased to announce that #Apex2015 is partnering with @NintendoAmerica to bring an incredible #SmashBros event pic.twitter.com/t4DQJm1Wup
— Team Apex (@apex_series) January 9, 2015
Super Smash Bros. will hold a heavy presence at this year’s event. Super Smash Bros. 64, Melee, Brawl, and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U will all be represented in tournament form.
Another round of Bravely Second details have in from today’s live stream event. We’ve rounded up the information below.
– They recorded a certain character’s song recently; keeping it a secret for now
– The asterisk holder for the Exorcist job is named Geist – Bloody Geist
– He’s voiced by Takumi Yamazaki
– The designer for the Exorcist is Yokoyan
– The buster ships are used to combat Maou in space
– The more you have, the lower you can drop a Maou’s level so that they’ll be beatable by your party
– You can team up with friends’ buster ships to do this
– This feature will be added into an update for the demo which will also include the Exorcist job as well
– Maou battles will still use the Revo track because they had him compose it to be the main Maou theme from the get go
– Edea will be back in Bravely Second
– Asterisk holder of the Tomahawk job, Aimy Matchlock, speaks with a distinct Hiroshima accent
– While talking about her dialect, the developers asked themselves how the localization will be handled in this regard, since you can’t really replicate the Hiroshima accent in English
– Asano then joked that they’re doing everything they can to give the localization translators as hard of a time as possible
– Magnolia Arch speaks “fluent” English
– Everyone on the moon speaks fluent English, which is where Magnolia is from
Nintendo is pulling out from the Brazilian gaming market, according to a report from UOL Games. The company will not distribute any additional games, consoles, or handhelds in the country going forward.
Bill van Zyll, director for Nintendo of America’s Latin America operations, said there are various challenges in the way such as taxes.
It’s currently unclear what will happen with the Brazilian 3DS eShop as well as those who purchased games on the store.
Puzzle & Dragons Z launched in Japan back in December 2013. GungHo Online Entertainment previously said that the game would head west, but we’ve still yet to see it in either North America or Europe.
Despite the lack of news, Puzzle & Dragons Z remains on track for overseas territories. Check out this tweet coming from GungHo’s official Twitter account:
@Emolyptic actually P&D Z was officially announced for a western release by our company president – no details at this time, but stay tuned!
— GungHo Online (@GungHo_America) January 8, 2015
Square Enix revealed a new job for Bravely Second during today’s live stream for the game known as the Exorcist. Here’s what we know:
– 4 party members shown playing as the Exorcist job
– Can turn back time with the “Never Happened” ability
– Go back up to 3 turns
– Ex: showed Nikolai taking some damage, and Magnolia used the “Never Happened HP” and it reverted his health back to what it was before he took damage
– This ability can also work when players get incapacitated
– As such, Exorcist is considered more of a healing class
– Since you can use it on other characters, it’ll come in handy, as they’ll be able to charge up with Defaults while always keeping their health the way it was
– The cost for Never Happened is relatively low
– Other Exorcist abilities will be revealed in the future
– Square Enix also showed the Asterisk Holder for the Exorcist job
– He’s a pretty creepy character, and was shown taking a slash attack, only to have it recover, as if it never even happened
– Illustration above made by yokoyan, who has worked on several occasions with Bravely Default composer revo on cover art, and more
On another note, Square Enix confirmed that Bravely Second will include roughly 30 jobs.
