This week’s video additions to the Wii U/3DS eShops are as follows:
Wii U
eShop Card Sizzle Reel
Big Hero 6 Battle in the Bay Trailer
Etrian Mystery Dungeon – Landsknecht
Tri-Strip Trailer
Puzzle Monkeys Trailer
Dolphin Up Trailer
How to Win at Smash Ep. 10
3DS
eShop Card Sizzle Reel
Big Hero 6 Battle in the Bay Trailer
Zelda: Majora’s Mask 3D Gameplay Video #2
Etrian Mystery Dungeon – Landsknecht
KAMI Trailer
How to Win at Smash Ep. 10
Source: Wii U/3DS eShops
Nintendo put out a few Wii games on the eShop over the past few weeks. Naturally, these were all first-party titles.
Destructoid attempted to reach Nintendo in hopes of finding out if the company has plans to make third-party titles available on the eShop. It should come as no surprise that the site basically received a “no comment” response!
Following Famitsu’s reveal earlier this week, Masaya Games has now released official assets for Langrisser 3DS. We have a batch of screenshots and art above, plus character profiles below.
Ares is the main hero, a young bodyguard of the local lord, strong, honest and driven by a solid sense of justice.
Elma is the daughter of the priest of the local temple, she has a very positive and idealistic personality.Toi is a mysterious tactician who has lost all memories of her childhood. She has unique combat skills and knowledge, but she doesn’t talk very much, nor expresses her emotions easily.
Rosalia is a brave knight of noble birth. She serves as the leader of the knights under the local lord. She has the dignity of a leader, but she can be quite romantic at times.
Another round of Splatoon details have been translated from this week’s issue of Famitsu (thanks StreetsAhead). You’ll find them below.
-The interview is with producer Hisashi Nogami, who is known as the director of every Animal Crossing up to City Folk, and directors Yusuke Amano, who also directed NSMB2, and Tsubasa Sakaguchi, who was a character designer on Twilight Princess and art director on Nintendo Land.
-The Inkling city (where the plaza is) is known as ‘Highcolor/Haikara City’ in Japanese.
-The concept of two teams of four shooting ink in a turf battle has been there since the original prototype, even though the characters where tofu-like blocks at the time.
-They experimented with other team sizes, but found with more than four players felt like they had little effect on battles, and with less than four that they had too much responsibility.
-Killing/attacking opponents online to prevent them from painting ink is just one strategy to win. You get no points or advantage directly from doing so.
-Hero mode uses basically the same controls as online matches, so anyone with difficulty in the can use the hero mode to practice.
-Ideally, you’ll be matched with players of a similar rank to you (based off of experience points earned in matches). If not enough players, they’ll put you with people further away from your rank. If there’s only 8 players, you’ll be matched together.
-While online is focused on just painting the ground, hero mode focuses on using the ink to move forward.
-Amano says he wants you to be able to look at the map on the GamePad and see where needs to be worked on for your team.
-No way to directly communicate with people you’ve been randomly matched with. They will appear post-match in your Plaza, where you can check out their gear, weapons, and comment.
-They picked squids because they were the best at representing the gameplay present in the prototype.
-Music for stages is random. Possible that I’m misunderstanding, but each player will have a different song while playing.
-Music is designed to be the sort that would be popular with the young Inklings involved with the turf battles.
-Rather than making some huge number of stages, they want to create stages that feel different when you use different weapon combinations.
-You don’t earn money for gear in single player for balance reasons. Someone could grind money in hero mode and have their first online match with high level gear.
-In the final stages of development now.
-Aiming for, more or less, a simultaneous worldwide release.
-They plan on supporting the title post-release.
How about this for a Smash Bros. glitch? Whatever is going on here causes items to become Maxim Tomatos. The items themselves function normally, but their appearance can’t be anything but a tomato.
YouTube user Leron Tolmachev says of the glitch:
This issue is currently occurring on my girlfriend’s 3DS XL. I have tried her copy of Smash Bros. in my 2DS, and it works fine, I’ve tried my copy of Smash Bros. in her 3DS and the issue only occurs on her 3DS XL with the 1.0.4 patch installed. If we uninstall the patch, the issue goes away, but reinstalling the patch causes the issue to return. I’ve factory reset the 3DS XL and formatted the SD card, but the issue persists.
Definitely one of the strangest glitches I’ve seen in a long while!
Nintendo kicked off a beta version of its new Creator’s Program on YouTube last week. If you missed out on the news, it’s essentially a program that allows YouTube users to earn a percentage of revenue from certain Nintendo-related content.
Nintendo said on its website that videos are processed in “two to three days.” However, there are reports that many YouTube users have not yet seen approval on their first round of creations. Nintendo at least seems to be aware of the problem – which was caused by a high volume of applications – and will look to process videos “as quickly as possible.”
The full statement reads:
Thank you very much for participating in the Nintendo Creators Program. Due to your enthusiasm for the program, we’re receiving a higher volume of applications to register channels & videos than expected. It is taking longer than we anticipated to confirm the applications. We appreciate your patience as we work through them as quickly as possible.
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