System: Switch
Release Date: February 2, 2023
Developer: ISVR
Publisher: Astrolabe Games
Active DBG: Brave’s Rage is a little misleading. With cute characters and popping colors, what I expected to be a walk in the park pocket RPG is actually a grueling system that takes time and significant effort to master. Fast-paced fights coupled with roguelite mechanics makes for a bit of a steep learning curve, but the tutorial’s combat and defensive basics are drilled early – and there’s a reason you’re forced to play the tutorial when first starting the game: you need to learn these mechanics. You need to know all of the tools in your arsenal to make it through and come out victorious. The “perfect block” is especially useful in aiding survivability, but is that alone enough to get your champion(s) through with their lives?
Square Enix started distributing another update for Chocobo GP, bringing the game to version 1.4.1.
A number of problems have been addressed here. The game has fixed issues affecting the Midgar courses, Cactuar abilities in Time Attack, and lobby issues in multiplayer.
The full patch notes for the Chocobo GP version 1.4.1 update are as follows:
We have a better look at the brand new Switch version of Life is Strange 2 with several minutes of gameplay. Its release essentially completes the lineup of games in the franchise available on the platform.
Everything you need to know can be found in the following overview:
The Arcade Archives series continued this week with its latest entry, Phelios, and we have new gameplay. Per usual, this stems from Hamster’s live stream this week.
Here’s a quick recap on the title:
We have a closer look at the new Switch version of PowerWash Simulator thanks to a bunch of gameplay. Square Enix and FuturLab just shipped the port this week.
If you’re interested in learning more about the title, read the following overview:
A new NIS America February 2023 Switch eShop sale started up this week with a number of games at their lowest prices ever, including Disgaea 6. Other titles like Mad Rat Dead, the Prinny Presents releases, and Yomawari are featured here.
Below is the full roundup:
A class-action lawsuit for Switch Joy-Con drift has come to close, and the ruling comes in favor of Nintendo.
We had previously reported on the Sanchez et. al. v. Nintendo of America case about a year ago. Originally, it was ruled that two mothers in the case couldn’t proceed with a class action. However, the case continued, and it was ultimately about whether or not kids could sue. According to Axios, Switch comes with an End User License Agreement “which disallows lawsuits and forces aggrieved parties to go into arbitration, but the parents’ lawyers argued the kids were too young to be bound by it.”
NIS America has just announced Rhapsody: Marl Kingdom Chronicles for Switch. The collection is due out on the console this summer.
Little Princess: Marl Okoku no Ningyo Hime 2 originally released for the PlayStation in 1999 followed by Tenshi no Present: Marl Okoku Monogatari for the PS2 in 2000. These games have never appeared in the west until now. Only the franchise’s debut entry, Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, was initially made available in English.
Original (1/30): NIS America revealed today that it is working on an English version of Disgaea 7: Vows of the Virtueless for fans in North America and Europe. It will launch this fall.
Disgaea 7 just recently made its debut in Japan. Nippon Ichi Software published the game on January 26, 2023.
Below is an official overview:
