Nintendo’s latest maintenance schedule for the week of July 28, 2024 is now available.
Switch wasn’t included last week, but that’s changed this time around. A little bit of downtime for the console is now a part of the lineup.
Below is the full Nintendo maintenance schedule for the week of July 28, 2024:
A new launch trailer is now available for Daydream: Forgotten Sorrow. The title made its way to consoles this week, including Switch.
For a recap of what to expect, check out the following overview:
Publisher Neuron-Age, along with developer Project Pegasus, have confirmed plans to put Tensei on Switch. The game is targeting an August 1, 2024 launch.
Tensei is an endless action game that’s set in soothing Zen landscapes, is said to take on players on an “experience of self-discovery”. Those looking for further details can check out the following overview:
Listings on the eShops provide file sizes for a bunch of Switch games. These include Sonic x Shadow Generations, Tomba Special Edition, and more.
Here’s the full roundup:
If you’re familiar with developer talk centered around Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, you might recall game director Masahiro Sakurai saying that Kirby is one of the most challenging fighters to develop – especially in Smash Bros. games with DLC characters. This is because Kirby has a unique neutral special for every single character, and each one gives him a unique hat to wear. Given that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate has well over seventy characters, that means over 80 unique hats for Kirby were needed – plus seventy “Kirby-ified” versions of the corresponding moves.
At the time of writing, we’re not sure what the next Super Smash Bros. game will look like. Will it be a port of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate for the next hardware with even more characters? Or will it be sort of a soft reboot of the franchise with fewer characters, but new movesets for the returning ones? Whichever the case may be, we’ve come up with a new Copy Ability system for Kirby that would most likely make developing his character easier while remaining true to his series.
Last month’s Nintendo Direct featured a few surprise announcements, including a big one for the fighting game community – that being Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics. That package comes with Marvel vs. Capcom 2, which came as a shock to many.
Shuhei Matsumoto, the collection’s producer, recently spoke about how it all came to be. It turns out that there’s long been interest on Capcom’s side, and the company was “in talks with Marvel for years now to see whether we can make this happen.” Marvel seemed to general interest and fans wanting to see its classic games on modern hardware.
These days, it feels like anything has a chance of returning. Looking at Nintendo specifically, the company just recently announced Emio: The Smiling Man: Famicom Detective Club, which is the series’ first new game in three decades. Mario & Luigi is also making a comeback after nearly a decade (again we’re talking new here), and this is after many thought the franchise could be dead since developer AlphaDream shuttered. We’ve seen other examples as well such as Kid Icarus: Uprising on 3DS, which followed Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters on Game Boy way back in 1991.
Nintendo has plenty of series it could return to. There are more obscure names like Ice Climber and StarTropics, but things have even been quiet for others such as Donkey Kong Country (though we’re at least getting Returns HD at the start of next year) and Star Fox.
What are your thoughts here? Is there a certain Nintendo game or franchise you’d like to see return? Let us know in the comments.
Bandai Namco brought One Piece Odyssey to Switch this week, and a bunch of gameplay is available for the port. You can see almost an hour of footage from the initial sections.
Find everything you need to know in the following overview:
