Along with today’s screenshot, Sakurai passed along the following message on Miiverse:
Don’t eat him. You can’t eat him.
Hey all, it’s Brian and Austin from Nintendo Everything here to re-welcome Manfred from Shin’en back with yet another screenshot from the upcoming Wii U release of Art of Balance! He’s got plenty to say about what graphical details they’re implementing for the menus in the game, so revel in the relaxing room where you select your levels and read up about how it came to be below! Unless you’d rather simply revel at the picture. That’s okay too.
Hi guys, it’s Manfred from Shin’en again with another fresh shot from Art of Balance Wii U. This time we’ll show you one of the the level selection screens.
When developing the original game on Wii, we realized that a simple 2D grid would be good enough for a level select menu, but that in itself was too boring. So we came up with the idea of stacked boxes in a lush 3D environment. We think coming back to the this beautiful menu gives players a nice break after solving a level. On Wii U, we had tons of performance to waste on this screen so we implemented quite a number of effects.
Youkai Watch has been an unbelievable success for Level-5. The game has continued to sell week after week, and has now shipped over one million copies in Japan.
One could say that Youkai Watch got off to a slow start. However, once the game’s anime debuted in Japan, sales saw a major boost. Youkai Watch’s shipments came in at 500,000 units in mid-February, but have doubled since.
This week’s 3DS eShop charts are as follows:
Software
1. Super Mario Bros. 3
2. Pokemon Battle Trozei
3. Pokemon Dream Radar
4. Disney Magical World
5. Art Academy: First Semester
6. Super Mario Bros.
7. EDGE
8. Animal Crossing: New Leaf
9. Zelda: Link’s Awakening DX
10. Zelda: A Link Between Worlds
11. Pokemon X
12. Pokemon Y
13. Super Mario Bros. 2
14. Bravely Default
15. Darts Up 3D
16. Trajectile
17. Yoshi’s New Island
18. The Legend of Zelda
19. Mega Man
20. Conception II: Children of the Seven Stars
Videos
1. Super Smash Bros. Challenger From the Shadows
2. Super Smash Bros. Direct 4/8/14
3. Tomodachi Life Direct 4/10/14
4. Super Mario Bros. 3 Trailer
5. Mario Kart 8 – New Courses and Items Trailer
6. Pokemon Battle Trozei – Announcement Trailer
7. Disney Magical World Launch Trailer
8. Nintendo Minute – Mario Kart 8 New Courses
9. LEGO The Hobbit Trailer
10. Kirby Triple Deluxe: Wow Kirby, you’re sure exciting Trailre
12. Yoshi’s New Island – Egg-Stravaganza
13. Super Smash Bros. Champion of the Ring
14. Disney Magical World TV Commercial
15. Disney Magical World Trailer
16. Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball Launch Trailer
17. Hyrule Warriors Teaser Trailer
18. Disney Magical World – Features Trailer
19. Conception II: Legend of the Seven Stars Trailer
20. Mario Golf: World Tour – Teaser Trailer
Source: 3DS eShop
Looks like Jupiter is missing its April release target for Picross e4 by a bit. On the bright side, it’s not too much of a delay!
This week’s video additions to the Wii U/3DS eShops are as follows:
Wii U
LEGO The Hobbit Trailer
Kirby Triple Deluxe “Unleashed” TV Commercial
NES Remix 2: Remixed Fun Trailer
NES Remix 2: Super Luigi Bros. Trailer
Golden Sun Trailer
F-Zero Maximum Velocity Trailer
Flowerworks HD: Follie’s Adventure – Are You Ready Trailer
Flowerworks HD: Follie’s Adventure Gameplay Trailer
3DS
Kirby Triple Deluxe “Unleashed” TV Commercial
NES Remix 2: Remixed Fun Trailer
NES Remix 2: Super Luigi Bros. Trailer
Kirby Triple Deluxe: Gee Kirby, you’re so cute Trailer
Golden Sun Trailer
F-Zero Maximum Velocity Trailer
Smash Cat Heroes Trailer
Bit Boy!! Arcade Trailer
Super Mario Bros. 3 Trailer
Rusty’s Real Deal Baseball: Haggling 101 Trailer
Source: Wii U/3DS eShops
This week’s Wii U eShop charts are as follows:
Software
1. Super Mario Bros. 3
2. Super Mario World
3. Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
4. Kirby & The Amazing Mirror
5. Metroid Fusion
6. Zelda: Wind Waker HD
7. Golden Sun
8. WarioWare, Inc: Mega Microgame$
9. DuckTales Remastered
10. Advance Wars
11. Zelda: A Link to the Past
12. NES Remix
13. EarthBound
14. Super Mario Bros.
15. Super Metroid
16. Art Academy: SketchPad
17. The Legend of Zelda
18. Super Mario Bros.
19. Pokemon Rumble U
20. Super Mario 3D World
Videos
N/A
Source: Wii U eShop