Pokken Tournament getting Banpresto figures
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, News | 9 Comments
Banpresto is planning on releasing a few Pokken Tournament figures in Japan just in time for the game’s launch. Each one will be priced at 620 yen. For a look at the different figures, check out the gallery below.
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Haikyuu!!: Cross Team Match commercial
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments
A new commercial has arrived for the Japanese 3DS game Haikyuu!!: Cross Team Match. You can view it below.
You can scan amiibo five times per day in Pokken Tournament
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 9 Comments
Much like with Hyrule Warriors, Pokken Tournament implements a limit on amiibo usage. Players can use amiibo five times per day to unlock special bonuses.
Here’s another look at the functionality:
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Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan trailer #2
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Videos | 0 comments
Bandai Namco published the second Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan, its upcoming Japanese 3DS game. Check it out below.
Bandai Namco on how Pokken Tournament evolved into more than just a Tekken engine game
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 11 Comments
Pokken Tournament’s connection to Tekken is known. The game does take some elements from that series, but the two are very much different.
Speaking with IGN, Bandai Namco’s Katsuhiro Harada said that the project began as “a Tekken engine [game] with some Pokemon characters.” Yet with the introduction of the Field Phase, a new rendering engine, and an “entire new battle system,” Pokken Tournament became its own unique title.
Harada’s full words:
“(Pokken Tournament started life as a Tekken engine [game] with some Pokemon characters. As we worked on it. We knew we wanted to show off the Pokemon, and that led to implementing the [free movement] Field Phase, and we just really realized quickly in that prototype phase that we needed to just kind of create this whole thing from scratch. We even built an entire new rendering engine, and kind of came up with and entire new battle system for it. But it really is just built from the ground up for this entirely new type of fighting game.”
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Pokken Tournament – brief amiibo footage
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Videos, Wii U | 9 Comments
Pokken Tournament works with all amiibo to unlock in-game items. You can get a brief look at that in the video below.
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Pokken Tournament started out as an idea for a Pokemon-themed Taiko Drum Master
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 8 Comments
Pokken Tournament ended up as a 3D fighter that takes some inspiration from Tekken. That wasn’t the original plan, however.
When Bandai Namco was meeting with The Pokemon Company CEO Tsunekazu Ishihara, there was interest in creating a Pokemon-themed version of the rhythm series Taiko Drum Master. Ishihara was actually the one who suggested doing something different.
“Mr. Ishihara actually said, ‘If we’re going to work with Bandai Namco, I want to do a collaboration with Tekken,'” Pokken Tournament producer Katsuhiro Harada told The Verge.
And so that’s how we eventually ended up with Pokken Tournament. The game made its way to arcades last year, and will be reaching Wii U on March 18.
Hideki Kamiya turned down an offer to have Bayonetta in Project X Zone 2, now regrets it
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News | 19 Comments
Project X Zone 2 features a ton of characters from Bandai Namco, Capcom, and SEGA. Heck, there are even a few from Nintendo as well.
One character that didn’t make the final cut was Bayonetta. PlatinumGames’ Hideki Kamiya revealed on Twitter that he received an offer to have her in, but declined it. Now he sort of regrets it.
Kamiya wrote:
There was an offer, but I said no. Now I kinda regret that I said no. RT @KoriMaru
— ???? Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) February 19, 2016
As for why Kamiya turned down the offer, he explained:
I said no to the offer of PXZ cuz I want to make the game in which Bayo & Dante appear by myself. But thinking of fans, maybe I was wrong.
— ???? Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) February 19, 2016
That message seems to have been posted after Kamiya saw images of Segata Sanshiro in Project X Zone 2.
Not bad. RT @KoriMaru Would u consider letting Namco Bandai include Bayonetta in Project X Zone 3 with interactions pic.twitter.com/UFR9oVXqGA
— ???? Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) February 19, 2016
Yveltal, Latios, Reshiram, and Cresselia revealed as Pokken Tournament’s latest support Pokemon
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Wii U | 6 Comments
Update: Here’s the full archive:
Another four support Pokemon have been outed in Pokken Tournament. The game will include Yveltal, Latios, Reshiram, and Cresselia among many others.
Each one of these support Pokemon were shown during a Nintendo Life stream a short while ago. If we come across an archive, we’ll add it in here.
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Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan screenshots and art
Posted on 9 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, Screenshots | 0 comments
Bandai Namco has sent out a heap of new Assassination Classroom: Assassin Training Plan screenshots and art. All of today’s images can be seen below.
