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This week’s Japanese eShop update is as follows:

3DS

Downloadable Titles
Aqua Moto Racing 3D – 400 yen
Dasshutsu Adventure Sh?en no Kuroi Kiri – 820 yen
Dokopon Choice Super Mario-kun Vol. 1 – 10-kan Pack – 4,400 yen
Dokopon Choice Blood Lad Vol. 1 – 5-kan + Omake Pack – 3,050 yen
Puchi Noberu Shukusai no Hachigatsu – 200 yen
Medalot (Medabot) 8 – Kabuto Version / Kuwagata Version (retail title) – 6,264 (from 8/28)
Boku wa Kok? Kansei-kan Airport Hero 3D Kank? Sky Story DEMO – FREE
Gaist Crusher God DEMO – FREE

Virtual Console
NA (since 5/7)

Wii U

Downloadable Titles
NA

Virtual Console
Gakk? Deatta Kowai Hanashi (Super Famicom) – 823 yen
Final Fight 2 (Super Famicom) – 823 yen
Akumaj? Dracula Circle of the Moon (Castlevania: Circle of the Moon, Game Boy Advance) – 702 yen
Kaiz? Ch?nin Shubibiman 2 – Aratanu Teki (Shockman, PC Engine) – 617 yen
Final Soldier (PC Engine) – 702 yen

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This week’s Famitsu has another update on Final Fantasy Explorers. There’s one game element in particular worth bringing to your attention.

According to the magazine, Final Fantasy Explorers allows “legendary characters” (main characters from the series among others) to join the fight. This is possible with the transformation ability which allows players to change their form for a limited time.

Final Fantasy VII’s Cloud Strife is the first classic character reveal, and Famitsu shows a couple of screenshots. We should be hearing about more legendary characters in the coming weeks and months.

Lots of details about Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden have emerged from this week’s issue of Famitsu. You can find all of today’s information rounded up below.

Yuuri Kozukata

– Goes to the mountain to search for the owner of the shop, Hisoka Kurosawa
– Voiced by Risa Tawata

Miu Hinasaki

– Girl searching for her missing mother
– Her mother vanished when she was a child
– She’s never known the love of parents and feels empty
– Heads to the mountain believing her mother is there
– Voiced by Maaya Uchida

Ren Hojo

– Failure of an author
– Has known Yuuri for ages
– Whimsical and is scolded by his assistant for it
– He hears of a custom involving burial photos, and goes to the mountain to research for his new book. Voiced by Tatsuhisa Suzuki

Hisoka Kurosawa

– Owner of the shop
– Uses kagemi skills to search for lost things
– Goes to the mountain to look for a missing girl and vanishes
– Voiced by Atsuko Tanaka

Rui Kagamiya

– Ren’s assistant
– She respects him, calling him sensei, and as well as helping him out she thinks of him as family
– Voiced by Maaya Sakamoto

Locations

– Explore 3 main locations at the start
– These include forest and buildings around the mountain

Mikomori Onsen

– An abandoned old, big house known as a famous ghost spot where lots of ghosts are

Kurosawa Antiques

– Also a cafe
– Yuuri lives and works here
– People come here to request lost things be found, or have their fortunes told by Hisoka

Shirazu no Mori

– A forest in the mountain
– Ever since it became famous as a suicide spot, there’s been a big fence around it, which people sneak in through
– There are also rumors of a murderer hiding inside

Gameplay

– Plays out a bit like mission mode
– Choose your mission and then you unlock new missions
– You can replay missions as much as you’d like
– Once you complete the chapter goals, you get the next chapter
– Your goal is to find people
– Each person has different reasons for going to the mountain and getting there, so you’ll have to gather as much info about them as you can
– You can use something that’s like a “scent” of a person from things like a hair, their documents etc.
– That aids your “kagemi”
– Then you use your clues to search for them
– If you chase the memories of them you’ll find them, so you have to follow their past footsteps
– When you find them and “bring them back” from their spiriting away, it’s mission complete, but you’ll have to watch out for the ghosts lurking
– You can also use your “ghost sight” to find hints from ghosts
– Looks kind of like hidden ghosts in other games
– Gameplay on the TV
– Map on the GamePad
– The touch system for picking up items is back
– Ghost hands are also back

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Downloads of the 3DS Niconico app have reached one million, an announcement made today confirms.

The app launched in Japan this past February. Its primary function is to allow users to view videos much like YouTube.

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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:

1. [3DS] Youkai Watch 2 – 77,465 / 2,289,983
2. [PS4] The Last of Us: Remastered – 30,587 / NEW
3. [PSV] Bullet Girls – 29,690 / NEW
4. [PS4] Diablo III – 17,832 / NEW
5. [PS3] Diablo III – 15,816 / NEW
6. [WIU] Hyrule Warriors – 15,142 / 84,232
7. [3DS] Yoshi’s New Island – 12,931 / 157,092
8. [WIU] Mario Kart 8 – 12,075 / 639,710
9. [3DS] Dragon Ball Heroes: Ultimate Mission 2 – 10,831 / 119,689
10. [PS3] Ultra Street Fighter IV – 7,928 / 61,859
11. [3DS] Taiko no Tatsujin: Don to Katsu no Jikuu Daibouken – 7,246 / 145,967
12. [3DS] Youkai Watch – 7,189 / 1,252,231
13. [PSV] Monster Hunter Frontier G – 5,183 / 26,352
14. [PSV] Chaos;Head Dual – 4,662 / NEW
15. [3DS] Pokemon X/Y – 4,255 / 4,132,144
16. [PS3] GTA V New Price Version – 3,938 / 49,220
17. [3DS] Senran Kagura 2: Deep Crimson – 3,829 / 59,948
18. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 – 3,376 / 2,371,488
19. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 3,367 / 3,778,065
20. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 – 3,321 / 3,330,825

The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:

3DS LL – 28,788
Vita – 15,309
Wii U – 8,985
3DS – 6,914
PS4 – 5,923
PS3 – 2,376
Vita TV – 1,118
PSP – 324
Xbox 360 – 177

For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:

3DS LL – 42,365
Vita – 20,825
Wii U – 18,161
3DS – 9,429
PS4 – 6,913
PS3 – 6,260
Vita TV – 1,491
PSP – 416
Xbox 360 – 160


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