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Touhou Spell Carnival gameplay

A new wave of gameplay is in for Touhou Spell Carnival. After the Nintendo Switch game first appeared in Japan, it headed west this week.

Details about the strategy RPG x bullet hell game can be found in the following overview:

Sting have announced that they will be releasing the Nintendo Switch version of Riviera: The Promised Land later this month in the West. The game, a remaster of the PSP version of the title with additional quality of life features, is set to release digitally via the eShop on November 28. It released in Japan earlier this year, on February 24.

Catch up on the game with the overview below:

Dokapon: Ikari no Tekken

Another Dokapon game is coming to Switch with Dokapon: Ikari no Tekken having now been revealed for the platform. Biccamera, a retailer in Japan, just put up a listing for the title.

Dokapon: Ikari no Tekken originally released for the PlayStation at the end of 1999, but only in Japan. New features are planned for the Switch version of the board game RPG hybrid.

Touhou Spell Carnival

November 8, 2023: Touhou Spell Carnival is heading to Switch, publisher Compile Heart and developer Sting have announced. A release is planned for Spring 2024 in Japan.

The game was technically first announced last month along with a few other titles. However, very few details were shared at the time.

Riviera The Promised Land

January 31: According to this week’s issue of Famitsu, Riviera: The Promised Land is heading to Switch. Thus far it’s only confirmed for Japan where it’s set to launch on February 28, 2024.

Sting first revealed the Riviera: The Promised Land last July. However, there was no word on platforms at the time.

Yggdra Union Switch gameplay

Yggdra Union: We’ll Never Fight Alone came to Switch in the west this week, and we now have gameplay. Nearly an hour of footage is available.

Here’s an overview of Yggdra Union, which first hit the Game Boy Advance in 2006:

Yggdra Union English Switch west

The Switch version of Yggdra Union: We’ll Never Fight Alone is seeing an English release in the west, an eShop listing reveals. Sting will have it ready to go on July 27, 2023.

The Japanese release was originally announced in February 2020 with the launch happening a month later. It’s taken a few years, but thankfully, an official localization is finally happening.

Here’s the official eShop description with more details:

A new update has gone live for Dokapon Kingdom Connect, bringing the game up to versio 1.1.0. This is a particularly noteworthy update due to its inclusion of Local Wireless Mode for the game, allowing multiple players to play together without needing an internet connection or Nintendo Switch Online account. Some AI adjustments and bug fixes are also included. Full details can be found below:

Original (12/13): Developer Sting has announced that Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future Remaster will be releasing on Switch in Japan. It will release in the region sometime in 2023.

Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future Remaster is a remaster of the original Blaze Union: Story to Reach the Future, a strategy RPG released originally on PSP in 2010. That game was itself a prequel to Yggdra Union: We’ll Never Fight Alone, a 2006 Game Boy Advance game that received a Switch rerelease a few years ago.

Dokapon Kingdom: Connect release date

A final English release date has been revealed for Dokapon Kingdom: Connect in the west. For both North America and Europe, the game launches on May 9, 2023.

Dokapon Kingdom: Connect was most recently confirmed for this spring in the west. In Japan, it will arrive on April 13, 2023.


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