Hideki Kamiya hopes to make Miis available as a hero in “The Wonderful 102”
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Hideki Kamiya reflected on the The Wonderful 101’s development on Twitter earlier today. According to the director, PlatinumGames had attempted to make it so players could bring their own Mii into the game as a hero. This is something he hopes can be done in “The Wonderful 102”, he said.
Kamiya’s tweet in full:
We tried to make it possible to join your own mii with TW100 as a hero. We hope we can do it in TW102.
— ???? Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) January 16, 2014
When asked if players would have had the opportunity to choose which Unite Morph their Mii would have used – based on the original idea – Kamiya said:
Could be. RT @MirbyStudios: Would we have been able to choose which Unite Morph our Mii would have used?
— ???? Hideki Kamiya (@PG_kamiya) January 16, 2014
Of course, The Wonderful 102 is not a sure-fire thing at this point. The Wonderful 101 hasn’t done particularly well at retail, though Kamiya has previously expressed interest in making a sequel.
Nintendo Download (1/16/14, North America)
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This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:
Wii U Download
F1 Race Stars Powered Up Edition – $29.99
Unepic – $9.99
Wii U Virtual Console
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest – $4.99
3DS Virtual Console
Castlevania II: Simon’s Quest – $4.99
eShop sale
Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl – Want to start off your year with a stellar adventure? Grab your map and prepare yourself. Atlus’ Etrian Odyssey Untold: The Millennium Girl is $20 off in the Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS from Jan. 20 to Jan. 27.
Source: Nintendo PR
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Media Create software sales (1/6 – 1/12)
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This week’s Japanese software sales are as follows:
1. [3DS] Kirby Triple Deluxe – 214,208 / NEW
2. [3DS] Puzzle & Dragons Z – 52,880 / 1,216,421
3. [3DS] Pokemon X/Y – 34,179 / 3,870,125
4. [3DS] Zelda: A Link Between Worlds – 26,286 / 323,502
5. [3DS] Monster Hunter 4 – 19,497 / 3,179,551
6. [PS3] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster – 16,286 / 241,733
7. [3DS] Youkai Watch – 14,195 / 308,946
8. [3DS] Sentouchuu Densetsu no Shinobi to Survival Battle – 13,665 / 224,869
9. [WIU] Super Mario 3D World – 13,079 / 452,521
10. [PSV] Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD Remaster – 12,237 / 194,407
11. [3DS] Animal Crossing: New Leaf – 10,929 / 3,641,321
12. [3DS] Attack on Titan: The Last Wings of Mankind – 9,310 / 202,029
13. [PS3] Grand Theft Auto V – 9,299 / 674,835
14. [PS3] Shin Gundam Musou – 9,266 / 201,529
15. [3DS] Inazuma Eleven Go Galaxy – 7,369 / 216,964
16. [3DS] Tomodachi Collection – 7,323 / 1,645,697
17. [3DS] Mario Kart 7 – 7,276 / 2,258,319
18. [3DS] Shin Gundam Musou – 6,948 / 97,882
19. [PS3] World Soccer Winning Eleven 2014 – 6,948 / 291,010
20. [PS3] Gran Turismo 6 – 6,099 / 297,352
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Media Create hardware sales (1/6 – 1/12)
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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Media Create are as follows:
3DS LL – 40,038
Vita – 29,494
3DS – 20,116
PS3 – 14,845
Wii U – 14,020
PSP – 4,758
Vita TV – 2,522
Xbox 360 – 281
For comparison’s sake, here are the hardware numbers from last week:
3DS LL – 114,156
Vita – 70,087
3DS – 62,399
Wii U – 51,271
PS3 – 40,085
PSP – 13,283
Vita TV – 5,313
Xbox 360 – 447
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Super Smash Bros. for Wii U screenshot (1/15/14)
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Along with the above image, Sakurai shared the following message via Miiverse:
Super Smash Bros. top Masahiro Sakurai Miiverse
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Club Nintendo adds Zelda, Animal Crossing 3DS Game Card Cases
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A batch of new downloadable rewards were added to Club Nintendo earlier today. In addition, Nintendo has brought back the 3DS Game Card Case – now as special sets.
Club Nintendo members can order a case based on The Legend of Zelda or Animal Crossing. Each costs 400 coins.
You can check out the official product page here.
Renegade Kid trademarks “Moon Chronicles”
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Renegade Kid’s upcoming first-person shooter announcement might just be “Moon Chronicles”. Last Thursday, the studio filed a trademark for the name in the US and it was entered in the Trademark Reporting and Monitoring System (TRAM) yesterday.
Interestingly enough, Renegade Kid regained the publishing rights to Moon today. That’s probably not a coincidence!
Now the question is whether Moon Chronicles is an updated version of the DS original or a true follow up…
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Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians Kickstarter has a 3DS stretch goal
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Playdeck’s new project, Unsung Story: Tale of the Guardians, could end up hitting 3DS. The game’s Kickstarter has an admittedly high $2.8 million stretch goal for Nintendo’s portable, but it’s doable with a full month of funding.
Unsung Story is a tactical RPG designed by Yasumi Matsuno. Matsuno’s previous works include Ogre Battle: March of the Black Queen, Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together, Final Fantasy Tactics, Final Fantasy XII, MadWorld, and Crimson Shroud (from Guild01).
You can check out the official Kickstarter page here. The project will need to reach $600,000 by February 14 so that it can secure funding for a PC release.
January 2014 downloadable rewards now available on Club Nintendo
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This month’s digital rewards on Club Nintendo have gone live. Members can choose from Game & Watch: Cement Factory (3DS, 100 coins), Spin Six (3DS, 150 coins), F-Zero (Wii U, 200 coins), and 1080 Snowboarding (Wii U, 200 coins). These items last through February 9.
Visit this page to order a downloadable game.
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Tons of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze details – upload times/replays, more
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A slew of Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze details have emerged from this month’s issue of ONM. There are a bunch of noteworthy tidbits here, including the ability to upload times and full replays. The full roundup of information can be found below.
– ONM estimates that most levels will take about 10 minutes to complete on your first attempt
– 3-3 Frantic Field: set against a hurricane, with small tornadoes, and lightning as obstacles; eventually you reach the eye of the storm
– Next stage takes place in a forest, with sections on fire due to the previous levels lightning
– Need to use watery fruit to put out vine fires in order to progress
– Game includes tag barrels ala Donkey Kong 64, to switch between Kongs (could just be DK barrels)
– Multiple routes in the various levels
– 3 secret levels per world confirmed
– Time Attack returns
– In Time Attack, you can choose which character’s DK barrels will appear
– Upload times and full replays to show friends, and to help other players improve their own times
– There seems to be more emphasis on the background, which is constantly moving, which makes the world feel alive, and sometimes provides hints to what you’re going to encounter next
– When asked if there was anything the felt was missing from the game, Kensuke Tanabe said that he wishes they could have done more with the animal buddies
– Tanabe also mentions that there is something from A Link to the Past that he wanted to do, couldn’t, and used it in Link’s Awakening instead (ending of LA when the egg opens)
– Retro president’s favorite levels: 6-6 Cliffside Slide, “like jumping right into the middle of an action movie”, it’s a silhouette level. 4-4 Irate Eight, and underwater level which sounds like the giant octopus from DKCR is back. 3-3 Frantic Fields, which is challenging, but with a bit of comedy.
Tanabe mentions that World 4 is made of only underwater levels.
– Kelbaugh also mentions that he likes 4-4, and 3-6 Cannon Canyon, because of the dynamic 3D camera movement
– Animation quality has improved over Returns
– With David Wise, Kenji Yamamoto, and Scott Petersen, they have an amazing soundtrack, and special effects effort
– Tanabe was surprised that so few people in DKCR didn’t want to use the Super Guide once it appeared. He said that the difficulty of Tropical Freeze hasn’t been lowered, but that they have added some features that will give casual players an easier time.
– Difficulty hasn’t been lowered, but the new items, and Kong POW allow you to change the difficulty of the levels somewhat
– Miyamoto told Retro, when first working on DKCR: “This is my baby. Don’t mess it up.”
– Kelbaugh and Tanabe both worked on DKC, with Tanabe on the Japanese localisation, but never met.
Ten years later Tanabe met Kelbaugh, when he became president of Retro. He saw that Kelbaugh had a DKC jacket, and they learned that they both worked on DKC.
– A few years after that they both started on DKCR, Michael gave DKCR the codename F8 – fate.
– Retro was working on Mario Kart 7, and TF at the same time
– Tanabe, and his team at SPD is Retro’s primary contact at Nintendo, but the games are a collaborative effort throughout Nintendo
– If they found themselves on Kong Island Kelbaugh would team up with Diddy, and Tanabe with Donkey Kong, so that he could be carried around
