Over the past few years, the turn-based strategy genre has become awash with new entries in some of its most landmark franchises; in retrospect, it should have seemed inevitable that someday, eventually, King’s Bounty would return on modern hardware. But I doubt that even longtime fans of this dormant franchise had expected to witness such an ambitious reinvention of the series’ name. Sure, at its heart, King’s Bounty II is still a grid-centric, turn-based strategy game with a traditional medieval setting, but with this new release, 1C Entertainment and Prime Matter have attempted to integrate more immersive role-playing elements, a grander world, and a completely different pace than the last game in the series. And while some of these new ideas can be well-executed individually, I left King’s Bounty II feeling unimpressed by the package as a whole.

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Masahiro Sakurai on his health, Kid Icarus: Uprising origins, more

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The third portion of the Harada’s Bar interview series with Smash Bros. director Masahiro Sakurai continued today with topics such as his health and the 3DS game Kid Icarus: Uprising.

Regarding his health, Sakurai actually says he’s fine right now. He spoke about some problems with his shoulder that took quite some time to get better, but it looks like that has now cleared up.

Sakurai explained:

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The Wonderful 101: Remastered receives The Prince Vorkken DLC on Switch

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New DLC has just arrived in The Wonderful 101: Remastered. The news was announced during today’s PlatinumGames SuperSummer Festival live stream, which wrapped up just a short while ago.

Once installed, the DLC lets players unlock a mode to change the main character to Prince Vorkken Ohgee. The Multi-Unite ability is also swapped out for “Enemy-Unite,” which brings along “Unify Monster” alien beasts.

Here’s some additional information:

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Mario Golf: Super Rush team wanted courses as large as Hyrule Field, received advice from Zelda devs

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Japanese magazine Nintendo Dream recently conducted an interview with some of the lead staff at Camelot involved with the development of Mario Golf: Super Rush.

At one point of the discussion, Hiroyuki Takahashi (producer) and Shugo Takahashi (director) talked about their approach to course design for the Switch entry. In order to make the courses as large as they did in Mario Golf: Super Rush, Camelot received technical advice from the Zelda: Breath of the Wild team.

Here’s Nintendo Everything’s translation of the excerpt:

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Metroid Dread “Report Vol. 6” released, new gameplay trailer

Posted on 3 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch, Videos | 0 comments

Nintendo and MercurySteam have rolled out a new written report for Metroid Dread. And if that wasn’t enough, a new trailer has come in as well.

Here’s the full roundup:

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Blasphemous Wounds of Eventide update and Blasphemous II revealed

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Blasphemous still has a bit of life in it as the game is set to receive another update titled Wounds of Eventide, Team17 and The Game Kitchen have announced. It will unlock the game’s true ending. While we don’t have a concrete date yet for its release, expect to see it on December 9. It will be available entirely for free.

That’s not all for Blasphemous, as a sequel has been confirmed as well. Blasphemous II will launch in 2023. If you’re curious about the series’ future, you’ll probably want to play through the new Wounds of Eventide update.

Here’s a trailer covering all of today’s news:

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Nintendo Download – August 26, 2021 (Europe)

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This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

King’s Bounty II
No More Heroes 3

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Famitsu sales (8/16/21 – 8/22/21)

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The latest Japanese hardware sales from Famitsu are as follows:

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Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX confirmed for English Switch release in the west

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The just-announced Monster Rancher 1 & 2 DX will launch for Switch in both North America and Europe with full English support, Koei Tecmo has announced. Both games will be available on December 9.

Here’s a bit of information from Koei Tecmo:

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Nintendo Download – August 26, 2021 (North America)

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It’s time for the latest North American Nintendo Download report for the week of August 26, 2021. A ton of new games will be released on Switch over the next few days, including No More Heroes 3, Prinny Presents NIS Classics Volume 1, Spelunky 1 and 2, Baldo: The Guardian Owls, and more.

Here’s the full lineup: