Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero announced for Switch
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
June 18: Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero is in development for Switch, NIS America and Nippon Ichi Software announced during today’s Nintendo Direct. We’ll be seeing it in 2025.
Phantom Brave has largely been absent since its original PlayStation 2 debut. NIS is now finally returning to the IP with a proper sequel.
Here’s what we know thus far:
F1 Manager 2024 announced for Switch
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch eShop | 0 comments
F1 Manager 2024 is coming to Switch, Frontier Developments revealed today. The game launches on July 23, 2024.
F1 Manager 2024 is an officially licensed Formula 1 management game, and the series will be appearing on Switch for the first time. This version promises “feature parity to other platforms, including the powerful livery and logo creation tools in the brand new Create A Team mode, allowing fans to turn their dream designs to reality.”
We have the following overview from Frontier:
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Bustafellows Season 2 confirmed for English release in the west
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
PQube is localizing Bustafellows Season 2 for English release in the west, the publisher just announced. It’ll be arriving in 2025.
Bustafellows Season 2 is a romantic mystery visual novel. Previously, it came to Japan last year. The original Bustafellows is already available on Switch worldwide.
Here’s some information about the new title:
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The Battle Cats Unite getting release in the west
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
It’s taken quite some time, but The Battle Cats Unite is finally about to launch an English version in the west.
The game first launched on Switch in Japan in 2020. An English version did come out a year later, but it was only in Asia. Now Ponos is planning an official launch in North America and Europe.
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Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition Switch gameplay
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Switch, Videos | 0 comments
New gameplay is now available for the Switch version of Beyond Good & Evil: 20th Anniversary Edition showing the opening half hour. After it first leaked last year, the title launches worldwide today.
Everything you need to know can be found in the following overview:
Tetris 99 announces 41st Maximus Cup with F-Zero 99 theme
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Switch | 0 comments
Tetris 99 will soon be hosting its 41st Maximus Cup with a chance to earn a new theme based on F-Zero 99.
If you’re a Nintendo Switch Online member, you’ll be able to participate. You’ll only need to play the game’s online mode while the event is active. Points are dished out based on placement in matches. Once you reach 100 points, the theme will unlock. The design features background art, music, and Tetrimino designs inspired by F-Zero 99.
[Review] Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble
Posted on 5 months ago by Nicholas Serpa in Reviews, Switch | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: June 25, 2024
Developer: Ryu Ga Gotoku Studios
Publisher: SEGA
Considering it’s been twelve years since the last original Super Monkey Ball game released, I half-expected that Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble might try and and take some big risks, maybe try and swing for the fences with some crazy new single-player modes or some sort of other significant mechanical shakeup. Instead of reinventing the wheel – or indeed, the ball – Super Monkey Ball: Banana Rumble is more focused on just being a really well-crafted Super Monkey Ball game, one that seems to understand the importance of executing its few core gameplay modes as tightly as possible while cutting out most of the extraneous distractions from other games in the series. With a robust and challenging single-player Adventure Mode, a smattering of simple yet well-designed Battle Mode activities, and robust multiplayer support across the whole package, Banana Rumble is exactly what I had hoped it would be: an a-peel-ing blast from start to finish.
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Capcom explains why it brought back Monster Hunter Stories
Posted on 5 months ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in 3DS, News, Switch | 0 comments
In a recent interview, Capcom spoke about the decision to bring back the original Monster Hunter Stories. The game just came to new platforms last week, including Switch.
Famitsu caught up with producer Yoshihiro Akira to talk about the updated version. When asked about why Monster Hunter Stories was brought back following its original 3DS launch, he shared the following:
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[Let’s Talk] June 2024 Nintendo Direct reactions
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The June 2024 Nintendo Direct aired this week, and it was a pretty big presentation. Considering where we’re at in the Switch’s lifecycle, there were quite a number of big announcements.
From Nintendo itself, it opened the show by announcing Mario & Luigi: Brotherhood – a surprise in its own given how many fans thought the series was dead, especially after main developer AlphaDream closed its doors. The news didn’t stop there though, as Super Mario Party Jamboree and Donkey Kong Country Returns HD were revealed as well. One of the biggest announcements of the show, The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom, will see Zelda herself take the starring role in a new 2D entry. Finally, we’ve all been waiting forever for Metroid Prime 4, and we got our first glimpse of it this week and a 2025 release window.
There’s a lot of other things we could bring up, including third-party content. Highlights include Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake (and the first two entries getting the same treatment), Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics, Fantasian Neo Dimension, and Ace Attorney Investigations Collection. You can catch up on all of the news here.
What did you think of the June 2024 Nintendo Direct? Which games are you most interested in? Let us know in the comments.
[Review] Moonstone Island
Posted on 5 months ago by Dawn in Reviews, Switch eShop | 0 comments
System: Switch
Release date: June 19, 2024
Developer: Studio Supersoft
Publisher: Raw Fury
It’s always refreshing when developers make an effort to shake up a genre by injecting something new into it. It often yields unexpected surprises, or at the very least a different experience, which is equally as valuable in an overcrowded genre. Moonstone Island is another game that has taken the bold and ambitious move of throwing half a dozen different gameplay mechanics from assorted genres into a blender to see what comes out. The result is nowhere near as messy as that implies, but more care could have been taken with what was included nonetheless.
