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This week’s European Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

Go Vacation – €49.99 (available July 27)
Hello Neighbor – €39.99 (available July 27)

This week’s North American Nintendo Downloads are as follows:

Switch Retail

Candle: The Power of the Flame – $14.99
Code of Princess EX – $39.99 (available July 31)
Flashback – $19.99 (available July 31)
Go Vacation – $49.99 (available July 27)
Hello Neighbor – $39.99 (available July 27)
Titan Quest – $39.99 (available July 31)

Nintendo and Monolith Soft have announced the next Xenoblade Chronicles 2 update. Version 1.5.1 is dropping this week, along with new DLC. Expansion Pass quests and the new Rare Blade Hibana will be featured as part of this.

Here’s a further breakdown of what’s on the way:

Minit

Devolver Digital is bringing Crossing Souls to Switch tomorrow, with Not a Hero: Super Snazzy Edition following on August 2. After that, Minit will be making its way to the eShop, a listing on the digital store reveals.

Minit launches for Switch on August 9 for $9.99. We have a brief overview and trailer below.

Nintendo and Falcom aren’t exactly names that go together. The studio hasn’t done much on Nintendo platforms, which is why it came as a surprise when Ys VIII was announced for Switch earlier this year – courtesy of Nippon Ichi.

In an interview with DenFamiNicoGamer, Falcom president Toshihiro Kondo and founder Masayuki Kato spoke about the misconception that the company hates Nintendo and why it decided to focus on the PSP instead of the DS when the latter system was booming in popularity.

NIS America released a trailer for the SNK 40th Anniversary Collection that focuses Crystalis, originally released in 1990 for the NES. The collection releases in North America on November 13 and will likely release close to that date in Europe. Check out the trailer below.

Salt and Sanctuary

The acclaimed game Salt and Sanctuary is coming to Switch, Ska Studios announced today. BlitWorks has been brought in to assist with the port.

Salt and Sanctuary is a brutal hand-drawn 2D Soulslike platformer and has amassed over 800,000 downloads thus far. We have additional details about the game below, along with a trailer.

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

Switch – 53,745
PS4 – 14,035
New 2DS LL – 8,296
PS4 Pro – 6,274
Vita – 4,277
New 3DS LL – 2,844
Xbox One – 709
2DS – 437
Xbox One X – 56

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

Switch – 50,239
PS4 – 12,431
PS4 Pro – 5,165
New 2DS LL – 4,176
Vita – 4,112
New 3DS LL – 2,507
2DS – 448
Xbox One – 47
Xbox One X – 32

And here are the software charts:

Recently, our very own Oni Dino made his own path to the Square Enix Café in Tokyo to see the Octopath Traveler experience they are currently hosting. He returned after gaining much knowledge, experience and photos and decided to share his tale with all of you!

I was lucky enough to gain Oni’s blessing on sharing some of the pictures and my thoughts on them. Please enjoy and make sure to read all about the adventure, the full menu, and pictures over here.

System: Switch (eShop)
Release date: July 24, 2018
Developer: Nyamakop
Publisher: Gambitious


Semblance is the kind of game that gets lost on the Switch eShop amid the dozens of weekly releases. As a 2D puzzle-platformer it doesn’t do itself any favors in this regard – not in the broad sense of the genre, at least. Still, in its brief five hour runtime, Semblance does exactly what it needs to. It takes a core concept that’s fun enough to play around with on its own and builds on it in a way that’s as calculated as any competently assembled progression of puzzles does.


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