Category: Nintendo News

Nerd Monkey studios confirmed that they are bringing both point & click adventures of Detective Case and Clown Bot to Nintendo’s hybrid console. Released back in 2014, the original Murder In Hotel Lisbon took the duo to the capital of Portugal to investigate a strange suicide where the victim stabbed himself fourteen times in the back while earlier this year the improbable pair bought train tickets to solve the mystery of The Express Killer.

Unique and humorous character designs mixed with famous Portuguese sights ensured both games gathered a cult following in their homeland and an extensively nurtured English translation ensured the humour survived the localization. When a release date is eventually announced, Detective Case and Clown Bot will be rubbing elbows with other Switch offerings within the genre like Thimbleweed Park and The Darkside Detective.

Were you previously familiar with the zany misadventures of Detective Case and Clown Bot? Will you be attempting to solve these two peculiar cases when they land on the Switch? Answer below or we will send Agent Garcia over to work out your confessions.

Atlus has shared the first look at Etrian Odyssey Nexus on Nintendo 3DS with its first official trailer and has also revealed a launch edition with some extra little goodies included alongside the game.

Being the final instalment on 3DS, Etrian Odyssey Nexus is aiming to go all out by incorporating all of the best aspects throughout the entire series including iconic characters, 19 playable classes, and more labyrinths than any other Etrian title that has come before it. Players can swap between four distinct difficulty settings and make use of auto-mapping settings to adjust the game to their liking, and a “grand standalone story” awaits for those who give it a go.

All pre-order and first-run copies of the game will come with an exclusive art book featuring detailed character art of Yuji Himukai and monster art of Shin Nagasawa, a pin featuring Vivian (the innkeeper in Nexus), and the game itself – all in a special collector’s box. You can see what this looks like below and grab a pre-order for yourself here.

The game is still scheduled to release on 5th February 2019 with a suggested retail price of $39.99.

Are you looking forward to this final Etrian Odyssey adventure?

The recently released Ninjin: Clash of Carrots has just gone on sale on Nintendo Switch, bringing with it a demo and a brand new trailer (which you can watch above).

If you haven’t tried this one before, the game is a fast-paced action title set in a colourful fantasy world inspired by Feudal Japan. You play as the titular Ninjin, or his female fox friend, Akai, as you fight to recover the precious carrots stolen from your people by the nefarious Shogun Moe. You can purchase new equipment, weapons, and more customisation items along the way to become the very best ninja in the land, all in the hopes of getting justice once and for all.

Starting today, you’ll be able to get 25% off the base price of the game (taking the usual price of £11.99 down to £8.99), and you can also check things out for yourself in a new demo. Why not give it a go and see if it’s for you?

Do you already own this one? Will you be giving the demo a go to see if you like it? Let us know in the comments.

There’s loads of stuff in Super Mario Party. In fact, there’s arguably more variety than any previous Mario Party game. But what’s old? What’s new? What’s the banana game? Well, in this feature we’re going to take you through the lion’s share of what’s new and improved in the latest game in the Mario Party series.

Game Modes

It may be the return to the old formula that many have been begging for, but the old-fashioned Mario Party isn’t the only game mode you’ll have available at your fingertips, oh no.

Partner Party is an evolution of the gameplay that first appeared in Mario Party: Star Rush; you move around a grid board freely rather than a set path with a few forks, but this time you’ll be doing it with a partner, as the name suggests. That means you’ll be involved in a 2v2 party rather than being a total free-for-all, allowing for some interesting strategies to be employed, by which we mean new and exciting ways to shatter your friendships. At least one of them will be maintained.

River Survival is a four-player co-op experience that tasks you with careering down a raging river whilst paddling in sync, slamming into minigame balloons, and avoiding more river-themed obstacles than you can shake an oar at. You’re on a time limit to get to the end, but as long as you work together, you’ll do brilliantly.

Sound Stage is a minigame rush mode that employs nothing but rhythm and timing. Charge through them to the sound of some classic Mario tunes and see who can score the highest and be potentially crowned the next Mozart.

And finally, if you’re more on a solo mission, you can indulge in Challenge Road. This will take you through every one of the 80 minigames on offer with occasionally mixed-up completion requirements. If you breeze through it all too quickly for your liking, return to the start and try and beat the harder challenges that you’ve just unknowingly unlocked.

Toad’s Rec Room

When the party’s just a bit too much, you can always retire to Toad’s Rec Room for a bit of an old ‘chillax’. Here you can play a variety of minigames that aren’t really suited to standard board game play, be it due to length, complexity, or requiring more than one Switch console.

Three of the four games only need a single system, but one of them requires two to even function. You have to rotate your consoles around to match up two halves of a banana perfectly, swipe across both screens, and yes it’s as ludicrous as it sounds. Break it out at Christmas if you don’t want to get into a whole, hour-minimum session.

Playable Characters, Allies, & their Dice Blocks

What’s better than having a myriad of playable characters to choose from? Super Mario Party offers more characters than any previous game in the series, with 16 being available the moment you slap your Switch on, and an extra 4 to be unlocked as you progress. That makes a total of 20 for any of you maths fans out there.

Each character also has their own unique die that they can roll. This was also present in Mario Party: Star Rush, but it’s been streamlined here to be more universal and less context-sensitive. These special dice can have a face value of up to ten, but can also cause you to gain or lose coins if you’re lucky and/or unlucky. Even if your character’s die looks rubbish, you never know when it might be beneficial to roll a lower number than usual, or even just stay where you are, especially if you’re on an Item Space.

Not only that, but characters that aren’t in the party can be called upon by landing on an Ally Space, using the Ally Phone item (known as Buddy Phone outside the UK for some reason), or in the case of Partner Party, just running into them as they stand waiting patiently to have something to do. Every Ally Character you have in your entourage can add up to 2 to your roll each, and you’ll also be able to use their special die if you so choose, so try and nab as many of these characters as you can!

Online Mariothon

If you’re looking to take things onto the internet and only destroy long-distance friendships, Super Mario Party has online for the first time in the series. Sadly this doesn’t include the main board game modes, but rather a short burst of minigames. The 10 minigames available are divided into cups which rotate as time goes by, and can be played with friends or randomly selected strangers.

Stickers

You also unlock stickers as you go through the game, which you can arrange on a series of backgrounds and share with the world by taking a screenshot. It’s a simple addition, but that’s your thing, enjoy!

What’s your favourite new feature in Super Mario Party? Let us know by leaving a comment below.

Japanese sales figures are now in for the week of 1st – 7th October, revealing that Super Mario Party managed to jump right to the top of the charts with a very impressive sales total indeed.

The moustachioed plumber’s latest outing generated 142,868 sales in its opening weekend. Of course, the game only arrived in stores on 5th October (with these figures only being counted until the 7th), and this data only covers physical sales, so that number would be significantly higher if digital sales were also shared.

Elsewhere, Mega Man 11 sold 14,650 copies on Switch and 12,052 on PlayStation 4, shooting the Switch version slightly above its counterpart into fourth place.

Here’s a look at the top 20 (first numbers are this week’s sales, followed by total sales in brackets):

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1) [NSW] Super Mario Party (Nintendo, 10/05/18) – 142,868 (New)
2) [PS4] Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (Limited Edition Included) (Ubisoft, 10/05/18) – 45,166 (New)
3) [PS4] Warriors Orochi 4 (Limited Editions Included) (Koei Tecmo, 09/27/18) – 24,005 (124,836)
4) [NSW] Mega Man 11 (Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 10/04/18) – 14,650 (New)
5) [PS4] FIFA 19 (Limited Editions Included) (Electronic Arts, 09/28/18) – 13,426 (71,197)
6) [PS4] Marvel’s Spider-Man (Bundle Version Included) (SIE, 09/07/18) – 12,276 (279,078)
7) [PS4] Mega Man 11 (Limited Edition Included) (Capcom, 10/04/18) – 12,052 (New)
8) [PS4] The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel IV ~The End of Saga~ (Limited Editions Included) (Falcom, 09/27/18) – 12,032 (97,193)
9) [NSW] Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition (Microsoft, 06/21/18) – 11,071 (315,616)
10) [NSW] Splatoon 2 (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 07/21/17) – 10,381 (2,654,977)
11) [NSW] Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo, 04/28/17) – 9,953 (1,788,666)
12) [NSW] Dragon Ball FighterZ (Bandai Namco, 09/27/18) – 8,186 (31,388)
13) [NSW] Warriors Orochi 4 (Limited Editions Included) (Koei Tecmo, 09/27/18) – 7,022 (30,682)
14) [NSW] The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (Limited Edition Included) (Nintendo, 03/03/17) – 5,896 (1,129,097)
15) [NSW] FIFA 19 (Limited Editions Included) (Electronic Arts, 09/28/18) – 5,238 (21,438)
16) [NSW] Sumikko Gurashi: Atsumare! Sumikko Town (Nippon Columbia, 10/04/18) – 5,221 (New)
17) [PS4] Astro Bot: Rescue Mission (SIE, 10/04/18) – 4,963 (New)
18) [3DS] Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon (The Pokémon Company, 11/17/17) – 4,637 (1,738,872)
19) [NSW] Taiko no Tatsujin: Drum ‘n’ Fun! (Bandai Namco, 07/19/18) – 4,472 (209,827)
20) [NSW] Super Mario Odyssey (Bundle Version Included) (Nintendo, 10/27/17) – 3,890 (1,825,226)

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The Switch’s hardware sales are also slightly higher than last week’s, too, potentially thanks to Mario and the gang’s newest major release. Here are this week’s figures, with last week’s in brackets.

1) Switch – 45,762 (42,957)
2) PlayStation 4 – 11,575 (15,322)
3) New 2DS LL – 4,788 (5,218)
4) PlayStation Vita – 2,635 (2,675)
5) PlayStation 4 Pro – 2,490 (5,084)
6) New 3DS LL – 2,073 (1,978)
7) Xbox One X – 747 (52)
8) 2DS – 535 (310)
9) Xbox One – 242 (23)

< Last week’s charts

Any surprises this time around? Did you expect Super Mario Party to sell this many copies in Japan? Let us know with a comment below.

The Switch has allowed Nintendo to re-release Wii U games that many people missed out on the first time. So far we’ve seen titles like Mario Kart 8, Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze and Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker make the transition across to the new hybrid device. Early next year, New Super Mario Bros. U will join this library of deluxe editions.

One other game that also recently received the definitive treatment on Switch was Hyrule Warriors. Originally released in 2014, Koei Tecmo’s game was given a second chance early this year as a definitive re-release.

Much like the previously mentioned titles, the Switch version has seemingly performed better than expected in terms of sales. According to Nintendo Soup, the game sold more than the company predicted it would, especially in the west. Koei Tecmo also mentioned how its recent Japanese release of Warriors Orochi 4 has been well received. In saying this, no exact figures were provided.

What do you think about this? Are you at all surprised Wii U games continue to sell well on the Switch? Have you played or bought a copy of Hyrule Warriors on the Switch? Tell us below.

At the start of September, a South Korean gaming board classification popped up for Puyo Puyo eSports. A few weeks later, Sega confirmed the digital-only title would be released in Japan on 25th October. As the launch date draws closer, there’s still no information word from Sega about the game being localised.

At a Puyo Puyo eSports event, the professional player Tom Nadja asked Sega for a localised version of the game on behalf of the fans. Sega responded to this by saying it was currently thinking about releasing the game outside of Japan. The last Puyo Puyo game Sega released in the west was the Tetris mashup.

The latest entry in the Puyo Puyo series includes the series’ standard play and a few rules from Puyo Pop Fever. There are also online battles, an eight-player offline tournament mode and 24 playable characters to select from.

Would you like to play the eSports version of Puyo Puyo eventually? Did you play the Tetris mashup? Tell us below.

At the start of this year, Tomorrow Corporation revealed it would be releasing 7 Billion Humans on the Nintendo Switch. It’s now finally been confirmed the game will be arriving later this month on 25th October, with pre-orders going live from 18th October.

The sequel to the critically-acclaimed Human Resource Machine is set in a world where robots have put 7 billion people out of work. To solve the issue of mass unemployment, all of the humans are thrown into a single office building. It’s now your job – as the player – to automate them in order to solve puzzles. There are said to be more than 60 levels to overcome.

Are you looking forward to this release? Have you played Tomorrow Corporation’s other games World of Goo and Little Inferno? Tell us below.

Last weekend, the creator of The Walking Dead and also the founder of Skybound Entertainment Robert Kirkman confirmed Skybound Games would be taking over the publishing and development of The Final Season. When this announcement was made, Kirkman also stated how the aim was to keep the original development team intact, as Skybound worked with former Telltale leaders to come to an agreement.

Speaking to Variety, Skybound President Dan Murray has admitted he is unsure how many people from the original Telltale team are able to be secured for the project but intends to do the best to take care of everyone:

Our intent is to work with the original team but there are a lot of moving parts. I don’t want to get into the specifics around the deal itself, but I will say this: We are doing everything we can to do right by the people making the game. There’s not a huge upside for the corporate entity of Telltale Games.

To put any concerns to rest about Telltale’s involvement, Murray further explained the focus was on the people behind the game’s development as well as fans of the series:

This has nothing to do with Telltale Games and everything to do with the people involved with making ‘The Walking Dead’ game and trying to take care of them in the meantime the best way we can. That’s the process we are in: Save the game for the fans and provide at least a runway to the team as we finish off the game. This has everything to do with the people who are making the game, and the fans.

Skybound has now also revealed how it intends to release The Walking Dead: Season Two as well as The Walking Dead: A New Frontier on Switch. Currently, there’s no word on when these entries would be released.

Are you holding out for the final two episodes of The Final Season? Are you glad to hear Season 2 and A New Frontier could possibly be released on Switch? Tell us below.

Until we get our rail grinding fix from the Jet Set Radio series, FutureGrind might just be the next best thing. Milkbag Games’ Co-Founder Owen Goss has revealed the game is scheduled to arrive on the Nintendo Switch later this year via his Twitter:

As can be seen in the above trailer, this futuristic motorcycle stunt racer is all about performing crazy combos while matching the colourful wheels of your bike to the same colour rails. If you touch the wrong rail your run is over. The aim is to make a name for yourself and earn endorsements from sponsors.

So far, it’s been compared to games like Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, OlliOlli, Trials and even the 1994 Super Nintendo classic, Uniracers (also known as Unirally). Once again, the developer plans to release the game at some point later this year.

Take a look at the trailer above and tell us in the comments if you would be interested in playing this.