Month: April 2015

Upcoming Nintendo Indies

Lots of indie love during the Nintendo Direct.

First off: Adventures of Pip, a puzzle platformer about a shape-shifting pixel. And it even has a skeleton queen. (May)

Octodad gets ported to the WiiU. No word on exclusive features. (Summer)

Mutant Mudds gets Super Challenge(ing), will be cross-buy between Wii U and 3DS (didn’t even knew Nintendo does this) and if you already own the previous version of the game, you get a loyalty discount. (June)

Don’t Starve also gets a port to the Wii U, offering exclusive gamepad features (Map and fast access to your inventory). Not sold? Then how about the fact, that every purchase gets a second copy that can be gifted to a friend? (May)

Other upcoming Wii U indies in one unformatted, uninformative and hard to read list:
forma.8, Dementium: Remastered, Affordable Space Adventures, Starwhal, Never Alone, Ninja Pizza Girl, Antipole DX, Life of Pixel, Badland: GOTY Edition, Slain!, Runbow, Back to Bed, Space Hulk, Race the Sun, Dooors, Dot Arcade, Swords & Soldiers 2, Lionel City Builder 3D: Rise of the Rails, Toto Temple Deluxe, The Bridge, Shutshimi, Nova-111, Windup Knight 2

New Bloodborne Patch 1.02 makes game less buggy, but still bloody (awful, if you ask me)

Let’s take a break from all the family friendliness that is Nintendo and visit Bloodborne for a second.

Got stuck because you couldn’t get the Lunarium Key? Good news! The new patch is supposed to fix that.
Apparently, the key became unobtainable once players joined an online multiplayer game in the Forbidden Woods.

Don’t ask me about any of this. I’m still stuck at the first boss and since they also fixed an exploit that allowed you to duplicate certain items, it looks like I will be so for quite some time.
Let’s get back to Nintendo now, before I break into tears.

Source: Videogamer.com

N64 and Nintendo DS games are now available on the Wii U

Ok, let’s rapid fire this.

Games available will be priced $6.99-$9.99 for DS and $9.99-$11.99 for N64. Transfer of N64 games from the Wii to the Wii U is $2 each.

American user get Yoshi’s Island DS and Super Mario 64, while us Europeans get Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Mario Kart DS and WarioWare: Touched plus a buy all 4, pay only 3 sale.
Suck on that, American nerds!  (Though you still get them later this month)
Personally, I’m looking forward to Paper Mario, which is supposed to be released on April 30.

Custom button assignments will be able for N64 games and DS games get different display options.

BAM (only 428 more news to go)

Fear and Loathing in Yoshi’s Wooly World

Yoshi gets a new game (which isn’t exactly news) and a new Amiibo (Yeah, we are far from done with those) and both look pretty cool.

Yoshi’s Wooly World expands on the fabric graphic style featured in Kirby’s Epic Yarn, by going full 3D with it. Just like in the adventure of the gay little ball, almost everything in the world is made out of yarn, but the game still manages to achieve a very distinct visual style, thanks to the additional dimension.

Sounds cool, but as Family Guy told us, everything is better with a bag of weed, especially such a colorful and adorable game like this. Nintendo listened to the stoners of the world and so they included “Mellow Mode”. Anytime during play, you are able to switch from good old sober Yoshi to winged Yoshi, which allows you to fly above enemies and get real high, dude.

To get the hidden stoner message really across, they also included another feature. When you buy the new Woolly World Yoshi Amiibo, which is actually made out of yarn(!), you unlock “Double Yoshi”. This somewhat accurate simulation of the paranoid schizophrenia you experience after “playing too much mellow mode”, leads to a second Yoshi following you on every step. Unlike real schizophrenia however, you can actually pick Double Yoshi up and throw him around.

The game and the 3 different color variations of the Amiibo will be available this fall.

Amiibos are becoming a box of very unhealthy, hard and gross chocolate.

In Amiibo News, Nintendo will release Amiibo Tab – Nintendo’s Greatest Bits, which is basically a demo service that lets you play a couple of minutes from different (S)NES games (think the demo function of Super Smash Bros.)

The whole thing is a bit of a joke, to be honest. 3 Minutes of Super Mario? Wow! I better get myself a Mario Amiibo. Hey, wait! Why did it unlock F-Zero?
Yeah, you don’t even unlock the games your Amiibo is from, instead some random demo will be assigned to your Amiibo.
Sure, it will be free when it gets released this spring, but why not include the chance to unlock a full game. They are 20+ years old after all.

Super Amount of Smash Bros. News

Quite a few updates on this game during the Nintendo Direct.
Mewtwo will join the parade on April 28. He will be free to those of you who already bought and registered both the WiiU and 3DS version of the game (deadline was March 31). Everyone else has to pay $4 for him ($5 if you want him on both versions of the game).

Lucas, the main character of Mother 3, will arrive in June and if you’d rather play with your Mii, April 15 sees the release of a costume pack.
But wait, there is even more after the break.

List of Mii Costumes:

·         Smash Bros. T-Shirt (all types of Mii fighters)
·         Cat Suit and Hat (Brawlers only)
·         Monkey Suit and Hat (Swordfighters only)
·         Link Outfit incl. a cap (Swordfighters only)
·         Majora’s Mask (only Headgear, all types)
·         Dunban Outfit and Wig (Swordfighters only)
·         Mega Man X’s Armor and Helmet (Gunners only)
·         Proto Man Armor and Helmet (Gunners only)

Each costume will cost $0.75 ($1.15 for both systems). Complete bundle is available for $6 ($9.20)

Still not happy? You want to play as Soda Popinski? You now have a way of letting Nintendo know that! Head over to the Smash Bros. Fighter Ballot, where you can request new fighters.

Oh, and there is an update coming.
Update Ver. 1.0.6 changes:

·         Downloadable Content
·         Tweaked Character Balancing
·         Sharing Functionality on WiiU: Photos, Mii Fighters, Replays, Custom Stages and more.

Prepare for some Nintendo Direct news

Missed the Nintendo Direct yesterday? Don’t worry, so did I. Thanks to the internet though, you can still watch it! Isn’t the world we live in amazing? Don't want to watch it? Fine, I'll write some news too.

But what exactly did we miss? Not much. You know Nintendo, they have no games. It was basically Mario, Pokemon and some Yoshi.
Oh, and Animal Crossing. And Fire Emblem (incl. the Shin Megami Tensei cross-over). And Attack on Titan. And Xenoblade Chronicles. And Puzzle & Dragons Z. And Box Boy. And a load of indies. And Splatoon. Did I mention Fatal Frame yet? No? Well, and Fatal Frame. And new Amiibo stuff. And N64/DS games on the WiiU. And I’m sure I missed something.