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!.05-Nintendo Life | Latest Updates

The Danganronpa Team Is Working On A New "Dark Fantasy Mystery" Game

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 11:05 PM PST

Introducing Enigma Archives: Rain Code.

Spike Chunsoft and Tookyo Games have announced a new "dark fantasy mystery" game titled Enigma Archives: Rain Code.

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The Game Awards Has A "World Premiere" It's Been Working On With A Dev For 2.5 Years, And One Guess Is Zelda

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 09:30 PM PST

"Zelda has a Game Awards history".

The Game Awards is just around the corner and a number of Nintendo titles across multiple categories are in the running to win awards. Perhaps the highlight of the lot is Metroid Dread, which is up for Game of the Year.

The show isn't just about awards, though. It's also about the announcements and once again, host and organiser Geoff Keighley is drumming up excitement on social media about what's to come. In his latest post on Twitter, he teases a "world premiere" the team has been working on with a developer for 2.5 years.

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AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative Official Box Art Reveal

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 09:00 PM PST

Here's your first look.

Earlier this year, Spike Chunsoft announced it would bring AI: The Somnium Files – nirvanA Initiative to Switch in Spring 2022.

It's a sequel to the original 2019 detective mystery adventure release, and now, the developer has shared a look at the official box art (drawn by Yusuke Kozaki) for the standard and collector's edition. Pre-orders are also available now from websites like Amazon.

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Feature: Psychologists Talk Animal Crossing: New Horizons 2.0 And Keeping Fun Ahead Of FOMO

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 08:00 AM PST

Keep the "happy" in Happy Home Paradise.

Animal Crossing: New Horizons was supposed to be just a game. Through a series of weird coincidences, it instead became a cultural phenomenon, and a record of the first few months of a global pandemic. It's not surprising that a lot of us have complicated feelings about it.

Granted, a lot of those feelings are positive ones, because Animal Crossing was a lifeline when many of us were really struggling — an oasis in a massive desert of difficulties. But for many of us, those positive feelings also came with a massive dose of FOMO (fear of missing out) when we compared ourselves to other people playing the game, and worries that we were somehow wasting time or playing the game "wrong" by either bingeing it, or not playing "enough" to keep up.

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Zelda 64's Game Code Has Been Successfully Reverse-Engineered, Making Mods And Ports Possible

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 07:00 AM PST

It's also great news for video game preservation.

A fan group known as 'Zelda Reverse Engineering Team' has reportedly been able to successfully reverse-engineer "100%" of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time code. Essentially what it does is "open the doors" to mods, hacks, and even ports of the Nintendo 64 classic.

While there's the possibility of this in the future, the same group stresses its own decompilation is "not a port" and mentions how it won't be involved in any work to adapt the game's code to new platforms. The group is also planning to decompile other builds of the game, like the Master Quest Debug version.

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Review: Toaplan Arcade Garage - Two Historic Shmups Archived By Arcade Port Masters M2

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 06:00 AM PST

Easy, tiger.

In recent years fans of the 2D shooter form have had to adjust their expectation of what a port can be, largely thanks to the sublime M2 ShotTriggers series. Indeed, we've been rather spoiled by that particular run of games.

A long-established convention across gaming's history states that console ports never quite meet the quality bar set by arcade originals. That notion doesn't appear to have deterred the longstanding Tokyo software house M2, however. Their ShotTriggers series has delivered a bounty of ports of iconic shmups that are often so good it can be tempting to posit that they trump the originals.

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Video: Boundary Break Takes Another Look At The "Out Of Bounds Secrets" In Wii Sports

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 04:30 AM PST

Travel back to 2006.

If you played the Wii back in the day, at some point you likely tried out the included launch title Wii Sports. It was a mix of sports that demonstrated the capabilities of the system's Wii Remote and motion controls at the time.

If you've ever wondered what's beyond the boundaries of the game, then you might want to take a look at the new Boundary Break video. While the same channel has already covered this game (about five years ago), it's now taken a second look - presenting viewers with all sorts of things they may not have even realised were featured within the game.

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Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? (November 27th)

Posted: 27 Nov 2021 02:00 AM PST

Playing some freshly acquired bargains?

It's the end of another week, and there've been plenty of quirky developments and storylines in the world of Nintendo. GTA Trilogy stayed in the headlines to an extent and had its first notable update, sequence breakers struck again in Metroid Dread, Mario Golf: Super Rush had a big update, Xbox acknowledged that time it tried to buy Nintendo, Keanu Reeves doesn't want to be in Mortal Kombat, and a bot reading and creating Nintendo news was oddly hilarious. All told a lighter week in tone, with plenty celebrating Thanksgiving and shopping for bargains.

Now, though, it's time to chill out and discuss our weekend gaming plans. A few members of the Nintendo Life team have done just that below, so feel free to give our entries a read and then join in with your own via our comment section. Enjoy!

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Video: Side-By-Side Comparison Of Pokémon's Diamond And Pearl Remakes Running On Every Switch

Posted: 26 Nov 2021 08:30 PM PST

What Switch are you playing on?

If you're still trying to decide the Nintendo Switch that's right for you, perhaps this side-by-side...by-side comparison of the new Pokémon Diamond and Pearl remakes can help.

YouTube channel 'Open Surprise' has uploaded a video showing what the latest Pokémon Switch releases look like on each of the different models, and the side-by-side results are quite interesting to see. The game actually looks quite impressive on the Switch Lite, in particular.

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Former Metroid Prime Engineer Admits He Was "Disappointed" With The Wii's Specs

Posted: 26 Nov 2021 07:30 PM PST

Remaining with Nintendo would have meant staying "a bit behind".

The Nintendo Wii is arguably one of the most innovative video game consoles ever released, but when it comes to raw power - at the time, it was well behind the competition. This led to some third-party developers completely skipping the generation, and even certain Nintendo teams were forced to rethink their approach to next-generation games after being caught off guard by the hardware's technical limitations.

In an interview with podcaster Reece Reilly – AKA: Kiwi Talkz, the former Metroid Prime technical lead engineer, Jack Matthews (who worked on the first three Prime games) admitted part of the reason he moved on from the studio was not just fatigue, but also because of Nintendo's underpowered "next-generation" hardware. For Matthews, remaining with Nintendo at Retro Studios would have meant "staying a bit in a box" and "a bit behind" the times.

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River City Saga: Three Kingdoms For Switch Launches This December (Japan)

Posted: 26 Nov 2021 06:00 PM PST

Celebrating 35 years of Kunio-kun.

Update : Following on from this week's 35th Kunio-kun celebrations, Arc System Works and APlus Games have now locked in a Japanese release date for River City Saga: Three Kingdoms. It'll arrive via the Nintendo Switch eShop on 16th December for 3,740 yen.

A bonus mode has also been revealed - taking on the form of a traditional belt-scroll action game with "simple controls and exhilarating battles". Players will defeat swarms of enemies followed by boss battles. It will also include leaderboards, 10 stages and 12 playable characters (source: Gematsu).

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Random: There's A Really Neat Dino Detail In The Animal Crossing Happy Home Paradise DLC

Posted: 26 Nov 2021 12:00 PM PST

Dem bones, dem bones, dem tall bones.

The new handheld camera has been revealing a lot of tiny little details about Animal Crossing: New Horizons, like the new museum posters, and how awesome the aquarium exhibits look in first-person.

But here's something extremely cool that really shows how much attention to detail the developers put in:

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'90s Puzzle Platformer 'Time Loader' Will Bring The Past To The Switch In The Future

Posted: 26 Nov 2021 11:30 AM PST

(next year, that is).

VHS tapes! SNES controllers! Affordable homes! Yes, the '90s were a great time, but they are dead. Long dead. We can relive them through video games, though.

Time Loader has been out for a couple of weeks on Steam, GOG, and the Epic Games Store, but now it's also heading to PS4, Xbox One, and the Nintendo Switch next year.

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