Mario & Luigi: Dream Team is slated for release in North America this Sunday (August 11th), and Nintendo have released a new trailer for the game, which shows off a variety of new gameplay footage. Check it out below:
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Game Center CX, also known as Retro Game Master, a Japanese TV show hosted by Shinya Arino, will be celebrating their 10th anniversary this year with a new Nintendo 3DS title called Game Center CX: Arino in District 3, which features more than 15 Famicom-style mini-games with quirky twists. Here’s a look at a few.
The first game shown is called Rumi and the Magic Broom, which is quite reminiscent of the original Mario Bros. arcade game. While brainstorming for ideas, Arino wanted to implement an idea he got from a mirror stage in Prince of Persia. This feature ended up being added to the wizard enemies that shoot control-changing waves. Getting hit by this attack will cause your controls to have a reversed effect.
For the next idea, Arino wanted to use the Nintendo 3DS microphone to use and have players blow into as an escape mechanism when things get dangerous.
This idea ended up being used for the side-scrolling shooter game, Wing Hero. In Wing Hero, when it looks like your airship is about to crash, simply blowing in the mic will create a gust of air in the game that boosts you higher up to avoid crashing.
Saurus Boy is something similar to Mega Man, as it gives you various dinosaur costumes to change into. Each costume has their own special abilities, which will be used to fight your way to the end of each stage.
The goal of Soma’s Treasure is to simply find all the coins in the stage before time runs out. The catch is, they’re actually hidden and it requires an ability to see them, but using the ability will lower your overall surrounding vision while it’s active.
If you mix Pong, Brick Breaker and throw in a dash of Super Dodge Ball, you get the competitive sports action game, Break Shoot. The goal of this game is to find a way to get the ball across the opponent’s side before they can get one past you.
Finally, we get a look at Noborou (or Let’s Climb,) which is an action puzzle game that requires you to continue climbing on the blocks that fall before the floors do. As you continue going higher, the blocks will fall at different rates, leaving you pretty limited to what you can do.
Namco Bandai will be releasing Game Center CX: Arino in District 3 in Japan on January 23 for Nintendo 3DS.
5pb revealed a new Phantom Breaker beat 'em up during the PlayStation 4 press conference. Phantom Breaker Overdrive is in development for PS4.
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Kokonoe brings the power of science to battle… and a hammer and wrench to use as weapons. Blazblue: Chronophantasma is slated for release on October 24 in Japan and early 2014 in North America.
This week’s issue of CoroCoro magazine reveals that Youkai Watch, Level-5’s ghost raising RPG featuring protagonists with the ability to communicate with spirits, is getting a new title. The magazine does not specify whether it will be a sequel or an enhanced version of the game.
CoroCoro magazine is currently holding a contest for fans to come up with a new version of the cat-like creature, known as Jibanyan. The magazine confirms that the winner of the contest will have their Jibanyan appear in the game’s next title.
While the new Youkai Watch game could be a sequel, it could also be a continuation of the title, as we’ve also seen other Level-5 titles get enhanced versions, such as their popular Nintendo 3DS RPG, Fantasy Life Link, which introduced more network features to the original game.
Level 5 released the first Youkai Watch game just weeks ago, and the title has gone on to sell consistently week after week in Japan. An anime series is scheduled to air in Japan in early 2014, with a manga series coming before it in December.
Earth Defense Force 2025 has armies of giant ants and dragons. That's right dragons. As you would expect, dragons can fly around and breathe fire. In typical Earth Defense Force style, the game has dozens of dragons for players to fight at once.
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Fortunately, players have a walking fortress to fight with. Introducing the BMX10 Proteus, a massive mech that reaches its full power when four players control it. The Ranger and Air Raider soldier classes can drive Proteus, but you cannot fire its weapons without another player controlling the guns. So, you need at least two players to make the Proteus worthwhile and judging by that explosion of ants it looks incredibly powerful.
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Earth Defense Force 2025 also has giant spiders and alien mecha to fight. The giant robot in these screenshots may be the walking forcefield robot I saw when I played the game. D3 Publisher has Earth Defense Force 2025 slated for release in February 2014.
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