Can mainstream games please start dabbling in asynchronous multiplayer? The 3DS is pretty much built for it, like with the method it uses to queue up swapnotes to be sent and received whether or not there’s an available internet connection at the time.

Imagine online Fire Emblem battles that you carry on with several friends at a time, taking place over several hours or days or weeks, each of you inputting your teams moves at your leisure and getting notifications when your opponent has made theirs.

wowcoolfactsaboutgaming:

New zelda is like old, so we play old. Join and see… it’s old.

tinycartridge:

Guild01 games on sale at the eShop

From April 18 to May 30, Level-5 will sell everything from its Guild01 compilation at a discount on the U.S. eShop: 

• Aero Porter - $4.99 to $2.99
• Crimson Shroud - $7.99 to $4.99
• Liberation Maiden - $7.99 to $4.99 — same price as the iOS edition (the awesome artwork above, by the way, was painted in Colors 3D by Arlmuffin)

Europe’s eShop also has a sale for those games, as well as for Virtue’s Last Reward. As usual, make sure to keep an eye on our upcoming releases page for more eShop deals and Amazon sales.

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Promoting a possible Guild02 localization hopefully!

Capcom creating Gaist Crusher for 3DS

gonintendo:

• “custom armor action” 
• focus on armors, transformations and collecting
• project will span games, manga, anime, music and toys
• is part of a major Capcom project to develop content suitable for school kids.
• Capcom is using their expertise in producing content for kids along with their experience with multiplayer games
• manga series running in Shueisha’s V Jump and Saikyou Jump magazines
• anime series produced by Pierrot Co., Ltd.
• hits Japan this Winter

• Impenetrable hard-coded text assets to ensure the threat of localization will never be a possibility.

I  just got a time-released SwapNote?? “You can’t open this note until the specified date”????? And it doesn’t even say a date anywhere!

[eShop JP] Mansion Percussion - First Look

SUCK MY WIENER, TERRY!!

tinycartridge:

Yoshitaka Amano illustrations for Fantasy Life

Boy, this game sure is going through a lot of different art styles! First there was its 16-bit-ish look, then its 3D transformation, and now this — Amano is a legend, though, so he’s allowed to step in and do whatever he wants.

Besides, like the Final Fantasy artwork he’s famous for, this won’t actually appear in the 3DS game. As far as I can tell, publisher Level-5 is just using the airship image for the RPG/life-sim’s mini-soundtrack preorder bonus in Japan.

BUY Fantasy Life, Yoshitaka Amano books

vagrant:

Like that time Nintendo didn’t release the Ice Blue DS Lite in North America.

Or something.

GameXplain: Paper Mario: Sticker Star - Video Review

Am I to understand that they have gutted Paper Mario of its signature unique lovable characters and most of its RPG elements in favor of making the core of the experience solving puzzles that all involve finding things and sticking them other places like some early 90’s point and click adventure but with less story?

I know I’m going to sound like a certain Paper Mario character myself complaining about games I’ve never played, but there is no indication that anything I enjoyed about Mario RPGs is anywhere in this game, and they have made every effort to sell the idea that the focus of this game is something stupid and uninteresting.

tinycartridge:

It doesn’t matter that Allen is a jerk — some of these ladies are swooning over the dude in the reblogs from our Harvest Moon: A New Beginning post this morning.

I’m not going to tell you who you should and shouldn’t be dating, though; that’s on you. 

Just don’t expect any pity from me a few months from now when he accepts a Blue Feather from another girl, your crops have gone to hell because you spent all season caught up in his drama, and you’re listening to “You Oughta Know” for the fortieth time in a row.

Buy: Harvest Moon: A New Beginning
See also: More Harvest Moon posts
[Via Harvest Moon is forever]

andresonion:

AAAAAAAAAHHH. I wanna play this so much. It’s like Animal Crossing/Dragon Quest/Crsystal Chronicles. Please come to North America.

IM HYPED.

It’s like what Rune Factory is to Harvest moon, this is to Animal Crossing, plus awesome music and art.

tinycartridge:

Bravely Default: Flying Fairy’s packaging art is just as unconventional as its name. Then again, if this 3DS RPG wasn’t so weird / curious, we probably wouldn’t be talking about it here as much as we have.

Preorder import: Bravely Default: Flying Fairy
See also: More Bravely Default media/news
[Via Sylver]

Gosh dang we will NEVER get that box art…

oh well, I’ll just print it out and stick it on my copy.

tychokepler:

Hey Everybody it’s Zan! - Nintendo 3DS XL Provokes Violence

I can’t do this, Zan…