Game news This cult game has been awaited in Europe for almost 20 years. Its creator is very happy to see it released on Nintendo Switch… but it’s still not for us!
Yesterday, Nintendo organized a Direct Partner Showcase to reveal to us the new features in its catalog for the months to come. However, the presentation was not the same for everyone! On the Japanese side, the players were treated to other surprises and there was one that must have made the European players green with envy.
A Nintendo Direct that wasn’t the same for everyone!
Without a doubt, there must have been many of you who attended the meeting set by Nintendo. Like Sony and Microsoft, the Japanese manufacturer opened the ball for the year 2024 with a presentation which reviewed the various releases already planned for the first half of the year. In any case, if you missed nothing during this broadcast, it is very likely that you are not aware of all the announcements from the Japanese publisher. What we discovered, a few minutes later, was that not all Nintendo fans were in the same boat!
Revelations and surprises, there was indeed something for everyone, but imagine that there were small changes in the content depending on the region of the globe to which this broadcast was aimed ! And the least we can say is that the Japanese public has apparently been largely spoiled. For example, there was the announcement of the video game Reynatisa new action-RPG which will, among other things, take place in Shibuya and which brings together a nice portion of the elite of J-RPGs: Kazushige Nojima (writer of FF7, 8, 10 and 10-2, FF7 Remake, Kingdom Hearts), Yusuke Naora (FF7, 8, 10, Last Remnant, FF7 Remake) or Yoko Shimomura (FF15, Kingdom Hearts, etc.). But perhaps it wasn’t the most surprising announcement!
A game awaited for more than 20 years… reserved for the Japanese public
Yes, in the Land of the Rising Sun, players were treated to a slightly different Nintendo Direct! In this case, they had the joy of discovering that a video game was going to join Nintendo Switch Online, and it is not just any one since it is about Mother 3a title widely awaited by European players. For our part, we know the license under the name Earthbound and this has shaped itself, over the years, into the status of a cult franchise. Today, fans are hoping for just one thing… but given Nintendo’s announcement, they’re not close to getting it.
However, they were hopeful, especially because Nintendo had put the license in the spotlight some time ago through the Nintendo Switch Online catalog. Thanks to ports of SNES and NES games, they were able to rediscover Earthbound And Earthbound Beginningsbut that will be all… for now? For his part, the creator of the franchise Mother shared his pride in seeing this third episode join the Japanese Nintendo Switch Online. In any case, all is not lost for fans since there is always the possibility of changing the region of your console: a tip for the most motivated and those most accustomed to the Japanese language.