Nintendo also mentioned under-wraps plans to celebrate the 20th anniversary of pink platforming puffball Kirby and the full roll-out of Kid Icarus AR cards to European shops, produced by footie sticker company Panini. Heroes of Ruin players will get a year's worth of new DLC challenges, free every day. It arrives in the UK on 6th July.ģDS dungeon crawler Heroes of Ruin arrives on 15th June, while Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance is confirmed for 20th July. Three big currently Japan-only 3DS games will gain new DLC, with new characters (Roy! Leaf!) in Fire Emblem Awakening, new tunes for Theatrhythm Final Fantasy (FF13's March of the Dreadnoughts!) and new challenges for Monster Hunter 3G.Įuropean release dates were given for bizarre Wii rhythm game Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise (known elsewhere as Rhythm Heaven Fever). The track-skipping error will now be removed in mid-May.
The first patch will be for Mario Kart 7: to stop the infamous Wuhu Island track glitch which Nintendo previously said it wouldn't fix. It adds folder support to the system's menu and also allows game patches.
Both apps will made available from the 3DS eShop.Ī fresh 3DS firmware update arrives in Europe on 25th April. It will act as a companion app to Pokémon Black and White 2 and allow the transferring of creatures you capture.
With over 80 brand new courses full of hidden areas and secrets to discover, it’s a classic Mario game with some major golden differences. Then there's Pokémon AR Searcher, an augmented reality shooter similar to existing 3DS firmware Face Raiders. 2 is the first traditional side-scrolling Mario game to be made especially for the Nintendo 3DS system. Most of the solid information in the broadcast was for the Japanese market, though importers may be interested to note confirmed July release dates for Taiko no Tatsujin 3DS featuring girl group AKB48, Rune Factory 4, and Etrian Odyssey IV.This content is hosted on an external platform, which will only display it if you accept targeting cookies. Pokemon AR Searcher is a shooting game that lets you "capture" Pokemon with your console's camera, and Pokedex Pro is an expanded version of the previous Pokemon database software.Īlso on the way this year is a 20th anniversary compilation of Kirby games for Wii, along with a confirmed autumn launch in Japan for Tobidase: Doubutsu no Mori, the 3DS iteration of the Animal Crossing series. New downloadable Pokemon software is on the way and will tie into the Black 2 and White 2 games that are coming on June 23rd in Japan. The company also announced a major 3DS firmware update coming April 25th that will enable folder organization (finally!) and allow game patches and upgrades to be issued easily. We have little to go on in the way of gameplay specifics, but Nintendo will undoubtedly show more of the game at E3 in June. Super Mario 3D Land was able to try new things with 3D Mario gameplay, but NSMB2 really doesn’t do anything new, and as a result, isn’t able to usurp 3D Land as the Mario game to own. The game will be out in August in Japan, and is in the same 2D/3D style as the previous New Super Mario Bros. New Super Mario Brothers 2 is a very good game on a technical level, but falls short of satisfying because it feels far too similar to other games in the series. 2 intelligently recycles past glories and consequently offers the comfort of what is arguably. Nintendo has announced New Super Mario Bros. It may not be as gleefully experimental as Super Mario 3D Land, but New Super Mario Bros.