Nintendo Direct mini Impressions | June 28, 2022

Surprise announcement of a surprise Direct... sort of! Kind of surprised (lol) that they didn't do a full-sized Direct, but maybe that was taken up by the 20-minute Xenoblade 3 Direct. Which I refuse to watch because spoilers for the first two games, which I haven't finished.

(I can't wait for 3 but I NEED THE SPECIAL EDITION)

Nintendo Direct mini | US Edition

Sunbreak

• Capcom

• The English dub is actually pretty good this time around!

• Great trailer.

• Free update 1 announced August 2022

• Fall: Free Update 2

• Winter: Free update 3

• More updates coming 2023

• Demo for Sunbreak out now

• Version 10 of MHR coming June 29th in anticipation of Sunbreak Release June 30th

NieR Automata

• The End of YoRHa edition coming out October 6th

• Switch exclusive costumes on launch

• Pre-orders begin today

Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

• Murder mystery adventure game

• Annapurna, Simogo

• 2023

• Timed console exclusive

Super Bomberman R 2

• New 15 player mode: 14 v 1 tower defense?

• 2023

Mega Man Battle Network Legacy Collection

• Gallery and music mode too! 10 games from GBA etc. era!

• 2023

• Full collection available in Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 sold separately as digital format (which means physical has both?)

• (P.S. I wonder how much One Step from Eden inspired this remaster)

PAC-MAN WORLD Re-PAC

• Side-scrolling 3D-ish platformer! Re-make of Pac-Man World

• August 26th Launch

BLANC

• Puzzle adventure game about a fawn and wolf-cub surviving

• Local and online co-op

• February 2023 console exclusive

Return to Monkey Island

• Monkey Island for Switch!?

• 2022?!?! Switch console timed exclusive

Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope

• Turn-based battles with enemies, in-game tutorial (?)

• But it has a free battle area like Ni no Kuni

• XCOM Mario!?

• Dude this looks amazing

• October 20th

• (Will have more details in tomorrow's Ubisoft showcase)

Little Noah: Scion of Paradise

• Cygames

• Roguelite dungeon side-scrolling survival!?

• Recruit allies that follow you around

• Reminds me of Maplestory

• TODAY

Railgrade

• Epic Games

• Rail management sim for delivering shipments

• Fall 2022

RPG Time: Legend of Wright

• OMG IT'S COMING TO SWITCH!!!!

• (Was on Microsoft Store before and it looks so good)

• August 18th, preorders begin today

Sonic Frontiers

• (Wasn't this game really bad?)

• It looks like kind of Xenoblade X x Sonic

• The music is really good though, music from Sonic is always amazing

• Holiday 2022

Disney Dreamlight Valley

• Life sim

• EA September 6th

• Switch has Early Access now??

LIVE A LIVE

• July 22nd release date

• Excitement!!!

• Demo out today! Save data transfers!

DORAEMON STORY OF SEASONS: Friends of the Great Kingdom

• Third DORAEMON SoS game!

• Finally coming west on day one? (Please have JP Language option... the last one didn't)

• Local multiplayer

• 2022

Minecraft Legends

• New Minecraft Dungeons-styled game?

• 2023

Dragon Quest Treasures

• Spinoff where you recruit monsters

• IT LOOKS SO GOOD SOB

• December 9th

Highlight reel

• FE Musou: Three Hopes

• No Man's Sky / October 7th

• A Plague Tale: Requiem - Cloud Version / October 18

• Captain Velvet Meteor; The Jump+ Dimensions / July 28th

I know it's by Shuiesha, but they are really riding the wave of popularity aren't they lol

Portal Companion Collection

• GLADoS Says it's available today!

HARVESTELLA

• New Square Enix life sim RPG!!!!!! Heck yeah

• Farm, cook, travel, battle, and meet new townsfolk!

• Emphasis on "seasons"

• Season of Quietus "that withers life". We must find a way to stop season of "death" from invading the town

• THE MUSIC is so good (sobbing)

• November 4th

Persona 5 Royal

• "On October 21, 2022, we will steal your heart on Nintendo Switch"

• (But I already got it on PS4...)

Persona 4 Golden, Persona 3 Portable

• All I needed was to see Hamuko-chan again in HD

• Coming "soon"

Nintendo Direct mini | JP Edition

Sunbreak

• It's Tsuda-san again!

• Same info, Japanese dub.

Super Bomberman R2

• Wait there's a battle royale mode too?

• This trailer has a lot more information than the English one

• 2023

Little Noa 楽園の後継者

• Same info as English

• It looks kind of like a mobile game when you look at it like this

• 1500 yen, out today

Disney Dreamlight Valley

• Same info as English

• 2023

Railgrade

• Fall 2022

• Same info as English

LIVE A LIVE

• Same info, Japanese dub

• July 22nd

釣りスピリッツ　釣って遊べる水族館

• Tairyou Medal-land is the area you can fish in

• Many modes and online/local multiplayer

• 12 floors of museum to finish!

• 2022

NieR Automata The End of Yorha Edition

• Same info, Japanese dub

• October 6th

Almost out! Reel

• FE Musou Fuukasetsugetsu / out

• Kaze no Klonoa 1&2 Encore / July 7 / Demo out!

• Nobunaga no Yabou: Shinsei / July 21

• ANONYMOUS;CODE / July 28 / Demo out today!

• GrimGrimoire OnceMore / July 28

• Portal Collection / Today

HARVESTELLA

• Same info as English, Japanese dub

• You can pet the ram

• Quietus in Japanese is named 死季

• Out November 4th, 7680 yen

• (Out in 2023 for America)

Mario + Rabbids

• Same info as English, which is not a surprise since it's a Western dev

• Winter for Japan

ドラえもん　のび太の牧場物語　大自然の王国とみんなの家

• Helping out someone from another world / kingdom

• You can visit the bottom of the sea or up in the sky?

• Also coop play with many characters!

• 2022

ドラえもん　のび太の牧場物語

• the first one will be on trial for NSO members from July 4th to July 10th

RPG Time! Raito no Densetsu

• Same info!

• August 18th

Minecraft Legends

• 2023

• Described as an "action strategy"

Pac-Man World Re-Pac

• Same information

Captain Velvet Meteo Jump+ Isekai no "Ko"bouken

• Same information as English, out July 28

Sonic Frontier

• Same information, but man is the music good...

• Winter 2022

Ultra Kaijuu Monster Farm

• A game where you "raise" Kaijuu... okay

• Also Monster Farm spinoff!?

• First, find them from a song, like you search up the name of a song or scan your phone code or something. Then you raise them and make them battle each other. Then you can fuse them together???

• 2022

ロックマンエグゼ (Mega Man Network Battle)

• Same info as English, but more specific explanations

• 2023

Almost out! Reel 2

• Super Nodage World / July 28

• Digimon Survive / July 28

• Idol Manager / August 25

• SD Gunam Battle Alliance / August 25

• Disco Elysium (Japan edition holy frick how did they translate this monster?) / August 25

• Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken All-star Battle R / September 1

DRAGON QUEST TREASURES 蒼き瞳と大空の羅針盤

• More info and Japanese dub!

• First, you use the treasure compass, then you go with monsters who will teach you the locations via visions

• Fighting will include the monsters you bring with you. Also have to protect the ones you already have, because monster will find you and try to steal them

• Level up as a treasure hunter!

• Treasure Life RPG

• December 9th

Persona Info!

• Persona 5 The Royal / October 21

• Persona 4 The Golden & Persona 3 Portable / "Soon"

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As usual, the Japanese version had some extra content. Actually it was also 5 minutes longer for some reason? Games I am particularly looking forward to are: Dragon Quest Treasures, Harvestella, RPG Time, Live a Live, Megaman Battle Network Collection. HARVESTELLA in particular looks AMAZING.

Two games I am now interested in are Captain Meteo (since it has all Jump+ heroes in it) and surprisingly that fishing game! Also want P3P because Hamuko-chan on the big screen.

Great direct. Would have liked some more info on DQX but we got a release date a little while ago so it's enough for me!

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Thanks for reading this far!

Storm