Nintendo couldn’t miss the strong media coverage following Summer Game Fest. The Japanese giant therefore broadcast a new Nintendo Direct to reveal its upcoming games in the coming months. The announcements spill over into 2025. New releases, remasters, remakes or simple updates, that’s what you shouldn’t miss from the forty-minute event.
Mario & Luigi: The Brotherhood Epic – November 7, 2024 (Switch)
Nintendo’s two most famous brothers are back. Embark on a unique maritime adventure that will propel Mario and Luigi to several islands. To move from one to the other, you will need to use the Navisthmus cannon, an element that is both island and ship. Several famous characters will be there, starting with Peach and Bowser. They will be joined by a few new ones like Ampéria and Couchomb. The title will stand out by the integration of duo actions, a system focusing on cooperation between the two brothers. These will have to be carried out to avoid traps but also to overcome enemies during turn-based combat.
Fantasian Neo Dimension opens to other media – Winter 2024 (PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series)
If the name speaks to you, it’s because you must have been aware of the game’s release on Apple Arcade in 2021. The good news is that the community will be able to grow, with the game arriving on new supports. If the latter catches our attention, it is because it is an RPG imagined by Hironobu Sakaguchi, the creator of the Final Fantasy license. It has the particularity of offering a rather original turn-based combat system. In particular, you can adjust the direction of attacks to try to hit more enemies. Another good point is that composer Nobuo Uematsu is also working on the project. This port will benefit from several new features, including English and Japanese voices. There will also be a new difficulty option.
Donkey Kong Country Returns HD – January 16, 2025 (Switch)
A true success of the Nintendo Wii by Retro Studios, the 2010 title was entitled to a port on the Nintendo 3DS in 2023. At the beginning of next year, it will be back thanks to the remaster of the port. More concretely, it will be possible to (re)immerse yourself in this adventure of Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong while benefiting from HD graphics. You can opt to discover the game with the difficulty of the time or for a few options allowing you to adjust the experience. In any case, the additional levels of the 3DS version of the platform game will be there. Finally, to play with two people locally, simply share your joycons.
Super Mario Party Jamboree – October 17, 2024 (Switch)
For an evening with family or friends, a Mario Party always has an effect. The next opus of the license will offer even more content since Nintendo announces the integration of 110 mini-games. Several game modes will be on the program, including the Koopathlon. The latter will allow several people, up to 20, to compete online. The goal will be to achieve the best possible scores to advance faster. Seven game boards will be discovered, including Goomba Island or the classic Western Country and Rainbow Castle.
The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom – September 26, 2024 (Switch)
How many times have you heard someone close to you confuse Link and Zelda because of the name of the game? With the next installment of the license, this will not happen. Link will not be the hero of the adventure, it will be Zelda. The roles will be reversed, it will be up to the princess to save Link and the kingdom of Hyrule. The title will emphasize the puzzles. To help them solve them, players can count on the sorting scepter. This accessory will allow you to create echoes, or reproductions of various elements. It will then be up to you to be creative to use them wisely. As a bonus, to accompany the release of this new game, Nintendo will release a Nintendo Switch Lite Hyrule edition on the same date.
A date for Dragon Quest III HD-2D Remake, I & II announced – November 14, 2024 (PC, PS5, Switch, Series)
Octopath Traveler, with its HD-2D style, has sparked some remake dreams among role-playing game fans. Square-Enix is well aware of this. The proof, in 2021, the company announces a remake of Dragon Quest III in HD-2D. It wasn’t until about three years later, during the Nintendo Direct, that we got a release date. As a bonus, we have the right to a trailer to make everyone want to jump into this cult RPG from 1988 recreated for the occasion. It marks the starting point of the Elric trilogy. Of course, the adventure will be modernized, the story reworked and new features will be added. Better, from 2025, it will be possible to continue the Elric trilogy thanks to the arrival of Dragon Quest I & II HD-2D Remake.
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond shows itself on video – 2025 (Switch)
E3 2017, seven years ago, hearts are beating, pulses are racing. Metroid Prime 4 is briefly announced. Nintendo Direct 2024, the new adventure from Retro Studios returns to the spotlight. Samus Aran will make her comeback in 2025.
Other announcements and dates:
- Pre-orders open for Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition which will be released on July 18.
- Fairy Tail 2, the direct sequel to the 2020 video game adaptation of Hiro Mashima’s manga, will be released this winter on PC, Switch and PlayStation 4 and 5.
- This summer Nintendo Switch Sports will receive a free update adding basketball.
- MIO: Memories in Orbit is a new metroidvania expected in 2025 on current media. Douze Dixièmes (Shady Part of Me) is being produced.
- The free Mystery to Monoth update for Disney Illusion Island has just been deployed.
- Hello Kitty Island Adventure will be an open-world adventure temporarily exclusive to Nintendo Switch. Released in 2025.
- This fall, play four sports in an arcade style with Looney Tunes: Wacky World of Sports.
- Three new roles are appearing in Among Us!
- Farmagia is a Pikmin-like which will be released on November 1st. You will have to plant seeds, cultivate them then harvest the companions that will emerge.
- The New Denpa Men is a free-to-play RPG that will arrive on July 22, 2024 (temporary Nintendo Switch exclusive).
- Metal Slug Attack Reloaded is now available on Switch, Xbox and PS5.
- The release of Darkest Dungeon II is set for July 15, 2024 on Switch.
- Added Nintendo 64 and Game Boy Advance classics: The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past Four Swords, Metroid: Zero Mission, Turok: Dinosaur Hunter and Perfect Dark
- More than twenty years after the original opus on PlayStation 2, the Phantom Brave license returns with Phantom Brave: The Lost Hero. This will be discovered in 2025.
- X-Men: Children of the Atom, X-Men vs. Street Fighter, The Punisher, etc., 7 games will be compiled in the Marvel vs. Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics. The latter will be released this year on PC, PS4 and Switch.
- Stray, the adventure game making us play as a cat, will be released this winter on the Nintendo console.
- From September 6, it will be possible to (re)discover the two Ace Attorney Investigations games within the Ace Attorney Investigations Collection (PS4/Switch/Xbox) localized in French.
- The Hundred Line – Last Defense Academy, the new game from the creators of the Dangaronpa license, will arrive in 2025.
- The remake of the cult game Romancing SaGa 2: Revenge of the Seven will be released on October 24 on PC, PS4, PS5 and Nintendo Switch.
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