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Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Twelve: Cook
Bread to rights
In the final part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. Today is the day I complete my Life journey in Reveria. All of the Lives I have spent time as, all of the monster parts and mushrooms I have gathered, my fears of a secret organisation creating a new world order...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Eleven: Angler
The never-ending quest for fewer fish in the sea
In the eleventh part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. After last week’s work as a mercenary defending Castele and other associated kingdoms from the scourge of overgrown lizards and smaller nuisances, I wanted a change of pace...
Video Squishing Spiders in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Quests, Helpfully Explained
Give up on the facial tissue idea now
When we last left the caravan players can expect to to travel with in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, they were about to enter Hearth, a town known for its metalworking, but it seems the village has fallen on hard times ever since the lava flow that powers the forges has stopped. Solving the village's problem...
News Teyon Games Adds Text and Voice Chat to 3DS eShop Mix With Chat-A-Lot
Baby got chat
Teyon and WaiS Co. Ltd. have teamed up to bring their text and voice chatting app for the Nintendo 3DS, Chat-A-Lot, to the North American eShop starting this Thursday, 20th November for $7.99. Originally developed in Japan by WaiS Co. Ltd. and localised for the western regions by Teyon Games, Chat-A-Lot is a bright and colourful app...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Ten: Mercenary
Paladins go to the palace balls, mercenaries go everywhere else
In the tenth part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. Last week’s adventure in couch-building and furniture storage left me living large in my well-appointed new digs, the manor house in Castele’s market district. I...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Nine: Carpenter
We do it awl
In the ninth part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. Last week’s outdoors adventure in nature walks and axe-handling left me with a dilapidated house full of logs, broken furniture, and a missing cat. Rather than move into the inn permanently and replace said cat I...
Video Atlus Releases New Persona Q Character Videos Along With Party Composition Basics
Helpful direction in Jungster selection
As the weeks count down to Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth's release in Europe and North America, Atlus has posted four new character videos featuring the two out-of-dungeon but no less important support characters, the young tough, and the dog. Your dungeon-crawling tour guide, the ever-helpful and...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Eight: Woodcutter
If a tree falls in the forest, that was probably me
In the eighth part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. At the behest of one of the forest spirits I got to know while summoning blasts of elemental energy and healing the scrapes I got from wearing flimsy but fashionable cloth...
Video Getting to Know the Spooky Residents of Persona Q's Velvet Room
She decorated in blue velvet
A hallmark of the Persona series' gameplay returning in Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth, the process known as fusion allows players to create new personas through merging existing entities. Somewhere between consciousness and subconsciousness, the Velvet Room lurks, its residents waiting to help you with your madly...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Seven: Magician
The guild master keeps asking me witch one
In the seventh part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. Last week I investigated the potential causes of Reveria’s lack of cemeteries as an alchemist, and although I’m no closer to the answers I sought I did outfit myself with an...
Video Atlus Releases a Preview of the Persona Q Art Book and New Character Trailers
Not quite the Grand Grimoire but still pretty nice
This week's Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth pre-release content, courtesy of Atlus, includes a preview of the Persona Q: The Wild Cards Premium Edition art book, along with two new character trailers of the lady in charge and one of the strangest characters yet seen in the Persona series. The...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Six: Alchemist
Things that make you go boom
In the sixth part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. Last week I got a lesson in Castelean civics as a paladin, and after thinking perhaps a little too much about the fact that no kingdom in Reveria seems to have any cemeteries despite all being...
News Shin Megami Tensei IV Dated for 30th October in Europe
Dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria!
The long wait for a definite Shin Megami Tensei IV release date in Europe has come to an end. Originally announced by Atlus for Europe in Q3 2014, after an unexpected hiatus in the title's development a subsequently revised release window of September, pricing, and DLC details were announced this past...
News Atlus Finalises Persona Q Premium and Limited Standard Editions
Who doesn't want tarot cards?
Atlus has finalised the contents of its upcoming brooding teenage dungeon crawler Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth's retail special editions, set to release in North America on 25th November and in Europe on 28th November. Pictured below and serving the most angst per dollar/pound/euro, Persona Q's The Wild Cards...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Five: Paladin
Turn undead into what?
In the fifth part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. NOTE: This week's entry contains a spoiler so diabolically genre-ruining that the esteemed Ant Dickens had to program a special tag in the Nintendo Life content management system to contain it. Click on the...
News Rising Star Games' New Online Shop Now Open
No oddly numbered watches available at time of writing
As part of Rising Star Games' tenth anniversary celebration, the company's own online shop is now open, offering a selection of Rising Star's games and some new merchandise including company logo pins, T-shirts, and mugs. This current selection of products is available as a thank-you to early...
Weirdness Monster Hunter Series Producer Denies Existence of the 'Desire Sensor'
Does confirm need for gloves while playing
For those who don't know, the Monster Hunter series of games is rumored among fans to have the unique and utterly frustrating functionality of a 'desire sensor' which allows the game to detect and purposefully withhold the specific loot that a player needs in order to extend replay value. In an interview...
News Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley Set to Bloom on NA Store Shelves This 4th November
Europe barren for now
Natsume, Inc recently confirmed via Twitter that the North American release date for Harvest Moon: The Lost Valley will be 4th November: [tweet 520216714311520256] Although no European release date has been set, Natsume also confirmed that a publisher is being sought out and that it expects the title to reach the otherpart of...
Video Rei And Aigis Persona Q Character Trailers Released By Atlus
The girl with the cast iron stomach and the android
This week's Persona Q trailers from Atlus feature two young women of the Persona Q dungeon-crawling team: both blonde, one synthetic and all entertaining. Atlus has also released the second part of USA PR manager John Hardin's behind the scenes interviews with several of Persona Q's voice actors...
News Square Enix's Latest 3DS RPG Final Fantasy Explorers Won't Support Stereoscopic 3D
Still likes the Circle Pad Pro, though
If you're one of those people who likes to move that 3D slider up to "max" then you might want to stop reading now. Square Enix has confirmed that its upcoming Nintendo 3DS title Final Fantasy Exporers will not feature stereoscopic 3D graphics output. It's not all bad news, though — Final Fantasy Explorers...
Feature Working 9 to 5 in a Fantasy Life - Week Four: Blacksmith
The glamour of the hammer
In the fourth part of a regular series, Karen takes on Fantasy Life in a variety of 'lives' and documents her adventures. At the end of my turn as a miner I sold off enough of the floor covering of loose ore and gems I had robbed various kingdoms of to make a small path to the door of my small attic room, the bed, the...
News Nintendo Scares Up Pumpkaboo for October Pokémon X & Y Distribution
Does not pair well with seasonal lattes
As a spooky special for the month of October Nintendo is offering Pokémon fans a super-sized pumpkaboo, via online distribution for Pokémon X & Y. This particular Pokémon has a high probability of possessing its hidden ability, Insomia, something very rare in pumpkaboo of this size. This distribution...
News Atlus Releases Zen and Junpei Character Trailers for Persona Q
The outsider and the life of the party
In the lead up to Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth's November release Atlus has released two more character trailers this week, and another trailer featuring the cast of Persona 3. Making his series debut in Persona Q, Zen is a crossbow-wielding single-minded knight in shining armour who lacks the ability to...
News Koei Tecmo Europe All But Confirms Fatal Frame Wii U As Japan-Only
Spirit selfies still a long way off
Grab those tissues, because Koei Tecmo Europe has practically confirmed that Wii U exclusive Fatal Frame: The Black Haired Shrine Maiden won't set foot outside of Japan. In response to Twitterers requesting news of a potential western release of this latest instalment of the Fatal Frame series using the...
