The Bankslammer
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Okay, doesn't seem like Famitsu has as much new info as I thought it might. As far as the story stuff goes, it shows a few new characters (who are very GBA-era Takeuchi in style imo), but I have no idea how they'll factor into the game... or even how the story mode works, lol. It just says you clear games to continue, and that there are these gatekeeper guys too, but I couldn't gather any more from it than I could from the Nintendo Direct trailer.
Interestingly, it seems that in addition to the menus with popup-style art for selecting games we saw in the Direct, there's a menu more akin to the old Rhythm Heaven games for the remixes. These seem to be self contained, single columns that can be accessed from the larger story mode menu, as the button prompt to exit says "Press B to go outside". I'm not going to try to translate the pun in the name, but the column is labeled as "Forest Remix". The icons show some games that are probably new and some that might be certain returning games but they're too unclear for me to try to make a guess.
Then it talks about the "Challenge Train", which is the download play multiplayer mode. You choose a Challenge Course based on a theme, like "animals" or "sports", and then work together to clear the series of games in that course.
Lastly, it shows some of the new games, some of which we already knew about, some of which we didn't. There's one called "Stairs Catch" where you seem to be tossing a pineapple between two guys climbing stairs by pressing A for one and the D-Pad for the other, "Fruit Basketball" where you play as... a wave in a pool of water, I guess, and try to score baskets with fruit somehow, "Interpreter" which is the one with the alien we saw at the reveal, "Chameleon" which might be similar to the chameleon portion of Fever's Endless Remix, one with a pun name I won't even attempt where you play as a cat giving a (goat? wolf?) woodcutter logs to chop, and "The Legend of Samurai Slice" which takes our beloved Wandering Samurai into a retro-style game.
Interestingly, it seems that in addition to the menus with popup-style art for selecting games we saw in the Direct, there's a menu more akin to the old Rhythm Heaven games for the remixes. These seem to be self contained, single columns that can be accessed from the larger story mode menu, as the button prompt to exit says "Press B to go outside". I'm not going to try to translate the pun in the name, but the column is labeled as "Forest Remix". The icons show some games that are probably new and some that might be certain returning games but they're too unclear for me to try to make a guess.
Then it talks about the "Challenge Train", which is the download play multiplayer mode. You choose a Challenge Course based on a theme, like "animals" or "sports", and then work together to clear the series of games in that course.
Lastly, it shows some of the new games, some of which we already knew about, some of which we didn't. There's one called "Stairs Catch" where you seem to be tossing a pineapple between two guys climbing stairs by pressing A for one and the D-Pad for the other, "Fruit Basketball" where you play as... a wave in a pool of water, I guess, and try to score baskets with fruit somehow, "Interpreter" which is the one with the alien we saw at the reveal, "Chameleon" which might be similar to the chameleon portion of Fever's Endless Remix, one with a pun name I won't even attempt where you play as a cat giving a (goat? wolf?) woodcutter logs to chop, and "The Legend of Samurai Slice" which takes our beloved Wandering Samurai into a retro-style game.