What's going on with Disaster: Day of Crisis for North America?
With seemingly no presence of Disaster at Nintendo's event, it came down to our crack team of covert journalists (they're the guys waving) to get to the bottom of things. And when they caught up with Reggie Fils-Aime, alongside Mark Bozan of IGN, the question was put forth to the Nintendo of America President.
He is going to be reading this very post upon which your eyes are laid, and he will be taking note of what people want to see in regards to Disaster (so no calling out for Captain Rainbow... though that would be good, too). If you're interested in having a Day of Crisis of your very own, then do respond below.
Alex S. from Link Cable Gaming writes: "..Nintendo revealed that they are fully localizing the original Famicom title, Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon & The Blade of Light and releasing it on the Switch eShop. This got us thinking – what other games could Nintendo localize for the first time and take out of the vault? Well here’s our list of the top 10 games Nintendo should localize."
Nintendo has registered new trademarks in Japan for multiple games including Elite Beat Agents, Rhythm Heaven, and Disaster: Day of Crisis. The trademarks made recently include their other famous IPs Super Mario, Mario Bros., Yoshi’s Crafted World and Kirby’s Epic Yarn as well.
Sid writes: "It’s been a little over a year since the Nintendo Switch launched, and it’s still going strong in terms of game announcements and sales. With that in mind, we’ve made a list of some Nintendo franchisees that have been off the radar for quite a while and would love to see make a comeback for Nintendo’s newest system."
...that Nintendo is actually undecided on whether to bring this game to America. I hope Reggie is kidding. But then again, this could all go back to the whole 9/11, Hurricane Katrina approach. Maybe they think it would be frowned upon here by the media, and/or victims of those disasters, used improperly for political purposes or something like that. Bleh...
It's now an issue of IF...not WHEN? Come on Reggie, I am an avid Nintendo supporter but there continues to be less reason to play the Wii I currently own over the other two in this consoles life cycle. It seems awfully strange that Nintendo would allow another 20 "My Pet" games to whatever the demographic percentage is on that series...and yet...a game that could appeal to the core audience that made Nintendo what it is today has to go to the extra lengths to scream "bloody murder" until you take notice? And that only gives us a faint glimmer of hope for a release?
Look...I imported Freshly Picked from both Japan and Europe because Nintendo is apparently too afraid to put a little money into the core faithfuls here in the states...and I'll likely be doing the same with the release of Captain Rainbow, because again, Americans are too uptight for such an ambiguous title.
Come on, I've never been one to sell a system...but even with the advent of Punchout and Sin & Punishment 2...it's the loss of unique and original titles like these (Disaster), that continue to disappoint.
Well dang I didn't know that Nintendo wasn't even thinking the US wanted this game! Hopefully the big N can get the hint and bring this title our way