Cloud Strife, Sephiroth and all the other himbos of Midgar come to the PlayStation 5 on June 10 with Final Fantasy VII Remake Intergrade. This improved version of last year’s remake features refurbished graphics and frame rates, optional old-school turn-based combat and a photo mode. It will also include a new chapter starring teen ninja Yuffie Kisaragi, who has just made her way into the city in time for all hell to break loose.
Mario Golf finally comes to Switch
Alert your uncles and aunts: the Nintendo Switch is finally getting Mario Golf! Mario Golf: Super Rush arrives on June 25 with an all-new, real-time golf race mode where players swing simultaneously and dash across the green to pick up their game. Because video games are mere bread and circuses, most of the hype is around Wario’s and Waluigi’s obscene fairway fits.
Famicom: Big in Japan
For the first time, Nintendo’s Famicom Detective Club games are being released outside of Japan. Remade with new audio and illustrations, The Missing Heir and The Girl Who Stands Behind are now available on the Nintendo Switch. Solve these two high school whodunnits, but leave behind the greatest Nintendo mystery of all: where the hell is Metroid Prime 4?
Big anticipation for E3 2021
I might be speaking too soon, though: June is the month when we get the always overwhelmingly hyped E3 convention (and its product launches). For the second year in a row the expo will be occurring online (again, the pandemic thing). The event serves as an opportunity for major publishers to thrill and disappoint in equal measure, and for a variety of wealthy studio executives to show that they’re still wearing a suit jacket with a t-shirt like a child guitarist. Will we see Zelda? Bayonetta? God of War? George R.R. Martin’s Elden Ring? Doubt it! But we’ll probably see one or two neat things, so have an open heart. E3 runs from June 12 to June 15.