「NIPPON NEWS DAIJOUBU」ISSUE #2

Tadaima!

It's the second edition of 「NIPPON NEWS DAIJOUBU」 already? How time flies! I won't ramble in my preamble too much, let's just say that today's news is EGGSCELLENT - MR BREAKFAST is available to play in version 0.40d_ea RIGHT NOW! First though, let's get the patch notes out of the way:

Patch Notes Nippon Marathon 2: Daijoubu v0.40d_ea

• Improved camera snapshots likelihood to get a front facing shot without going through walls

• Nerfed the pineapple balloon's lifetime by 0.4 seconds

• Fixed CPU dive function so they dive forwards and with more vigour!

• Fixed missing glyphs in character creator menu for controllers

• Fixed missing glyphs in controls menu and tutorial for Steam Deck

• Temporarily swapped out broken sailorsuit body type for female morph suit to prevent crashes (will replace properly soon)

• Improved the ending section of Let's Go Ramen Museum

• Improved volume and editing some dialogue for Mr Breakfast

• Made a fix for a light being stuck on and render texture after coming from CC menu

• Added an expo mode (developer function)

• Stumpy t-shirt added to character creator mode

• CPU only mode now working as intended

• Engine upgraded to 6.5 to fix borderless full screen mode causing improper brightness

• Fixed D3D11 Crashes / black screen

The Anatomy of MR BREAKFAST

I'm not sure whether this guy is good or bad... cool or weird... hungry or thirsty. But I do know that's one sweet yukata!

Steam post image This infographic is making me hungry.

Vital Statistics of MR BREAKFAST

Voiced by: Kinoshita Alvin (https://x.com/kinosita_arvin)

Height: 6 foot 1 Inch / 187cm (with geta)

Eyes: Black

Blood Type: Yolk

Likes: Eggs, eggs and more eggs!

Dislikes: Poor craftsmanship, fast-food

Employment: MR BREAKFAST owns the restaurant chain EGG IS LIFE.

Reason for Entering Marathon:

To guide him through life MR BREAKFAST uses an ancient technique passed down through his family for many generations. When at a crossroads in life, a Tamago Gakusha (one trained in the art of Ranpaku Uranai or ‘Egg-white Fortune Telling’) can crack an egg allowing only the egg-white to land in a hot pan, the shape of the quickly solidifying egg is said to represent the true path of destiny.

After MR BREAKFAST recently received a 3-star Michelin rating for the EGG IS LIFE restaurant in Ginzaya-Cho he sought a new goal and quickly began the Ranpaku Uranai ceremony. As the ceremony is a personal and solitary affair nobody but MR BREAKFAST knows exactly what shape the egg-white took, but moments later he set out to enter the Nippon Marathon.

That's all we know about him right now, but I'm sure the eventual Story Mode will take us on a wild, egg-related adventure!

SENSATIONAL SCREENSHOTS

For this week's screenshots we'll be focusing on MR BREAKFAST, these were stolen from Onion Soup's development PC while they weren't looking. Shh! Don't tell!

Steam post image"MR B sets off" - Screenshot by H_Hazuki (mental age 3)

Steam post image"Scrambled by a pair of shiba" - Screenshot by Amy (mental age 7)

Where's the SOUNDTRACK?

I've been pestering the developers to give me an update on the whereabouts of the OST, mostly they've only grunted at me and shooed me away but today they sent me this as an appetiser:

Wait... it's the music from Yolko Harbour?! Awesome! That'll do for now, maybe they'll release the whole thing next week?

DISCORD DISCO

In this week's Discord Disco I want to summarise a conversation between developer H_Hazuki and user/social media guy Abdul Rehman. Abdul jumped in to say

"For anyone interested in playing on the go, I just tested on the Steam Deck and it works out of the box! Didn't have to tinker with anything--was able to get a smooth gameplay session..."and" [NM2] is infinitely more playable than some of the games I have seen getting the Playable label"

To whiCh H_Hazuki replied:"we're actively making sure it runs well on SD, making sure the UI scales to 9:10 properly too, thanks so much for your feedback"

So there you have it Steam Deck users, you can get your game on without any hassle!

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https://discord.gg/SpsyEHs

Thanks for reading 「NIPPON NEWS DAIJOUBU」 and check back for issue 3 where I'll have more exciting news about upcoming content for NM2!

Until next time, stay DAIJOUBU! - Reiwa Man