Nintendo eShop - January 2019 | Dragon Marked For Death, Pikuniku, YIIK, Feudal Alloy, Downwell, Onimusha, OutRun
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So, Tiny Metal is 50% off on the EU eShop, is it worth €12.49 in its modern patched state?
FWIW a Klondike game just came out today called Solitaire Klondike BLACK, €5 with a 30% off at the moment. No idea if it's any good.
This is also getting a very limited physical release through PlayAsia, bundled with Oniken if that's your thing.
https://www.play-asia.com/oniken-odallus-collection-limited-edition/13/70ci9j
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Odallus is a great game. While it captures the tone of the 8-bit Castlevanias (and some other similarly moody games), the gameplay is decidedly more modern. I definitely recommend it but don't go into it expecting a faithful recreation of Castlevania's commitment-jumps or its high difficulty.
Guess I gotta check it out. Thanks! That puts today's damage at:
YIIK
Feudal Alloy
Gunman Clive
Octahedron
Yeesh. And this is only a week after the other bombastic day with Momodora, Caveblazers, Everything, and OutRun!
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Anyone play Animus? It's $11 CAD and getting decent impressions from people who like Souls clones.
Edit: screw it bought it, will post impressions.
Where do folks go for coverage for lesser known games?
Edit: screw it bought it, will post impressions.
Where do folks go for coverage for lesser known games?
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Or I just google and find impressions and reviews for other versions if they exist. Steam reviews can be of help for example.
And often I just pull the trigger on games that appeal to me.
Are you saying it isn't difficult and doesn't have stupid jumps? Color me intrigued.
Wow, Oniken seems to be a game I'd been sleeping on. Looks exactly like the kind of game I'd enjoy. I'm sold on it1
No, that's not what I'm saying. I don't think Castlevania games have stupid jumps -- they have jumps that require good timing and knowing when and how to commit. But yes, Odallus is significantly easier than Castlevania games, which is not a boon for me. I prefer games to be challenging. But Odallus is still quite good anyway.
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I think the dungeon design and challenges are a bit more interesting than just a clone. The overworld aspect is a bit generic and boring. I enjoyed my time due to the late dungeons. I will say that the art and pixel graphics is an eye sore. Not well made sprites, flat, and inconsistent. Music is good homage. Hopefully in the next game, the art is more consistent and take more liberties with the overworld design.
I will admit it is not a Zelda clone that stands out, but I find the dungeons and platforming (the last aspect is rather limiting in ALTTP) its saving grace.
Finished kuso this morning, it was worth the buck that I spent on it for sure. The platforming is fun and the soundtrack is really really good.
One word of warning, I was playing kuso in portable mode last night and I must've dozed off for a couple of minutes on the same static screen. When I closed the game I noticed lines going across the screen like they were burnt into the display but after a couple of minutes playing Lumines it went back to normal.
One word of warning, I was playing kuso in portable mode last night and I must've dozed off for a couple of minutes on the same static screen. When I closed the game I noticed lines going across the screen like they were burnt into the display but after a couple of minutes playing Lumines it went back to normal.
Since i know there's a lot of Picross fans here, i just want to say that yesterday it came out a demo of the game Piczle Colors.
It has the same core mechanics as Picross but with some twists.
You can see some of those rules in the video below.
If they do like their previous game "Piczle lines" we can expect a lot of cool support.
This game already promises 300 puzzles and i bet it wont be like most picross games that say is 200 puzzles but 100 of them are just the same image but harder puzzle.
PS. Touchscreen works on all the game.
It has the same core mechanics as Picross but with some twists.
You can see some of those rules in the video below.
If they do like their previous game "Piczle lines" we can expect a lot of cool support.
This game already promises 300 puzzles and i bet it wont be like most picross games that say is 200 puzzles but 100 of them are just the same image but harder puzzle.
PS. Touchscreen works on all the game.
City of Brass has always looked really cool.
If they can get it running smoothly in portable it'd be worth a look.
I am secretly hoping for a gamepass addition in the future
Oh yeah, I loved my time with it, too. One of the best atmospheres/environments I've played since Super Metroid. It's just a shame it's not longer! That whole world is worth exploring more.
Same here. Played on Steam and loved it. It deserves attention.
So is One Strike more on the Astrobears (same dev) side of "worth it for a dollar" or more on the "don't bother" side?
Also, it seems like Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate got a physical price drop (39.99 at BB before GCU), no idea if/when that will be reflected in the eshop.
Also, it seems like Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate got a physical price drop (39.99 at BB before GCU), no idea if/when that will be reflected in the eshop.
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Damn, I really am shocked by the amount of indies coming to Switch each month. Completely overlooked The Missing, GRIS, Minit, and Pool Party from last year and only found out about them from EZA's goty deliberations. Need to start checking the eShop each week to keep up on new releases.
Definitely grabbing Pikuniku and TSA this month. Will have to see if anything aside from those two manages to surprise me
Definitely grabbing Pikuniku and TSA this month. Will have to see if anything aside from those two manages to surprise me
I might actually be more hyped for the Guilty Gear port than Accent Core - because we never did get a good Euro port (so much cut content story wise) so getting an uncut version would be quite appealing.
Having previous purchased one strike at less than a £1, it's worth it if you plan on playing it with friends. I use it as part of a games night, you won't be playing it for hours on end but it's enjoyable enough with a few mates. It's not about learning moves but reading your opposition and knowing your characters strengths and weaknesses. Eg player with longest reach, cannot block.
Week January 17th
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Full week on eShop:
NA PR, Sales
EU PR, Sales
JP Article
- Games
- DLCs
- Late regional releases
NA PR, Sales
EU PR, Sales
JP Article
- Games
- Feudal Alloy - Attu Games - $16.99/€14.99 - 1.6 GB
- YIIK: A Postmodern RPG - Ysbryd Games - $19.99/€19.99 - 3.7 GB
- Octahedron: Transfixed Edition - Demimonde/Square Enix - $12.99/€12.99 (Launch sale: €9.74) - 373 MB
- Gunman Clive HD Collection - Horberg Productions - $3.99/€3.99 - 143 MB
- Mars or Die! - 34BigThings - $19.99/€19.99 - 843 MB
- Onimusha: Warlords - Capcom - $19.99/€19.99 - 9.6 GB
- The Shrouded Isle - Kitfox Games - $14.99/€14.99 - 999 MB
- Forever Forest - Fictive Studio - $14.99/€14.99 - 237 MB
- Fairy Fencer F: Advent Dark Force - Idea Factory/Ghostlight - $39.99/€34.99 (Launch sale: $31.99/€27.99) - 8.1 GB
- Bash the Bear - FuryLion Group - $4.99/€4.99 - 135 MB
- Dragon's Lair Trilogy - Digital Leisure - $19.99/€19.99 - 6.9 GB
- Ninja Master's - NeoGeo - ADK/Hamster Co. - $7.99/€6.99 - 139 MB
- The Office Quest - 11Sheep - $11.99/€11.99 (Launch sale: $10.19) - 710 MB
- Holy Potatoes! We're in Space?! - Rising Star Games - $14.99/€14.99 - 999 MB
- Rampage Knights - Rake in Grass - $11.99/€9.99 (Launch sale: $9.59/€8.99) - 223 MB
- Mega Mall Story - Kairosoft - $12.00/€10.00 - 189 MB
- Football Heroes Turbo - Run Games - $14.99 - 229 MB *NA*
- GetAmped Mobile - CyberStep - Free-to-Play
- Crazy Strike Bowling EX - Corecell - $9.99/€9.99 - 3.5 GB
- Mecho Wars: Desert Ashes - Arcade Distillery - $9.99/€9.99 (Preorder sale: €7.99) - 160 MB
- Build a Bridge! - BoomBit Games - $14.99/€14.99 - 241 MB
- Fight of Gods - Digital Crafter - $12.99/€11.29 - 2.1 GB
- Planet RIX-13 - Sometimes You - $4.99/€4.99 - 127 MB
- Bedtime Blues - Forever Ent. - $9.99/€9.99 (Launch sale: $8.99/€4.99) - 399 MB
- Dying: Reborn - Coconut Island Games - $9.99/€8.39 - 3.3 GB
- Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Grasshopper Manufacture - $29.99/€29.99 - 5.6 GB
- Ancient Rush 2 - Heideland GameWorks - €9.99 - 2.3 GB *EU*
- Paladin - Pumpkin Games - €8.99 - 152 MB *EU*
- UTOPIA 9 - A Volatile Vacation - QubicGames - €9.99 - 999 MB *EU*
- Old School Racer 2 - Riddlersoft Games - $7.99/€6.99 (Preorder sale: $5.35/€4.34) - 199 MB
- Cinderella: An Interactive Fairytale - Golden Orb - $5.99/€4.99 - 184 MB
- Spot the Differences: Party! - Sanuk Games - $4.99/€4.99 - 801 MB
- Solitaire Klondike BLACK - G-mode - €5.09 (Launch sale: €3.56) - 42 MB *EU*
- My Exotic Farm 2018 - Plug In Digital - $9.99/€9.99 - 321 MB
- DLCs
- The Walking Dead: The Final Season - Telltale Games
15 - Episode 3: Broken Toys - Free with Season Pass ($19.99/€23.99) - Dragon Ball Xenoverse 2 - Bandai Namco Games
17 - Extra Pass - $29.99/€29.99 - Tales of Vesperia: Definitive Edition - Bandai Namco Games
17 - Adventurer Starter Pack - Free
17 - Costume Pack - Free - Travis Strikes Again: No More Heroes - Grasshopper Manufacture
18 - Season Pass - $9.98/€9.99
- Late regional releases
- Nitro Ball - Arcade - Data East/FTE Games - €7.99 - 71 MB *EU*
- Left-Right: The Mansion - Triple Boris - $3.99 - 972 MB *NA*
Announced out of nowhere! Teased this morning then announced 3 hours later lol.
PQube games seems to be all in on publishing software on the Nintendo Switch until further notice. A lot of games they've published since late 2017 has come to the platform so I guess those Vita ports turned into Switch ports for them.
Football Heroes Turbo is freaking hilarious and awesome. Bought it on steam and may double dip
Pretty sure I'm almost done with Momodora and it's been an ok game. Not the most challenging thing and it's rather short, music and sound is kind of a let down. Still not a bad game if you need a quick play and like metroidvania-ish stuff.
Really?! Looked... Bad. I was surprised it was 15, can you give more impressions? The screen shots on the eShop make it look like a super bland game.
I would say those games are priced appropriately at $1. I played each game, literally one time for about 30 minutes. And then deleted them.
You can ask yourself if 30 minutes for a somewhat interesting game is worth $1.
This game looks really cool. Definitely getting it.
Does anyone know of any other sports games that has RPG elements where you can level up your players? Not sure why, but I just feel like playing such a game.
Yup, I saw that in the post I was quoting. That's why I felt an itch to play some sports games with RPG elements. I still remember playing MLB Power Pros on the Wii and that game was so much fun. I wish Konami would have continued with that series in the states.
Game was so good i 100% it in one run lol took me 8 hours. went from 8pm to like 4am.
wish the game was longer
Same here, and what's even more impressive is that the games are selling well too, I read all the time that the Switch version of indie multiplats sell a ton more than on other platforms, so it's not over-crowded either from the souind of it.
Thank you, hahaha! I was actually researching Madden's sole release for the Vita yesterday. Sigh, playoffs are making me wish for a viable portal NFL title.
The timing is perfect to release an American football game; it this has depth, I'll purchase it tonight!
NBA2K has an RPG-like mode where you make a player and spend your points continuing to improve their skills as you play through their career. If you want to avoid microtransactions in it, play offline and it should be somewhat better.
Zombie Night Terror is coming to Switch at the end of this month.
The name might make you think that this is just another generic zombie game, but it's really not. It's basically a puzzle game in the vein of Lemmings. Make your army of zombies grow by infecting humans around the map and apply abilities (like explode) to zombies to get past obstacles.
I really liked what I played of it on pc a couple of years ago. Don't let the name fool you! It also has a respectable metacritic average as well as a very positive rating on Steam across ~1000 reviews.
The name might make you think that this is just another generic zombie game, but it's really not. It's basically a puzzle game in the vein of Lemmings. Make your army of zombies grow by infecting humans around the map and apply abilities (like explode) to zombies to get past obstacles.
I really liked what I played of it on pc a couple of years ago. Don't let the name fool you! It also has a respectable metacritic average as well as a very positive rating on Steam across ~1000 reviews.
God damn, Hollow Knight is freaking huuuuuge.
This looks like day one material, damn! I feel like nobody has even dared to touch the lemmings formula in decades, which sounds crazy because, at the time, it felt like it was one of the most popular videogames ever, you could find it installed in almost any random computer, like Prince of Persia or Doom.
This looks like day one material, damn! I feel like nobody has even dared to touch the lemmings formula in decades, which sounds crazy because, at the time, it felt like it was one of the most popular videogames ever, you could find it installed in almost any random computer, like Prince of Persia or Doom.
I was gonna wait for a sale on Momodora but ended up going for it since I wanna have a shortish single-playthru game after Rain World, looking forward to giving it a go. It's funny because besides the fact that there are so many games on the Switch by now, also sooooo many of them are the kind of game you could feasibly return to and play forever or at least for a couple hundred hours. Definitely makes it hard to just stick with one ha.
I do wanna shout out Rain World again now that I've finished it. I really think anyone who's heard a bit about it and is interested should give it a shot. I tend to like games/media that are divisive for the sort of reasons Rain World is, so I went in with high expectations and still ended up loving it way more than I thought I would. It might be one of the best games I've played, certainly one of the best I've played in the last few years. It amazes me that people don't make more of the game's visual style. I can't think of any other games with a similar style, and there's probably not a single 2D game that does as much with shadows as Rain World.
I will say, though, if you have the option to play it on a platform other than Switch (I didn't), it may be worth just playing it on one of those. I quite liked how it played as a handheld game, but aside from that, it's not quite a perfect port, with some semi-regular (mostly predictable) stutters and a few sequences that tanked the framerate pretty hard. Still perfectly playable and wonderful regardless.
I do wanna shout out Rain World again now that I've finished it. I really think anyone who's heard a bit about it and is interested should give it a shot. I tend to like games/media that are divisive for the sort of reasons Rain World is, so I went in with high expectations and still ended up loving it way more than I thought I would. It might be one of the best games I've played, certainly one of the best I've played in the last few years. It amazes me that people don't make more of the game's visual style. I can't think of any other games with a similar style, and there's probably not a single 2D game that does as much with shadows as Rain World.
I will say, though, if you have the option to play it on a platform other than Switch (I didn't), it may be worth just playing it on one of those. I quite liked how it played as a handheld game, but aside from that, it's not quite a perfect port, with some semi-regular (mostly predictable) stutters and a few sequences that tanked the framerate pretty hard. Still perfectly playable and wonderful regardless.
https://twitter.com/tangledeepgame/status/1086335608979636225
no word on price, but this is a day 1 double dip for me
no word on price, but this is a day 1 double dip for me
I know very little about the game(s), but I just picked up the Mutant Mudd Collection. I think I remember Peer (or someone) speaking highly of these games (this collection?) on IGN's NVC podcast a while back. I had just enough gold coins to get the game for free; coupled with seeing the Metacritic score at 85 made this an easy impulse decision. Now as to when I'll play the thing, that's another matter entirely...
Just beat Hollow Knight after 31 hours, only got the standard ending but I don't think I have the energy to go for the other ones.
Next up is Bayonetta 2 and by the time I'm done with that I would imagine there will probably be some big name indies coming soon after the indie direct this week (my money is on Wargroove releasing by the end of the month or early February).
Next up is Bayonetta 2 and by the time I'm done with that I would imagine there will probably be some big name indies coming soon after the indie direct this week (my money is on Wargroove releasing by the end of the month or early February).