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Nintendo eShop - January 2020 | "Indie developers are the most important creators in this industry"
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I finished Ember. I would say it was solid in mostly everything, but not standout in anything. I enjoyed it. I didn't love it.
For the last few days, I keep getting an error code where it won't connect to the eShop at all. The Internet connection is clearly working and I've changed no settings on either end. It just gives me an error code when I try to open the eShop until I restart the Switch. Then it works. It's super annoying.
Luigi's Mansion 3 took me like 15 hours to do everything (though I kinda used a gem guide near the end to get like half of them just to speed things up), so maybe that just because it's the quickest & therefore get it out of the backlog first before getting to the longer titles.
That seems to be a more average time. Either way, I'm pretty sure it's the shortest game on there. Not sure about Witcher Tales, never heard about it.
I'm replaying through TMS & while it's been a fun experience, you're looking at like a 50ish+ RPG depending on how much extra stuff you wanna do. But that's just my method for dealing with backlogs, getting the shorter stuff first & out of the way.
I doubt it. The demo isn't exactly the starting area though it's close.
I picked it up. Haven't played it yet but it dropped on PC last year and I heard a lot of great things.
Haha I'm at 40 hours and still have to clear the last floor. I guess I like to take things slow, and I 100% alll gems/Boos. Also, the rubber boat boss took me at least one full hour :P
I love this guy's channel. It's perfect for this era group also.
Katana Zero gets tough, man
Some of the enemy placements in the mansion level are infuriating
Some of the enemy placements in the mansion level are infuriating
Makes sense, I am anti-using other regions to buy games so it is awful for me because my wallet is destroyed!
Think of it more like a puzzle and suit up
the last boss will probably have you grind your teeth
This is low-key one of the most surprising discounts to ever hit the eShop. Why? BECAUSE JUPITER PICROSS GAMES NEVER EVER EVER GO ON SALE. EVER. (*with the one lone exception being Mario's Picross on 3DS Game Boy Virtual Console years ago)
It's one of my great fantasies to wake up one day to see the entire Picross e series on 3DS discounted, and now that fantasy is 0.01% closer to being realized. lol
Picross for $7 is a steal, and this one has tons of content. If you don't care about the anime (I have 0 interest in it), you can just skip through the conversations and play picross to your hearts content like you would in any other Jupyter Picross game.
The weird thing is, why discount the licensed game and not the regular ones?
Yeah, even if you know nothing about the Overlord anime, Picross is Picross. The subject material is secondary to the timeless gameplay. Well worth buying while you can save a few bucks.
It's very random and strange, yeah. It's even the most recently released one too when there are others that have been out for much longer.
The only thing I can think of is that maybe Kadokawa had some sway in this. But then you'd think that Kemono Friends Picross would be discounted too (and it isn't), so who knows?
Tokyo Mirage Sessions is $41.45 digital on Walmart's site.
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This seems like one of those first-party games that will take forever to get an eShop discount, so this is very tempting, especially so soon after release.
Someone convince me not to grab this. lol
Sorry, I just pulled the trigger, what were you saying? Convince you not to grab it?
I don't even understand why Walmart has it on sale in the first place... a price match? a price error? Digital games especially rarely get sales that aren't just matching eshop unless it's a mistake of some kind.
I'm blaming you if I have to survive on ramen next month. lol
It's all good. I pulled the trigger as well. :P
Very likely an error due to the odd price and uncharacteristically generous 30% off only two weeks after release.
I couldn't afford to dawdle and mull over whether or not to go for it before they fix it, since who knows when it'll drop that low again...
It hasn't even been out for a month and it's already $40
We can wait for lower
You and me both, it's right in the sweet spot ugh
We'll know for sure if it doesn't get adjusted within the next few hours, but this could very well be a price error. Walmart's site has a long history of randomly screwing up their prices and generally you don't see digital codes getting discounted from third-party sellers without a corresponding eShop sale to go along with it.
But I've already caved in so now it's my job to convince others to join me so I don't feel as guilty about it. ;P
I've done enough impulse purchasing for now. I have to draw a line somewhere. Sorry, TMS. Maybe once I've gotten through more of my backlog.
Week January 30th
OP
OP
Full week on eShop:
NA PR, Sales
EU PR, Sales
JP Article
- Demos
- Japan
- Late Releases
NA PR, Sales
EU PR, Sales
JP Article
- Kentucky Route Zero: TV Edition - Cardboard Computer/Annapurna - $24.99/€22.99 - 1.4 GB
- Coffee Talk - Toge Productions - $12.99/€12.99 - 537 MB
- Thronebreaker: The Witcher Tales - CD Projekt - $19.99/€19.99 - 4.3 GB
- Skellboy - Umaiki Games/Fabraz - $20.00/€20.00 - 1.6 GB
- Code Shifter - Arc System Works - $14.99/€18.99 - 261 MB
- Sisters Royale: Five Sisters Under Fire - AlfaSystem/Chorus Worldwide - $13.99/€12.99 - 332 MB
- Aviary Attorney - Sketchy Logic/Vertical Reach - $19.99/€16.49 - 320 MB
- Bookbound Brigade - Intragames - $19.99/€19.99 - 904 MB
- Arc of Alchemist - Idea Factory - $39.99 - 3.5 GB *02/06 on EU*
- Willy Jetman: Astromonkey's Revenge - BLG-Publishing - $14.99/€14.99 (Launch sale: €12.99) - 1.0 GB
- Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition - No More Robots - $24.99/€22.99 (Launch sale: $22.49/€20.69) - 946 MB
- Ash of Gods: Redemption - Koch Media - $29.99/€29.99 - 2.6 GB
- Orbitblazers - ogsoftgames - $19.99/€19.99 - 603 MB
- Tecmo Bowl - Arcade - Koei Tecmo/Hamster Co. - $7.99/€6.99
- Phar Lap: Horse Racing Challenge - Tru Blu Games - $39.99 - 2.0 GB *NA*
- Milo's Quest - Ratalaika Games - $4.99/€4.99 (Launch sale: $3.99/€3.99) - 44 MB
- Eclipse: Edge of Light - White Elk - $14.99/€12.50 - 4.4 GB
- Sparkle 4 Tales - Forever Ent. - $9.99/€9.99 (Launch sale: $8.99) - 373 MB
- Never Again - Redblack Spade - $13.99/€11.59 (Launch sale: $12.59) - 699 MB
- Uoris DX - Regista - $9.00/€8.00 (Launch sale: $4.50/€4.00) - 264 MB
- Reknum - JanduSoft - $4.99/€4.99 (Launch sale: $4.24/€4.24) - 135 MB
- Super Battle Cards - Baltoro Games - $5.99/€5.99 - 101 MB
- Prison Princess - Qureate - $19.99/€16.79 - 491 MB
- Battleground - Sabec - $9.99 - 111 MB *NA*
- It Came From Space And Ate Our Brains - All In! Games - $14.99/€14.99 - 955 MB
- Bridge Constructor Ultimate Edition - Headup Games - $14.99/€14.99 (Launch sale: €11.99) - 225 MB
- Actual Sunlight - Wzogi - $10.00/€9.00 - 103 MB
- Speaking Simulator - Affable Games - $20.00/€19.00 - 535 MB
- Music Racer - Sometimes You - $6.99/€6.99 - 407 MB
- Ascendant Hearts - Visualnoveler - $9.99/€9.99 - 369 MB
- Hypercharge Unboxed - Digital Cybercherries - $19.99/€19.99 - 4.1 GB
- Horse Farm - upjers - $19.99/€19.99 (Launch sale: $14.99/€14.99) - 261 MB
- Super Tennis - Ultimate Games - $5.99/€5.99 - 121 MB
- Motorcycle Mechanic Simulator - Ultimate Games - $6.99/€6.99 (Launch sale: $0.69/€1.18) - 597 MB
- Touchdown Pinball - SuperPowerUpGames - $3.00/€2.99 (Launch sale: $1.98/€2.00) - 183 MB
- Demos
- Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair - Team17
- AeternoBlade II - Corecell Technology
- Japan
- Koi no Hanasaku Hyakkaen - Takuyo - ¥7,480
- Touhou Gensou Mahjong - Mediascape - ¥3,850
- IxShe Tell - Entergram - ¥6,050
- Rêver d'un manège - Mages - ¥6,600
- Boku to Joi no Shinsatsu Nisshi - Entergram - ¥1,980
- Greco's Hall of Kanji Learn Japanese <Beginner> - Media-5 - ¥1,000
- Late Releases
- Heroland - Marvelous - €39.99 - 658 MB *EU*
*Both* games are now discounted by 90% on the US eShop, down to $1.99.
Oh wow, buying both tonight. Thank you so much for the heads up. Really appreciated.
Howdy, all.
I'm looking for some clarification on Snack World here. As a huge life sim fan, I always regretted missing out on Fantasy Life. After watching the newest trailer, it looks like it has a lot of shared DNA with FL, but the trailer only focused on dungeon crawling (with the dreaded words "randomly generated"—there's no bigger turn-off for me at this point than that).
However, I'll still be more than happy to give it a try if there are also life sim elements. There was a scene in the trailer where it looked like player characters were hanging out in a house. I'm hoping this means there is a life sim component here that the trailer just chose not to focus on.
Does anybody know if that's the case? Or is it too early to say one way or another?
I'm looking for some clarification on Snack World here. As a huge life sim fan, I always regretted missing out on Fantasy Life. After watching the newest trailer, it looks like it has a lot of shared DNA with FL, but the trailer only focused on dungeon crawling (with the dreaded words "randomly generated"—there's no bigger turn-off for me at this point than that).
However, I'll still be more than happy to give it a try if there are also life sim elements. There was a scene in the trailer where it looked like player characters were hanging out in a house. I'm hoping this means there is a life sim component here that the trailer just chose not to focus on.
Does anybody know if that's the case? Or is it too early to say one way or another?
Looks like that was indeed a price error on TMS earlier. It's now showing as full price on Walmart's website. lol
Suppose might as well post it now (seeing as we have screwed our country and left the EU)
My review for Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition - http://bit.ly/2RJAfWW
Fantastic game in the mould of Paper's Please. Some of the humour might not translatr globally, but it is still a fantastic game.
Alsol super tempted by Blasphemous and Picross Lord of the Nazarick. They'll easily see me through to Two Point Hospital.
My review for Not Tonight: Take Back Control Edition - http://bit.ly/2RJAfWW
Fantastic game in the mould of Paper's Please. Some of the humour might not translatr globally, but it is still a fantastic game.
Alsol super tempted by Blasphemous and Picross Lord of the Nazarick. They'll easily see me through to Two Point Hospital.
Bought Hypercharge: Unboxed because it looked neat. Impressions:
In case you don't know what it is, it's a tower defense FPS where you play as a toy and fight knock-offs of other toys like Beyblades, Boglins, Army Men, etc. First off, I was surprised to discover that this is just as much a platformer as it is a shooter. You have two jumps and the ability to clamber up a ledge if you just barely missed it, and the maps really make the most of them. It reminds me of games like Yooka-Laylee and Voodoo Vince in that you can jump on almost everything, including stuff that doesn't even seem like it should be possible... which is great for me, because I love that type of platformer. Here's an example of what I mean - it took me a good 10 minutes to figure out how to reach this collectible.
Anyway, the meat of the gameplay has you defending three cores on each map. You can do this by blasting away at enemies as they arrive in waves, and by setting up traps to slow them down or damage them. It's pretty fun, but my only issue is that there's no way to tell which cores the enemies are going to attack on each wave or where they're going to come from without trial and error. For example, on the "No. 2" map, there's no point in spending your cash putting traps around the red core early since the enemies won't attack it until Wave 3.
It's not really a problem if you go online and have at least three players all defending a core, but it is an issue when the other players are stupid and bunch up near the same core, or when you're playing single player. This is definitely a game best played with some competent friends. Speaking of stupid players, the build phase before each wave lasts three minutes, and boy do I wish my teammates would have the brain cells to press the damn A button to skip the phase when there's nothing left to build.
In terms of other modes, there's a barebones deathmatch mode, but it's nothing to write home about. The tower defense co-op mode is the clear focus. You can also play the maps in Free Roam mode, which is good for learning their layouts and finding the hidden collectibles. The maps are all very well made, visually appealing with plenty of detail and platforming opportunities without feeling overly busy or confusing.
The roadmap for the game says it has at least a few months of content updates and the devs seem committed to making it as good as it can possibly be, so I can recommend it to anyone who's been wanting a cartoony shooter on Switch.
In case you don't know what it is, it's a tower defense FPS where you play as a toy and fight knock-offs of other toys like Beyblades, Boglins, Army Men, etc. First off, I was surprised to discover that this is just as much a platformer as it is a shooter. You have two jumps and the ability to clamber up a ledge if you just barely missed it, and the maps really make the most of them. It reminds me of games like Yooka-Laylee and Voodoo Vince in that you can jump on almost everything, including stuff that doesn't even seem like it should be possible... which is great for me, because I love that type of platformer. Here's an example of what I mean - it took me a good 10 minutes to figure out how to reach this collectible.
Anyway, the meat of the gameplay has you defending three cores on each map. You can do this by blasting away at enemies as they arrive in waves, and by setting up traps to slow them down or damage them. It's pretty fun, but my only issue is that there's no way to tell which cores the enemies are going to attack on each wave or where they're going to come from without trial and error. For example, on the "No. 2" map, there's no point in spending your cash putting traps around the red core early since the enemies won't attack it until Wave 3.
It's not really a problem if you go online and have at least three players all defending a core, but it is an issue when the other players are stupid and bunch up near the same core, or when you're playing single player. This is definitely a game best played with some competent friends. Speaking of stupid players, the build phase before each wave lasts three minutes, and boy do I wish my teammates would have the brain cells to press the damn A button to skip the phase when there's nothing left to build.
In terms of other modes, there's a barebones deathmatch mode, but it's nothing to write home about. The tower defense co-op mode is the clear focus. You can also play the maps in Free Roam mode, which is good for learning their layouts and finding the hidden collectibles. The maps are all very well made, visually appealing with plenty of detail and platforming opportunities without feeling overly busy or confusing.
The roadmap for the game says it has at least a few months of content updates and the devs seem committed to making it as good as it can possibly be, so I can recommend it to anyone who's been wanting a cartoony shooter on Switch.
Yeah, I think it was a price error. Managed to snag one for myself just in time
Excellent write-up. This game immediately caught my eye when I first saw it and you just made it sound even more appealing. But $20 is a big ask right now when my backlog is gigantic and I've already spent so much since the Cyber Deals sale. lol
Mega Picross is a real brain-bender at first, especially the 20x15 puzzles. 😓
Most likely, yeah.
don't forget about kemono friends picross!
Yup, also by Jupiter.
Funny enough, their last Picross game for the 3DS was based on Hello Kitty. They seem to do a themed Picross inbetween their normal series.