If your 3DS is hungry for eShop games, Nintendo is making sure that the handheld gets its full for 2012’s remaining months.
Oh, mercy! Nintendo has made the current population of 3DS users happier than a pig in mud today by revealing a large menu of eShop games that will be available in the final few months of 2012.
Some brilliant stuff, indubitably, like a successor to last year’s beloved cutesy puzzler Pushmo (named innocently enough, Crashmo), to even full retail titles, 2011’s excellent Super Mario 3D Land for example, and a plethora (yup, big boy word!) of enticing titles that will be downloadable at a tap of your stylus.
It’s finally what we’ve all wanted from Nintendo in this current digital distribution age; what a brand new world, indeed. And I love it! But enough navel-gazing on my part, let’s dish up what to soon expect on the 3DS eShop, beginning with a group of special titles that you won’t be finding on any other platform.
ORIGINAL GAMES
NightSky launches Oct. 25. NightSky is an action-puzzle game that offers an ambient game-play experience with cerebral challenges that fill uniquely designed, picturesque worlds. Each of these worlds is broken into different areas in which the player must maneuver a sphere by using realistic physics to advance.
Crashmo (first image) launches Nov. 22. Players can embrace the laws of gravity and challenge themselves with a whole new kind of action-puzzle play in this exciting sequel to the critically acclaimed Pushmo. New gravity mechanics and gadgets like floating blocks, doors and move switches await, testing players’ skills as they push, pull and slide each puzzle’s colorful blocks in order to climb to the top. Just be careful where those blocks are moved-unsupported blocks will come crashing down. Crashmo contains lots of puzzles to test your brains, and enhanced puzzle-creation and -sharing features mean that even when all the puzzles are cleared, the fun never has to stop.
Fluidity: Spin Cycle arrives on Dec. 27, letting players tilt, turn and even rotate their Nintendo 3DS system 360 degrees to maneuver a puddle of water named Eddy through a maze-like, magical world. Change from liquid to a block of ice or a steam cloud to solve fun, gravity-defying puzzles and defeat Goop monsters. Fluidity: Spin Cycle features a new storybook setting to explore that spans the ages, from a lost world full of dinosaurs to the modern world and beyond.
Three original games from LEVEL-5 and several well-known Japanese collaborators will launch in the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS before this holiday season. The first of these games, SUDA 51’s LIBERATION MAIDEN, is set 100 years in the future, when the president of Japan boards her Liberator, Kamui, and fights to free her country one region at a time. AERO PORTER by Yoot Saito and Yasumi Matsuno’s CRIMSON SHROUD are also slated for release by the end of the year.
Get ready to unleash pedestrian-tossing pandemonium with Grace and Savannah in Tokyo Crash Mobs, a fast-paced action-puzzle game coming to the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo 3DS in early 2013. Players will need lightning-fast reflexes and an eye for strategy to survive the three chaotic weeks that lie ahead for our heroines, as they take on anyone and anything that gets in their way.
RECENT NINTENDO 3DS HITS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
Super Mario 3D Land, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time 3D, Star Fox 64 3D and Mario Kart 7 will become available for purchase from the Nintendo eShop on Oct. 18 at a price of $39.99 each. Additional Nintendo 3DS software currently only available at retail stores will become available in the Nintendo eShop in the future.
VIRTUAL CONSOLE
Mario Golf (Game Boy Color version; launches Oct. 11)
Castlevania: The Adventure (launches Oct. 25)
Ninja Gaiden (launches Nov. 8)
Zelda II – The Adventure of Link (launches Nov. 22)
Wario Land II (launches Dec. 20)
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (launches Dec. 27)
GAME DEMOS
Two demo versions of Style Savvy: Trendsetters will be available for download from the Nintendo eShop. The first demo is available today and lets players participate in a fashion contest, create an outfit based on the contest theme, style their model’s hair and makeup and send her down the runway. The second demo will be available on Nov. 1, and lets players style their clothes and makeup, and then connect to the Internet via Nintendo Network to visit the online Fashion Plaza where they can check out ensembles that actual Style Savvy: Trendsetters players have created. Any items purchased using in-game currency in this demo version can be transferred to the full game. Style Savvy: Trendsetters will launch in stores and in the Nintendo eShop on Oct. 22.
Additional game demos coming soon include:
Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you steal our garbage?!! from D3Publisher
Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion from Disney Interactive
LEGO The Lord of the Rings from Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment
Moshi Monsters: Moshlings Theme Park from Activision
Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed from SEGA
All info and release dates are provided by Nintendo and subject to immediate change.
There you have it folks, a delightfully robust serving of eShop titles to enjoy starting this October. Just scanning the giant chunk of info above, personally I’m looking forward to the three games from Guild01, published by LEVEL-5, a collection of unusual creations from some of the best known game-creators in Japan.
Say SUDA-51 – a.k.a. Goichi Suda of No More Heroes, killer7, and Lollipop Chainsaw fame – who is behind the production of LIBERATION MAIDEN, which from its description and image I used for this story’s header sounds absolutely cray cray. The kind of awesome cray cray the gaming public expects and loves from Mr. Suda. Well, a small gaming public that is.
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