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Nintendo Downloads - February 2010

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blu

Wants the largest console games publisher to avoid Nintendo's platforms.
art of balance must be the most stylish and visually adept game released on wiiware yet. it's also a big 'fuck you' from shin'en to all the retail 'bu..bu..but it's wii!' garbage of the sort of tony hawk: ryde that does not even bother to draw a shadow underneath your character and thus deprives the player of elementary ground-contact perception when skating in 3rd person.
 
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Volcynika

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NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: WHETHER AT HOME OR OUT AND ABOUT, NINTENDO'S DOWNLOADS MAKE FOR GREAT FUN


Feb, 22, 2010

Let's say you're relaxing at home, but something doesn't seem quite right. Maybe your house has ghosts. Clearly you need to get GhostSlayer, with its Wii MotionPlus™ accessory functionality, to figure out how to deal with them. Or maybe your house has a mouse. Mouse House™ puzzles seem the logical choice for you. Maybe you just need to get out of the house and try some fresh air with Family Go-Kart Racing. If it seems a bit brighter than usual outdoors, that's probably because Aura-Aura, the star of Aura-Aura Climber™, has fallen out of the sky. While you're out having fun, take and share some crazy pictures of your friends and family with Faceez, or spend a few relaxing hours directing flights with Flight Control™. And while you're out there, you might want to spend some time helping a little boy recover his lost pet goldfish, Flipper.

WiiWare™

GhostSlayer
Publisher: Gevo Entertainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Blood, Violence
Price: 600 Wii Points™
Description: Embark on a thrilling ghost-fighting experience. Play as a Ghost Slayer as you battle evil spirits that plague the mortal world. Your sword is your only weapon against them. Eliminate all hostiles in your path and defeat the Ghost Queen in the final stage in order to save the world. Unlock new swords and acquire special techniques that you can use to your advantage. Test your skills by playing all three levels of difficulty. Enjoy the thrill of slashing ghosts and vaporizing them by swinging your Wii Remote™ controller and experience sword-fighting game play at a new level of realism by using Wii MotionPlus accessory (this game can be played with or without Wii MotionPlus). Brace yourself for the onslaught of blood-thirsty spirits.

Mouse House
Publisher: Big John Games
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 600 Wii Points
Description: He's clever, he's daring, he's brave, he's ... a mouse! Mouse House is an accessible and fast-paced logic puzzle game in which you lead a lively little mouse on his hunt to collect the cheese in each of 100 challenging puzzles. But these are no simple mazes - our adorable hero has to weave his way though a cast of colorful critters, including stinger-shooting bees and nasty rats, as well as tricky traps like conveyor belts, collapsing floors and more. A true "pick up and play" game, Mouse House's combination of simple controls and multiple levels of challenge make it perfect for players of all ages.

Family Go-Kart Racing
Publisher: Aksys Games
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: It's Family Go-Kart Racing, the fantastic new racing game from Arc System Works. The Family is back: Billy, Sarah, Daddy, Mommy and new to the Family fun, Auntie and Gramps. Choose among the six family members and six karts to take on 12 exciting tracks and drift your way to victory. With the Wii Remote controller's tilt control, race against the clock in Time Attack to beat your personal records, or take on the entire family in a full Grand Prix. Steer your way through the Snowy Slopes, peel out in the World Bazaar and go-go-go for gold on the Go-Go Rollercoaster. Earn your place as the head of the family by outmaneuvering your kin with special items like Acceleration and Lighting to zip past your opponents. Or, unleash the Bowling Bomb and strike out the kart ahead of you.

Nintendo DSiWare™

Aura-Aura Climber
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points™
Description: Aura-Aura has fallen out of the sky and landed on Earth. He is determined to return to his rightful place in the universe and become a bright star. Take control of Aura-Aura, and help him to accomplish this by using his grapple arm to grab a variety of grapple points and continuously climb higher in the sky. Along the way, collect items to aid him (bombs, extensions for his grapple arm) and avoid enemies that damage Aura-Aura's health. Two modes of play offer very different challenges: Score Attack, in which you try to get to the goal with as many points as possible, and Endless, in which your aim is simply to help Aura-Aura climb as high into the sky as possible within the time limit. And even if you think you've mastered the art of climbing, both modes offer numerous medals to find or earn by completing specific tasks. With its intuitive controls, straightforward game play, and incredible replay value, Aura-Aura's journey is arcade-style gaming at its best ... or should that be its highest?

Flight Control
Publisher: Firemint
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Keep the skies safe in Flight Control, the insanely popular worldwide hit from Firemint. In this action-packed game, take on the role of an air traffic controller at an increasingly busy airport. In complete control of the airspace, direct aircraft to their appropriate landing zones while avoiding collisions. Travel to airports set among green fields, a beachside resort, the Australian Outback, a winter wonderland and even an aircraft carrier. Learn how to land 10 different kinds of aircraft, including jets, seaplanes and helicopters. To direct aircraft, simply touch and drag them to their landing zones with the stylus without letting them collide. Sounds easy? You'll need smart strategy, keen eyes and a smooth touch to keep the chaos under control. You can even work alongside a friend in cooperative multiplayer mode, and guard the airways together. Flight Control only takes a minute to learn – just don't expect to put it down as quickly as you'll pick it up.

Faceez
Publisher: Neko Entertainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Alcohol Reference, Comic Mischief, Mild Blood
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Make your friends laugh with Faceez. Take pictures of their faces with the Nintendo DSi Camera and then mix them and animate them. Dress them up with lots of funny accessories. Place them in your own favorite settings. Give free reign to your imagination with millions of possible combinations. Thanks to the Nintendo DSi system's connectivity with Facebook, you can share your creations with your friends, who'll be rolling on the floor laughing. Photograph, disguise, decorate, animate and send ... FACEEZ.

Flipper
Publisher: Xform
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: The hero of the game is a courageous young boy. You must lead him through various worlds full of obstacles to retrieve his stolen goldfish called Flipper. Get ready for a 3-D puzzle platform game set in four different worlds with five levels each. The game features beautiful pixel-art backdrops, cheerful cartoon characters and catchy music. The voxel engine technology allows you to change the environment with some cool power-ups. You can pick up power-ups that let you blast holes in the environment while other power-ups restore it or build platforms. It's up to you to use the limited amount of power-ups wisely to complete each level. Flipper is a fun and challenging puzzle game that is suited for all ages.

Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi™ Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit Wii.com or NintendoDSi.com.
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
another 200 point nintendo-published dsiware game with absolutely no information available about it pre-release. aura aura climber just has a "(c) 2010 nintendo" tag, so i'm assuming it's either sufficiently outsourced that the developer doesn't get credit, or it's actually internally developed. visually looks a little odd, it's hard to tell what's going on in the two screenshots they've made available.

also mouse house doesn't look very good. ghost slayer looks like dreamcast level, and it's some kind of first-person brawler / slasher? family go kart has two 160x120 screenshots available. of course you can't see anything at that resolution, but it looks like poop regardless.

flipper appears to be the lone great-looking release this week

toythatkills said:
Flight Control seems pricey.
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the game is really really excellent. but it's also 0.99 on its native platform, which has received about a half dozen free content updates, so paying five times as much for a port that isn't likely to be updated seems like a rip-off to me.
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
Also can I just say that the whole "get ready to super mario kart your ninja turtles with kirby in gameloftworld" title / lede paragraph format for their press releases continues to get stupider and stupider?
 
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radcliff

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With a seemingly lackluster release list for WiiWare and DSiWare, you would think this would be a good time to release either Megaman 4 or Castlevania: Rondo of Blood for VC (or any VC game for that matter).
 
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Capndrake

Member
radcliff said:
With a seemingly lackluster release list for WiiWare and DSiWare, you would think this would be a good time to release either Megaman 4 or Castlevania: Rondo of Blood for VC (or any VC game for that matter).
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Tell that to Nintendo of Europe, they've released no VC games in FIVE weeks this year so far.
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
Stumpokapow said:
Also can I just say that the whole "get ready to super mario kart your ninja turtles with kirby in gameloftworld" title / lede paragraph format for their press releases continues to get stupider and stupider?
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You say that now, but little do you know that they come up with the name of the press release first by pulling words from a hat, and then find game that go with the words.
 
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Drkirby

Corporate Apologist
MoxManiac said:
What the fuck, where the fucking fuck is fucking Mega Man 4?
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I preordered all the copies, so they are out of them to sell. You can buy one from me for $89.99 USD + Shipping. Yes, I do realize they are a downloadable game, but this does not change the facts.
 
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VOOK

We don't know why he keeps buying PAL, either.
Flight Control is great, sure it's more than the iPhone version but still great fun.
 
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Somnid

Member
Very interesting that they chose to withhold Mega Man 4. Not that it would be that unexpected for a null VC week since they have just Zaxxon, MM4, OB64 and CVX:RoB in the queue with maybe another Sunsoft title a little farther out. But I'm still somewhat expecting something about DD to come out of that media event this week. The rare no-VC week showing up on this of all weeks seems a little coincidental in any case. I do remember that Japan had no games the Tuesday the week VCA was announced.

Should be evident by tomorrow night if this is the case.
 
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mclem

Member
Capndrake said:
Tell that to Nintendo of Europe, they've released no VC games in FIVE weeks this year so far.
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To be fair, they did that for a period last year, too, and back then they didn't have as much Wiiware content to fill in the gaps, either. At least there's quite a bit of Wiiware stuff coming out currently.
 
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JoshuaJSlone

Member
heringer said:
This GhostSlayer uses M+, no? I'm curious to see if it's at least decent.
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Hmm, yeah, looks like it.
Enjoy the thrill of slashing ghosts and vaporizing them by swinging your Wii Remote™ controller and experience sword-fighting game play at a new level of realism by using Wii MotionPlus accessory (this game can be played with or without Wii MotionPlus).
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After the beginning of the blurb I skipped the rest, but 600 points for something to do with my MotionPlus that isn't Wii Sports Resort might be worth it.
 
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donny2112

Member
JoshuaJSlone said:
600 points for something to do with my MotionPlus that isn't Wii Sports Resort might be worth it.
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I think I'll get this. If this is 1:1 and Red Steel 2 does the "make a motion, then we'll interpret it and do something on screen after you finish" from early reports, this could be the better sword game. :lol
 
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radcliff

Member
Somnid said:
But I'm still somewhat expecting something about DD to come out of that media event this week. The rare no-VC week showing up on this of all weeks seems a little coincidental in any case. I do remember that Japan had no games the Tuesday the week VCA was announced.

Should be evident by tomorrow night if this is the case.
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CPS I and II on VCA would make me giddy.
 
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Pociask

Member
This thread is as good as place as any I can figure to ask...

Does anyone know a good Metacritic like site for WiiWare and Virtual Console games? I just got a 2000 point card for a gift, and while I know 1000 of that is MM9, I'm trying to figure out where to spend the other 1000. So... many... good... choices...
 
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Somnid

Member
Pociask said:
This thread is as good as place as any I can figure to ask...

Does anyone know a good Metacritic like site for WiiWare and Virtual Console games? I just got a 2000 point card for a gift, and while I know 1000 of that is MM9, I'm trying to figure out where to spend the other 1000. So... many... good... choices...
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Nintendolife is the only decent site out there. Many downloads don't ever see reviews from the big sites concerned with retail games. But if you have 2000 and want Mega Man 9 you might as well save the other 1000 for Mega Man 10 next week.
 
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Mafro

Member
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
Mafro said:
NintendoLife is good for this. See here:

http://wiiware.nintendolife.com/games?sort=rating
http://dsiware.nintendolife.com/games?sort=rating
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NintendoLife is great in that within a week of release they review every single VC and WiiWare and DSiWare game and almost no one else does. The problem is their reviews aren't particularly good by and large and they're all over the map score-wise. I use them more to get media and an overview of what a game is than actually paying attention to their criticism.

JoshuaJSlone said:
Hmm, yeah, looks like it.

After the beginning of the blurb I skipped the rest, but 600 points for something to do with my MotionPlus that isn't Wii Sports Resort might be worth it.
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dude wait like two weeks and get the good-looking gladiator game :p
 
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donny2112

Member
Stumpokapow said:
dude wait like two weeks and get the good-looking gladiator game :p
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600 points.

Did they change Tournament of Legends to use Motion+? When it was first announced, they weren't going the Motion+ route with the game.

Edit:
Apparently not. From Stephen Totilo,

The game will not support MotionPlus despite earlier reports that it would. The High Voltage guys told me that's because it didn't make sense to offer more precise motion control for the right hand, while leaving the player's left hand with the default motion sensitivity of the Nunchuk.
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MoxManiac

Member
Pociask said:
This thread is as good as place as any I can figure to ask...

Does anyone know a good Metacritic like site for WiiWare and Virtual Console games? I just got a 2000 point card for a gift, and while I know 1000 of that is MM9, I'm trying to figure out where to spend the other 1000. So... many... good... choices...
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Buy MM9 for 1000, then next week, buy MM10 for 1000.
 
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Balb

Member
What's the logic behind releasing NO VC game in a week? Surely there's a queue of games waiting to be released, and it's not like they're running out of games to put on it. Someone should press Nintendo on this issue one of these days.

It's not the end of the world, but how long are we supposed to wait to play certain rom dumps of old games we feel like playing?
 
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Stumpokapow

listen to the mad man
donny2112 said:
600 points.

Did they change Tournament of Legends to use Motion+? When it was first announced, they weren't going the Motion+ route with the game.
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I'm not talking about tournament of legends, i'm talking about rage of the gladiator, which does support M+, looks MUCH better than this, and will cost at most 1000 points.

http://www.ghostfiregames.com/gladiator/rage-of-the-gladiator/

PepsimanVsJoe said:
Support for more hardware without the games to back it up? Yep that's VCA alright.
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I think it's pretty clear at this point that if you want legal arcade emulator, VCA isn't going to be the place to get it in 2010.
 
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Pociask

Member
MoxManiac said:
Buy MM9 for 1000, then next week, buy MM10 for 1000.
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Double dipping on Mega Man sounds good, but on the other hand, there are a lot of great virtual console games out there that I've never played that beg to be purchased... I'm eying Super Mario RPG, Super Metroid, Majora's Mask, and the eventual release of Ogre Battle 64 with particular envy. Being married and in school, I spend more time thinking about games than playing them :lol
 
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Milabrega

Member
Was hoping we'd get Mega Man 4, if only so Mega Man 5 can be next week. Only version of 5 I own is the meh PS2 anniversary collection.

Pociask, definitely do the Mega Man 9/10 double dip. With your next points card though, Super Metroid is the must buy.
 
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mugurumakensei

Member
Wow, Rage of the Gladiator has a far more appealing art style than Tournament of Legends. Has some pretty decent textures too aside from the ground...
 
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tetrisgrammaton

Member
Nuclear Muffin said:
No VC is completely unacceptable, unless they're planning something for the Media Summit on Thursday. Whatever it is, it better be good...
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i'm trying to think of what new type of emulation they can announce and not support... wait thats gdc... nevermind
 
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Agent Unknown

Member
Absolutely awful week. Three meh-sounding DSiware games, four crappy looking WW shovelware titles with Cave Story still MIA, no VC game at all, not even a Mega Man game as lead in promotion for 10, no VCA when they haven't even uploaded Donkey Kong...I mean really. The mind boggles at how badly this service is managed sometimes.

TheCardPlayer said:
It's amazing. Not just awesome!
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Agreed, Mega Man 4 is still one of my faves in the series and I rank it closely with 2 and 3. Me and my brother saved for months to buy the cart back in '92 after renting it repeatedly. It's a bit easier but the weapon/difficulty balance is much better than 5 and 6, good level design, sweet mini boss animals (whales 'n snails, baby), fantastic soundtrack and it features some of the greatest Wily castle bosses ever, especially love this guy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YiJ-deh7Hc#t=2m52s

Oh and it has one of the finest ending squences in the series:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMTqP92GLZQ
 
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