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New Nintendo eShop releases: Shovel Knight, Castlevania 3
The gardening tool-wielding Shovel Knight makes his debut on Nintendo platforms this week, joining Konami's NES classic Castlevania 3: Dracula's Curse on the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U Virtual Console. Who would win in a fight, you think -- Shovel Knight or Trevor Belmont? I'm guessing that a shovel would do a lot more damage to a leather-clad vampire hunter than a bullwhip would do to a suit of armor, so we'll give this round to Shovel Knight. Other Wii U highlights this week include the 3D Arkanoid-like Brick Breaker 3D and the intriguingly-named Monkey Pirates. 3DS owners get a broader selection of choices with games like Skypeace, Toy Stunt Bike, and Mysterious Stars: The Samurai. This week's update also gives eShop users the chance to save some cash with price drops for Code of Princess, Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor Overclocked, Urban Trial Freestyle, Darksiders 2, and a collection of Ubisoft-published games. You can read more about this week's eShop releases here.
NintendoWare Weekly: Bit. Trip Runner demo, Rival Turf!
Gaijin Games has made it simple for you to try out its super-hard platformer Bit.Trip Runner, releasing a demo on the Wii Shop today -- just as it has for most of the Bit.Trip games. You should absolutely try this one, unless you get frustrated easily. Also on Wii today: Rival Turf!, a game that isn't actually very good, but has a distinctive box art that ... also isn't very good.
NintendoWare Weekly: Super Bonk, From the Abyss
The future of Bonk: Brink of Extinction may be uncertain, but that doesn't mean you can't download a new (to Wii) Bonk game today! If you prefer your adventuring to be more technologically advanced, there's also a game about using an underwater vehicle to capture fish. DSiWare features baseball management today, along with fantasy-themed puzzling and Anonymous Notes Chapter 1 - From the Abyss -, a DSiWare spin-off of an obscure DS dungeon game.%Gallery-120348%
Japanese Nintendo downloads: Metal Gear 2, Bit Man
This week on the Japanese Wii Shop, the Virtual Console is host to two rare Konami sequels: Gofer's Ambition Episode 2, a Gradius game exclusive to the MSX platform, and Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake, the real Metal Gear sequel that we didn't see in North America until the limited edition release of Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence. Additionally, Marvelous's World Game Parade brings another game to WiiWare, this time, Bplus's Bit Boy!!, significantly reworked for its Japanese release. The full list of weekly releases follows: Gofer's Ambition Episode 2 (MSX, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points) Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake (MSX, 1 player, 800 Wii Points) Bit Man!! (WiiWare, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points) Anonymous Notes From the Abyss Chapter 2 (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) MySims Camera (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) Delbo (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points)
Japanese Nintendo downloads: Mega Man 4, Nectaris, Starship Defender
This week, the long-awaited remake of Hudson's Military Madness is available on WiiWare in Japan. Do you like ... war? Do you like hexagons? This is for you! Japanese gamers with no interest in playing updated versions of classic games can play a faithfully emulated version of Mega Man 4 instead. DSi owners have a wide selection of games this week, including Q-Games's Starship Defense/Starship Patrol (now under a third name!), a new G.G. Series game, a Gameloft pet sim, and a dungeon crawler based on Sonic Powered's From the Abyss. Rockman 4 (Famicom, 1 player, 500 Wii Points) Nectaris (WiiWare, 1-4 players, 1,000 Wii Points) Anonymous Notes: From the Abyss (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) Uchimakure! Touch Pen Wars (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) G.G. Series Assault Buster (DSiWare, 1 player, 200 DSi Points) Uso Hakkenki: Kokoro no Naka o Nozo Ichao (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 500 DSi Points) Starship Defender (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Wanko to Issho (DSiWare, 1 player, 800 DSi Points)
