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NintendoWare Weekly: Cave Story, Cave Story
Another relatively awesome week for DSiWare, WiiWare and, yes, even Virtual Console, as Cave Story arrives in both portable form on DSiWare and demo form on WiiWare. DSiWare also features a port of Two Tribes' Mac/iPhone puzzle game Frenzic. The Virtual Console offers the wonderful Neo Geo puzzler Magical Drop 2.%Gallery-108408%
Japanese Nintendo downloads: Magical Drop 2
WiiWare is on a break this week in Japan, leaving only DSiWare and Virtual Console with new releases. Magical Drop 2 on Neo Geo picks up some of the slack -- Data East's color-matching puzzle game is easily the best thing available this week. On DSiWare, there's a Gameloft soccer game, Othello and hanafuda games, and a diary app meant to help people practice their English. Don't expect to see that one in North America, on account of, you know, the pervasiveness of native-level English competency. The full list of this week's releases includes: Heisei Shin Onigashima Zenpen (Super Famicom, 1 player, 800 Wii Points) Magical Drop 2 (Neo Geo, 1-2 players, 900 Wii Points) at-Enter: Taisen Hanafuda Koi Koi Kassen (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200 DSi Points) at-Enter: Taisen Reversi (DSiWare, 1-2 players, 200DSi Points) Suku Suku Native English Journal Calendar (DSiWare, 1 player, 500 DSi Points) Real Soccer 2010 (DSiWare, players, DSi Points)
Virtual Console release numbers Magically Drop in Japan
We used to look at Nintendo's monthly Virtual Console lineup with a mixture of anticipation (because we'd see at least a few games each month that seemed destined for our own Virtual Console) and dread (because it was a big list of Japanese game titles to translate). The May lineup inspires neither -- only a measure of apathy roughly equal to that on the part of whoever is responsible for the Virtual Console in the first place. There are only three Virtual Console games listed for May release in Japan. That's half of May 2009's already-skimpy lineup, and laughable compared to May 2008's bumper crop. Bandai Namco doesn't announce its VC Arcade releases beforehand, so there could be more games, but still ... poor Virtual Console. Genghis Khan 2: Clan of the Grey Wolf (Super Famicom) Heisei Shin Onigashima Zenpen (Super Famicom) Magical Drop 2 (Neo Geo)
