It’s a eShop centric week this week with a new Virtual Console title and a new retail demo to try out. Wii owners get a demo of a game that came out a while back, that’s just how Nintendo rolls these days.
The 3D Classics version of Kid Icarus was meant to be up today, that’s of course unless you have won it already through Nintendo Australia’s competition. However, it’s not up on the Australian eShop. So you’re left now with what’s below. Which isn’t bad… it’s just no shiny new Kid Icarus in 3D.
The Wii continues its drought but 3DS owners you get a some original content and an old timey game for some laughs. Why laugh? Because it’s not very good.
It’s beginning to be a bad trend with our fair weekly updates, it was good for a while when the eShop was brand new and now it’s just devolved into a cesspool of mediocrity. This mediocrity isn’t so much the content, some of it’s quite good but the volume of it isn’t. This week there is one Game Boy game and a DSiWare game for DSi and 3DS owners. That’s it.
It may be heating up in Australia, but that hasn’t stopped Nintendo having a laugh because indeed hell hath frozen over. That’s what I had written originally, but now I’ve had to change it. So why had hell frozen over? Well we were set to get two Virtual Console games this week, they even sent a press release and everything. But alas, as well as missing out on the World Cup, we miss out on Magical Drop II. Never the less, let’s have a look at what we did get.
There’s a big six titles hitting the two Nintendo platforms this weekend. Some of them are brand new, some of them are more of the same. Are there any for you, is the question. The funniest this week, though, is the 2000 Point game we miss out on. It’s a Balance Training game that uses the Wii Fit Board. That’s a full $20. But that doesn’t stop one other game this week being really expensive…