Significant news this week -- Nintendo is now releasing free demos of WiiWare games! The system is clunky compared to the XBLA trial-then-unlock approach, but the service kicks off with some demos worth taking a look at: BIT.TRIP BEAT, FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES®: My Life as a Darklord, NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits, World of Goo and the new Pokémon Rumble. To find these games, look for WiiWare entries with "Demo" in the title -- they're separate downloads from the full games, and the Wii Shop channel isn't treating them as a separate category.
Aside from that, here's our regular roundup:
WiiWare -- one truly new game, Pokémon Rumble, an action game where the player's Toy Pokemon battles waves of other Pokemon, plus the five demos.
Virtual Console -- Two new games. First, a pleasant surprise from Lucasarts in the form of Indiana Jones' Greatest Adventures for the Super NES, an action platformer in the vein of the company's Star Wars game trilogy. Also, a rare import version of a classic game -- the TurboGrafx-16 version of Capcom's Street Fighter II: Champion Edition, one of the largest HuCard games ever released for the PC Engine.
DSiWare -- Three games. Art Style: DIGIDRIVE is a traffic-routing puzzle game. Arcade Bowling is a bowling game, notable for retro fans as it's designed by Activision legend David Crane. Robot Rescue is a logic/puzzle game challenging the player to move multiple robots out of a maze, moving all of them with a single control setup.
XBLA -- Three games last week. Encleverment Experiment is sort of a Brain Age minigame collection aimed at families. 0D Beat Drop is a rhythm puzzle game worth taking a look at. NBA Unrivaled attempts to revive the fast-paced, arcade basketball style of NBA JAM for a new generation of players, with fully licensed teams and players.
Monday, November 16, 2009
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