Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects - August 2018

You can tell it’s a fantastic month if games like Dead Cells didn’t make the cut.

That is a ridiculous amount of fabulous games in one month. Way too many actually- I’d forgotten about some of them. Surely we don’t need this many 🤔. If the releases were spread out wouldnt we buy more of them?

Mine is into the breach which isn't on the list.

@darthstuey Normally yes, I guess. Personally I just buy the whole lot and pop them in my backlog. Reason being first week sales are incredibly important for overall success, so buying it later would have less of an impact.

Helps knowing what you like as well, but ideally, they should've spaced releases out over several months, because this is insane xD

Some great indies are here but where're AAA titles? Not aged ports, not remakes but true new games? The start was great, with ARMS, Disgaea 5, DOOM, Fire Emblem Warriors, Super Mario Odyssey, Splatoon 2, Xenoblade 2 & some others. But why the whole next year is just Portendo Indietch? You know Nintendo, not everyone bought this console for indies & old Wii U games, why not stretch decent releases through all seasons. At least this autumn finally should move a balance of indies & ports to new AAAs.

@oji disgaea 5 and doom were ports

@oji
You want more AAAs in the "eshop selects" ? Did you understand what it meant ?

Did you guys forget Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate?

De Blob 2

Where’s solitaires in the list

@oji yawn. Do you get bored of saying the same thing time after time? But thanks to the Ignore link, you have vanished in a puff of irrelevance...

can NL please do a complete upcoming retail list for switch??

I only have 4 on that list but they're all great.i'd rate them in this order

1. Okami HD
2. The Messenger
3. Dead Cells
4. Guns,Gore & Canolli 2

Iconoclasts and Into the Breach I'll get soon.

Haven't got any on that list yet. There's no rush though, they won't be going away any time soon.

@oji

I agree 100%. When I say it I get pooped on too

@Bondi_Surfer
Reading your comment I thought "I'm gonna ignore Oji too", and almost hit the button right below your message instead of his...

@jobvd
Technically you're right, but those two are released in a current generation so they're new games & it's called multiplatform. That's what Nintendo needs on Switch as Wii U flopped not due to a lame first-party library or lack of indies but because of almost absent support of third-party developers. Wii, their most successful stationary device to date, had much love of major devs even if in a downgraded manner so you have as close as possible experience on it. But with Switch you miss so much that you have to buy a second console or a gaming PC.

@Mgene15
I feel your pain, man, some users can't bear negative replies, they prefer to live in a 'pony world' where all are happy despite of anything. To each their own, I don't care if they ignore me.

@oji September on looks a lot better for newer titles from bigger studios including Nintendo, but yeah, for WiiU owners, this year doesn’t compare to last year. Though I’m glad great titles like DKTF and Bayonetta 2 have had another chance to shine.

Hang on, this isn't a complaint but an observation...
how come a game rated 9/10 comes below a game rated 8/10. That doesn't make sense.

@Primarina no, it’s not.
@Alpha008 if you bothered to read the last paragraph (just under the poll), they explain exactly how they made this list.

I've just gotten to the 16 bit portion of The Messenger, and WOW this game and sound track are amazing!

@oji enough games to play, also not everyone who has consoles play them consistently to have finished or even bought everything that is released today.

I have my Switch almost a year and i still havent bought Zelda BOTW nor Xenoblade 2 but i have bought many others.

My 3DS also still deserve my attention and many others like me.

a game being AAA doesnt mean anything its just the status of the developers or the budget that went into the game.

Overcooked 2 was very disappointing - felt very unrewarding due to the easier difficulty

Okami HD was great. I played (but never finished) it on PS2 years ago, so it was great to finally get back to it & beat it.

I also really enjoyed Sky Gamblers: Storm Raiders, which you haven't seemed to review yet.

Dead Cells GOTY

Saving Okami for a rainy day.

We need more games like Okami. It’s so good. It’s one of only a handful of games I’ve now bought four times. A true proper sequel anytime, Capcom.

@troy258 Into the breach is a fantastic game and one I'd never heard of before seeing it on the Eshop.

I gave in and bought the messenger, so far so good. The music is brilliant

Switch was dead to me this month interested in the messenger would get Okami but not prepared to download it I want it physically. I’m also slightly pissed off with mine because my sd card has stopped working or my switch doesn’t recognise it. I don’t know but really annoying. Another reason why physical copies are best.

1. Into the Breach
2. Overcook 2
3. Night Trap

Got Okami HD but couldn't find time to get into it yet.

Iconoclasts! #1 for sure! I can't understand why more people aren't talking about it!

Okami HD is a close #2, but as a remaster, not as notable to me.

I enjoy Overcooked 2 than the prequel.
But, Portal Knights is still my Numero Uno.

You missed out Into the Breach....

For me Victor Vran is the last month favorite... just so addictive and a perfect time filler before Diablo III release!