NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: ART, CARDS AND CRYSTALS HAVE GAMERS SEEING SPOTS
July 20, 2009
Looking for a big name to bolster your downloading agenda this week? We've got two words for you: FINAL FANTASY®. The latest additions to the ever-growing WiiWare™ game library include the new FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES®: My Life as a Darklord™, plus a fast-paced poker title and a brain-teasing party game that everyone in the household can enjoy. Also this week, the Nintendo DSiWare™ service welcomes a slick new installment in the Art Style™ series, mixing extraordinary sounds and visuals to create a captivating puzzle game.
WiiWare
FINAL FANTASY CRYSTAL CHRONICLES: My Life as a Darklord Publisher: SQUARE ENIX Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Mild Fantasy Violence, Mild Suggestive Themes Price: 1,000 Wii Points™ Description: Step into the royal shoes of the Darklord's daughter as she installs traps and monsters inside her tower to fight back the endless waves of invading adventurers in this world-conquest RPG. Known as Artifacts, these monsters and traps are your only hope in keeping the adventurers from destroying the Dark Crystal on the top floor. Fly your tower across the land and conquer every stage on your way to dominating the entire world.
Battle Poker Publisher: Left Field Productions Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 800 Wii Points Description: Battle Poker is a family-friendly card game with up to four players battling against the clock to make the best five-card hand possible. Battles are played across multiple rounds, and points are scored for each round based on the quality of the hand. Each player uses a Wii Remote™ controller to point and click on a standard deck of cards on the screen. The first click flips the card over, at which point it can be grabbed by anyone else. You've got to have fast fingers and eyes to grab the cards you need before someone else snatches them.
5 Spots Party Publisher: Cosmonaut Games Players: 1-4 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Wii Points Description: Have fun with the entire family and compete in three different play modes. 5 Spots Party is a game of skill for all ages based on the popular game of finding five differences. The goal is to find the greatest number of differences in the pictures shown. In the party modes, you must compete with other players and find as many mistakes as possible. In the 1-Player mode, you must find the differences before time runs out in order to beat the game's highest scores. How far do you think you can go?
Nintendo DSiWare
Art Style: ZENGAGE™ Publisher: Nintendo Players: 1 ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points™ Description: Do you dream of relaxing with a great puzzle game? Art Style: ZENGAGE revolves around sliding cells (squares) to match colors with cores (beads) located on the board. Clear each stage by matching all of the cores and cells. As you progress through the game's 100-plus stages, you'll encounter cells with special characteristics, such as immovability, which further add to the challenge. To truly master ZENGAGE, you must keep your mind sharp and employ careful strategy to complete stages in as few moves as possible. Combining wistful graphics and mesmerizing sound, ZENGAGE creates a surreal world that should be experienced by all puzzle gaming fans.
Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop™ and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.
battle poker? It's been a LONG time since that game was annonced. I think it was supposed to be 500 pts. Without online or anything particularly special, 800 sounds pretty steep.
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hmmmm....i'm happy for the Art Style game(ZENGAGE??uggghhh..) but the constant lack of SSB and Flipnote is growing rather irritating and rediculous. I guess SSB still has SOME hope though since the VC isn't listed but knowing NOA, i seriously doubt it.
I'm pretty sure we're getting a VC Game today. It's just not Confirmed what VC Game we're getting. But i'm not sure. Maybe we're not getting a VC Game today
@BassX0: Nah I don't think so. They're both Import titles so they came out at the same time. There's no reason to suggest this was the game they were gonna choose to be released next week.
@LuigiandYoshiFan: I had hoped the same thing when I first found out.
@Tony: Actually, to be honest, I'm tempted to write a letter to Nintendo myself via email. Maybe one of us should.
This is only the second time since the Virtual Console service came to play that no Virtual Console games came out this week. The other happening was on May 12, 2008 when 6 WiiWare games came out to launch the service.
Nintendo of America could have released Altered Beast for VC Arcade.
And my first point will be why do we need about 800 poker games, but we can't get a single VC game this week. Nintendo refuses to make the VIrtual Console great (except in Japan where they are lavished with classic arcade games every week)
You got Pulseman last week and Secret Command this week only you got this week's game a week early.
You do have a point, but one could see it as Nintendo tricking us into thinking that we were part of the Hanabi Festival.
This just must be Nintendo's way of keeping things even. An increase in games one week means the next week must have a decrease in games. You are still getting one VC game every week even if this week it doesn't feel like it.
Edgey, Gumshoe, Godot, Sissel, Larry, then Mia, Franziska, Maggie, Kay and Lynne.
I'm throwing my money at the screen but nothing happens!
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