Nintendo Download: 7th June 2012 (North America)

Another VC game...looks interesting...was kinda looking forward to playing that Mole game since Miyamoto made it. No prob though. I've got too many games to know what to do with as it as, and the Wii Pikmin 2 comes out this weekend! (Whos idea was it to release games on Sundays anyway??)

Kinda expected Prince of Persia to come some time soon. I hope Europe get Last Blade next week. Curse the Americans for getting a good game before us for once!

Yes! Keep them 3DSVC coming Nintendo, your making me happy.

Me and my mom love Dinosaur Office, so I'll be showing that to her . Other than that, probably the demo and the trailers. Don't have any money for anything else XD.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! DAMIT! Time to go to sleep now.

VC Lives!!!!

Dang, I was really hoping they'd give us the long-awaited Retro City Rampage in honor of E3.

sniff Pinch me, I'm dreaming!

sniff Pinch me, I'm dreaming!

@sketchturner Retro City Rampage was cancelled for Wiiware ages ago...

Definitely getting the demo, and the Last Blade looks promising.

@Mickeymac

No it wasn't...
It will cost 1500 Wii Points.
Y U TELL LIES?
http://retrocityrampage.com/

LUCKY FOR ME AND EVERYONE ELSE IN THE US!!

@Mickeymac The Retro City Rampage press release that went out during E3 still lists a WiiWare version.

Oh dang! I've always wanted to play The Last Blade. Awesome!

Oh yes it was!

Art of Balance TOUCH looks good I may have to try it out.

I guess Nintendo don't want my money for Wario Land, Kirby's Dreamland 2 or Kid Icarus.

Whhere is wario Land? I dont really whine about it, BUT IT SHOULD HAVE AT LEAST HAVE BEEN AT E3 FOR CRYING OUT LOUD! IT'S BEEN 5 MONTHS!!!

Still going to get Prince of Persia, and Art of Balance, those are just as great.

@Miss_Rarity Oh yeah, you're right that was La-Mulana, and then esome people said "at least Retro City Rampage is still coming" and I got confused.

The Last Blade! that came out of nowhere. Maybe there is hope for Art of Fighting 3

On the 3DS VC:
"and here we ware about "
Looks like a good week for NA as well

Come on Reggie. give me Wario Land... why do you have me wait every damn week and stay up until 6:00am to see the update... I was good for the E3...

One of the best Weeks in NA in 2012

The Last Blade is awesome!

@Rawk_Hawk - We get The Last Blade and you'd rather have Art of Fighting 3??? Okay...

@Everyone Even vaguely interested in Fighting games, The Last Blade is a must. It's one of the best fighters out there. A little on the tough side, especially when you try to lear the parry system, but it's very fun and rewarding once you start to get it down.

Still, WHERE IS WARIO LAND? AT LEAST SAY ITS COMING NEXT WEEK OR SO! IT'S BEEN 5 MONTHS, AND JAPAN HAS THE WHOLE SERIES ALREADY.

The demo I have. Probably get Prince of Persia. But that's it for me

@TheDreamingHawk Where is Wario Land? At your nearest retro store, Good Will, flea market...

The Last Blade! that came out of nowhere.

Not really. It came out in Japan a while ago so it was expected at some point.

@Mickeymac, not at my area.

@Bass_X0 - Name the last time we got something less than 3 months after Japan did?

Wow, is Neo Geo 99% fighting games? give us something different!

For some reason were getting a bunch of Neo Geo games on the Wii...

@SteveW - Nope. It just has the best Fighting games that people actually want, instead of Street Fighter 2: The crappy version.

a nice plentyful week but I dont know what to get,they are all pretty much bad (cant get wii vc and the good 3ds one is art of balance)

Not a complaint but just an observation: I sure would like some Wario Land, NoA...

@Mickeymac It doesnt matter any more.... I did buy Zelda Oracle games since they won't be on for a while, but still, Wario Land is already on the VC in Europe and Japan, yet they seem to not bring it here... where is it for crying out loud!!! (I'm done being as mad as giygas)

@Mickeymac We got SML2 2 weeks before Japan, we got Metroid II only 2 months after Japan. WHY NOT WITH WARIO OR KI2?

@TheDreamingHawk Think of it this way: Your future self will be having fun playing Wario Land, that fun is already a thing of the past for people in Europe.

@TheDreamingHawk It's waiting for you to calm down and stop caring so much about it so when it arrives it's actually a surprise. A watched pot never boils, after all.

Awesome. I'll be sure to check out Prince Of Persia today. I don't mean to sound like an idiot here when I say this, but GBC game # 3 so far within the time of 3 straight weeks in a row for the eShop. All I want to know is, what's the deal with the sudden love for all these GAME BOY COLOR games as of late coming to North America. I still say something eerie is going on with NOA if we're getting treated this nicely from their GBC line.

This is an amazing week. Isn't there also like 5 more demos including Heroes of Ruin? A perfect week really with that VC surprise for Wii, a great 3DS game, demos, two DsiWare games, another 3D VC.... nice.

Darn, no HoR demo.

More Wii VC? Surprising and amazing.

Last Blade???!?!?!?

Wow. Color me VERY impressed!

A watched pot never boils?! I cook a lot of spaghetti and I stare at the water and it boils in a couple minutes! Why do you keep lying!

So I noticed no mention of Lego Batman in the Europe downloads, does that mean that they only got Heroes of Ruin demo and we only got Lego? If so I'm feeling a tiny bit less jealous.

Finally Last Blade has arrived. This is the only game from the Neo Geo library that I deeply look forward too, glad it's here.

Last Blade is awesome news! I heard many hardcore fight fans say Last Blade is better than Samurai Shodown. Any new Wii VC game is great news in my book.

What happened to my earlier comment? They seemed to have changed.

Anyway, Seeing how I have 48 dollars left in the eshop, I can give block sizes for all of the games, if you want, James.

@TheDreamingHawk I have that sorted but thanks anyway!

RE: Demos, the ones mentioned yesterday (Kingdom Hearts etc.) are just "on the way" so expect them in the near future.

Went to go download Last Blade... Not up yet... urghh

@gojiguy It should be up now.

Reall!? these are the games we're getting maybe I should keep my expectations really low every Thrusday. Darn you NOA darn you to heck!!!

@TheDreamingHawk
Thanks! I just picked it up!

Also, I'm in tears right now. This game has button customization!!! EVERYONE BUY THIS GAME.

@mamp

We got a great VC game, at least. That's something to celebrate. Also, Art of Balance Touch is supposed to be really good.

@Mickeymac
I'm not complaining, but AOF 3 is probably my favorite Neo Geo fighter. So it gives me hope that more Neo Geo titles can randomly appear. That's OK right?

Pretty good week :3 I kinda wanted Cat Frenzy >.>

YES!!! Last Blade is the Neo Geo game I have been waiting for to it the VC. Never played it, but I hear it's very good. I like Samurai Showdown and King of Fighters so I'm pretty sure I will like this one Did not see this coming at all. Gonna download as soon as I can.

No Kingdom Hearts or Heroes Of Ruin demo yet, eh?
Oh well.

Well, at least its not Europe's update...

Another good week

@Rawk_Hawk Oh, Okay. Guess I misread ya.

At this rate I bet we sadly won't get Wario Land till next year. It's pretty clear to me that NOA hates Wario Land.

Excellent week. I love weeks like this.

I got both AOB and POP and they both are great! The only thing that irks me is that in AOB, the date it saves for my endurance scores are messed up. For a stupid reason it thinks it's July 6th. Can anyone tell me how to make the date normal?

Also, I'm mad that the Common Xoon section has NO WARIO LAND OR KI2 whatsoever. I think I may need to give them a call just to ask, and I advise others to do the same.

i enjoyed art of balance on the wii, hopefully it being on a touch screen will let me put blocks down carefully now

@TheDreamingHawk I don't think this is any cause for concern. Coming Soon this week seems to just show upcoming eshop games. We know there are DSiWare games dated for the next few weeks which aren't listed there but it doesn't mean they aren't coming out.
We don't need to jump to conclusions about no VC games being listed.

It showed Kirby's Block Ball once.

The Lego Batman 2 demo is 753 blocks!!!

My new SD card can't arrive soon enough!

@Miss_Rarity Twice, actually, because it was listed as coming soon, then came two weeks later. With that said, I think if a Nintendo game was coming, they'd list it there for all to see, like they did with Block Ball.

I'm still completely jealous of Heroes of Ruin Online Demo for the rest of you guys. But Lego Batman isnt the WORST demo to ever show up, either

Last Blade is one of my favorite fighting games. It's a lot more tactical than Samurai Shodown.

Art of Balance: Touch! seems to be yet another 3DSWare hit! Just downloaded it, it looks and plays fantastic I encourage anyone else who enjoys puzzle games (such as Pushmo) to grab this immediately! That is all

Wow, Last Blade and Art of Balance?! This is great! I really hope that we get that Heroes of Ruin demo next week.

Can't argue with another virtual console release, I'll take what I can get.

I just played some Last Blade finally. It's even better than I remember - I recall it being impossible to get past the 2nd or third stage as Kaede, but this time it only took one continue for stage 3, another for 4, and 2 for 5. Finally couldn't go on at stage 6, which is pretty good for me. I think there are only 8 stages, too. I look forward to giving it another go pretty soon.

Say, I have a question about demos. I know that the number of times you can play is limited, but if I copy my 3DS data to another memory card as I have before, then shouldn't I be able to play the 3DS demo until 0, then copy my original SD card again and play the demos down to 0 or is that demo count saved on my 3DS system itself?

Last Blade? Wow. I bought Last Blade 2 complete for $12.99 last year on Dreamcast. Pretty good game, but I ddn't really understand the story too well so I might pick up the first game in the series. $9.00 is less than I spent on the sequel so I don't feel like SNK is ripping me off. Also, Last Blade was only ported to Neo Geo and Neo Geo Pocket. It was never ported to PS one, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, Xbox 360, or Dreamcast, so I guess there actually is one SNK game I don't own on my PS2 and won't be able to.

@NTELLIGENTMAN The play count is in the data. If you copy it to another SD Card, chances are it'll hold the count, though I haven't tried it myself. Why, have you noticed the count reset?

THE LAST BLADE!!! We haven´t seen many VC titles latley, buy boy do they have quality!

@NTELLIGENTMAN As far as I know there is actually a PS2 collection with Last Blade 1&2.

Art of Balance is an excellent download... almost better than Pushmo in many ways, but they are completely different, after all.

Last Blade is an excellent fighter, I'm so happy its finally being released, its about time!

@Mickeymac No, I haven't even tried copying the data. In fact, I haven't played a single demo. If I decide to sell my 3DS in the future, I figure if I have every demo with its original play count on there, I can sell it for more money. I should be able to sell it for quite a bit wtih all of the GBA games on mine as well. I would only sell it if I can transfer data to the next Nintendo handheld.

The Lego Batman demo was fun and i definitely enjoyed the voice acting

@That_Guy_from_Faxana In JAPAN. Very important detail there.