Nintendo Download: 5th September (Europe)

Wow this is a horrible week. No Picross E3? Knowing Nintendo, it'll be the END of september as opposed to any of the other 4 weeks.

Eugh, terrible week.

Revenge of the Gator is awesome!!

..and Breath of Fire II is a must have anyway for RPG-lovers.
IMO a good week

Revenge of the Gator for me! Yay for more Game Boy games!

Desperately wanting a release date for the Sega 3D classics

Pretty awesome week, I'll get Etrian Odyssey if I can't find it in a store here

"Sengoku 3" is such a huge step in the series, well worth your time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPWRL8nw3Y8

Ouch, definitely a poor week.

Shame ..Epic Mickey's price got slashed by more than double!

cave story + for 3DS eShop ???
Please give it to us poor europeans

@Goginho

I paid full price for it about 4 months ago and its the only 3DS game I have regretted buying, its a good game, it just doesn't have enough content to justify full retail price

Is it really necessary to review a game (Breath of Fire 2) which is exactly the same as the one before it, which was exactly the same as the original?

Let me save you some time:

They still have blue hair and you can play on the Gamepad.

BTW, great game, but why do they "review" these things? I could see if it was last on SNES because then lots of kids might not have played it & they might not have a review already but geez, save yourself dozens of hours of playing and writing amd just point people to the Wii review.

Does TNT Racers: Nitro Machines Edition not have online multiplayer like the WiiWare one did? If it does have it I'll probably get it, pending reviews of course. Might download Disney Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion one day. Also I'm greatly looking forward to Etrian Odyssey IV after playing the demo, tonnes of fun! I'm getting it at retail though since it's cheaper. May check out Breath of Fire II dependant on review too

@ferthepoet Yea, I played the demo. It seems like a pretty decent game.

I'll look into Mickey: Power of Illusion, but other than that, this is a terrible week.

That's actually the last NEO GEO game rated that Wikapedia lists in the Euro VC page. We might be looking at the Wii Shop's last ever game.....probably.

Where's finally Flipnote Studio 3D? I hope it's coming this month. Can't take this long to build up more servers...

@ferthepoet
Would you consider it worth 20€/18£? It has a certain charm to it and I'd like to give it a try.

I've got a US 3DS so I'll be getting Bit Trip. at $4.99 and maybe Resident Evil Revelations at $19.99.

I want snes games on 3ds!

I really enjoyed Epic Mickey: Power Of Illusion on the 3DS...if you spend the time doing all the sidequests it lasts a decent amount of time for a handheld game, plus I think it's the only way to get all the characters to show up during the ending sequence. Epic Mickey 2 on Wii U though....I got that on Wii already, but I seem to remember my local Tesco selling it for about £10 a couple of months ago. Not really much of a discount for the download version IMHO compared to how much retailers are selling it for.

Good to see a Game Boy game for the 3DS VC again. Might pick it up, assuming its any good. :3

@ToniK I guess at that price the game is a better value although it still kinda short took me about 10 hours to beat and that's because the game includes lots of backtracking for the sidequest but the game its good for what it is, nice plataforming and good graphics

Eugh, still no Flipnote? Ew.

Quite a good week (imo).
Pleased to see another GB game, and a pretty good one at that, it's been a while...
Will be getting Breath of Fire II on WIi U as I never got round to this on Wii's VC.
Also hopping to get Etrian Odyssey IV. I never played any of this series but i'm really looking forward to this from what i've read about the game; main decision on this is retail or digital.

I don't have money now to buy anything, i probably wont have anything to play (except earthbound and finishing darksiders) until december ^_^

I don't think Cave Story+ is ever going to come to Europe eh?

This port of Myst is beyond terrible. DO NOT BUY!

ooooh Revenge of the Gator! I actually thought it was on the VC already and went looking for it last month. Glad to see it show up.

I never downloaded Breath of Fire II on the Wii so I will get that mofo... Not getting any games for the 3Dees until the awesome Megadrive classics arrive (still playing those cool Game Gear ones like Defenders of Oasis).

Why don't they release Breath of Fire 1?

I would consider Epic Mickey 2 if it had Wiimote and nunchuck support.

@mch
your damn right, in a world of horrible action RPG's these old school turn based ones are all I have left to look forward to for good RPG's. I wish they would just go back to turn based...My only hope now is maybe Dragon Quest 11 to be made in turn based format...

I downloaded Bit Trip Saga on the North American Eshop since that deal was too good to pass up. 5 bucks for 6 games is a pretty darn good deal since I have been wanting to play Bit Trip Runner for a long time now.

Disappointing week. The only real highlight is the Etrian Odyssey download, but I couldn't get into the demo so it's a skip for me.

How long has the 3DS been out now. Where the hell are the GBA games. Nintendo you starting to annoy me!

Etrian is great and really addicting!

@SanderEvers why not? dont nintendo want to make money? Do we have to wait till the next generation of hand held's to get GBA games on the virtual console?

I went to buy a physical copy of EOIV on Friday but it was a wasted trip, I then went to download it only to discover it wasn't available until this Thursday! Iv ordered it online now and am desperatly hoping it'll b on my doorstep tonight, Im dying to pick up from where the demo left off.

Kirby's Pinball Land is a better game than Revenge of the 'Gator. But RotG is more accurate to real pinball than Kirby.

So a dated realistic pinball game, or a good fantasy pinball game.

Why don't they release Breath of Fire 1?

Square says no. It was published by Square outside of Japan so some licensing issues despite Capcom being the developers. Stupid, I know. Capcom probably prefer to not release it than pay Square whatever Square wants to be able to release it. Still, BoF2 is the better game.

OOH! I want TNT Racers for NA too! Hope the game comes out this thursday for US as well. Can't wait fir review

@Mr_G VC Is Weak at best right now. I'm not a big fan of it to begin with and prefer they do 3D Classics but they should be bringing out 2 to 5 games every Monday in Europe and every Thursday in North America on Various systems (GBA, TG16, Genesis, SNES, NES, Neo Geo, Neo Geo Pocket) I don't know whose in Charge of this part of Nintendo but they should be plain and simple FIRED!

3D Classics is too much work for the payoff. They said its like creating a brand new game due to the work involved, so they'd rather create brand new games instead of 3D versions of old games.

Also, Nintendo can only release games that are submitted for release. If the likes of Capcom or Konami don't submit games to be released, Nintendo can't release them.

Great!! more Neo Geo, SNK does what Nintendon´t.

I hope in America release all KOF and Real Bout missing.

I really want MegaMan X2 and X3 to work there way on.

I'm happy for the fans of these games but for me... lousy week.

ARGH! So 'Gator comes out in JPN and EU now but nothing in NA yet???? I reaaaaaaally want this game.

Needs more discounts.

@Otto-Soq
So do I but corporate logic says BADBADBAD WII U NEEDS MORE NICHE!

N64 VC?

Urgh - bad week. Nothing for me. The Wii U Virtual Console is desperate for some of Nintendo's big hitters.

Why does Nintendo Life only post Europe's eShop updates and not NA? JW. Didn't even think about this being an European website, so maybe it is?

Man when are they going to start releasing N64 games for the WiiU :/

Yet another Mahjongg game that isn't Mahjongg. When are we going to get a proper one?

@SphericalCrusher

They do, but they post them on Thursdays.

It's nice to see another Game Boy game, at least.

@Mr_G I think they care more about helping indies sell mediocre games than making more money for themselves by releasing GBA games. (Stupid move I think - the good ones hold up regardless).

@ToniK I got the 3DS Epic Mickey for £10 physical yesterday and I think it is worth that. (Don't think it is better than Nano Assault EX or Kokuga though but at the price I paid it was cheaper). Be interesting to compare it to Castle of Illusion which comes out tomorrow. (I have only ever played the Master System version 3DS Epic Mickey feels like that - Think the Megadrive one was quite different).

Any idea when you'll have a TNT Racers review up Gents/Ladies?
Thanks,

@SphericalCrusher Nintendo Europe announces its weeks downloads on Monday then releases them on Thursday. Nintendo America doesn't announce their games until Thursday when they release them.

Makes more sense now. Thanks!

I was about to buy Epic Mickey Power of Illusion in the eShop because of this, but it's still 44'99€!! What the heck? I feel fooled...