Nintendo Download: 16th January (Europe)

I think Contra 3 will keep me busy for this week. Definitely harder than Super Probotector. F1 looks ok but I'll wait for MK.

WTF Konami!? Why did they release the american Contra III last week instead of the much cooler (and more nostalgic for most europeans) Super Probotector, and now the european version of Mystical Ninja when the american version is better? What were they thinking?

Trine 2 may as well be on permanent discount now.

Slowdown... Lots of slowdown in Contra 3 compared to European Super Probotector.

I like the Mega Drive Contra Hardcorps better than both of these though

No interest in Dr Luigi for me, I just wouldn't put enough time into it to justify £3+ so maybe later on sale. Will be getting castlestorm this week though if I can finish nes remix first....I have to clear at least 1 or 2 games for each new one I get to clear my back log in time for mk8!!!

Is Goemon in 60Hz? I don't think it ever got a PAL release, did it?

Phew! So nearly downloaded Trine 2 on Friday. Will definitely be downloading it this Friday however.

I might get Trine 2. But I'm not sure, I still got plenty to play.

"Dress to Play: Magic Bubbles!" for 89p? I think I some credit to use up on my 3DS.

I'll probably get Mystical Ninja. It's one of those SNES games I've been meaning to play but haven't yet.

To be pedantic, wouldn't it be an MD rather than a PhD for Luigi?

Meh nothing this week. If I were interested in anything it would be Simon's Quest.

@antonvaltaz

Is luigi a general practitioner (GP) or a surgeon? GP's dont actually have a doctorate - they have two bachelors degrees. Surgeons are different - they do have a doctorate - something to do with the old days when surgeons were closely related to butchers

Does anyone happen to know if F1 Race Stars will support off-TV play? If it does, I reckon I'll probably bite! I got the game for free on PS3 last year through PS+ but sadly, never got round to playing it before trading both my Sony consoles (PS3 and Vita) when I finally bit the bullet and bought my [beloved] Wii U and 3DS XL last November - I'm jolly glad I did too! Well, except for those 'free' PS+ downloads, of course!

Oh and by the way, I must admit to being a smidge disappointed by Dr. Luigi's £13.49 price tag! Had it been say, £8.99 for example, I'd have been more than happy. Still, I know what I'm like, and I'll doubtless hit 'buy' in a moment of spontaneous madness come Thursday. It's what I do!

Damn, I got my daughter both those dress to play games not that long ago, 89p is great she has enjoyed them both so go for it at that price

@AcesHigh73 Agreed about the price. It's strange because while this was the same price as NES Remix in the US (both $15) whereas here NES Remix is £8.99 while this is £13.49.

Hmmm.....

@antonvaltaz - Exactly buddy! Puzzling Indeed

@SanderEvers
Brigette is still on an extended Bank holiday.

Where's my Kid Icarus: Uprising for eShop...?
Dr. Luigi is nice, Europe gets it now finally.

Trine 2 has a nice discount, would get it, but I have their games already on PC so no need for second purchase.

@JoakimZ Should just always be the best version. (Japanese version of Super Castlevania IV is the best one also). It is a strange choice because Legend of the Mystical Ninja came out so late most people who really wanted it would have imported it. (I didn't realise it ever came out until years later. The import version was reasonably available though in the UK).

You should change the subheading to "Luigi gets his MD." In this game he's a medical doctor, not a doctor of philosophy.

@CaviarMeths The first good console version of Trine 2 (60fps) is on the PS4.

Whoa, Codemaster's F1 Race Stars is finally arriving! Hopefully it gets to the Americas this week as well.

It's good that F1 Race Stars is coming, it's a shame it won't sell enough to warrant DIRT coming to the system as well.

@unrandomsam So...in other words pick it up for the PC where it's cheaper and better.

Why would you buy a late port of Trine 2 on PS4... I already finished it on Wii U over a year ago

@Ernest_The_Crab I suspect it will be better than the PC version on Ati. (Regardless of the specs of it). Maybe it won't be it has never been 100% perfect for me at 60fps.

@MAB Same reason you are not interested in Contra 3 - First console that can handle the game acceptably is the PS4.

@unrandomsam

how does Trine 2 not run at 60FPS for you on PC? My PC runs it at 60 FPS no problems and I wouldn't really call my PC one of those modern high spec'd one. It's not like the came came out recently and requires a lot to play it.

I suppose though it's slim pickings if you picked up a PS4 at launch

@unrandomsam just how powerful do you think the PS4 is? It performs like a low end gaming PC. Simple games like assassins creed 4 chugs at 30 fps.... Sony claimed the GPU performs at 1.8 teraflops, but the results so far suggest quite a bit slower...... My guess is the terribly weak, pathetic tablet CPU steals GPU cycles because the GPGPU picks up the slack the CPU can't handle. After all of the theories thrown around about how great the ps4 is going to be because of having a GPGPU on die, it's hardly keeping up with my PC I built in 2011 (haven't upgraded it once either)

That's Sony propaganda at its finest. Remember when the PS3 was going to do 1 teraflop back in early 2006? Yeah, that didn't pan out either.

I would be getting Mystical Ninja if Nintendo had a unified account system in place but as it stands I am buying nothing until that time...

@element187 Who judge a console by a release games, which is also a simple port? The Wii U did run AC3 worse than 6-7 year old consoles.

@MAB Why did you buy a late port of Trine 2 on Wii U... I already finished it on other systems a year earlier

Hopefully this is the week NA gets sm3 or ltp...since we have all except f1 racers ...3 more days!.

Theres nothing wrong with the wii u version of trine 2, and as for this week, i would have picked up luigi if it was priced lower, maybe in future if it gets a sale

Still in doubt about Dr. Luigi, perhaps once it's cheaper. And maybe the F1 game, if it is any good.

I'm tired of the drip-feed Virtual Console games each week. I feel like I'm reliving the Wii era of 2006/7 all over again.

I'm not going to give Nintendo any of my money until they either release GameCube games on it, or start releasing 4 or more VC titles per week.

@yuwarite - I know what you mean. It feels like deja vu for sure!

I don't understand why they don't have a big team working solely on these which are unified as a single purchase across all of their platforms.

Does this mean we will have the same drip-fed releases come the next Nintendo home console? Probably...

Dear Konami. If you do not launch Castlevania, Ninja Turtles and Contra for WiiU will not see my money on any other platform.

@element187 I don't think it is powerful but the game uses Physx which is deliberately broken on none Nvidia PC's. (My PC is miles overspeced for what it should need but it isn't 100% perfect. The problems are the kind that console's shouldn't have.)
I don't even think the game is that good and I haven't put much effort into trying to optimise how it works. (It works 99.5% of the time on maximum settings perfectly.)

@unrandomsam I don't use ATI cards. Sure they're cheaper, but I find performance-wise and support-wise they are lacking compared to NVIDIA cards.

You could have made the point to elementz a bit better as well. Instead of arguing about the architecture, you should have made an argument about the actual newness of the console. At the end of the day, I'd say it's due to developer laziness on both consoles, as smaller developers have had no issues with releasing games with good frame rates on either console.

There is nothing interesting on the list for me this week. Fire Emblem Awakening is keeping me plenty busy anyway.

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U guys should get Trine 2 :3

@unrandomsam What are you talking about? The Wii U version of Trine 2 is amazing!

@Blizzaga It is also locked at 30fps. (Problem that doesn't exist with the PC or PS4 versions). Graphics don't bother me when framerate is sacrificed for them it does.

Lucky, you guys get Simon's Quest this week.

That's not looking like a good week for the eShop. Having played Dr (Mario) and F1 Race Stars (PS3) a long, long time ago, I can't help but feel that Dr. Luigi and F1 Race Stars should each be around a tenner less. I'm not a fan of The Legend of the Mystical Ninja either. The four Goemon games I've played (SNES, N64 1+2 and DS) are quite overrated, in my opinion. Hmm...

Simons Quest eh? Divisive is a funny word for horribly bad.

@capriboy Ninja Turtles won't come due to licensing issues.

If F1 race stars ever makes its way to the 3ds I'm all over that!

Disappointing week again Nintendo need to really take advantage of the e-shop a lot more and release more.

2014: The year I am not jealous of Euro eshop list. 2 for 2 so far!

Nothing for me, Dr Luigi is far too expensive, and whilst I usually can't resist most discounts I think I'll manage this week.
For the first time in ages I might give my 360 a go, got Far Cry 2 and Bioshock 1 and 2 for about £10 on live.

This whole week... "Meh..."

wow Trine 2 for £5.50 i say to anyone get it !
i own trine 1 & 2 on ps3 and the Wii u trine 2 is the best version you can get it looks amazing and plays so well.

Love Mystical Ninja!! Played it back on the Super Famicom, was hard in Japanese Does anyone know what differences are between the US version and European?

Contra didn't come out last week, did it???

@Luna-Harmony No it isn't - The PS4 version is the best console version (Being the only 60fps one).

Or you can get all the Frozenbyte stuff on the PC for $6.

https://www.humblebundle.com/weekly

If the Wii U version had 60fps it might be worth getting it but it doesn't so it is not worth it in any universe.

@MAB Slowdown? Really? I played through both Contra 3 (via an import cart convertor) and Super Probotector back in the day and didn't notice any difference whatsoever asides from the main sprites being changed from guys to robots....only have my Super Probotector cart nowadays though, so can't comment on the recent E-Shop Contra 3 download.

@Le_Gazman Yes it did (only the first Mystical Ninja game though). I remember seeing it on sale in Game for ages but never had the cash to buy it at the time, shame as I've downloaded it on Wii VC since and really enjoyed it, as well as the Mystical Ninja Game Boy and N64 games that were also released over here.

@FourBs Yeah, that's a massive problem with third party publishers and the Wii U at the moment. Basically, they're saying 'Buy these games that you don't actually want, otherwise we won't release Wii U versions of the games you do actually want.' It seems like donkey-backward logic to me, holding Wii U owners to ransom to make them buy ports of their substandard games in order to get better things. Though to be fair, it looks like a decent enough game...I'll be more tempted by it if it ever gets a discount.

Every week, I get fooled by a game that I see on my VC wishlist, but is actually for you guys only. First SMB3, then Mario Bros, and now Castlevania II... The only game that we have that you don't is Mario Golf. (if you exclude the games that were never originally released in Europe)

Whoever is the guy that works for Nintendo and runs the Virtual Console program better get off his butt, take European versions of the games that are already translated and released on their Virtual Console, and release it here. How difficult is it to localize digital software that requires next to no server space, already rated by ESRB, and already translated? I seriously think that a monkey runs the service... +sigh+

All the Castlevania games the Japanese version are the ones to get.

(Especially Castlevania III / Super Castlevania IV).

hope we get castlevania II here in america this week

20 $ for Dr.Luigi? Go away!

@andreoni79
Hey, don't knock Dr. Luigi. Dr. Mario used to sell for full price back in the day. Heck, Tetris used to sell for full price back in the day, $50 in 1990.

@micronean You're right, but don't forget that an old boxed game can still worth money, and can also warm your heart with nostalgia! A "futuristic" digital download has no future!

I wouldn't part with anything more than £1 to download a game. Freshair. F1 Race Stars was due out on disc, but Codemasters spat their dummy out. Codemasters take the mick with DLC.

@unrandomsam Not a problem for me. The game plays just fine.

@conman2012

A PhD is not necessary to be a surgeon.

@Le_Gazman

nope its the 50hz version, with miiverse post suggest it also uses some different backgrounds and sprites for certain parts ,etc,