Another week begins with a Nintendo Download Update, and this week focuses on discounts. We only have one fresh release on the Wii U Virtual Console while the 3DS receives a demo, putting the emphasis on price drops. Let's get to it.
Wii U Virtual Console
Mega Man & Bass (Capcom, €6.99 / £6.29) - Right from the off you choose to play as Mega Man or Bass - or use a save state to have both - and each has different abilities; Bass can shoot in eight directions when stood still, which sounds remarkably handy. This may not necessarily live up to the highs of the best main series games, but we still gave this a solid recommendation in our Mega Man & Bass review.
Wii U eShop Temporary Discounts
Darksiders II (Nordic Games, €12.49 / £9.99 until 27th August, normally €49.99 / £39.99)
Bombing Bastards (Sanuk Games, €4.99 / £4.49 until 20th August, normally €6.99 / £5.99)
Spot the Differences: Party! (Sanuk Games, €2.99 / £2.69 until 20th August, normally €5.00 / £4.49)
Citizens of Earth (Atlus, €3.99 / £3.35 until 20th August, normally €11.99 / £9.99)
3DS eShop Temporary Discounts
Shin Megami Tensei IV (Atlus, €9.99 / £8.99 until 20th August, normally €19.99 / £17.99)
Citizens of Earth (Atlus, €3.99 / £3.35 until 20th August, normally €11.99 / £9.99)
Nano Assault EX (Shin'en Multimedia, €7.49 / £6.35 until 3rd September, normally €9.99 / £8.49)
Secrets of the Titanic 1912-2012 (Avanquest, €1.99 / £1.99 until until 3rd September, normally €10.99 / £9.99)
Hotel Transylvania (Avanquest, €4.99 / £4.99 until 3rd September, normally €19.99 / £17.99)
Doodle Jump Adventures (Avanquest, €4.99 / £4.99 until 3rd September, normally €24.99 / £19.99)
Excave II: Wizard of the Underworld (Bergsala Lightweight, €5.00 / £4.50 until 20th August, normally €10.00 / £8.99)
Talking Phrasebook - 7 Languages (Sanuk Games, €2.99 / £2.69 until 20th August, normally €4.99 / £4.49)
3DS eShop Demo
I Love My Dogs (Bigben Interactive, free)
That's the lot for Europe this week - let us know what you plan to download in the poll and comments below.
Comments 84
I was hoping for some SEGA 3D Classic goodness this week. Ah well.
I have a feeling Citizens of Earth is going to sell like hotcakes. I know I'm buying it.
I know most of us say it's a bad week every single week... but wow, not a lot of options there! Makes me wonder if there's a Direct on the way... as they tend to hold back some VC announcements for those, leaving a particularly sparse list until the reveals.
Not sure whether or not I'd like darksiders 2, but at this price point I might give it a go...
1 VC game!!! Like really, man summer always a poor time for the eshop.
@Peach64 I'd like to agree but somehow I don't think that's the case. I think this is just a result of the lack of third party support on the console along with Nintendo’s lack of real interest in the virtual console and no first party games coming this week.
@Peach64 I hope so!
That's a very bad week this week. It's surprising to see no new games at all other than one VC game. I'll take a look at some reviews for Citizens of Earth.
Drop the Bass
buy shin megami guys!its worth 3 or 4 times that price.do it!
Utter rubbish. Very disappointed 👿
Another bad bad week. I would get Citizens of Eearth but it didnt get very good reviews.
It seems like whenever Nintendo has nothting to release they're like "Ehh, just throw another Mega Man game or GBA remake on there and call it a day"
They should've waited with the Xenoblade announcement until today.
What's wrong with Atlus? Citizens of Earth was already discounted only 45 days ago, but at the price of €6.99...
I wasn't the most impressed with Darksiders II, but it had some good points and I've been waiting for a sale before getting the download to replace my disc.
The 3DS has been dead for WEEKS!
@spizzamarozzi Nobody is buying it
Finally Darksiders 2 gets a good sale that is comparable to the Xbox an PSN sales (6.99 for standard version I recall). Might pick it up again, still have my save file from when I bought it at launch so I can just carry on from where I left off, think I got about half way through before trading it in.
Why Nordic had it at such a high price for so long (2 and a half years old on Wii U, 3 years old game) is very 'money grabbing' of them, I sincerely hope not many people bought it at the ridiculous price, especially as it has performance issues.
@arronishere
There was sale on all Darksiders on gog about 1-2 months ago....
for about 15 euro (?).
I have heard Darksiders 2 on wiiu got tragic (30 to 12-10 fps) framerate. If you want/ have to play it better on pc or other consoles.
Definitely Mega Man & Bass, been waiting for that ever since it came to NA.
@Peach64 Usually I'd agree with this kind of logic but there's a couple of things which make me think it's not the case.
Shin Megami Tensai IV? They did the same offer about a month ago. Still,. if you haven't yet it is definitely worth it
My Wii U VC Megaman collection is now complete. (No I'm not counting the BN series)
Ok im sure im always seeing Shin Megami Tensei IV for £8.99 on these deals have yet to pick this up as i dont normally play RPG's but it looks kinds interesting also Darksiders 2 i see the disc version say over 5 hours of additional content i wonder if this digital download is the same.
@Peach64 That's what they said last week...I guess it has to come true some week.
This is getting embarrassing. Summer has always been a quiet period for video games but there has literally been NOTHING for what seems a very VERY long time now.
Citizens of Earth discount is great, good that it also reaches Europe since that discount is right now going on in North America.
Shame that the game isn't cross purchase, it would be cool to have that on Wii U and 3DS with one purchase.
Also, surprising to see Darksiders 2 getting a discount. That game has just been forgotten in the eShop all these 2,5 years. The price should be permanently dropped lower since it's already that old.
It is a great game though, anyone who hasn't played it should get it. That discount price isn't so bad.
@EllenJMiller Sonic 2 hopefully be coming soon!
WHY DOES SMT4 NEVER DROP TO LIKE £5.99??? God damn it......
@DESS-M-8 I disagree, this has been the most full summer Nintendo has provided for several years. Splatoon starting the summer off, Yoshi's Woolly World at the end of June, lots of great VC titles, 2 huge Smash updates, a huge Splatoon update and Devil's Third ending the summer. I wouldn't exactly call that "nothing".
@XyVoX The digital version is the same and includes all bonus content that was included in the physical version.
@Kolzig
I heard that Darksiders 2 contained many bugs. Was there ever a patch?
Should I drop that bass???
I don't see why people complain weekly about crap eshop release, are you guys out of games to play and have unlimited funds or someth!?!?!?!?@
I bought Xenoblade Chronicles yesterday so my "allowance" is spent.
A good week for another surprise Wii game...
I think I'm just gonna get Xenoblade when I have some extra cash. That should keep me busy and I can't wait to finally get to play it. After that I'm ready to obtain steelbooks editions of certain Wii U games later this year... Not too many games coming so it's all-in with the few.
I fear for the 3DS!
@Peach64 Wasn't there "going to be a Direct" for a couple of weeks? I wouldn't hold my breath at this point
Citizens of earth, cant say no at that price
Yup, Citizens of Earth for 4€ sounds like a very good deal to me. I'll buy that.
@Pahvi Nano assault is a great game. I recommend the circle pad pro for it.
Come on, ATLUS, you discount ALL your games for the Americans all the time, how about some love for Etrian Odyssey or Persona Q? Or should we be asking NISA to do that?
Did they release a patch to fix the bugs in Citizens of Earth? 8.99 should just be SMTIV's price its on sale every other week.
By the way, is Citizens of Earth working properly now ?
To be honest, ive given up on this game when it crashed more often then not and heard, that the patch they released didnt resolve most of the problems.
Any news on the game running stable ?
@Peach64 one can hope. I think one is coming very soon at the least. Starfix hasnt got a release date yet but Ninty is adamant that it is a 2015 game. And im not in the mood for any "delayed till 2016 please understand" messages either!
Hoping for a Direct soon too. With Iwata passing away, they've had to give it time. Any Direct is going to be a bit weird without him.
@Barbiegurl777 It hasn't been a great summer for games on any system. Arkham Knight got a lukewarm reception. Only The Witcher 3 stood out I guess.
Although I've been playing Splatoon and FFX HD all summer.
@Pahvi I don't like it either. I much prefer the CPP used with the regular 3ds. It feels much more comfortable than that little nub thingy. Well the games content is still solid
Maybe a surprise VC drop like Xenoblade lasts week? I think thought Nintendo would have done like Star Fox 64, Yoshi's Story and maybe introduce Mega Drive games but on sits and believes in false hope sniff Dark Times lately
@whodatninja Citizens isn't perfect, but it did make me laugh out loud quite a few times, which is rare for a game. It's worth 5-10- in many ways it feels like an Earthbound spin-off, since it has so many Earthbound references it crosses the line from reference or parody, and all the way to "okay, can you please pretend this is Mother 2.5?"
I've just remembered Freedom Planet was supposed to come out this week.
I guess Darkside got heavily discounted because a Definitive edition will be release very soon on current gen consoles
@Sakura There have been plenty of Directs without Iwata
@manu0 True, but he was the one to instigate them as CEO so I don't know whether they would say anything about him or not. Too soon would not have been good, but even so to not mention anything might feel weird. Depends how it's handled. Mention a new CEO, can't not mention Iwata. Don't say anything and carry on as normal is another way to go. It's a new era, whatever.
Meanwhile in America...
What a bad week again.
It's barren cos I think every single staff resource of nintendo has been thrown into the nx. There is nothing on the horizon for new 3ds and future wii u games are finished already. I skipped skyward sword so i'm gagging for the next 'big' zelda- if it sux i might rage quit from gaming and start reading books again
Might pick up Citizens of Earth for that price.
Ah nice! I always thought about getting Darksiders II. Good thing I haven't bought the disc version yet, since ideally I'd like to have every game as the digital download version (optical discs just suck in every aspect).
@ghostjoshu Why don't you just go back and play Skyward Sword in the meantime?
Never even knew Darksiders II was even on Wii U.... O_O Think I might buy that.
Another week, another Mega Man
I usually don't pop in to the Europe Nintendo weekly DL, but wow is that a thin line-up
@manu0 Yeah you're right i should play it. At the time of its release i wasn't playing games much and i've heard it cop a lot of flak since. But the general consensus need not apply to everyone- zelda 2 is one of my favourite games
We want New Super Mario Bros. (DS)!!!!
Bah, I just bought Shin Megami Tensei IV two days ago. Still, I thought €19.99 was a good deal. It's a great game, if you think you might be interested you should definitely pick it up in the sale.
@IAmDeclanJay It's a pretty fun game, especially at that price.
The Virtual Console should be renamed to "Mega Man games and some other titles".
Still waiting for Mario Tennis :,(
@shigulicious will Nano Assault work with the New 3DS second stick do you know ?
@XyVoX I'm not certain but believe so.
As is the case so often i would of picked up Citizens of Earth but noticed its a cross buy title for PS3 & Vita if only devs offered the same for Nintendo platforms i chose that.
Its this bad attitude Nintendo fans have towards Mega Man that cost us Mega Man Legends 3.
I may pick up Citizens of Earth for that price.
@Bass_X0 To be fair that bad attitude started when Capcom canned Megaman Legends 3.
Does anyone else hate these atrocious new emoticon's that NL now uses?
Please, Do NOT get talking phrasebook!! I got it cause I want to support learning, especially language learning, on the 3ds, but it is just so horrible. Voices are watered down, there are load times for each individual phrase, the pronunciation is off and a muddied down kind of off. The Spanish section just has a Mexican flag and says "Mexico" as if mexico it the only country that speaks Spanish. Just please don't get it.
Citizens of Earth and Darksiders for me, been wanting to try CoE for a while and DSII was a game I didn't finish on PS3.
Oh good.... more mega man
Crap and yet more crap!
Eesh! Those horrendous prices and options. No wonder Wii U struggles over there. America has had a decent eshop showing this Summer with many great discounts.
I might get Citizens of earth. That's quite a discount.
Surprised that Nano Assault EX for 3DS isn't getting more attention one of the few 9/10 indie games for 3DS seems the price when released £12.49 which is brilliant in of itself as its an updated version of the retail cart its now going to be £6.35 so half price on Thursday, curiously not sure when/where this £8.49 price came from as its currently showing in the eshop.
wiiu want more!
Darksiders is nice, only it got it for 7.50euro in a discountbin a year ago,
wiiu need more love.....
I predict that we will get a Megaman game in next weeks download, if there's any left to release lol 😁
All Darksiders (1+2+ all dlc) on gog.com from 24th august to 27th august for 17,47 euro!
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