
Another week begins and brings with it news of the upcoming European Nintendo Download Update, and this time around there's plenty to look forward to. One of the year's biggest retail releases on Wii U is joined by a much-anticipated download release published by Curve Digital, alongside another intriguing arrival. Two highly rated retail titles also arrive on 3DS along with discounts across both systems - let's get to the details.
Wii U eShop
The Swindle (Curve Digital, €12.49 / £9.99 until 24th September, then €14.99 / £11.99) - The first game led by UK designer Dan Marshall to arrive on Nintendo hardware, this employs a quirky cyberpunk London of 1849 setting with randomly generated stages from which to steal cash. There's an overlying 100 day time-limit as you scheme your way around settings to hack computers and make off with the establishment's money, using those funds to buy abilities and unlock new areas. You can check out the recommendation in our review of The Swindle, if you like.
Star Sky (JMJ Interactive, €4.00 / £3.60) - This is supposed to be a relaxing game (with several endings) about a man walking through a starlit field, described by the developer as "similar to an interactive poem". We expect it to be pretty chilled out, then, and we'll stroll along towards a review.
Wii U Retail Download
Super Mario Maker (Nintendo, €39.99 / £34.99) - One of the year's biggest Wii U releases and the showcase for Nintendo's Super Mario 30th Anniversary celebrations, this allows you to create and share 2D Mario levels across four game styles. Packed with clever touches, tools and the ability to produce levels beyond the scope of standard Mario games, along with potentially endless levels to play, we loved this so much that we described it as the "definitive Wii U game" in our Super Mario Maker review. Available from 11th September.
Wii U eShop Temporary Discounts
Trine Enchanted Edition (Frozenbyte, €6.49 / £5.49 until 10th October, normally €12.99 / £10.99)
Trine 2: Director's Cut (Frozenbyte, €8.49 / £6.99 until 10th October, normally €16.99 / £13.99)
TNT Racers - Nitro Machines Edition (Keen Games, €4.99 / £4.49 until 1st October, normally €7.99 / £6.99)
3DS Retail Downloads
Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX (SEGA, €39.99 / £29.99) - An Vocaloid-driven IP that's an enormous success in Japan and certainly has fans in the West, it makes its debut on a Nintendo portable. There's a lot to do in this game, from the core experience of rhythm gaming across plenty of entertaining tracks, to outfit and house customisation, and even a terrific Puyo Puyo mode. We gave this a glowing recommendation in our Hatsune Miku: Project Mirai DX review. Available from 11th September.
Etrian Mystery Dungeon (NIS America, €39.99 / £34.99) - Co-developed by Atlus and Spike Chunsoft, this combines the Etrian Odyssey and Mystery Dungeon concepts into one package; there's the squad-based approach and game world of the Atlus franchise combined with randomly-generated dungeons to explore. We gave this a strong recommendation in our Etrian Mystery Dungeon review.
3DS Retail DLC
Etrian Mystery Dungeon: Find a wanderer for me (NIS America, free until 11th October, then €1.79 / £1.59)
Etrian Mystery Dungeon: Know the Red Pookas (NIS America, free until 11th October, €1.79 / £1.59)
Etrian Mystery Dungeon: Find a princess for me (NIS America, free until 11th October, €1.79 / £1.59)
Etrian Mystery Dungeon: Find a landsknecht for me (NIS America, free until 11th October, €1.34 / £1.19)
Etrian Mystery Dungeon: Slay the Gold Guardians (NIS America, free until 11th October, €1.34 / £1.19)
3DS eShop Temporary Discounts
AeternoBlade (Corecell, €7.99 / £7.19 until 8th October, normally €14.99 / £13.50)
AiRace Speed (QubicGames, €2.39 / £2.10until 8th October, normally €3.49 / £3.10)
AiRace Xeno (QubicGames, €1.69 / £1.59until 8th October, normally €2.49 / £2.29)
escapeVektor (Nnooo, €3.49 / £ 2.99 until 24th September, normally €6.99 / £5.99)
3DS eShop Demo
Samurai Defender (CIRCLE Entertainment, free)
That's everything coming to Europe this week - let us know what you plan to download in the poll and comments below.
Comments 77
Getting Super Mario Maker physically so nothing for me this week.
SUPER MARIO MAKER PHYSICALLY!!
nothing for me like normal because I will ALWAYS get the physical version of a game over the digital
still some good games out this week, Mario Maker for one
Getting Etrian Mystery Dungeon physically at some point and keeping an eye on The Swindle and Star Sky. I am not the type of person to have too much fun playing Super Mario Maker, but I sure look forward seeing people play the heck out of it on Youtube. =]
Unfortunately I neither like building levels nor am I good at Jump'n'Runs.
Physical Miku and Mario, no downloads this week.
Mario maker, download only and download all the way!
Also, trine 1 discount is good. Didn't pick it up yet but will do so now.
I can't believe it, but I'm tempted by Project Mirai despite my complete lack of Rhytm; a good excuse with music and rules for mash buttons, really stress releaving!
I'll have to totally avoid Super Mario Maker instead, as game making I like to have fun in Unity, I don't need a fix in that way (even if the results I could have in Super Mario maker would be 1000000 times more playable and fun XD;;; ).
Mario Maker physically and Trine Enchanted.
The physical version of Super Mario Maker, so nothing for me this week.
Nothing for me. I want Mario Maker on disc.
Super Mario Maker digitally and will get the physical version when it's on sale for below 30€.
Etrian Mystery Dungeon hasn't free DLC for a month like USA and Japan? Also no special edition for us. I think they don't care about us much.
Would have liked to get SMM digitally as it'll be a great pick up and play (I have MK8 and Smash digital) but got too tempted by the amiibo and T Shirt combo! It's this and Tearaway Unfolded for me this week... My this is an expensive time! MGSV ate my weekend and I'm only 6% in; not enough time!
Etrian Mystery Dungeon for me ^^. Hopefully Etrian Mystery Dungeon will be as good as Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is for me .
I don't think I will get Mario Maker as I prefer games with stories, and I prefer Paper Mario over side-scrolling Mario games.
Still I hope a lot other people will have a ton of fun with Mario Maker .
One of the most definite hour one downloads there has ever been for me,I really cannot wait for this.Love these weekly updates when one of the big boys we've been waiting ages for arrives.They're few and far between unfortunately but that makes it all the more special when they finally come.As far as we are aware we won't have many days like this left as Wii U owners so be sure to savour it
everyone complaining because they are getting physical, a lot prefer digital as its much more convenient to turn on the console and not have to mess around with switching optical media. there's befits of having physical and not having physical.
Mario Maker @ 49%, I wonder how many people clicked that option who are actually getting the physical copy? Nothing for me except Mario Maker physical, 'cause I want the 8 bit Mario Amiibo!
Nothing for me. I will get MM physical when the price goes down.
@nintendozero: I didn't see anyone complaining, just stating what they are going to buy.
It's rather questionable, if the download-survey should be a general what-are-you-going-to-buy-survey rather than a digital only survey.
Trine and trine 2 have already been discounted recently, rotate more titles.
I'm hoping Nintendo UK will get back to my email about my card no longer working on the eshop as last week had so many I want to get.
The eShop titles for Wii U both look promising. I just bought two games last week though - I can still probably justify this. I got Thomas Was Alone how long ago and never fired it up, though?
Not an ideal week for The Swindle to release,looks to be a good game and one I'll definitely get eventually.
Well I'm not on the Mario maker hype train....simply not my type of game. I will get it at some point but it's far from top of my list right now!
I had no idea swindle was due out so soon, I've had an eye on that for a while but I've been working on my back log so that's a maybe. On the brink of completing trine 2 right now so the first one is tempting as well but its on sale pretty regularly zo might wait.....
£34 for mario maker must mean that the hard copy can be found for £29 or less. Let me know if anyone has snagged a bargin.
@nintendozero
Yeah i would prefer digital all the way but I sure wish that the Wii U supported regular SD cards for storage expansion. Everything on my 3ds is digital but not so on my U.
Looking at the webpage for starsky all of his games seem to have a similar gameplay style. If Starsky is good I hope the rest come to the eshop.
@invictus4000 SD cards aren't big enough for storing Wii U games on them to be worth it. A typical 32GB one would only hold like 3-4 retail games
Voted "nothing for me this week" as I've paid for a physical copy of Super Mario Maker.
mario,miku and etrian!...wow...what a week...
will only download if not find the games in the shops ofcourse...
@Lord Super Mario Maker (includes Artbook) is £29.98 here:
http://www.gameseek.co.uk/pd/videogames39qrbreg8v/nintendowiiu-super-mario-maker-includes-artbook-
Nothing for me this week. That's like 8 weeks of nothing for me.
I will get Mario Maker soon though, once there are tons of levels.
Getting the hug_able version of mario maker, so again, nothing for me also this week.
Salut/Goodbye/auf wedershen/gegroet
Was gonna download Mario Maker but the book and amiibo forced me to go physical,Just Miku for me
Can't wait to start downloading Super Mario Maker!!
I'll be getting Super Mario Maker - retail - first day and then Etrian Mystery Dungeon as soon as I can. That's about it I guess.
I'm going to get Mario Maker as a download because I want to have it on my homescreen, I reckon I'm going to play it the most (even when Star Fox and Xenoblade come out)
Plus at £35, it's actually near RRP for once.
Why is MM so much cheaper in UK over the US.
NO discounts in the States, I am not paying $60 for it. I might be tempted at $35.
No way MM is worth the same as Forza 6 and COD Black Ops III.
£30.00 for a physical copy of Super Mario Maker is pretty good,
Interesting to see that SMM is again a game with reduced price while it's a full $60 game in the US, just like Splatoon was.
Wait so how much will SMM be in NA? 40$? Why was there people crying about it being 60$!? I too believe 40$ is more appropriate then paying 60$
Edit: Well unless the 60$ version of SMM comes with the 8-bit mario amiibo, I am not gonna buy it anymore as that is just more bad treatment to NA customers here lately. Overpriced level maker.
Oh look, Atlus once again missed out on the opportunity to promote their new game by discounting other related games. If this goes the same with release of Devil Survivor 2, I can probably kiss Soul Hackers for a better price goodbye :/
I had no idea Etrian Mystery Dungeon is coming out this week. Sorry, going to have to wait, blew all my gaming budget already this month, ugh.
@tysonfury Near RRP? Physical release RRP is £40 so it is less than RRP. Maybe NOE thought the 100 page physical book was worth £5?
Of course like always you can find the disc version for cheaper by retaliers who choose to make less profit.
@Piersen Atlus? NISA handle Etrian games (and a few others) in Europe for some reason. NISA never put anything on sale so are worse than Atlus themselves when it comes to publishing. I'd rather digital only and regular discounts than physical months later with no discounts (and the occasional horrendously expensive limited edition). Ghostlight did put Devil Survivor 1 on sale once (don't know if they're publishing 2 here).
I'm going to get Super Mario Maker at the retail, plus the two AiRace games on 3DS. They could use some help in the WiiU discount category though - haven't see a decent sale since June.
The Swindle looks super interesting, but if I had to get a new game I'd probably go with Runbow, because I still have the E3 small price-cut. If someone tells me that The Swindle has as much content as Curve's previous game Stealth Bastard 2 though, I would get that in a heartbeat.
Star Sky looks like "I wanna be Limbo" game #365, therefore - no thanks.
@Starwolf_UK Ok, sorry, not keeping track of who publishes it here. Dunno if Atlus hates Europe or what. I'm just referring to Atlus games in general (SMT, EO, Conception, Citizens of Earth...)
I did buy Devil Survivor on a discount and remember that Soul Hacker was discounted too but that was long time ago and I just bought Devil Survivor so I did not buy it then.. if only I knew.
But if different people handle the franchises, there may still be a chance
@Hero-of-WiiU The game + booklet is $59.88 on Amazon so sadly this is a repeat of the Splatoon situation.
Is there a difference between the physical Mario Maker and the download?
Other than the obvious of course. What I mean is, does it always come with that special Amiibo or is there something else really cool about it?
Thanks.
'What are you going to buy first' would definitely be a smarter title for the poll.
I probably would have went for Mario Maker digital (as I had had all the Mario games digitally aside from Party 10 when I got rid of my Wii U) but Mirai DX is actually quite challenging, controls nicely and is a lot of fun.
It's definitely overtly Japanese, but it makes games like Guitar Hero and Theatrhythm look like child's play at times.
Anyone who doubts that statement should try the demo.
Button mode, hard, LoL.
That's all I have to say about that.
They're so unfair! No Virtual Console game this week!
Can someone please explain to me why games like this are not fll priced in Europe and Japan and then NoA decides to slap a full price tag on them? Seriously they are ticking me off.
@ikki5 Because when you split regions mafia-style and enforce region lock, it is easier to screw people over. I have a similar problem with release dates here in Europe. If Pokemon XY had global release, why is it still such a problem to do for big companies? It's 2015 ffs
@SanderEvers
Oh ok, so the Amiibo is not available separately?
With the European price of Super Mario Maker at €40 how come the American price is at €60 and not €45?
Sucks being a 3DS fan lately.
They're so unfair! No Virtual Console game this week!
We just got three last week!
The Swindle and Trine Enchanted Edition for me, will pick up SMM later on down the line, though with Fatal Frame coming out next month and then in December Xenoblade it's getting really busy really quick.
escapeVektor for me - sounds great and I never noticed it b4 😄
@Starwolf_UK
35 is near 40
Mario maker physical copy, CANNOT WAIT!
@Scarhino89 They are getting ready for the new rewards program.To replace club Nintendo.That is why the 3ds is not getting any for months.
Superb week for me this week. Mario Maker is the game I'm most excited about, but I voted for Etrian Mystery Dungeon since I'm also hyped for that. After playing the demo for Hatsune Miku, I'm also wanting that as well.
@SahashraLA Mirai DX is child's play compared to songs in Rock Band such as Pulse of the Maggots.
Well, with SMM somewhere in the ether and having no idea whether that is arriving or not or even how much I've been charged, the real Swindle is GAME's pre-order service! That's a level of ineptness rarely achieved.
Will look out for Curve's Swindle review as I enjoy their games. Maybe I shall play as a GAME exec?
not the NA list but SMM physical form best buy thanks to GCU. 20% off FTW
tfw you preload super mario maker so you could play it early and then you see that you could have saved $10 on amazon prime and then you fracture your right hand making it nigh immpossible to play. i hate my life
Just Super Mario Maker physically for me. I might get Project Mirai down the line as well.
@pixelpower That really sucks! Hope you recover soon. D:
So much at once! Got Mario Maker on pre-order, grabbing The Swindle and Etrian Dungeon aswell. About time we got good releases for once. Haven't bought anything worthwhile in a long time.
got the smm limited with amiibo and 4 badge set , says shipped on the email
Guys, this is Europe.
As of now, 1 British pound is roughly 1.5 American dollars.
Mario Maker is not any cheaper in the UK than it is in America.
If I wasn't buying the physical copy, I would download Super Mario Maker.
Super Mario Maker is on preorder, but now that there's a sale on The Swindle I have to pick that up as well. Star Sky sounds intriguing, too.
@Grumblevolcano Me too. Want that thing shiny in my living room.
@Seacliff I paid €41 for Super Mario Maker plus postage to Ireland. That's converts to less than $46. The Yanks have to pay $60 for the game. Seems a bit unfair. But my sympathy is short lived as it's all swings and roundabouts. We had to wait longer for games like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush.
I found Trine 2 pretty dull when I first tried to play it, but I'll give Trine Enchanted a go and see if I can get into the series.
I suppose it's funally time to pick up Airace on 3DS as well
Super Mario Maker amiibo bundle and Project Mirai digitally.
Got Super Mario Maker physical and downloaded Project Mirai DX.
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