It's a bit of a bumper week on the eShop for both Wii U and 3DS owners, with the highest profile arrivals set to be FAST Racing NEO, SteamWorld Heist and Terraria. The latter, rather like the upcoming Minecraft: Wii U Edition, has been a hugely popular game on various systems that's finally making its way to Nintendo hardware.
Terraria is often described as '2D Minecraft', which isn't necessarily a fair reflection of its own qualities, but perhaps helps to explain the core mechanics that helped it take off in popularity. It blends surrealism with plenty of freedom to explore, dig and craft; we can see where the comparison comes from.
As we've previously shared the launch trailers for the week's other major arrivals it seems fair to afford Terraria the same courtesy. This old gamer is struck by the lack of music, but that's part of the title's style - check it out below.
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It's not part of the game's style, that's the wrong trailer.
It just goes to show how rushed the game is, they wanted it out by Christmas no matter what.
@Moon
Which would be even more insulting - provided that was the case - considering that the game hasn't been made from the ground up for the 3DS: it's a port! Same goes for Minecraft's lack of Gamepad integration. Nintendo consoles have been denied these two games for a while now, and yet here are the vanilla edition of both.
Then again, it might be less of a Christmas Rushed cash-in and more of a case of complete lack of familiarity with Nintendo hardware. I don't know, I don't want to seek malice in third parties' actions and I actually want to show gratitude for more third-party support, but if Terraria had music to begin with, then it's a case of lazy porting.
Ya when I first saw the trailer I thought they were joking around with the mining part and then would make it seem more awesome with music and such...guess not...butt sure the game will have music!
So this game has touchscreen support, but it's missing music? Is that what's happening here?
@AlexSora89 Nintendo uploaded the wrong trailer (probably an early version without music). The trailer does have music on the developer's youtube channel and obviously the game itself will have music too.
I don't know how people have never heard of this game before. It will be just fine. The missing music is just a goof in the trailer.
Over 800 hours on Steam, you'd be mad to think I won't try a 3DS version with physical and touch controls.
Trailer is one 240p and no music someone sat on upload button by accident I guess haha, still at least this is coming to 3ds but I wish there was darn online!
@felix330 Oh I see.You're right, I've just looked at the trailer on 505 Games' Youtube page: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epSvE-nXbXA.
Terraria's creator, Redigit, when asked about a potential 3DS port years ago said that 'the 3DS unfortunately can't run Terraria the way it needs to be run' or something along those lines.
He wasn't lying and nothing has changed. This 3DS version is very scaled back.
No online multiplayer, no 3D, no world size options, no dyes...
We're basically getting a fraction of the actual game for a massively inflated price.
I quizzed the devs on why it's so minimalist, and it's been stated that the 3DS's small amount of RAM is to blame. As a result, the only world size is about 40% that of a 'small' world from any other version.
Naturally, I asked about New 3DS which has twice as much RAM as a regular 3DS and they haven't got any interest in utilising that extra power - because they want to make as much money as possible. Makes sense from a business perspective, but Nintendo fans yet again seem to get the bum deal.
i thought i would be getting steamworld heist this thursday but with this also coming out, and both being kinda pricey eshop games, i may have to hold off on heist and give this a try.
@Moon this is my concern. i would love to play it on 3ds, but i don't see that it's going to be a particularly good version.
This is beautiful.
Sooo... 2D Minecraft is coming to 3DS. While full 3D Minecraft is coming to the decidedly 2D-dispensing Wii U.
Makes perfect sense! ;D
Crap, I thought Terraria was coming too the US 3DS Eshop too.
@Moon Yep, that's the bind Nintendo puts their users in. Don't buy the New 3DS and developers will have to gimp their games to get it on the old model. Buy the New 3DS and old 3DS users are screwed, plus the fragmented revenue for devs.
I hope the Wii U version will have all the features. I'm very interested to play this.
Time to squish some eyes.
I wish this game ran better on the 3DS
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