Nintendo Download: 27th October (Europe)

Sonic series: 25th Anniversary Theme (SEGA, free)

You had me at the word "free"

Getting Gurumin 3D, not entirely sure I'll like it, but it seems just the sort of colourful and quirky game that I love the 3DS for.

Corpse Party is Download Only in Europe and goes for 30€?!
No thanks, i got it on my PSP for Only 10€.

Just the free theme. Might finally start Link Between Worlds this week.
Noticed you've stopped saying you'll review most releases. The eshop reviews are what brought me to Nintendo Life in the first place.

So, this Corpse Party is the one that it all started with? I'm still willing to try that series, but never got into research of where to start.

Solitaire

No virtual console at all this week, Nintendo missing out the perfect chance to bring out Zombies Ate My Neighbours on both platforms this week...

Gurumin is dearer than I was expecting... maybe they'll have a discount code. That was the only thing I wanted though.

On top of last weeks stingy discounts, this is another crap week for Wii U.

I'm glad to see nobody has voted for Solitaire. €5 for a game you can play on your smart phone or PC for free.

Solitaire for free on iphone or 5 pounds on the wii u version. So confused

Someone went and voted for Solitaire. They probably voted for Just Dance 2017 as well.

I don't know, honestly. I'd have grabbed Majora's Mask for Halloween if only I didn't have the game already.

Witch & Hero - isn't it always on sale?

Meh. Nothing for me. Except I need to get one of HK themes one day

I'll probably pick up that Sonic theme bundle, and maybe the Team Rocket one too, if I'm feeling spendy.

I dunno, the last time I invited myself to a corpse party, I nearly drank myself to death.

@Lynox This is a version of the first game. There's generally four versions: the very first, the commercial PC, the PSP, and the 3DS. For a full breakdown on which has what, from XSEED themselves, see here: http://xseedgames.tumblr.com/post/142874655105/corpse-party-pc-3ds-victims-memoirs-1

Dang, Minecraft Wii U Edition is possibly the best game on the system with the support it gets! Can't say that for any other Nintendo title, can you?

Has anybody ever played Defend Your Crypt on 3DS? Might check that out...

Hyped about the free Sonic theme!

Is Gurumin 3D worthwhile? Do Mastiff games ever go on sale cos I might just wait for a that... (money's super tight, yo)

Poor week, just dance is a good title for families and will pick it up if it goes cheap but no rush.

My main hope for Wii u now is big discounts and Wii games on eshop

Corpse Party for me, although probably not right away. Blew a chunk of my paycheck on a Super Famicom and some games, gotta wait for more moneyz.

Back in my day when we wanted a Corpse Party we would make it ourselves.

So do we think the eshop releases are going to improve in time for Christmas or are we going to be stuck with this rubbish until the Switch now?

Have the American releas of Corpse Party on preorder.

I'd get Corpse Part physically (like the US), but seeing as that's not happening, no sale.

I thought Gunman Clive was discounted or was that last week? Anyway the Sonic freebie sounds good and I may investigate Mr Clive too.

Mario's Halloween sounds interesting.

Since I got both Corpse Party 1 and 2 for only £2.99 each in a sale on my Vita a few months ago I think i'll pass for now, Maybe i'd consider a physical release but its not happening here.

The Runbow DLC is the most decent thing coming out on my Birthday which is sad.

I'm guessing Sonic style will either have City Escape or Green Hill Zone from Generations.

@cmk8 I guess all the shovelware did them in. I think they have freelance writers do the less popular ones now, and it takes longer to do them when they don't get advance copies, or no one wants to play them to review them.

I'll admit, those reviews brought me here too (as a lurker), got me to buy quite a few DSiware and WiiWare games several years ago.

Probably Sonic themes only though next Monday has Hyrule Warriors Legends DLC.

@Lynox Yep this is the beginning. This is a remake of the very first game and tells the very first entry in the series. Then you have the prologue and epilogue of Book of Shadows and Blood Drive in the "trilogy".

Corpse Party... Finally... Yihaaaa !

And next, we should have Stardew Valley on WiiU soon, if I'm correct... I'm really happy this end of year !

@LegendOfPokemon

Hyrule Warriors says "hi". Better support than any game I've ever seen.

Fairune 2 and corpse party could be interesting at a discount.

@Menchi187 Perhaps, but they discounted more then enough Halloween themed VC games as well as eShop games. VC Sales almost never happen.

I don't think we're going to see any new VC titles besides whatever NA has that we don't if anything and eventually more TG games and maybe SNES for New 3DS, not for a system that's pretty much on its last legs and a handheld entering its last 1 or 2 years.

With that said, the best I'm hoping for is an all out XMas/New Year's Blow Out sale with some insanely low reductions, you know for Nintendo to squeeze every last penny they can get out of us loyal Wii U owners before we make the "Switch" next year, haha. XD

@Angelic_Lapras_King

Sadly, I think that you're right. I have been following the VC trends, from region-to-region, very closely for the past several years and one thing that I have noticed is that the trends in Japan do trickle down to Europe and the states. When VC support suddenly stopped in Japan, for the original 3DS (NES, GB, GBC), it took a few months but that same support stopped for the other regions as well with no explanation as to why.

The same is now happening (already!) with snes support on the New 3DS! Japan hasn't received a new VC release since August, and the once-robust list of future releases has been pared down, which is exactly what happened when support died a few years ago. It's sad, really, because only two third-party companies offered support for the New (Capcom and Konami). It would have been nice to get Squaresoft, Natsume, Enix, etc. on board as well.

@neyoung8 Look at last week's update. Plenty of discounts, including on Wii games, and a new Wii game too (Project Zero 2). And it's all available even now. Go go go!

@Mahe I know last week was really good. I picked up 7 games.

Suppose I should start playing those rather than moaning on internet about lack of discounts this week 😃

The games if anyone is interested were

Year walk
Don't starve
Super castlevania
Chompy chomp
Gunman collection
Pacman world
Costume quest2

The Wii u is such a fantastic machine

@BanjoPickles Another thing to consider what the main VC focus for them must be right now and that would be getting the Switch's VC up and running. Do remember the Wii U VC did not even launch till a few months after the system.

I'd pray that they do not restart it all over again and we can just auto download our games again once we log in with the same Nintendo Network ID without a transfer system and even if they applied a small fee per game, but the fact that we probably won't be able to play our DS downloads on a Switch is a little concerning....

@Angelic_Lapras_King I think they will start over and i don't think there will be DS or 3DS, Wii or Wii u VC so a real step backwards.

Also I think we won't see VC until late 2017 as they will want people buying third party games.

Getting free Shantae and the Sonic Style home theme.
Still waiting for the last HWU DLC.

Theme week for me

Corpse Party might be something that I'll enjoy, but I'll need to look into it and at reviews.

So is Nintendo done releasing new Wii U VC games?! It looks like NA is playing catch-up with EU and JP, but we're not getting anything not released in other regions already so I fear that Nintendo is completely done with the Wii U. Heck it wouldn't surprise me if those rumours of Nintendo strong-arming indies into moving their Wii U games to Switch are actually true...

@neyoung8 Yeah, you should be playing those games... or buying more from the sale!

Corpse Party and maybe Gurumin n Mr Pumpkin aswell for me this week.

@Mahe Yep, almost bought some more but resisted. Would have probably picked up the two project zero games if there was a launch discount and bigger discount on PZ5

@TJF588
Very helpful link, thanks. I've already preordered the 3DS version but I was also wondering what differences were.

I got fed up with Nintendo's refusal to publish a fair amount of NES/SNES classics on Wii U VC, so I just bought the original consoles with Everdrives to play on an old 25" CRT. Comes to about half the price I already paid for my current VC games (I got over 30 VC games on my Wii U, which arguable is more comfortable with the gamepad on the couch though).

I will however cherish my small collection of SNES games on N3DS, because that is pure portable genius.

The new home themes still aren't out....I want two of the Sonic ones really badly.