Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects - October 2018

I'm defintely keeping an eye on Save Me Mr. Tako (and Gal Metal), I'll be sure to grab it as soon as I'm done with Dark Souls. The Iron Golem is kicking my butt.

Edit: Also I wanna add that I did play Guacamelee as a free Discord Nitro game on PC. Excellent Metroidvania, happy it's in the top 3 despite being a port.

So top 3 are all ports this month?

@gaga64
Everything is a port, this month. Good ones, but...

@gaga64 when is it ever not a a port.
Even breath of the wild was a port.

Wii U era: God, there are no games! No 3rd party content at all!

Switch era: God, so many ports! Too many indies!

Conclusion: Loud minority is never happy. They want lots of 3rd party content, and 1st party stuff, all major AAA releases. They want them frequently. They want a portable console to be as powerful or more so than dedicated home consoles. They also want all the major AAA games from rival systems too, even though, those too, would be the dreaded ports that they hate.

I for one, love my Switch, love the plethora of games on it, and am very happy with the direction its been going. I'd just like a successor to virtual console and apps like YouTube, Netflix and Twitch, and it'd be perfect.

Although it was released at the end of September, my vote goes to Wandersong. Speaking of which, where's Nintendolife's review of that game?

@SenseiDje Save me Mr Tako is not a port.

@The_ghostmen I don't think it's fair to call Breath of the Wild a port, when it was really a simultaneous multiplatform release. Unless you'd call any game that isn't exclusive to a single platform "a port", which wouldn't make much sense, in my opinion.

Next week this could be get POKEMON and SPYRO.

Valkyria Chronicles is easily the best game on this list.

Last month was better.

Valkyria Chronicles is one of my favorite games of all time. I got seriously hooked on it long ago and played the hell out of it. VC2 didn’t quite scratch my itch, and I never played the third game for obvious reasons. Fortunately, I’m really digging VC4 so far!

Was Jackbox Party Pack 5 an October release? I can't remember any more!! Time's flying like crazy.
But if it was, then that..
Even as "Sad lonely gamer playing on his own", this was certainly one of the better collections, and if I were having a party around my Switch, I'd much prefer it to be one of those games than the slowness that was Mario Party.

As soon as I clear about three games from my backlog, Mark of the Ninja and Valkyrie Chronicles will be near the very top of my list. Guacamelee is there too, but lower down, next to Tako-san. Great month, October.

Portal Knights is still Number One for me.
Because i have that game in BOTH Digital & Physical release.

Missing:
The MISSING: J.J. Macfield and the Island of Memories

Not played it yet but it sounds like the most interesting release in October for me.

Wii u had a great library of nindies.

@SenseiDje true, but there were some non-ports this month and I personally feel like this is the perfect opportunity to highlight great new content.

All the top 3 (especially Guacamelee which scored 10/10 on Wii U) have had plaudits aplenty multiple times around and excellent extended word of mouth. Not to say they’re not great, definitely Top 10 this month, but maybe something else needs the extra promotion a little more?

I dunno, I’m just being confrontational for no real reason. Great games are great games. If the NintendoLife’s top 3 eshop games this month are ports, it doesn’t mean anything.

Still considering guacamelee

I`ll pull the trigger on Valkyria Chronicles sooner or later. The price is pretty good and the game looks gorgeous.

Valkyria Chronicles is a great game. Scouts die a bit too easy and jerks behind sandbags with interception fire normally wreck my day and so many missions fail to explain how to activate elevators or that there are locked doors and the Edelweiss tank is just a big instant-lose pile of explosives...BUT the game is really fun, the story is great, and I'm on the final chapter so I will see this through! 😆
for an easier and more fun experience see VC4, story is not as good though

@gaga64
I share your point. But for people with giants backlogs on steam, and/or a wiiu, this month has too few incentive

I understand that one doesn't always have the money to buy more than one gaming device but man...these games were released years ago and are worth less than 10$ on other platforms. I bought Child of Light (awesome game) 3 years ago for 8 dollars on Wii U. It's currently 6 dollars on Steam. I'm always surprise to witness people buying these games full price on the Switch. Diablo III sells for 25$ on Steam compared to 60$ on Switch....a game that was released in 2012....2012!

@Benexcelsior umm because Nintendo is better

That list is Why I didnt buy any games for Switch in October. But why I always had good reasons to own a Playstation 3 🙄

October of year 2 and all the "best games" are old rehash. That is not normal 🙃

Ports, ports and more ports...

October was not the month for me personally but I’ve got plenty to keep me occupied. I’m trying to get this single player campaign with all the weapons finished in Splatoon 2. Am I the only one wondering why they included so many weapons?

@DikkeSnikkel I preferred my Wii to my PS3.

@DikkeSnikkel exactly. Indies are fillers to keep busy till the next big new release hits a platform. Why they also sell at a budget price.

Was not playing a random Indie game on my PS4 when ZBOTW came out. Just Like not playing old rehashed indies on Switch when tons of AAA games are out for my PS4/PC 🙄

Overpriced Old ports.

@Benexcelsior GreenManGaming just started a sale on Civilization 6 for $15

Playing Stardew Valley, going to finish up Dark Souls, and then on to ValkChron 1 after. Can't wait for Battle Princess Madelyn. To that Dikkel guy above me (have him ignored now), indie games/small publisher games are absolutely on the same level as AAA, or even higher because at least they aren't trying to greedily throw microtransactions all up in their games. Stardew Valley is a great example of this, a game I'm nearing 80 hours in and still have tons to do. This game was $15 bucks.

This idea that indies can't be as important as AAA games is baffling to me, most of my favorite games in the past ten years are indie games.

Mutant Football League! Brings back so many great memories. Hope they redo Mutant League Hockey next.

Did we all forget Super Mario Party came out on Oct 5th?

@Heavyarms55 True that. The fact that people complain about that stuff always surprised me because I don't even have the time to play all of the games I already own. People request a ton of third-party and first-party support every month, if not every week! Do those people really have the time, and also the money, to play all of those titles? I'm kind of glad 2018 hasn't been as crazy as 2017 or 2019. There's still so much I want to play!

@Eef

Thanks! By the way have you played Taiko Drum Master on Switch yet? Are the Joy Cons pretty responsive with this game?

Um, where’s Dark Souls? That should easily have been a top 3 choice.

@DikkeSnikkel Maybe that’s true for you, but not everyone. I play 3-4 “AAA” games a year. Most of my time is spent playing indies because they are more bite sized. I can play much more variety with my limited game time. RDR2 will be my GOTY, but after that my “list” is full of indies.

Hey Ubisoft! Fix the frame rate in Child of Light! It is one of the best games ever, and so deserves a perfectly smooth frame rate like it has on other older systems. Thank you!

@Heavyarms55 and Mario Maker, that would make Switch perfect! Oh, and Advance Wars in any form!

@Frenean I think they're very responsive. I bet they get tough to use at very high levels/hard levels, but I've really enjoyed using them, the buttons on a pro controller, and the drum(I imported everything months ago). Taiko is one of my favorite game series. I have it on PS 2, and multiple iterations of it on DS. The Switch game is totally worth $50 on the eShop.

How is Chasm not on this list?

@60frames-please Oh if we get into individual game wishes we will never finish!

@wiggleronacid even last year people were throwing fits about ports and indies. These people are never happy!

@TinyTim lol by most measures the Wii was the overwhelming victor of its generation. It's one of the best selling consoles of all time! Clearly people do buy consoles to play those smaller titles. What, are you some sort of Disney villian? Gonna dictate how people have fun?

Valkyria Chronicles is amazing. Another previously Sony exclusive game lost to the Nintendo Switch. And only $14.99 too? Shoot...

Seems some haters (? I don't know what else to call it when they seem to repeatedly reiterate hating everything about the system) are upset about that though. They want you to know that you shouldn't be excited for the game because "it's a port". And sorry, but, "real gamers" don't play ports of games. It's all about image. Gotta let people know that you already played said game, cause ya know, you're just a higher caliber gamer than everyone else. In fact, you even got it "for $1.67 way back on the Magnavox some 76 years ago". Why anyone would drop more than a buck and a half for this game is just sooooo confusing, right? Poor Switch gamers, if only they knew how glorious it is to look down on every single ported game like you, in your infinite awesomeness... Don't buy Civilization VI on Switch, the only console version and the only handheld version and the only hybrid version on the market. No. If you were smart like the "real gamers" you would be buying that game for $2 dollars right now on the PC. Because obviously that's the only thing people care about. Quality of experience means nothing. Even if you love handheld gaming and despise playing games on PC, you're an idiot if you don't buy it on PC because, well, it costs less. And that's the only factor you should be considering. At least, until a switch game gets ported to another console. Then 60 FPS and 4K will matter more, even if it cost more

Love port games.
People don't like it, but I do. I get to play games that I missed.

The legend of evil should be on this list...because my company made it! ...
But - In all seriousness it's a shame that Nintendo life doesn't have time to play all the games anymore, ours took over two years to build, and is an exlcusive to switch for consoles (we also did a steam release). There is just so much content now on switch, it would take a small army to keep up!

@Heavyarms55 very true!

Mark of the Ninja Remastered for me, folks!

I did not buy any new releases on switch in October (as I went for a second playthrough of XC2 and got a bunch of Indies on sale) but guacameele, child of light and way of the ninja are on my wishlist (some of them at a better price tag)

Also is quite baffling the amount of people here that does not get (or prefers to ignore for trolling reasons) that this list is for DIGITAL ONLY titles therefore no Mario party or any AAA games....

@Balta666 "Also is quite baffling the amount of people here that does not get (or prefers to ignore for trolling reasons) that this list is for DIGITAL ONLY titles therefore no Mario party or any AAA games...."

Yeah, some people are really hard to deal with, no matter what you say...

7 Billion Humans was my game of the month.