Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects - May 2019

Seeing as Gato Roboto is the only new game in the top three, I believe it wins by default.

It really is a great game!

The sheer fact that the Switch port of RE4 didn't get the treatment it deserves, as well as being 30 bucks, makes me think the game should not be at number 1 at all personally. Yes it is one of the best games of all time, I agree there, but it's still handled in a disappointing enough way to detract points from it enough to not make it number 1 in this list.

That's just me though. That said, for those who have not yet played RE4, it is definitely still a solid recommendation! Just a shame that there's little reason for RE4 veterans to dip into this one. I'll wait for a good sale on it myself, anyway.

Gunlord X gets my vote it looks great both handheld and docked have it on Dreamcast but didn’t mind the double dip as it’s been enhanced in all the right ways and progression is much easier in the switch version

Gato Roboto is slick and fun. A great little game!

Sniper elite my favourite game last month

Completely disagree with RE4 as #1. It runs fine but the lack of features ie motion control/aiming makes this yet another lazy RE4 port. Thats a good honorable mentions list of games but ultimately it comes down to them being older overpriced re-releases. Brothers is a fantastic experience but let's get real - it's been about $2 on every other platform since 2015 lol

So many good choices, but I'll go with Resident Evil 0 since it's the one I've played the most. Still need to finish it and then get started on REmake!

The Switch game menu icons should be what you guys have posted for the game thumbnails. The icons they’ve been given are trash (not sure of Castlevania, though)

Yeah, Gato Roboto inspires fierce advocacy! I love it too! I've also really enjoyed Castlevania Collection, The Swords of Ditto, Gunlord X, Duck Game, Akane, Blazing Beaks, Mutant Blobs Attack, and Vall halla cyberpunk bartender action.
It would be fun to play Brothers, RE 4, Darkwood, Realm Royale, etc but I haven't bought them yet.
Also, Giga Wrecker Alt sucks with it's 30 fps graphics. What is wrong with the Pokemon Company?! Only like one Pokemon game runs at 60 fps. The only way I enjoy Drill Dozer is via Wii U emulation Virtual Console played on TV with motion smoothening boosting it up to 60 fps.

RE4 probably best game this month but not at that price. Gunlord X is great and so is Gato Roboto, plus you can buy both for £17.19 compared to £29,99 RE4 costs

Gato Roboto gets my vote, closely followed by VA-11 HALL-A. Both are fantastic!

[NOTE] @Zach777 Yeah, I hate the RE4 icon. So ugly and no logo. Add in the lack of motion controls and an eye watering price point, and that’s plenty reason enough for me to skip it. In the unlikely event that they fix those issues and reduce the price by a tenner, then I’m in.

Castlevania Collection is my fave of the month, with Puyo Puyo Champions as runner up.

RE & Cuphead. can't think of anything more to say.

Re4 is a great game. The controls are honestly perfect. I would like the enhancements but I feel the game is just as fun as ever.

As much as I enjoyed the Resident Evil 2 Remake I’d still put it as: Resident Evil 1(GameCube), Resident Evil 4, then the Resident Evil 2 Remake.

There is still something about that first game that feels so necessary and great. It really is perfectly executed in its own way.

Whatbis this VA11-HA11A game? I don't remember seeing or hearing anything about this.

I purchased both the Castlevania and RE4 but they are both just older (great) games. Voted for Gato Roboto...fun and satisfying without being frustrating. Love the care that went into this title.

The biggest surprise for me this month was Akane. Thought it may be shovelware, but got it on a sale (I had purchased other Cubic games) and it is great. One of the best bargain purchases I've made for this system.

Also GunlordX kicks a serious amount of ass.

American Fugitive and Evil Defenders for me. I know American Fugitive didn’t review as well as it could have, but I’m loving the old feeling that a new GTA game gave me with this one. Evil Defenders is a great RPG Tower Defences game that I have played a lot this month.

@Yosher I've never been a huge RE fan but I did play RE4 on the wii - it was good but not the greatest game I had ever played at the time. As such, I don't have the same nolstalgia that fans of the series do - I can see it has its place in history but when I see the switch footage and reviews, all I see is an expensive, half baked / average port of an important but old game that hasn't aged well in terms of textures, controls or storyline.. later games copied aspects of it and improved on the formula / technology. Without the nostalgia, I find it difficult to reconcile the actual port at its current price point with the high ratings it's received on switch.

@sandman89 I've enjoyed Sniper eleite and was surprised how well it worked as a portable game... perhaps not a classic game but a decent effort by rebellion

@nicols I guess maybe nostalgia might have something to do with it, but I still think it holds up pretty well for today's standards. Maybe not graphically, but controls and story are still fine- of course, depending on what you're looking for. Resident Evil in general tends to be a bit cheesy with its story which I personally think is part of its charm. Control wise, I think the controls are suited perfectly for the game as you have plenty of control over Leon, but not too much so to make the game too easy. Which.. admittedly, the Wii controls did make it a bit too easy, I guess, but there would've been nothing wrong with implementing gyro aiming here.

Whether you actually think it's one of the greatest games ever is entirely personal of course but I do genuinely think, trying to leave my own personal nostalgia out of the matter, that the game is definitely one of the best ever made, in general. Saying that as somebody who actually prefers RE Revelations to RE4 but can still say RE4 is the better game.

Either way it mostly comes down to opinion and people are always free to judge a game for themselves! Not every game is going to be for everyone after all.

@Yosher No, I accept it was a very important game - I initially struggled to see this but someone pointed out that the over shoulder viewpoint and some of the mechanics like shooting specific body parts altering the AI's actions were, if not totally original, certainly rare and had never been combined in this way before but were heavily used in many games soon after (and I have fonder memories of those games than this, the one the preceded them, but that's not to take away the ideas and creativity of the original design) - I guess its to the games credit that those aspects are still recognisable as a modern style 3rd person shooter / adventure today.

I think my nostalgia argument comes from the fact that there were aspects of RE4 that were already 'RE' tropes (e.g. picking up 'herbs' (pot plants) for health, the inventory system, the B movie dialogue and voice acting) that I didn't like back then and like even less now, yet those same aspects are often cited by fans as all part and parcel of what makes a game a RE game. As you say, not every game is for everyone.

Castlevania was the only one I bought. May is over. Bring on June!

Valhalla easily

There are some cool looking titles on the list this month, but nothing I picked up.

I love RE4. To be honest, I don't miss the motion controls at all. Controls are just fine and it runs great. It's bs that we pay 10 euro's more than PS or Xbox users, but the game has enough content to warrant a price of 30 euro's.

I don't remember what game I bought from the eShop last month but I think it might of been either Draw a Stickman: EPIC 2 or VA-11 HALL-A but this month I'm planing to get either The Room (one of my most favorite mobile puzzle games), one the Resident Evil games or Super Mario Maker 2 to start off my summer break.

Loving me some Gato Roboto at the moment, was going to wait in case of physical but couldnt help myself. Used all my gold points and got it for £2