Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects - July 2019

Doom 3 gets my pick for the best eShop game of the past month. It doesn't suffer from the DRM or technical issues of Doom & Doom II, and it's just a really fun, scary, and well designed game that still holds up incredibly well 15 years after it's initial release. It's quite a long game for one of this genre too and a good value for the $10 USD it'll set you back. =)

Blazing Chrome looks fun, but that’s a “wait for sale” one for me. The top 3 are all solid choices.

@Jin15 Yeah, I've been playing it on Veteran difficulty, and it was kind of ticking me off at first, but now that I've gotten the hang of it and gotten lots of weapons and ammo I'm really enjoying it. The steep challenge makes it even more tense!

Intrigued by Fantasy Strike - sounds more tactical than technical - anyone played it?

I only played Doom, so I guess that is my only option! I enjoy it, but I don't like anywhere near as much as the new Doom.

Haven’t bought DOOM yet... but I’m gonna. I read so much about DOOM growing up but I never played it. DOOM was the first game I downloaded on my Switch when I got it, just over a year ago, and it is pretty special. I’m looking forward to seeing where it all began. Hopefully I enjoy it enough that I pick up two and three. All three are doing fantastic on the eShop, which is great to see.

@Giygas_95 Same here! I've beaten DOOM (2016) on Ultra Violence three times so I decided to play Doom 3 on Veteran difficulty and it's been putting up a good fight. Thankfully being able to save your game any time keeps it from getting frustrating, though I just encountered the first Revenants this morning and am getting my butt pretty well kicked at the moment lol

I'm a bit bummed that the secret levels in DOOM II have been censored.

Why do the rest of us have to suffer?!

And I hope these release Final DOOM at some point. Cyberden is one of my favourite levels for multiplayer sessions, and Go 2 It is madness. Crazily, I'm sure I managed to complete it at least once.

I’ll wait for Super Noah’s Ark 3D

I would have nabbed DOOM, but the log-in requirement and issues with the port itself put me off.

Blazing Chrome looks fantastic. I've not downloaded it yet, but I do think it'll be one of my next purchases.

@ItalianBaptist haha! Nice! That's a deep cut reference there and made me laugh!

Has to be Doom. All 3 are in the top few selling e-shop games currently, people are enjoying them for sure!!

Rise: Race The Future I recommend to any racing fans also. It looks amazing and has a decent length Championship/Career mode. Well worth picking up. Made by the team that did the great V-Rally 3 on the GBA and Ironfall on the 3DS...

@Jin15 You're ahead of me then. I'm at the part where you get ambushed by a whole bunch of spiders. Annoying little buggers!

I've done DOOM 2016 twice on Ultra Violence and twice on Nightmare, and I gotta say I prefer Nightmare because even when you're armed to the teeth and stupidly overpowered, the game is still tough. On ultra violence, things just become a bit too easy after a while!

I'm still waiting to hear that the login requirement for Doom has been removed.

@Jin15 Wholeheartedly agree! Had Doom 3 back when it released in 2004 and it melted my PC, now we can play it in the palm of our hands, amazing times. Cracking game too, still pretty scary to play!

Doom Classic series on cartridge too, please.

I'm happy to have DOOM and DOOM II installed on my system anyway due to their small size (and Final DOOM if they ever get around to releasing it), but I want the entire series on cartridge for prosperity and especially DOOM 3 as it's over 8GB.

Doom 3 is pretty sweet and probably should have had an honourable mention. But i can't argue with doom. Haven't downloaded it yet though. I'm still chipping away every so often at doom 2 and my big play throughs are for doom 3

Doom is still ultra fun, especially now that it's on the go. Beat the game on easiest mode and now I'm replaying on medium. Doom II I'm currently stuck on lvl 14 and will have to watch someone on youtube play it to find the next key. Pretty puzzly. Glad I could play any of the 20 extra levels right away. Beat roughly half of those.
Blazing Chrome is awesome. All Contra fans need that game. (I can only beat it on the easiest difficulty though, pretty brutal game.)

Doom is “hella” fun. So i’m glad it’s at first. I also recommend What Remains Of Edith Finch. I already have it on PS4 with PSPlus. It’s such a emotional game. Easily a tearjerker.

I hope Doom gets an update that fixes its problem of not being able to play again after putting it into sleep mode. Port issues and DRM stuff aside, this is what bothers me the most about it.

Still a lot of fun and very fairly priced and an easy vote for me.

Another month where I’ve had to make space on my 400GB card for more games. Doom, Rise and Tiny Metal 2

I'd like a sequel to Kirby's Blowout Blast.

Doom 3
Doom 3
Doom 3

Only 2% for lethal league blaze ??
Try the demo, it's really fun. Smash bros x Breakout.

Since Wolfenstein Youngblood is a download only that would be my pick personally. Otherwise I can’t say there was much I was excited about.

Very surprised Doom 3 wasn’t mentioned. I like it better than original Doom or Doom 2, but to each their own.

I know it’s crazy to say and hear but I haven’t played a doom game until the first came out on switch. FPS’s have never interested me so I never bothered but seeing it finally ported and it being so cheap decided what was the harm and.. I love it. Seriously fun and addictive especially with the option to play local co op and my this being my little brothers favorite series we can chill and play together. Definitely my #1 eshop exclusive game this month. In all honesty it stops me from playing FE at times... gah!!! Back to three houses (:

Great games!
Gonna get the doom games soonishh

I'd probably just about give it to Doom 3 this month with Doom very close behind. Both are by far the best 2 digital only games I've bought this year for any platform. Actually the Castlevania collection would be very close too

@MartyFlan Damn I feel old

@Mariskis I AM old, if that makes you feel any better 😂

Only one I played is Blazing Chrome and it’s top notch.

@Silly_G

Yeah, that was a bit weird and the levels became way too easy.

Switch is an outlier, but I’d imagine anyone buying these on PS4 or XBOX either aren’t running Windows nor have a gaming pc. So, I’m gonna happily remark that their were missed opportunities here. Panic Button brought the love as much as they could (4K and 60 fps on Xbox/Playstation...just no 4k assets). Being a 25th anniversary, and that it’s Doom (publicly available source code), I would have liked to have seen either asset improvements or licensing of some of the community work already out there for public consumption.
Most of the vanilla gameplay Doom videos you’ll come across on Youtube have way nicer graphics.
I’m also at a loss as to why we’re missing many of the top notch megawads out there. Like most people, I would just download the .wads that got high marks and then would play them at random, never recalling the names of my favourites. But I do remember that their were Doom II megawads that were tighter and better overall than Doom II, itself. Alas, the internet knows, as do some former id staff. I don’t know if Romero’s new episode is good or not, regardless, why isn’t it here? etc

Dream daddy isn't number 1, what the heck bro

@Zoda_Fett : It's cool to hear that a first-timer is loving the classics as well. I generally can't go back to playing older entries in a series when I have been introduced to a more modern entry in the series. I guess this is a testament to the timeless quality of DOOM. In comparison, Wolfenstein 3D hadn't aged as well, but it's remarkable just how much iD Software had improved upon the genre in the course of a single game.

These ports remind me again just how great these games are, and they well and truly are every bit as fun now as they were 25 years ago. In fact, I have spent most of those years playing with cheats in Ultra Violence difficulty and just mowing down countless demons, but I'm currently in the process of trying to complete DOOM 1 in Ultra Violence (plus the secret levels) for the very first time.

Lol still "small technical issues" on a 25yr old game, mmm ok....