All is not lost for the trusty Nintendo 3DS, as a brand new and exclusive game is set to launch on the system this Boxing Day.
Silver Falls – 3 Down Stars is a survival horror which has been inspired by the style of classic titles from the '90s and early 2000s. Ammo and recovery items are limited and every fight with enemies can have fatal results, hopefully promising a tense adventure which will have you exploring every corner of the titular Silver Falls. The game was actually first announced for the console back in 2018 but has had its release window considerably pushed back.
Here's an official story description:
Strange lights have been appearing in the night sky above Silver Falls. When three mysterious objects fall from the sky, this secluded, sleepy town becomes frozen in a moment in time. Strange radiation has turned local wildlife bloodthirsty.
Only 3 people in Silver Falls seem to be unaffected. Holt, a composer mourning the death of his grandfather with a fishing trip, Analise, an organizer for the annual Moose Steak Festival, and Moss, the local sheriff investigating reports of strange lights in the sky, must work together to figure out exactly what is going wrong in their town.
Why are they being attacked by wildlife? Why has time seem to have stopped? Using their wits and resources scavenged around Silver Falls, these three survivors must discover the mystery behind the three objects and return their town to normal.
The game is set to launch exclusively for the New Nintendo 3DS on 26th December in North America, and will arrive slightly later in Europe and Asia on 9th January. The development studio's director tell us that Silver Falls – 3 Down Stars "will be followed by two more exclusive Nintendo 3DS games in the coming months" which will available for all 3DS systems.
Feel like dusting off your 3DS for a new horror game this Christmas? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.
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Seems to want to copy Silent Hill. Wonder if it will succeed at being a good game. Definitely interested.
Man, I wouldn't feature 3 stars in the title of my game, just asking for trouble.
Me: "They wanted to make Silent Hill when they grow up!"
Also me: "The 3DS doesn't actually have any games of this sort, let's hope it's good."
LONG LIVE THE 3DS!
Seriously though, it is nice to see the 3DS is not completely forgotten about. It was, and still is a great system with great games.
Well I liked both Dementium and Dememtium remastered, that could be interesting.
I hope it will do good, the 3ds is a great system, but by now, not a lot of people buying games for it
Seeing just the one screenshot I was reminded of Silent Hill Origins. Looks a lot like Silent Hill, I hope it is a good game. We do need Silent Hill to come back at some point. I would take even just ports of SH 1-4 for Switch, that would be nice (if they don`t use anything from disastrous HD ports).
So at the bottom of the article it says exclusive to New 3DS. Is that actually the case? I’m sure the 3DS base for people still buying games is small, New 3DS even smaller.
Interested if it's good.
I'd prefer if it got discounts on games I've heard of.
Best part is when the dude jumps and spins vertically while kicking a deer in the face after shooting it what I think are supposed to be flames.
Anyway, I, uh... would have preferred if the last 3DS game didn't look like a Steam Greenlight reject from 2015.
State-of-the-art character models!
@estaate or they could take a another stab at remaking the whole thing again (and hopefully better)! I'd DEFINITELY take the whole Silent Hill anthology around on the Switch! Heck, I'd take a re-release of Shattered Memories, too!!
Seems like an "Alone in the Dark" sequel with slightly better modeling and a different story line.
Not only a new 3D game, but also a horror one? I'm at the very least interested... Not getting my hopes up yet, but interested. Show me more.
Edit: and a meat festival organiser and a fisherman being attacked by wildlife. Alright, show me MORE!
shame its 'New 3DS' only, I would of actually resurrected my 3ds
@MS7000 I actually picked up the 3DS (well, New Nintendo 2DS XL) recently and have been kicking my self for my beyond-the-last-minute jumping on board. Definitely still a truly great system.
Does it have stereoscopic 3D? Can I slide my slider up to the max again?! If so I’m very very very interested
Woohoo a 3ds game! Lovely!
Respect for these developers for still seeing value on the 3ds. Like 4 real.
The 3DS can be profitable for atleast another 3 years as a ' quality budget' device. It doesn't even need new releases just a light promotion here and there for its already existing games.
Yeah, this doesn't look good at all
Looks interesting, but not at 25 bucks.
@JasonLee99 the "New" system has Unity support, so maybe the devs only had the coding knowledge to make the game in that or they needed Unity's processing features. Either way, it's a niche market now, but one that definitely garners attention since it's all alone. It could do well.
@Sneaker13 It's a 3D game that's been in development for several years (which is a lot harder to make than a 2D game). I'm surprised it's only $25.
Honestly, I’m really excited about this from what I see. I still play my 3DS more than my Switch due to its stellar portability and tighter buttons/controls.
For this game though, I just hope the execution is done properly. No pun intended. Wait, yeah it is actually.
$25 launch price?!!!
Aww, stop mentioning Silent Hill.
I played Shattered Memories on Wii, and it was my first and only SH experience, and it was a mighty good one at that. I would definitely be interested in some ports on cartridge seeing as Capcom bloody refuse to put the Resident Evil games on cartridges.
Konami's support for the Switch has been surprisingly negligible to outright bad so far.
3ds is still the best Nintendo system atm, switch has a few excellent games and loads of duds
@Silly_G the resident evil games are on cartridges...well some of them.
I don't know, man. Don't get me wrong, I love my Four-Dee-Ass, but that ship has sailed at this point. Especially if it's exclusive to the New New new used New Four-Dee-Ass. I don't see this moving units. Delayed since 2018 and they didn't use that time to make it on the Switch instead?
Sweet! I still use my 3DS when I travel (still more convenient on a plane than the Switch) and I just want to see the system limp on for a little while longer. While the character models in this game look stiff and, well, not good; overall this game look pretty ambitious compared to other recent 3DS releases. Anything else I downloaded in the last six months has been very basic retro games (although Without Escape was cool in a mid 90's point and click kind of way).
Frame rate in the video look terrible, no wonder is new 3ds only, seems like its got performance issues. Graphics looks fine for a 3ds game, but i've got concerns about gameplay. I only got the first gen old 3ds but still nice that our old favorite system still got some juice on it
@dimi The trailer says the game is still in development, so they clearly didn't make a new trailer once the game went gold. I seriously hope they've realized how 'rough around the edges' the game looks just by the trailer and made a new one for release.
Wow, that actually looks very impressive for a 3DS game this late in the system's life span.
There was actually released another impressive looking survival horror game for the system lately. Not totally on the same level, but more a puzzle game with very nice pre-rendered graphics (haven't bought it yet, because it's not so easy to put money into your 3DS e-Shop account these day - but I can see I will probably have to find a way to make it actually work
@Gwynbleidd no I'm not. It has zero third person view horror games I'm aware of, and neither of the Resident Evil games counts because all post-RE4 games are shootahs, not horrors.
Is this a mean trick?! I excitedly booted up my New 3DS yesterday (yes, I'm in North America) and opened up e-shop expecting to get a sweet, sweet new game and... NOTHING!!! I checked again and still no joy.
It has been delayed.
https://www.thegamer.com/silver-falls-3ds-2ds-horror-delay/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
HELL, YEAH!!! YOU GO, 3DS!!!
The Demo was pretty good. I thought this would be some typical trash game that the 3ds has been getting lately in the eshop but thats not the case at all.
Found the developer blog, https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAqpjjMMSUCx8IfAcoe9k-A he has a lot of passion for sure. Hope for his success.
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