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Their art style is like directly from Double Fine's games.

Lets hope this means that the new publisher will also bring Cave Story 3D finally to the European 3DS eShop.

@Henmii @datfunkysmell Yes, that sounds quite correct, I've been only on the west side so far. I haven't followed the story at all yet.

@switchvogel Would it be possible to get an official comment from Tyrone that will he ever release that Cave Story 3D digitally on 3DS and what happened to the original plans to release it in 2014 like Nintendolife even reported about it?

I wonder are the load times also on PC version if those are the same bad load times on PS4, Switch and Wii U.

@admwllms
Do you mean the actual remade 3D version of the game? The Cave Story that I mean is this:

http://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ge62q-HNR_1yhCLxHMVebxzK78kUhpJX
http://www.nintendo.co.uk/Games/Nintendo-3DS/Cave-Story-3D-273984.html

For me Nintendo UK's website says "A download version of this game is not available to purchase on this website." and that's always there when a eShop version is not available for download in Europe. In the 3DS eShop the game's page says "coming soon" if I view it on the console.

E: To me it's so weird that Nicalis did promise this version's eShop release in Europe and North America back in 2014, but it never arrived. At least it's not available in Finland. The news was even reported in Nintendolife:

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/07/cave_story_3d_to_arrive_on_3ds_eshop_in_north_america_and_europe_this_year

I wonder is Tyrone Rodriguez EVER going to release Cave Story 3D in Europe. It's so weird that in the 3DS eShop the product page has been saying for six years now coming soon. The physical version of that is so rare that it's pointless to try to hunt it down. As a digital version I would buy it.

I know it's the worst version of the game and I own Cave Story already on Wiiware, DSiWare on 3DS and PC, but it would be still fun to try it out. Pretty much only choice at this point is to get an emulator running on PC because I have no trust in Nicalis releasing anything in Europe for 3DS.

Also, I'm pretty sure this Switch version will only be digital for Europe, so if European gamers want physical Switch games from Nicalis, you will have to order it from America. Nicalis doesn't put effort to European physical releases.

It's funny, I'm almost 30 hours into the game and I have not had a single rain yet or a thunderstorm. I have seen fog, sandstorms and snowfall though and snowballs which have the most awesome physics ever. This game is so great. I'm happy if there weren't any other games coming this year to any other platform. I'm quite busy with Breath of the Wild for a loooong time to the future.

Well that sucks, it has taken a long time for the part 2 to appear. Would've bought it for Wii U just like the first game, but seems I shall have to look at bargain bin discounts on PC then someday.

The first part was excellent. I wonder how many years it will take for the story to be complete with the part 3 of the trilogy. Maybe that will then a game for PS5, Xbox Two, Switch successor and PC.

@SLIGEACH_EIRE 330€? Switch is 360€ around here.

Hey @SwitchVogel why is the news still reporting on this article just Switch? The update has been confirmed live also for Wii U.

Update the article header and the website link also, please.

Are they making it or is Team 17 making it? Originally they promised the Wii U version to be made in house, but that turned out to be lies.

Utter and complete failure from Warner Bros. Way to cheat on physical version buyers.

WB related games = avoid like the plague.

Shame that WB tries it's best always to ruin the works of their game companies.

The thing is, I'm completely ok with emulation after the device that is being emulated has been gone for a few years. For example all the old console emulators and MAME emulators years ago when all the devices had pretty much stopped existing other than as overpriced VC products and even with those really small pool of products available.

Cemu on the other hand would be ok in a few years time if it became as good overall as other old emulators have during the years.

What however I am not ok with is that they are now doing the emulator purely on trying to get BotW running on PC, and the game came out three weeks ago on current and next gen consoles. So it's effectively piracy, I don't care that people on gaf and elsewhere say that "they are just making a backup of their own Wii U copy to play it on PC" because most of the people using Cemu are doing because of piracy.

The worst thing about Cemu devs is that A) it's closed source so not even open source for development, B) They are taking money for it, and insane amounts also. So basically they are doing copyright infringement and trying to cash in with it. That's why I suspect they will be getting hit and hard by Nintendo and that's completely understandable and also expected.

Cemu should exist in a few years time for exactly game preservation purposes, but not now when the only point of it is piracy and trying to play the hottest game in the gaming market for free on PC.

Boxboxboy series has been some of the best stuff on 3DS. So happy that HAL Laboratories made this. Shame we didn't get the amiibo though, have to hunt that down next time I'm in Japan.

It's actually quite strange that Ubisoft has only announced Just Dance, Steep and Rayman Legends Definitive Edition so far, even though there have been a lot of rumours flying around.

You would think Ubisoft would want to hit it big in the launch period. They haven't even had a media conference yet.

Steep and Rayman seriously should've been ready for the launch day of Switch.

Seiken Densetsu 3 was really excellent, one of the best jprgs ever made back in the day. I played one of the fan translations with ZSNES back in the day.

This will be amazing, but it will never be localized to Europe or Americas.

I wonder will this be the "virtual console" future of Switch, just getting bundles of old games in packs.

This will be sold out so fast and relisted in ebay by all the scalpers.

I bet the European price will be something crazy like 100€ since it includes the two amiibos.

@rjejr And that's six months ago already, that's just crazy that it has taken this long for the last amiibos to not show up.

@SwitchVogel looking at how Bloodstained is slowly creeping forward as a project, they will be dropping Vita as well quite soon. And it's quite optimistic for them to say it comes out in 2018, it's looking more like a 2019 and with that they might drop the Xbox One version also since that console is not doing so hot right now.

Not surprised, so many developers are unreliable and can't keep their promise. Bloodstained has looked really weak for a longtime and the release date keeps getting pushed back years so it might be this one comes out on PC, Xbox Two, PS5 and Switch in the end.

I learned my mistakes from the Mighty No. 9 failure and did not back Bloodstained or Yooka-Laylee back in the day. Too unreliable devs and turns out my instincts were correct on both cases.

Excellent that Radiant Historia is coming again. 3DS userbase is huge, but still again the 3DS hype has been winding down for some time now and Switch is all the hype, it's interesting to see that 3DS is getting still so much heavy support.

Also this really mirrors the original release of Radiant Historia, coming to market as the console it's developed on is winding down.

Article only mentions itunes, Spotify and Bandcamp, but I'm assuming that it's also in Google Play Music.

Hopefully the Azure Striker Gunvolt version 1.3 update is coming up someday as well from Inti Creates.

The update came in Europe also two weeks ago by the way. Works great. WayForward is always a quality dev, unlike Inti Creates or Nicalis.

I wish they had in Europe a sale like this. Generations was just on sale, but for 30€.

Yo Oizumi is awesome. He was great in Ryomaden.

It truly looks like Sonic Farce(s), I will never understand why they keep making these 3D piperun Sonic games with zero gameplay and in central role is that atrocious homing attack, the worst invention for a Sonic game ever...

@Anti-Matter

It's really weird, the sensible release date would have been 15th March because that's when the four month bought exclusivity of Apple release was done.

I don't know what is Nintendo doing again. They should just release Super Mario Run.

Lets hope the 1.3 version update comes next to Europe for Azure Striker Gunvolt. There are no excuses for Inti Creates regarding that.

Wallpapers is a good idea, but this one Nintendo released for free already during last year to internet.

And it's not available in the European My Nintendo.

Would be interesting to know when is version 1.3 coming for the first Azure Striker Gunvolt on 3DS to Europe? I'd really appriciate Nintendolife to ask Inti Creates since you guys are based in Europe so you should take the initiative and you have more credibility to ask ton just a random sad fan in Europe like me. Why did they leave Europe out of the update. Why did it only come to North American fans?

Also as @Moroboshi876 wrote above, where is the Striker Pack? Why hasn't it been released in Europe? It came months ago to North America.

@Dunan yes I agree, Blaster Master Zero looks interesting, but the way backers got treated with Mighty No 9 and European fans with the Azure Striker Gunvolt... I can't see them deserving any further purchases.

Oh wow, I was just looking for information regarding this Teslagrad followup in the beginning of this week and thought it is odd that there had been no news of it's release date other than it is coming in 2017. Wonderful to see that these awesome devs are supporting Wii U!

I hope for future they would be looking to make the sequel and perhaps even Teslagrad as a double package for those users who have Switch. But I will be looking to get this on Wii U!

Thank you wonderful devs!

News from September, now it's March and there is no Striker Pack for Europe and no version 1.3 update for the first game

I wonder will they ever update it to version 1.3.

North America got it ages ago, Europe is left out as usual.

I find it interesting that Inti Creates makes Azure Striker GUNVOLT Anime available in Europe and DLC for Azure Striker GUNVOLT 2.

But they haven't released the physical Striker Pack here, or most importantly updated Azure Striker GUNVOLT to version 1.3 like the North American version is already like six months ago.

If those do come, I hope Crunchyroll, Viaplay and HBO Nordic also come.

Shame that the amiibo isn't coming to Europe. Have to buy it then next time I'm in Japan.

Physical edition would've been great as well, but I'm not surprised about that. Those rarely get out of Japan for this kind of excellent niche games.

It's incredible to me that the Azure Striker Gunvolt version 1.3 update is still NOT released in Europe for 3DS. Same for the physical Striker pack of course. Inti Creates, what is the problem?

Monster Hunter Stories looks the best of all the 3DS MonHun games, it will be a truly sad event if it never comes out outside Japan. I saw they had cool Amiibos also for MonHun Stories, no idea what functionality those had with the game.

@olrodlegacy

You are correct, I forgot the limited special edition of Axiom Verge that comes out later in the year. I should've said last first party physical game.

@ThomasBW84 Will you guys make a separate review for the Wii U version? Mine just shipped today, can't wait to play it tomorrow when it arrives in post.

Going to be the last physical Wii U game released on the great console, that Nintendo misunderstood to market to the world.

E: I'm really surprised that Nintendo didn't give NL a pre-release copy of the Wii U version. Are they deliberately trying to push down the Wii U version and not have it represented at all?

Just like the Wii U Pro Controller, it seems Nintendo made a near excellent controller. The battery life is pretty much the best in the business, but I really don't understand why both the Joycons and the Pro controller don't have analog triggers. It seems utterly strange that the mistake they made on Wii U is getting repeated now on Switch as well.

40€ o_O

Capcom and Konami should've done a reality check and half the prices of their Switch launch games.

Excellent launch price and the game looks so cool. It's the ultimate great example of how you do a fun co-op game on Switch. It really seems to have the core idea of fun and co-op gaming.

Looks cool and quite fine indeed. Only worry is that it's from Inti Creates.

I'd really like Nintendolife to do some investigative journalism and get an answer from Inti Creates that why did they never release the Azure Striker Gunvolt big update in Europe for 3DS? Why only release it in USA? If you have the game out and the update only in Steam globally, but then on 3DS just in USA, that seems really weird and it just sucks.

I would like the missing content to be released for European fans also. It's absolutely horribly bad customer service from them and does not really make me buy any of their games ever again.

Mighty No. 9 is a completely another story of course. Man they really messed that up...

Instead of Christmas Wii U release that was originally planned, we get a summer Switch release.

Nice thing about the multiplayer, I'd say that's a great effort from the dev to offer some peace to Nintendo fans.

Well, if only Treasurenauts would actually ever appear on any device.

It's been under work like five years already? That's a long time for a indie dev. Especially since the former Renegade Kid released a lot of games so Jools isn't exactly a newcomer in this business.