Nintendo Downloads - November 2012

VLR reward looks much better than expected. I was really worried when they announced the characters would be in 3D, but they look great. Can't wait for 23 November.

Roto13 said:
Does the Virtue's Last Reward demo have the same stuff in it as the Vita demo?
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I checked the Vita demo on YouTube and they seem to be identical in everything but voice overs. RSG decided to only license the Japanese dub, so there's no English VA.

Zornica said:
the VLR demo isn't available all over europe it seems. I've only seen it in the UK eshop so far. can anyone else outside the uk confirm that it is available? (no need to check the German eshop, it's not there)

But I am glad that changing the region is pretty quick and seamless.
It's kinda funny seeing nintendo giving you the advice to change the region if you can't download something :D
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It's up on the Italian eShop.

Burnburn said:
I could download it (Dutch eshop).

It was pretty fun, the demo actually convinced me to buy it when it comes out.

Though one question, is it possible to get the silver ending (second code for the safe) in the demo?
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I don't think you can get any files in the demo.
 
Someone asked me for some Little Inferno impressions and I might as well post them here, rather than just PMing them.

There's a new trailer that actually has gameplay in it that basically sums it up. You buy things to burn, coins fall out, you use them to buy new things. It's more like a toy than a game. You have a list of "combos" like the "Seafarer Combo" or "Easter Bunny Combo" that you have to figure out from the titles and burn to unlock new catalogs to order things from. (For example, those two combos are
Pirate Doll + Toy Oil Rig and Rabbit + Colored Eggs
respectively.)

Like World of Goo, it has kind of a Tim Burton-esque atmosphere with kind of creepy-looking cartoonish graphics with a big dramatic soundtrack and some clever writing, but there's also a (completely intentional) general sense of discomfort. The story is told completely through letters from the outside world, which appears to be freezing over, and all you can do is burn things for entertainment and to keep warm. It's pretty interesting, though once you've burned everything and finished the story, there's not really much point left to it. I don't know if anything happens once you finish all of the combos. Probably. :P

Atmej said:
VLR reward looks much better than expected. I was really worried when they announced the characters would be in 3D, but they look great. Can't wait for 23 November.


I checked the Vita demo on YouTube and they seem to be identical in everything but voice overs. RSG decided to only license the Japanese dub, so there's no English VA.


It's up on the Italian eShop.


I don't think you can get any files in the demo.
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Weird that they used the Japanese dub. :P But oh well. If it's the same as the Vita demo, you can get the Silver file, but not the Gold one.

I've already played and finished it on 3DS. It's pretty great, though the 3DS version has some (potentially serious) bugs that the Vita version is missing.
 
Roto13 said:
Post impressions. Specifically whether or not you spend more time respawning after you die than actually playing, because that really bugged me about 10 Second Run.
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...It's shit, judging from the first 50 levels (which took me around 10 minutes to beat). Don't waste your time!

Just to answer your question, you still have to wait a few seconds before starting a level after you die. That didn't really bother me too much in 10 second run, though.
 
So, I'm probably the only one who went on and purchased Myst the second it was available, so probably no one has the answer to this question, but... I have a question.

On the trailer that's shown on the eShop, it shows (as would make sense) the action taking place on the touchscreen, with maps and such being displayed on the top screen.

In the game that I just purchased, however, it seems to be completely backwards. There's just some menu choices on the bottom screen, with all the action taking place on the top screen via a very awkward center-snapping hand cursor.
For that matter, even aside from the screen reversal, the menus and such just don't look anything like they do in the video.

So, is there some option that I'm missing to switch things back around to the way that would actually make sense/have it look like what was actually shown, or is this just an absolutely horrible port job that no one happens to have caught (including the demo video)?

EDIT: For a specific example, from around the 0:28-0:30 mark in the movie up on the eShop/Website, it shows scrolling around the book by moving a magnifying glass on the bottom screen, with the zoomed part on the top screen. Meanwhile, going to the same area in my game, and zooming in, it's done by moving the hand cursor around on the top screen (with the circle pad), with the zoomed part on the bottom screen (with touching that having no effect at all).

I literally feel like there's some option somewhere to reverse things that I'm just missing, since otherwise nothing seems to make sense or match up.

EDIT2: If anything, it seems the video for this was taken from the original DS version of Myst (based on the menu layout and such), with this version not matching up with it at all...
 
rjc571 said:
...It's shit, judging from the first 50 levels (which took me around 10 minutes to beat). Don't waste your time!

Just to answer your question, you still have to wait a few seconds before starting a level after you die. That didn't really bother me too much in 10 second run, though.
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90 levels in now (haven't even been playing for 45 minutes) and it's safe to say the Jump Trials is one of the worst sequels of all time. The controls are way too sensitive, the collision detection is atrocious, and the level design is completely uninteresting, rarely straying far from the same "spikes + moving platforms" formula. Somehow the game is going to end up being even shorter than 10 second run, despite the fact that it has twice as many levels. Avoid!

EDIT - Finished the game in under an hour. Worst two bucks I ever spent.
 
Zornica said:
so it's available in every major eshop except the german one? Is it english only or localized?
probably because the game is due to be released in january in germany
at least it's only 26€ on amazon
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Because it's USK16 and Nintendo is dumb. Same thing happened with the Revelations demo.
 
Roto13 said:
Weird that they used the Japanese dub. :P But oh well. If it's the same as the Vita demo, you can get the Silver file, but not the Gold one.

I've already played and finished it on 3DS. It's pretty great, though the 3DS version has some (potentially serious) bugs that the Vita version is missing.
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999 was kind of a surprise hit in NA so Aksys had an established fanbase for the sequel and could therefore justify doing an ENG dub. On the other hand, us poor PAL people never officially got 999 so RSG doesn't really know what to expect in terms of sales. I can't blame them for being more conservative and trying to lower localization costs by licensing only one dub. They must have thought that, since VLR is a niche Japanese game, people would rather have the JAP VA over the ENG one.

I guess I wasn't looking hard enough for the password. Time to replay the demo!
I heard about the bugs but RSG made it sound as if they had fixed them.
 
ScreenSplitter said:
Wow Virtue's Last Reward might be my first digital retail title for 3DS. You see Nintendo? £30. Not hard.
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It's £30, because the initial preorder price was £22.5 and now it's £25 pretty much everywhere. Digital is still more expensive than physical.

Zornica said:
so it's available in every major eshop except the german one? Is it english only or localized?
probably because the game is due to be released in january in germany
at least it's only 26€ on amazon
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It's in English on the Italian eShop and probably also everywhere else since Germany and Italy have to wait till January next year and it looks like it won't be translated in other languages.
 
Oh, seems publishers actually have a choice when pricing their games for the Brazilian eShop! Hotel Transylvania, Myst and American Mensa Academy all have sensible prices, unlike Nintendo's own games (which all cost R$ 149,90 which is around $75 USD).

Hotel Transylvania costs R$ 50,99 (US$ 25) while Myst and Mensa Academy cost R$ 60 each (US$ 30). A conversion rate of 1:2 is fair, not the ludicrous "match retail's absurd price without actually paying any of the taxes that make it expensive". I might buy Hotel Transylvania just to support this.

Looking forward see how much Epic Mickey will cost in the 18th.
 
M3d10n said:
Oh, seems publishers actually have a choice when pricing their games for the Brazilian eShop! Hotel Transylvania, Myst and American Mensa Academy all have sensible prices, unlike Nintendo's own games (which all cost R$ 149,90 which is around $75 USD).

Hotel Transylvania costs R$ 50,99 (US$ 25) while Myst and Mensa Academy cost R$ 60 each (US$ 30). A conversion rate of 1:2 is fair, not the ludicrous "match retail's absurd price without actually paying any of the taxes that make it expensive". I might buy Hotel Transylvania just to support this.

Looking forward see how much Epic Mickey will cost in the 18th.
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Don't forget packaging, the retailers share etc. But yeah, digital isn't for me.
 
ScreenSplitter said:
Don't forget packaging, the retailers share etc. But yeah, digital isn't for me.
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I'm in Brazil. Between paying R$ 150 for a shiny box and paying R$ 80 for a download, I'll go for the download. There's nothing worth protecting here: Nintendo should be working with their local partners to sell DD codes instead, since it would easily lower the prices massively since there'd be no "importing" to be taxed.
 
As a follow-up to my previous post, and after comparing to the original DS version of Myst which I also own, the video on the 3DS eShop page appears to have been taken directly from the original DS version, as it appears to correspond exactly with that version of it, while not being similar at all to the 3DS version.

So, consider this a warning to anyone considering the version of Myst that went up today. Not only is it an inferior port, but it's not even the port which is shown in the movie on the eShop page. Considering the outright misleading information provided on the product page, I've emailed Nintendo to see about a refund, and wanted to post this in case anyone else here happened to have been considering this version as well. Pass on it, and if you want a portable version, go with the one which is actually shown in the video - the original DS version of it.
 
terrisus said:
As a follow-up to my previous post, and after comparing to the original DS version of Myst which I also own, the video on the 3DS eShop page appears to have been taken directly from the original DS version, as it appears to correspond exactly with that version of it, while not being similar at all to the 3DS version.

So, consider this a warning to anyone considering the version of Myst that went up today. Not only is it an inferior port, but it's not even the port which is shown in the movie on the eShop page. Considering the outright misleading information provided on the product page, I've emailed Nintendo to see about a refund, and wanted to post this in case anyone else here happened to have been considering this version as well. Pass on it, and if you want a portable version, go with the one which is actually shown in the video - the original DS version of it.
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I thought the DS port was supposed to be awful.

So this version is even more awful? Wow.
 
Indeed. They would have been better doing nothing more than a direct port of the DS version to 3DS - since that's exactly what the movie showed, the DS version on the 3DS. What you actually get isn't even that.
 
M3d10n said:
I'm in Brazil. Between paying R$ 150 for a shiny box and paying R$ 80 for a download, I'll go for the download. There's nothing worth protecting here: Nintendo should be working with their local partners to sell DD codes instead, since it would easily lower the prices massively since there'd be no "importing" to be taxed.
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I was defending your point man, Nintendo's way of doing digital is completely hamfisted right now.
 
Shadow Hog said:
I thought the DS port was supposed to be awful.

So this version is even more awful? Wow.
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Instead of using the original's artwork, they made still images from Real Myst (the real time remake), which means you have the worst of the original (static images) and the remake (worse looking locations) in the same package.

This should have been a port of Real Myst, which would have no problems running on the 3DS had the dev team had any talent between them.
 
ScreenSplitter said:
I was defending your point man, Nintendo's way of doing digital is completely hamfisted right now.
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DD versions of retail games in other consoles are also as expensive as their physical counterparts, so Nintendo isn't that much worse than the rest. They need retail (in the US, Europe and Japan, at least). Nintendo rarely srops their retail games prices, so it's no shock they don't do it for digital as well. I'm certain the situation will change over time, as long as the digital buying public keeps expanding and they become less dependent on specialized retail.

Matching retail prices in Brazil was beyond stupid, however: if anyone can switch to the Canada eShop and pay $80 instead of R$150, why not simply charge R$ 80 from the start?

But at leat 3rd parties seem to have freedom on the matter, so it's a start. So far we only had first party games on the eShop, let's see if 3rd parties can shake things up a little.
 
M3d10n said:
Hotel Transylvania looks... great? It's made by WayForward and it's $29.99. There are some Metroidvania-like skills in the video, is the game level-based or does it have a Metroid-like map?
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Jeremy Parish reviewed it @ 1up

http://www.1up.com/reviews/hotel-transylvania-review-castlevania-inspired-adventure

Hotel Transylvania doesn't reach the lofty heights of the series it's drawn its inspiration from, nor does it live up to the standards WayForward is capable of accomplishing when they're exploring an idea near to their hearts. It's basically a modern-day equivalent of those mid-tier, post-Mario Commodore 64 and Amiga games that came out of Europe in the late '80s and early '90s: Pretty if ultimately a bit flimsy; derivative, but lovingly so. But it's perfectly playable, and amidst the morass of cheaply made, slapdash nonsense that comprises the bulk of hastily assembled movie products, it manages to be fun, if ultimately repetitive. If nothing else, it feels a truer to its source material than what I've seen of the upcoming Mirror of Fates -- even if it's not necessarily a better game.
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wsippel said:
It wasn't on the German eShop, had to switch to a different region to download. Or am I confusing it with MGS?
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i don't remember that i ever switched the regions, but i downloaded the RE demo when it released.
and both demos are available now at the german eshop
 
M3d10n said:
Oh, seems publishers actually have a choice when pricing their games for the Brazilian eShop! Hotel Transylvania, Myst and American Mensa Academy all have sensible prices, unlike Nintendo's own games (which all cost R$ 149,90 which is around $75 USD).

Hotel Transylvania costs R$ 50,99 (US$ 25) while Myst and Mensa Academy cost R$ 60 each (US$ 30). A conversion rate of 1:2 is fair, not the ludicrous "match retail's absurd price without actually paying any of the taxes that make it expensive". I might buy Hotel Transylvania just to support this.

Looking forward see how much Epic Mickey will cost in the 18th.
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This is beautiful. And also shameful for Nintendo.

Epic Mickey, even though the demo isn't that good, would become a day one for R$80.

And I want my 3DS YouTube app. :<
 
M3d10n said:
Oh, seems publishers actually have a choice when pricing their games for the Brazilian eShop! Hotel Transylvania, Myst and American Mensa Academy all have sensible prices, unlike Nintendo's own games (which all cost R$ 149,90 which is around $75 USD).

Hotel Transylvania costs R$ 50,99 (US$ 25) while Myst and Mensa Academy cost R$ 60 each (US$ 30). A conversion rate of 1:2 is fair, not the ludicrous "match retail's absurd price without actually paying any of the taxes that make it expensive". I might buy Hotel Transylvania just to support this.

Looking forward see how much Epic Mickey will cost in the 18th.
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That's fucking awesome.
 
M3d10n said:
Oh, seems publishers actually have a choice when pricing their games for the Brazilian eShop! Hotel Transylvania, Myst and American Mensa Academy all have sensible prices, unlike Nintendo's own games (which all cost R$ 149,90 which is around $75 USD).

Hotel Transylvania costs R$ 50,99 (US$ 25) while Myst and Mensa Academy cost R$ 60 each (US$ 30). A conversion rate of 1:2 is fair, not the ludicrous "match retail's absurd price without actually paying any of the taxes that make it expensive". I might buy Hotel Transylvania just to support this.

Looking forward see how much Epic Mickey will cost in the 18th.
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I hope with the WiiU on the horizon, they keeps the prices that way if they are so serious about Downloadable games.
I had to use the Canadian eShop to buy both Layton and Paper Mario, but I would rather pay in R$ withount IOF and other taxes.
 
Confirmed Wii U stuff for Sunday.

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Wii U | eShop Original Software, Downloadable Content and Demos


 
VLR demo was cool, but If this was one of the first areas in easy mode, I'm really afraid that the puzzles might get convoluted enough later on to end up being extremely frustrating and eventually boring... I guess I'll wait for a discounted price, sadly.
 
beje said:
VLR demo was cool, but If this was one of the first areas in easy mode, I'm really afraid that the puzzles might get convoluted enough later on to end up being extremely frustrating and eventually boring... I guess I'll wait for a discounted price, sadly.
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The Crew's Quarters is the worst puzzle in the game and I don't know why they put it in the demo. So much jumping from room to room and sticking random numbers wherever they'll fit. Such a poor choice.
 
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