Nintendo Download, July 19, 2018: This Week’s Games are Mega, Man

In addition to video games available at retail stores, Nintendo also offers a variety of content that people can download directly to their systems. Nintendo adds new games weekly, at 9:00 AM on Thursday, to Nintendo eShop on the Nintendo Switch console, the Wii U console and the Nintendo 3DS family of systems.

Nintendo eShop is a cash-based service that features a wide variety of content, including new and classic games, applications and demos. Users can add money to their account balances by using a credit card or purchasing a Nintendo eShop Card at a retail store and entering the code from the card. All funds from one card must be loaded in Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Wii U or the Nintendo 3DS family of systems, but can be used in any Nintendo eShop if the systems are linked to a single Nintendo Account.

Customers in the U.S. and Canada ages 18 and older can also link a PayPal account to their Nintendo Account to purchase digital games and content for the Nintendo Switch system both on-device and from the Nintendo website. Once the accounts are linked, users may also use PayPal as a payment option when buying digital content for the Wii U or Nintendo 3DS family systems from the Nintendo website.

This week’s Nintendo Download includes the following featured content:

Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch

Mega Man X Legacy Collection – The celebrated Mega Man X series returns. Play as Mega Man X – the powerful successor of classic fighting robot Mega Man – as he battles a variety of deadly bosses known as Mavericks in four hit titles. Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3 and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses in two-on-one battles. The Mega Man X Legacy Collection game launches for the Nintendo Switch system on July 24.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Bomb Chicken – Who doesn’t love chicken… especially when it’s smothered in delicious blue hot sauce? After a freak accident a seemingly ordinary chicken becomes a bomb-laying, free-range hero. Explore the versatile mechanic of laying bombs in this explosive exploration platformer, and answer the ultimate question: Which came first the chicken or the bomb?
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

ACA NEOGEO LEAGUE BOWLING – Get ready for thrilling action! It’s time to bowl!

“LEAGUE BOWLING” is a bowling game released by SNK in 1990. You are able to select your dominant arm and ball weight, using precise controls to play just like real bowling! Choose from one of three modes, REGULATION, FLASH, and STRIKE 90.

*Game sections requiring use of the connection jack are not included.

The “ACA NEOGEO” series has faithfully reproduced many classic NEOGEO masterpieces.

Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.

Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Animal Rivals: Nintendo Switch Edition – Become a real party animal in this crazy party game!

Tons of fun await you and your friends!

Animal Rivals is a crazy party game for up to 4 players.

Different characters, game modes, lots of stages and tons of fun.

Many unlockables like costumes and skins.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Arcade Archives City CONNECTION – Hop into your beloved Clarice car and chase patrol cars on highways around the world!

“City CONNECTION” is an action game that was released from JALECO in 1985.

Girl Clarice drives “Clarice car”, and runs around the world in search of the ideal of man.

The “Arcade Archives” series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.

Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.

Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Beat Rush – Catch the beat and rush forward!

Catch the beat and rush forward!

Dodge the spikes and traps!

Collect lots of gold on the way to the top!

Unlock unique characters for more fun, and level up for more challenges!

Beat Rush is your new addiction! With this brand new beat-based action platform game, you will challenge your skills and see what you’re capable of.

The gameplay is as simple as one touch jumps and hops. You just need to rush forward in tune with the amazing beats the game offers. Dance your fingers to the adventurously good music.

Game Features

•  Unique beats
•  Fast-paced action platform
•  Unlockable characters
•  5 challenging levels (more to come)

(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Chicken Assassin: Reloaded – Fight your way as Mean Mcallister, the baddest chicken in town, through multiple hordes of enemies to save your girlfriend in this hilarious, strategic button-mashing, action-RPG.

Chicken Assassin is a fast paced action-RPG with an outrageous storyline filled with over-the-top humor that boasts a myriad of colorful enemies and visually stunning levels and environments.

Prepare to give your hand an intense workout as you battle a slew of eclectic adversaries and encounter special bosses in this frenetically action packed game!

You play as Mean Mcallister, the living embodiment of what would happen if you combined Rambo, Foghorn Leghorn, a bottle of hot sauce, and a case of energy drinks together.

When the evil mastermind Spritzel and the Henchmen abduct your girlfriend, Candy, you embark on a frantic journey to save her, leaving mayhem and destruction along your path. As you progress, you can upgrade Mean with various fighting styles and skills, access an arsenal of weapons to dole out punishment, and customize clothing that boosts your stat attributes.

Buck Buck, mothercluckers…

Features

•  10 Epic Missions – Punch, slash, and shoot with Mean Mcallister through glorious missions
•  Over 450+ unique items – Who doesn’t like loot?
•  Visually stunning environments and gorgeous art filled with hidden characters and easter eggs – Our stuff belongs in a museum
•  Boss Raids – Feel like a challenge? Take on special bosses along the mission path for special loot. Only the fastest button-mashers should apply!
•  Deep Customization – Mix and match different clothing and weaponry loadouts to boost and customize Mean Mcallister’s stats and overall look
•  Rooster Tales – Achievement system that rewards you with moola…so that you can buy more stuff
•  Black Market – It’s always good to know a guy, who knows a guy, who can get you what you need for the right price

(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Frost – Build your deck, survive the storm.

Frost is a deck-building, solo survival card game set on a harsh, frozen world ravaged by a lethal storm. You must lead a group of nomads in search of the Refuge – a haven away from the Frost’s icy grip.

As well as the unrelenting threat of the Frost, your arduous trek will be fraught with many other dangers, such as wolves, cannibals, hunger and fatigue. Manage your cards wisely to stay alive and make it all the way to the Refuge.

Key features

• Challenging survival deck-building gameplay, requiring anticipation, strategy and memory
• Dozens of cards to discover – card types include resources, weapons, ideas, dangers and regions
• An intriguing and immersive world
• Beautiful hand-drawn artwork
• Hours of gameplay with difficulty modes, endless mode, scenarios and new cards to unlock
• Encounter many different characters and make use of their abilities

(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Galak-Z: Variant S – Space-shooting action-RPG

GALAK-Z: Variant S is a brand new, one-of-a-kind, space-shooting action-RPG that is specially crafted to take advantage of all of the unique features of the Nintendo Switch.

Experience stunning space combat from the cockpit of a sleek spaceship or a giant Mech! Battle space pirates, squish giant bugs, challenge Dark Bot bosses, and crush the evil Baron’s army of nasty Imperial troops through more than a hundred endlessly replayable missions in a full-scale story campaign. Fight against player-created squads in the Bot Battle League and earn Trophies to reap better rewards. Collect upgrades, salvage, relics, and Bots to make your spaceship and Mech even stronger, and fight to become the highest ranked pilot in the galaxy!

•  Shoot! Blast enemies away with your spaceship’s rapid-fire laser cannon
•  Slice! Carve up foes with your Mech’s radical laser sword
•  Upgrade! Enhance your craft with new weapons, armor, and helpful Bot buddies
•  Collect! Create squads of friendly Bots to battle against other players and earn special rewards

GALAK-Z: Variant S is playable in TV mode, Handheld mode, or Tabletop mode and supports HD Rumble, the touch screen, Nintendo Switch Pro Controller, and Joy-Con™ controllers.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Ghost 1.0 – “Ghost” is a metroidvania where two super hackers hire a mysterious agent in order to infiltrate the Nakamura Space Station and steal the greatest electronic secret ever. Of course, the space station will defend itself, which is where the fun begins: the station’s defences, with their never-ending arsenal of weapons and artifacts, will have to be destroyed. But the story gets more complicated when the hackers find out about their agent’s hidden ties…

WEAPONS: Weapons reload on the go and they never run out of bullets. No need to hoard ammo for the boss battle! The various weapons can be found or purchased (depending on the game mode) and each one has its strengths and weaknesses.

GHOST: The protagonist is not the android you see, but the being that remotely controls it: a mysterious digital ghost that can leave its robot chassis, pass through doors and walls, control enemy androids, and use their own tools against them. What happens if the robot you control gets destroyed, you ask? Then your ghost will be free to control something else, or return to your main body.

UPGRADES: You can have as many as you can collect. The upgrades are passive, so they work without needing any special controls, and they don’t run out or deactivate. They come in a large assortment, from aggressive drones to bullet improvements. Remember that the more you get, the more OP you are.

ITEMS: Devices you can use at any time. High-tech equivalents to potions and scrolls.

GEEKIES: Spread throughout the game are hidden “geekies”. If you find one and activate it, something related to that geekie will change in the game (not affecting gameplay)… and the challenge is to find out what changes. I know, it sounds silly, but some of them are funny.

SECRETS: 200 rooms have secrets in them that can be revealed by performing a specific action. If you find a secret, you’re rewarded with a small permanent powerup that will make your character more powerful. In addition, finding all of the secrets in each level will reward you with something very special.

MAP: The whole map has around 300 rooms, divided into zones. Each zone has its own enemies, its own ambience, its own soundtrack, and, of course, its own boss.

STORY: The story is not to save the world, but rather to go on an intruiging journey wrought with humor. Not to mention all the dialogues and cinematics, all voiced in English.

GAME MODES: Ghost has 2 game modes: “classic” and “survival”. Classic is similar to a metroidvania, where the more you advance through the game, the more stuff you obtain and the harder the enemies become. Survival is crazier, as you get stuff much faster and you’ll soon turn into a killing machine, but you lose everything when you die.

SKILL TREE: The RPG component of the game is found in the skill tree, where you can spend skill points to level up characters, obtaining special skills for each one. Depending on what skills you select, your gameplay will change in an interesting way.

And the rest is a mystery, one that I shouldn’t spoil… you’ll just have to discover the rest on your own.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Guts & Glory – The objective is simple: Race to the finish line while everything tries to kill you.

Welcome to Guts and Glory—The craziest game show on earth, where ordinary people compete in extraordinary challenges of life and death, for glory!

The objective is simple: Race to the finish line while everything tries to kill you.

Dodge spinning saw blades, deadly spikes, explosives, turrets, and a growing list of other hazards—while navigating insane tracks set in a wide variety of environments. A game full of LOLs and WTFs and OMGs, where failing can be just as much fun as winning.

Do it to prove your awesomeness.

Do it for the laughs.

Do it for the glory!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Heroki – CLEAR THE SKIES FOR A NEW HERO!

The peaceful sky village of Levantia is in danger! The dastardly Dr. N. Forchin and his accomplice, Vapor, have stolen the Emerix – a powerful amulet and all hope may be lost!

Fly into a beautiful action adventure and save a whimsical world full of flight and fantasy. Master the wind to fly, freefall, dash and bash your way across beautiful 3D rendered sky-islands, jungles, seas and deserts.

FEATURES

• 10+ hours of deep gameplay
• Fly, freefall and fight, with the help of the wind and a propeller
• Master new skills such as powerful Dash and Bash attacks or use the power of Wind to solve puzzles
• Spawn many Power-ups such as a Shield, Hourglass, Aeroblade and more
• Find hidden treasures and collect many items
• Explore four stunning worlds
• Meet and befriend a cast of friendly characters
• Face dozens of unique enemies and prepare for an epic boss battle
• Discover a host of islands within your village to play mini-games and side-quests to earn special rewards
• 60FPS Full HD performance
• HD Rumble

(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available July 20

Hungry Shark World – Experience life as a shark and eat everything that gets in your way in this action-packed aquatic adventure. Control more than 20 sharks in full HD and take on fearsome bosses as you venture into the depths to find trapped sharks, hidden treasures, and more. Sink your teeth into the award-winning Hungry Shark series, now on console in full HD with optimized gamepad controls.

Spread terror in the ocean by controlling over 20 different sharks. Take on challenging boss battles, from gruesome goblin sharks to prehistoric monsters and giant submarines. Explore the ocean depths, unlocking treasures and missions across four unique locations.

Unleash your inner shark in this jawsome arcade adventure!

Take on fearsome bosses as you venture into the depths to find trapped sharks, hidden treasures, and more.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Lost Phones Stories – The Lost Phone games are about exploring the intimacy of an unknown person whose phone you’ve found.

They are designed as narrative investigations where you must piece together elements from the different applications, messages and pictures to progress.

Through the interface of a mobile phone, you must discover what happened to their owner.

Experience relatable stories which help build empathy with the characters, allowing to explore difficult topics and social issues.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

NoReload Heroes – NoReload Heroes is a fun, co-op party shooter for up to four people. Work as a team to beat the accidental evil you have created, and be sure to pick up the best magitech guns on the way!

NoReload Heroes is a chaotic co-op party shooter for up to four people. You play as a team, fighting your way through randomly generated rooms filled with various types of enemies, picking up insane magitech guns on the way. Shooting stuff up is simple and hilarious, but only the best of teams can make it all the way back to the evil they’ve created.

FIVE-SECOND LEARNING CURVE

Almost anyone can play NoReload Heroes, from the casual player to the seasoned gamer. No matter how many times someone dies, they can always be revived, as long as at least one of you stays alive. On the higher levels, it will not be so easy… Still, you only use a couple of buttons, and best of all, no need to reload! Simple but intense, laugh-out-loud fun.

UNIQUE GAMEPLAY SESSIONS

Randomly generated levels, 70+ unique magitech weapons, 43 enemy types and 3 bosses will give you a different gameplay experience every time. There’s no way you could meet every enemy type during one session, we’ve made sure of that. Can you ascend through the maze-like construction to defeat the evil AI you have created? Work as a team to stay alive, or it’s back to the bottom floor with you!

DIFFERENT WAYS TO PLAY

Squeeze onto a couch with your buddies. If someone’s late, they can use hot join to jump in at any point. NoReload Heroes is paced for conversation and designed for social situations, like parties and game nights. We want people to be happy together!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Pool Panic – The World’s Least Realistic Pool Simulator!

Pool Panic frees billiards from the table and unleashes it into a world where everything from jungles and deserts to cities and swamps is a living pool game! You already know that sinking eight balls is the ultimate goal, but can you succeed while contending with monster balls chasing you, or ballerina balls leaping away from your well-aimed shots?

Take on the role of the mischievous, and dare we say, oblivious cue ball in Pool Panic’s unique world comprised of 100+ levels while enjoying the single-player campaign, or invite your friends to join you for a multiplayer panic.

Features:

-Single player campaign includes a large world with over 100 levels that span music festivals, mines, diners, the wild west, caverns, farms, and more!

-Local multiplayer for up to four players. Multiple control modes supported, including two players on a single Nintendo Switch, using a single Joy-Con controller per player.

-Panic Mode pits your pool skills against the clock, but don’t forget that all the other balls are just as animated and alive as you, so different balls react differently to hits!

-Discover the unique characteristics of dozens of different balls and the strategies required to pot them, even as they use their unique skills to try and thwart your efforts.

-Fight a swamp monster, light up a derelict lighthouse, battle a biker gang, puke on a pirate ship, flee zombieballs after raising the dead, foil a bank heist, even joust! Seriously, you can ride a horse ball and joust.

-Express yourself! White cue balls such as yourself can use a little pizzazz, so enjoy trying on the 80+ different hats you’re able to steal from other balls in the game.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Sausage Sports Club – Sausage Sports Club is a physics game about adorable, floppy-necked animal friends competing on a reality sports TV show. Duke it out with up to 8 friends in Free Play, where you’ll compete in tons of game modes like Soccer, Sumo and Capture the Flag. Not feeling competitive? Explore the toy-filled Overworld and get to know the show’s other melodramatic competitors in a 1-4 player replayable Adventure mode. No matter how you play, you’ll unlock new characters, skins, hats and arenas along the way.

Features:

• When on the go, play Adventure mode solo or co-op
• At home on the TV, compete in Free Play with up to 8 players on one device
• Enjoy unique HD rumble for every physics bump, slam and stomp
• Use the Joy-Con’s motion controls to lean your floppy neck for added finesse

(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Semblance – What if you could deform and reshape the world itself?

Semblance is a innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on it’s head. What if platforms were actually part of the gameplay, part of the way you solved problems?

Explore a world where the default is soft, where the property of ‘hardness’ doesn’t exist. Each of the game’s three worlds explore a new consequence of a planet that can shift, change and deform. Beat back the strange, crystalline infection of hard material by freeing the world’s life essences and uncover the dark cause for its appearance.

Unique and innovative deforming platform gameplay:
Can’t reach a collectible? Just deform and elevate a piece of the ground so that the point you jump from is higher. Nasty spikes in the way? Just deform and push-down the ground lower so that you can pass by. Squish, bounce, squash and transform the world- and yourself to solve problems.

Beautiful Minimalist Aesthetic Design:
Explore 3 worlds bursting with colorful minimalist charm, quirky critters, and calming vistas. Become hypnotized by each world’s dynamically layered score, each with a hint of African aural distinction.

Explore non-linearly:
The game allows you to move between puzzles as you wish, never forcing you to find a solution in order to progress and enabling you to come back later. Similarly, the game’s narrative is presented expansively, allowing you to explore- and piece together the story for yourself as you roam the game.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available July 24

Spheroids – In Spheroids you take control of Lucas, a jumpy Canadian boy who sets out on an adventure with his crazy scientist companion Otto after it’s discovered that the government has been hiding alternative universes from the cubic world they live in. Unfortunately, these alternative universes contain spheres that wish to turn everything round, so it’s up to Lucas to save the world from these dangerous aliens: the Spheroids.

Throughout Spheroids’ 32 levels, you’ll encounter many different environments, with multiple hazards to avoid and enemies to destroy. Items such as the “Modified Drilling Hook” Otto lends Lucas will help you traverse the environment with ease, with many more to find throughout.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available July 20

STARSHIP AVENGER Operation: Take Back Earth – In a distant future… When mankind advanced to outer space, the Crius suddenly appeared out of nowhere and began invading humanity. Mankind’s defense network in the solar system was no match for the overwhelming forces of Crius and were quickly defeated… However, mankind did not lose all hope. The remaining survivors gathered to the Planet Kagutsuchi located close to the solar system. They researched the Crius and mapped out the ultimate battle plan that would determine humanity’s fate.

The essential factor to this plan is the newly built Space Battleship “Avenger.”

Avenger’s mission is to intercept the enemies that roam in the solar system and deliver mankind’s ultimate weapon “Thor’s Hammer” back to Earth’s orbit.

Thus, “Mission Take Back Earth,” the plan to return to Earth and retaliate against the Crius, is about to begin…

“Starship Avenger” is a defense shooter action game.

Blast off the weapons installed on Avenger to defeat the enemies who come to destroy mankind’s ultimate weapon! Don’t let them cross the Dead Line or they’ll cause damage to Thor’s Hammer!

Charge your energy gauge by defeating enemies and release the limiter to blast a full-scale attack to destroy them all at once! The energy gauge can be used to create a temporarily barrier surrounding Avenger! Use your gauge wisely depending on the situation to get ahead!

Power up the battleship and try to attain a perfect shield and kill ratio in all stages! There are three different difficulties to choose from, making it enjoyable for beginners and advanced players of defense action games!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Tanzia – Unravel the mystery of your grandfather’s disappearance while preventing a terrible evil from destroying your island home.

Years ago, your grandfather disappeared under mysterious circumstances. Before leaving, he sent you into hiding on Volcano Island. Now older, you’ve been set free by your guardian and mentor Abenaki to follow the mystery… but is Abenaki telling you everything?

Tanzia is a single-player RPG that combines fast-paced strategic combat with elements of favorite classic RPGs in an open 3D world of magic and monsters.
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

Vozel Shot for Nintendo Switch – Participate in wacky battles against your friends!

Voxel Shot is a simple pick up and play action game set in an adorably quirky world of toys where you and your friends beat up zombies (and each other!) using a variety of different weapons.

A world ravaged by zombified toys infected with a mysterious virus. Day after day, the toys fight for control of the remaining resources.

Defeat unique zombies with a variety of weapons at your disposal! There are even cars and motorcycles to ride around in each stage!

[Single]

You’re all that’s left!

Defeat the zombies in each stage with a variety of weapons and complete missions while aiming for new high scores.

[Multi]

2-4 players.

Work together to beat the zombie menace! You can even square off against your friends for some thrilling and heated battles! How you play is up to you! Check it out in the Options menu.

[Race Mode]

Think battles are all we’ve got? Guess again! Race your friends on vehicles such as motorcycles and buggies in the exciting race mode! Annihilate everyone in your path and lock down the fastest time!
(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)

VSR: Void Space Racing – A fast-paced racing with no friction.

If you’re looking for your generic futuristic racer, look for it elsewhere – this game is not for the faint of heart! Impactful and challenging, VSR: Void Space Racing gives you the opportunity to fly through vast and diverse locations in outer space and prove yourself worthy of the first place!

Compete for the highscore online. Unlock new colorful stages by completing single mode races. Challenge a friend in local multiplayer. Drift in space like there’s no tomorrow!

Main features:

– No friction

– Online highscores

– Split-screen local multiplayer

– Unlockable spaceships and exciting stages

– Challenging gameplay for racing connoisseurs

– Thrilling electronic soundtrack

(Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available July 20

Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS