Nintendo Download, Aug. 29, 2019: Off the (Astral) Chain

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 to Nintendo eShop, which offers a variety of options for 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.

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

Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch

ASTRAL CHAIN – In this new action game from PlatinumGames, the creators of the Bayonetta series, control the protagonist and a special weapon called a Legion simultaneously to chain stylish combos. Change Legions on the fly to vary your style and unleash a variety of abilities. The last remnants of humanity depend on you, and to save the world, you must investigate its dark side.

Spyro Reignited Trilogy – The original roast master is back, and he’s on the go! Same sick burns, same smoldering attitude, all scaled up in stunning HD. Spyro is bringing the heat like never before in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy game collection. Rekindle the fire with remastered versions of the original three games, Spyro the Dragon, Spyro 2: Ripto’s Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon. Explore the expansive realms, re-encounter the fiery personalities and relive the adventure in fully remastered glory. Because when there’s a realm that needs saving, there’s only one dragon to call.

Torchlight II – The Torchlight II game takes you back into the quirky, fast-paced world of bloodthirsty monsters, bountiful treasures and sinister secrets – and, once again, the fate of the world is in your hands. The Torchlight II game is fast, fun and filled to the brim with action and loot. Adventure solo or form a party online* with your friends.

Arcade Archives WATER SKI – Make excellent jumps for a high score! Ski across the tropical seas and aim for the island where that dancing girl awaits!

WATER SKI is a sports game released by TAITO in 1983.

Control the skier’s movements as they follow behind a motorboat and aim for the goal.

Jump over any small obstacles to avoid them.

If you make a good jump on the jump ramps, you will get lots of points!

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.

BARRIER X­ – Shoot! Dodge! Go fast! Break the sound barrier in this unbelievably fast game!

For this game, “fast-paced” is an understatement!

Barrier X will be an ultimate test to your reaction and the ability to make lightning-fast decisions!

Just follow these simple rules: don’t stay on Red, shoot your enemies, and feel the speed!

Key Features:

• Insanely fast gameplay! – Speed up every 15 seconds! Test your limits and dodge the barriers!
• 7 Endless Levels – New features on each level, unlock the next one by surviving for 30 seconds!
• Let the Music carry you! – Enjoy your flight with the best of electronic music!

Available Sept. 3rd.

Brunch Club­ – A 1 – 4 player, cooperative and competitive food frenzy party game! Working together and communication is key to getting the best times on the leaderboards!

The Main Course –

In the main game you can play solo or work together with friends to complete the levels before time runs out! It doesn’t stop there though, online leaderboards mean that it’s not good enough to just complete when you can compete! Can you get the quickest time?

Each level has a mechanic inspired by the film from which it takes its namesake. Whether avoiding sniper fire in Fry Hard or waiting for the ever changing seasons in Game of Cones, each level will force you to adapt to achieve the quickest time possible.

Recipe For Disaster! – 

We never said this was going to be easy! Its try, try and fry again in Brunch Club and it is an experience of hardship, if you make a mistake it’s game over and the level will reset! Communication, delegation and keeping your cool are all important to making sure you gain your well deserved victory.

Who Needs Friends Anyway? –

Whether you play solo or with friends, we’ve got you covered. The more people you have the less time you have to complete the level, because more people makes it easier right? We’ll soon see about that.

FACE/OFF –

Face/off will pit 2 players against each other in quick round based frantic food action to see who comes out on top. Do you try and complete the task as quickly as possible or attempt to interrupt your opponent? Friendships will be torn apart as you cook, jump and roll your way to victory!

More On The Menu! –

It’s not just cooking in Brunch Club, we have other game modes for when the stress of the main games gets a bit too much. Whether you’re navigating your way through checkpoints in Five Second Rule or Slamming, charging and dodging your way to sumo victory in Riceball Rumble there is something for everyone.

SWITCH IT UP –

With only simple controls needed Brunch Club on Nintendo Switch is ready for two player action as soon as you boot up the game! Now you can cook up a storm with a friend anywhere and anytime!

Bubsy: Paws on Fire! – Bubsy: Paws on Fire is the game Bubsy was born to star in, on the platform built just for him (not really).

From the developers of the BIT.TRIP series comes Bubsy: Paws on Fire!, the latest and greatest in bobcat-based gaming.

Oinker P. Hamm is determined to capture every animal in the universe for his “Amazootorium.” Bubsy, fearing mostly for himself, is just as determined to stop him. Two archrivals, stitched together by the cruel knitting needles of fate. No matter who emerges victorious, there is one thing we know for certain: There’s going to be a whole lot of yarn along the way.

So, so much yarn.

Features:

•  Four playable characters, each with their own unique mechanics! Fly and shoot your way through the air as The Woolie, take it underground with Arnold’s bonus levels, or run your way to victory with Bubsy and Virgil Reality!
•  An all-new story featuring the unlikely alliance between Bubsy and his archrivals, The Woolies!
•  Over 100 levels set across three different worlds!
•  Three boss battles!
•  A unique combo system and set of leaderboards for every character!
•  A shop with costumes and cosmetics, all of which players can unlock just by playing the game. There are no in-game purchases!
•  Unique character dialog for every level!
•  A variety of collectible types, ensuring maximum replayability!
•  The return of Oinker, Terri, Terry, and many other characters from previous Bubsy incarnations! We even have Virgil Reality from the Bubsy cartoon pilot—we dug deep!
•  Full Audio: English; Interface and subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Italian, German, Chinese

Damascus Gear Operation Osaka – Will you be able to pay off your debts before the due date?

The goal of “Damascus Gear Operation Osaka” is to repay the hero’s significant [debt] before the due date.

In the [Cosmopolis], GEAR pilots fight day and night in the [Arena] for large sums of Eyn(this world’s currency). The hero will participate in the Arena as a Ranker, aiming to use the prize money to repay his debt.

Use [missions] to enhance your GEAR, and earn prize money in the [Arena] before the due date. If you don’t make it by the due date…

-Story-

[GEAR System] – This system is revealed by the Atsuga Corporation in the mid-21st century revolutionized all technologies, allowing for the perfection of piloted humanoid robots called [GEARs].

With the outbreak of the World War Four in 2050 and the loss of control of the [GEAR System] that followed, the world changed completely.

The berserk [GEARs] became know as [RAGE], and combat GEARs around the world began a total massacre of humanity.

Humanity was pushed to the brink of extinction, but a few survivors escaped underground and began analyzing the GEAR System to prepare for a counterattack. The war between humans and RAGE was exceedingly fierce, but thanks to the counter-RAGE organization [Freyja] and a certain GEAR mercenary, they steadily began recovering key locations on the surface. In 2112, over 50 years after the war began, humanity reclaimed Japan from the RAGE. 30 years later, in the [Cosmopolis] built upon Osaka, a pilot with an inherited [GEAR] and huge [debt] sets out with his Operator to become a Ranker in the Arena. It will not be a story for the history books, but simply a battle for their freedom…

Deadly Fighter 2 – Put your kung-fu to the ultimate test!

The world’s largest fighting contest is back!

No ranking, no rules, only dead or alive!

Who is the strongest fighter on the earth?

Plunge into epic combat sequences, rendered in astonishingly lifelike detail.

Journey through four different locations. Choose your fighter, unlock, buy and upgrade boosts!

Every Press Matters!

Decay of Logos – Fields of adventure awaits in this challenging fantasy RPG

Immerse yourself in the world of Decay Of Logos and unravel its mysteries. Explore old dungeons, battle unforgiving foes and journey through a vibrant interconnected fantasy realm with your mystical elk companion.

Embark on a journey of revenge and betrayal set in motion by the destruction of our young adventurer’s village at the hands of Crimson Knights. Find solace in your trusty elk companion as you battle the unforgiving foes that roam this once peaceful realm. Venture into ancient ruins and dungeons in search of its rewards in a quest to find the truth behind the attack of Ada’s home.

Take heed – there’s a dark and treacherous force at work in this world that corrupts even its inhabitants.

•  Third-person action/adventure RPG with an emphasis on player exploration and minimal hand-holding.
•  Challenging combat with high risk-reward battle system; various short and long-range weapons featuring different move sets, combos, and ancient magic.
•  Elk companion system; strengthen your bond with the mystical elk as you solve environmental puzzles and unravel sinister mysteries.
•  Deep lore and intricate voice-acted narrative that will leave you guessing until the end of your journey through the far-reaching ancestral high-fantasy world of Decay of Logos.

Farm Mystery – The Happy Orchard Farm is trapped in a nightmare! People are disappearing into the mist that surrounds the town at night in this Farm Mystery. It’s up to you to solve the chilling case of this haunted place. Search for clues, solve puzzles and play mini-games to uncover the secrets of the Happy Orchard nightmare. Will you solve the Farm Mystery?

Fin and the Ancient Mystery­ – Join big-eared Fin on a journey across ten magic platform worlds to destroy six huge bosses, master magic, and save the world. You are the one with the strength to succeed!

Fin must unravel the mysteries of the Clan and find hidden crystal artifacts to protect the world from the ancient Destroyer.

The hero will face everything – from tragedy and betrayal to new friends and an incredible adventure! Fin cannot tell his friends and his foes apart until he meets them himself.

This 2D adventure game will give you a chance both to brandish a sword and put your brain to good use. Not only will you have to fight for dear life, but also solve entertaining puzzles to stay alive!

You will encounter interesting quests, and it will take all your wits to get to the next Metroidvania level. Don’t forget to grind some levels to be stronger and tougher!

GAME FEATURES:

• Use your SWORD AND MAGIC to defeat the enemies.
• JUMP and run to dodge attacks and traps.
• Fight UNUSUAL and dangerous enemies – a VARIETY of monsters and even machines!
• Find the WEAK SPOT OF EVERY BOSS and vanquish them!
• Collect all the TREASURERS scattered along METROIDVANIA!
• GRIND by defeating treacherous enemies. Experience is invaluable and will make you both a great swordsman and a skilled magician!
• Travel across BREATHTAKING levels: icy permafrost, sandy desert, green tropics, dungeons, ruins and the world beyond time.
• The platformer’s stages are filled with obstacles and VARIOUS TRAPS which fly, spin, shoot and strike at you in every possible way.
• EXPLORE the platformer levels and search SECRET ROOMS to pick up bottles with magic potions. Potions will help you to become even stronger!
• INVESTIGATE all the items that come into your paws. Remember that even a harmless wooden barrel can hide SECRETS.
• Solve PUZZLES to find hidden artifacts.

The game has been translated into the following languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Korean and Portugese.

Available Sept. 3

FUZE4 Nintendo Switch – Easy to learn text based programming language ​No coding experience required ​Create and share your own apps and games

FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is a coding application for Nintendo Switch. It has been designed and developed by a team of experienced gamers, programmers, artists and educators.  The end result is a language ideally suited to coding games and apps for absolute beginners and seasoned programmers alike.

Features:

• Adjustable, intuitive, clear Interface.
• Works with Touch, Joy-Cons and USB keyboards.
• Comprehensive Help including a full command reference with explanations and examples, quick reference and extensive tutorials.
• Fully functional Coder’s touch keyboard (& USB, Joy-Con etc.)
• Built in functions for 2D, 3D and Audio.
• Advanced Variable types and math functions.
• Powerful 2D engine including comprehensive sprite functions and tilemaps.
• Incredible 3D Engine with world, point and ambient lighting, with or without shadows and 3D Camera.
• Load existing models and create scenes using primitive shapes.
• Supports animated 3D models.
• Create 3D terraformed scenes with createTerrain function
• Play music and sound effects. Built in synthesiser commands allow for live effects across all 16 channels. Change modulation, wave type, reverb and frequencies on the fly for programmable music compositions.
• Joy-Con support including Gyro, Accelerometer, HD Rumble and Analog sticks.
• Touch screen – up to ten points.
• Keyboard input accepted directly from screen and USB keyboards.
• Custom Timer controls – synchronise events with precision (software simulated interrupts).
• Supports TV mode & Handheld mode (can be checked in code).
• Over $1,000 worth of high-quality gaming assets.
• Includes more than 10,000 gaming assets across 2D, 3D and Audio.
• Contributions from 30 graphic artists and musicians to ensure a wide variety of genres and styles.
• 2D Assets include old-school RPG, JRPG, Arcade, Shooter, Platform, Puzzle, Dating, Strategy, War, Adventure, Underwater and a lot more – Everything from medieval RTS to Sci-fi space shmups.
• 2D Sprite sheets often include hundreds of related assets making the actual number of individual game assets near impossible to quantify but it would be safe to say it’s well over the 50,000 mark!
• 3D Assets include many modular sets so it is possible to create an underground series of dungeons, caverns and even sewers as well as fully equipped castles, medieval towns, race tracks, space stations, farms, cities and towns. It’s even possible to build fully furnished houses!
• Audio includes almost a hundred music tracks along with over a thousand sound effects from cute interface sounds to bellowing orcs and a great deal in between!
• It is also possible to generate your own sounds and music with the built-in synthesizer.
• FUZE4 Nintendo Switch is equipped with a Tile Map editor for creating your own 2D levels, backgrounds, top down maps and landscapes, an image / sprite editor to create unique graphics and a programmable synthesizer.
• Programmer’s Reference Guide. Every command is detailed with a description, its syntax, valid arguments and an examples.
• Quick Reference Guide – for quick look up of command syntax.
• Over 20 step-by-step tutorials from ‘Hello World’, Variables and Loops to writing a complete game level with animations, scrolling backgrounds, Joy-Con controls and enemies.

Available Aug. 30th.

Grand Brix Shooter – Challenge yourself to a new kind of bullet-hell fusion shooter. Change your aircraft to get new skills just when you need them against advancing foes. Aim for the top!

Board the Brix Core, piloted by Prince Brix himself. Combine aircrafts in different ways to gain abilities and grab crystals to boost your firepower.

It’ll take split-second decisions, expert control, and a bit of luck to survive this gauntlet. Can Prince Brix defeat the evil looming before him and save the world?

Game Features

• Fusion system lets you combine with randomly-appearing aircrafts
• Upgrade system lets you collect experience points to power up your aircraft
• Strategic elements – change crafts at the right time to survive the waves of bullets
• Secret units with massive power
• Challenge Mode lets you compete with friends for high scores
• Online leaderboard encourages you to step up your game

Headspun – A game about the voices in our heads

Headspun is a FMV/Adventure hybrid set in Cortex; the world of Theo Kavinsky’s broken brain.

After waking from a five week coma, Theo finds his life in disrepair. With no memory of the accident, it’s up to Ted and Teddy – the conscious and subconscious voices in his head – to work out what happened, and put his life back on track.

Headspun is a game about recovery, discovery, and the ongoing battle between logic and emotion.

• Rich FMV story-telling
• Branching dialogue – sway the outcome of your interactions
• Rebuild Cortex – earn Neuros to hire staff and commission renovations
• Retrieve Lost Memories and work out what happened the night of Theo’s accident
• Original Synthwave Score from Soho Loop

Available Aug. 30th.

Heave Ho – Heave Ho tasks up to four players with a simple goal – don’t fall to your death! Players will use their own two hands and the outstretched grip of their friends to grapple across each level on their way to victory. Grab one another’s hands, climb across dangling bodies, and swing your pals to safety in a wobbly, dangly mass of limbs. Customize your character with all manner of stylish accessories and zany accouterment in a vain attempt to remember who you are and which of your hands is the only thing between you and the plummet of doom.

Invasion of Alien X – Earth in Crisis – Aliens raid Earth! Arm weapons batteries! Guard the base! Shoot ’em all!

Aliens are on a terrifying Earth Invasion Tour!

Your mission: Fire artillery and protect the base from the enemy flagship…

Repel the invaders.

Deploy weapons batteries delivered by drones wisely, and you can win.

The planet’s fate is in your hands.

Earthlings… The counteroffensive starts now!

Legend of the Skyfish – Hook your way to defeat the monstrous Skyfish!

Legend of the Skyfish is a beautiful level-based adventure puzzler with a unique weapon and tool – a fishing pole!

Follow the intrepid Little Red Hook on her journey with the Moonwhale to defeat the monstrous Skyfish.

Use your fishing pole as a weapon or a grappling hook, and upgrade it as you go.

Legend of the Skyfish features beautiful hand-painted art, intricate action puzzles and unique enemies. Explore a huge world of 45 handcrafted levels and defeat giant bosses.

Features:

• Unique fishing/grappling hook mechanics
• Gorgeous hand-painted environments and creatures
• Original music score by Sean Beeson
• 45 handcrafted levels
• Epic boss fights
• Various puzzles to solve

Available Aug. 30th.

Little Racer – Play with your kids… or parents!

Little Racer is a dynamic racing game and a great adventure harking back to your childhood. Enjoy various tracks, avoid obstacles and speed for the win. Take the wheel, choose a kart and start the wild ride!

Play with your kids… or parents!

Simple controls allow you to get your kid and grandpa together in one exciting race! Use only two buttons to control the vehicle: one to go forward, the other to change the track. Watch out for the obstacles blocking your way! Avoid them, or you’ll go off the road… just for a moment! Wait, did this yeti move?!

Unique art style right from your childhood! Inspired by toys.

Choose one of many colourful tracks – race through the sky, desert or even lava! Play the campaign mode to unlock tracks for the party mode as well as new cars. Compete with AI or your friends – as many as four people can play at one time! Climb aboard your vehicle and become the master of the track!

Already know the game by heart? Create your own levels for even more fun!

What’s unique:

⇾ 10 worlds and 30 levels, 3 for each world
⇾ create your own tracks in the level editor
⇾ play with your friends: up to 4 people
⇾ unlock new cars
⇾ get achievements
⇾ easy to control – hold your Joy-Con™ however you wish

Omen Exitio: Plague – Omen Exitio: Plague inspired by the gamebooks of the ’80s and ’90s, mixing the alien and horrifying universe created by H.P. Lovecraft.

The oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” – H.P. Lovecraft

Zanzibar, 1896. Dr. Jake Huntington enlisted in the army to forget the loss of his wife. Yet something sinister and ancient is about to overturn his life forever. Shadows that inhabit the confines of reality seem to converge all in one point: a terrifying disease that threatens to exterminate the entire human race.

However, the disease is just one of the pieces that make up a vast mosaic, and discovering its design may not be that easy. Intrigues, machinations and subterfuges hide the truth, tearing it away from the doctor’s understanding.

To connect all the dots, Jake will have to cross a threshold beyond which many before him have lost the way of reason.

Are you willing to open this door?

FEATURES

•   All new adventure set in H.P. Lovecraft’s otherworldly universe
•   Encounter famous historical figures based on real events
•   Your choices and chosen skills affect the way the story unfolds
•   Hundreds of hand-drawn visuals to set the scene
•   Hauntingly beautiful soundtrack and sound design
•   Unlike most choose your own adventure (CYOA) titles, you can not meet an early demise
•   One playthough takes 4 to 6 hours but it will take many more hours to experience everything

Pacific Wings – Pacific Wings is a vertical scrolling shoot-em-up and it features retro-style-graphics.

The story plays during the “Battle of Midway” in 1942 where you have to fly an American P-38-airplane against all kinds of japanese airplanes.

Features:

• 20 incredible levels
• Retro-style graphics!
• 4 different weaponupgrades on your plane!
• different enemies!

If you find bugs or have any suggestions to make “Pacific Wings” even better please tell us!

Root Letter: Last Answer – Unravel the truth behind a 15 year old murder mystery

The return of the best-selling interactive mystery visual novel! Follow in the footsteps of Aya Fumino, a school penfriend allegedly involved in a tragic murder 15 years ago. Explore the prefecture of Shimane, uncover clues, and use the letters you wrote to each other to track down her childhood friends for questioning. But perhaps these friends, now adults living a peaceful life, will not be eager to let their painful memories resurface…

Available Sept. 3rd.

Vambrace: Cold Soul – Vambrace: Cold Soul is a roguelike fantasy-adventure set amidst a frozen landscape. Plan your expeditions underground, then journey to the cursed city surface with your team of heroes.

Wield unique powers, avoid dangerous traps, brave strange encounters, and survive deadly combat!

The King of Shades has cursed the great city of Icenaire. Now cast under a permanent blight of frost fall, its former residents have returned from the dead as mad Wraiths. Woefully outmatched the few refugees are forced into hiding as the King of Shades amasses an army of the undead above them.

One fateful day, a mysterious stranger appears in the city with an enchanted vambrace…

A narrative-driven game filled with memorable characters, brutal challenges, and deep strategy. You must choose perceptive party leaders, camp to recuperate, navigate strange encounters, and survive deadly combat.

The surface of Icenaire is cold and unforgiving. So, prepare your party well before departing…

Wilmot’s Warehouse – A game for people who like to organise stuff.

Wilmot’s Warehouse is a puzzle game about keeping a warehouse running in tip-top shape. You play as Wilmot, a hard working warehouse employee tasked with pushing, sorting and stacking a variety of products. Over time more and more truckloads of these products will arrive, gradually filling up the warehouse. How you arrange them all is entirely up to you – organize by color, type, the Dewey Decimal System, or some wild format that only you understand – it’s all good! Just remember where you put everything, because when the service hatch opens, you’ll need to find the things people want quickly, in order to earn the coveted Performance Stars required for all manner of labor-saving upgrades.

Features

• Unique relaxing gameplay.
• 500 possible products to stock.
• All manner of upgrades and perks.
• Splitscreen 2 player co-op: Work in tandem to organize the warehouse with a friend
• Customize your game with Expert Mode for an extra challenge
• Sublime electronic music to listen to while you decide whether wellington boots belong in the footwear section, or with the umbrellas.

Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS

Pinball Breaker 4 – Pinball Breaker 4 is a breakout game which combines the game mechanics of a traditional breakout game and a flipper game.

Play through 15 exciting levels as you aim for a high score.

Nintendo Mobile

Mario Kart Tour – Pre-registration for the new Mario Kart Tour mobile game** has started! If you want to be among the first to be notified once the game is available to download, pre-register now via the AppStore and Google Play. Mario Kart Tour launches for mobile devices on Sept. 25.

A new teaser video and gameplay trailer show off the high-octane game in action.

Nintendo eShop sales

• Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
  • Great deals this week! Check out the full list of deals available this week at https://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals.

* Nintendo Switch Online membership (sold separately) and Nintendo Account required for online features. Not available in all countries. Internet access required for online features. Terms apply. see nintendo.com/switch-online
** Free-to-start; optional in-game purchases available. Persistent Internet, compatible smartphone and Nintendo Account required. Data charges may apply.