Nintendo eShop: July 21, 2011 Across Various Regions

[Evil Avnovice]

North America/Canada

*Xevious
*Antipole
*Kung Fu Dragon
*Trollboarder

Europe (http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/news/2011/weekly_download_news_44078.html)

*Xevious

Japan (Nintendo World Report (http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/27228))

*Nikori no Puzzle

At the moment, Nintendo of America/Canada hasn't posted their eShop lineups on their sites yet.

[KamaItachi]

Another fairly mediocre lineup. We haven't even got Shantae in Australia yet.

[Tayaya]

We also got Nintendo Video here in the US yesterday. Just noticed that today when I did my eShop check for the week on my lunch break.

I picked up Xevious because:

1) It's the game a grew up on as a very young kid - the arcade version if that tells you anything.

2) It's a 3D Classics game, not just a port of the NES game.

It actually makes really good use of the 3D with a very crisp separation of layers between the ground and any aerial objects, but after 9 minutes (that's how long my game lasted, per the in-game timer) I had a fierce headache. In full disclosure I've had a slight non-3D related headache all afternoon. But yeah, it's Xevious, and it looks super sharp on the 3DS screen and the level of 3D can be adjusted in software as well as with the slider, which I hope to see more games do. At $6 it's a bit steep, but since Xevious is one of my all-time faves I didn't mind.

[Evil Avnovice]

I saw the tweets about Nintendo Video yesterday. I just haven't had a chance to stop by the eShop.