News: New Downloadable 3DS Games Revealed
Posted 21 Oct 2011 at 13:58 by Aaron Clegg
Samurai, westerns and a Hole in the Wall-esque game that'd make Dale Winton proud...
With Nintendo incrementally upping their support for their online stores, Satoru Iwata chose today to unveil a few new original titles for the 3DS eShop.
First, we may as well cover the ones not yet confirmed for a western release. These were Nimble Sakura Warrior and Shissou Surinuke Anatousu. The former seems to be a 3D action game where the player times their dodges just right in order to smite their foes - we've got a trailer for it below. Shissou Surinuke Anatousu looks like a blend between Tetris and the camp gameshow Hole in the Wall: you have to move and rotate a block as it zooms though a narrow corridor to guide it through holes.
A slew of other original titles were announced a well - and these we can safely say will be getting a localised release. Firstly, the Intelligent Systems-developed puzzler we revealed last month as Hiku-osu is getting localised in Europe as Pullblox. Over 250 puzzles requiring some 3D thinking await to be solved, as well as comprehensive level editor. It hits Europe in December for �6.
Next up, the game formerly known to us as Picture Lives!. It will be released in Europe as Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive!. The title is all about busting out your creative skills. You create your own creatures known as 'Formees' completely from scratch, and then venture off across the landscape, collecting even more body pieces and creation tools as you go. You can also share your creations with other people via StreetPass and QR codes. It will be available on November 10th for �6.
Finally comes a game teased at E3, but now its western release is official *snigger*. It is of course The Rolling Western - or as it'll be known as over here - Dillon's Rolling Western. You take on the role (boom) of a cowboy armadillo with a penchant for some rolly-polly hijinks. The game seems to blend action, RPG and strategy, and it'll certainly be one to watch when it releases in the first quarter of next year.