This week's stand outs on the Nintendo front have to be the classic Sonic & Knuckles and a Wii port of Phoenix Wright's second DS adventure.
S&K is the one and only VC game this week and is one of my all time faves. Check it out if you've got any spare points cluttering up your account. Sega even managed to maintain the 'lock-on' gimmick for the downloadable game- which means that if you have Sonic 2 & 3 on you VC, you can go back and use Knuckles in them! Cool stuff.
The second notable is the cartoony lawyer 'sim' sequel- Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney: Justice for All. If you've never played this on the DS, then It's definately worth a look. The Phoenix games are a little kooky, very different from what you're probably used to, and pretty fun to boot.
WiiWare
Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney®:
JUSTICE FOR ALL
Publisher: Capcom Entertainment, Inc.
Players:
1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Blood, Mild Violence, Suggestive
Themes
Price: 1,000 Wii Points™
Description: Phoenix Wright is back as the second game in
the popular Ace Attorney hand-held franchise comes to the WiiWare
service. As Phoenix Wright, you’ll play through four shocking new cases
in first-person perspective. The game features two unique game play
modes. In Investigations Mode, you’ll survey crime scenes, interview
witnesses and gather evidence. You’ll then present findings, listen to
testimonials and examine witnesses in Court Mode. JUSTICE FOR ALL
also includes a new “Psyche-Lock” feature that allows Phoenix to use a
line of questioning to reveal inconsistencies in witness testimony.
Art of Balance
Publisher: Shin’en Multimedia
Players: 1-2
ESRB
Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: Grab your Wii Remote™ controller and
build a balanced stack in this physics-based puzzler, featuring 100
levels that challenge not only your skills but also your imagination.
The game is easy to pick up and hard to put away. Play alone or invite a
friend to grab a second Wii Remote controller and drop in at any point
for co-op play. There’s even a dedicated two-player split-screen
“versus” mode for extra fun.
WarMen Tactics
Publisher: CALARIS
Players: 1
ESRB Rating:
T (Teen) – Blood, Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: In the year 2013, civil unrest across the globe has
prompted world leaders to merge the police and military into a single
force called the Department of Control. This force is opposed by a
resistance made up of former military members who refused to join the
Department. Marco is one of them, and the game tells his story. Join
Marco as he is deployed on a mission to destroy scrambler devices placed
around the city. Created to reflect the realities of urban warfare, the
game requires players to take cover behind walls and other obstacles as
they strive to defeat enemies and advance to the next post.
Nintendo DSiWare
Spotto!
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating:
E (Everyone) – Mild Cartoon Violence
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi
Points™
Description: Meet Spotto, a plucky duck on a mission. Ill-behaved
ghosts have kidnapped Chikkie Wowwow, President Wowwow’s daughter.
Spotto, being the world’s foremost Bombirdier, must follow these ghosts
to a haunted house and use his trusty bombs to blast the baddies. Take
control of Spotto, adjusting his aim with the stylus and trying to toss
bombs into the ghosts’ mouths in 50 “explosive” stages. Along the way,
you’ll avoid obstacles (or use them to your advantage), find powerful
Super Bombs to inflict even more damage and even encounter a
frighteningly large ghost or two. With multiple modes of play and
numerous solutions for successfully blasting ghosts to pieces, this is
one haunted house you’ll want to visit often.
Spaceball: Revolution
Publisher: Virtual Toys
Players: 1
ESRB
Rating: E (Everyone) – Mild Fantasy Violence
Price: 500
Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Spaceball: Revolution will put your
intelligence and skill to the test as you solve puzzles in a futuristic
environment. Copy the figures that appear on the top screen, using
energy balls that make the boxes correctly change color. It won’t be an
easy task. Different obstacles will be thrown into your path,
challenging you to polish your aim and think rapidly. Fifteen different
levels are waiting for you in Spaceball: Revolution. Are you up
to the challenge?
Scrabble Classic
Publisher: Electronic Arts
Players: 1-4
ESRB
Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Scrabble, one of the world’s most popular board
games, is enjoying a tremendous surge in popularity, both online and in
the real world. Scrabble for the Nintendo DSiWare service allows
you to play this exciting game in both Single Player and Multi-Player
modes.
Real Soccer 2010
Publisher: Gameloft
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating:
E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Real Soccer is back for the most exciting
season yet. Choose from more teams than ever before and compete in new
stadiums around the world. Lead your team to victory on the field and
make tactical decisions as the coach.
Prehistorik Man
Publisher: Interplay
Players: 1
ESRB Rating:
E (Everyone) – Mild Violence
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Life is hard for Sam the Prehistorik Man. With
three-and-a-half hours of work each week, there’s barely time to fit in
all the sleeping, eating and cave-painting that needs to be done. When
greedy dinosaurs guzzle his village’s winter food source, Sam gets mad.
Armed with his best club and his powerful hunter’s voice, Sam needs your
help to proceed through 22 levels of food-gathering and
dinosaur-bashing. With fast-paced action, hundreds of secret areas,
weapons and unlikely vehicles to find, you’ll need to be smart.
Well…smarter than Sam, anyway.
Virtual Console
Sonic & Knuckles
Original platform: SEGA Genesis
Publisher: SEGA
Players:
1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: Sonic, the world’s fastest hedgehog, continues his
adventures in this fourth installment of the Sonic The Hedgehog™
series. This time, he buddies up with his former enemy, Knuckles the
Echidna, in order to defeat the evil Dr. Eggman (a.k.a. Dr. Robotnik).
At the end of Sonic The Hedgehog 3, Dr. Eggman’s ultimate
orbital weapon for global domination, the Death Egg, was badly damaged
in an epic battle with Sonic. The Death Egg, losing power rapidly,
hurtled back down to the planet below and crash-landed on the mysterious
Angel Island again. Now Sonic and Knuckles must put a stop to Dr. Eggman
once and for all before Eggman and his no-goodniks find the secret to
Angel Island’s floating power, the Master Emerald. This game features
Lock-On Technology, which allows you to play as Knuckles in other Sonic
titles available for the Virtual Console, including Sonic The
Hedgehog 2 and Sonic The Hedgehog 3, as long as these titles
are part of your Virtual Console library.
