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This Week in Nintendo Downloads
« on: January 17, 2011, 11:30:29 AM »

WiiWare has a new Bit.Trip demo and time-traveling sandwiches, while DSiWare has animal boxing, a match-three puzzle game, and a tower defense game.

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This week's Nintendo downloads features two WiiWare games, a WiiWare demo, and four DSiWare games. The titles have no discernable theme, but they include time travel, wars, aliens, boxing animals, and tractors.  

Up first for WiiWare is Doc Clock: The Toasted Sandwich of Time, which came out on the PC in 2010. This point-and-click adventure/platformer gives you control over time using Doc Clock's Time Slider. The Doc fights off misguided robots in a quest to save his cat and invent a toasted sandwich machine. Developed by the team behind Dragon Master Spell Caster, the title is available for 1,000 Wii Points ($10).  

The second new WiiWare release is Urbanix, from developer Nordcurrent. The game puts you in the treads of a little tractor who is trying to create a town from a field. Throughout the game's 150 levels, you have to fend off enemies and house crashers while developing your town. Urbanix is available for 500 Wii Points ($5).  

The last new addition on WiiWare is a demo for Gaijin Games' Bit.Trip Beat, which originally came out in 2009. The demo was a part of the first wave of demos on Nintendo's download service as well. The full game is available for 600 Wii Points ($6), and the demo is available for 0 Wii Points ($0).  

On DSiWare, the headline title is Glory Days: Tactical Defense, from odenis studio, who developed the well-received Pop Island. This 200-Nintendo-DSi-Point ($2) title is a tower defense game featuring a 3D engine that displays up to 300 units in real time. It is the second game in the Glory Days series, following from Glory Days 2 on Nintendo DS.

The second title on DSiWare is Animal Boxing, from Gammick Entertainment. Available for 800 Nintendo DSi Points ($8), this title was a retail release in 2008. To play, you have to invert the system and use the touch screen to throw punches using the stylus. You can create your own animal boxer, or you can choose from the colorful cast of characters, including Lee the cat and Fore the bull. There is also local multiplayer.  

CIRCLE Entertainment's The Seller also debuts on DSiWare this week. It's a card game where you have to slyly sell your resources to other players to regain your lost fortune. It is available for 500 Nintendo DSi Points ($5).  

The last DSiWare game this week is Alien Puzzle Adventure. For 500 Nintendo DSi Points ($5), you get a cartoony match-three puzzle game with 35 stages.

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Re: This Week in Nintendo Downloads
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2011, 12:22:31 PM »
How can Glory Days DSi be the second game after Glory Days 2?


I'M SO CONFUSED!


Animal Boxing offers so many potential punchlines. GET IT? PUNCHLINES!
If you love animals then this game is for you!
If you hate animals then this game is for you!
If you're a sadist then this game is for you!

etc etc etc
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Re: This Week in Nintendo Downloads
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2011, 12:34:06 PM »
Perhaps he goes by the US names where the first game was called Super Army Wars, it's Glory Days in Europe so they used that name for the second in the US too.

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Re: This Week in Nintendo Downloads
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2011, 12:35:55 PM »
Perhaps he goes by the US names where the first game was called Super Army Wars, it's Glory Days in Europe so they used that name for the second in the US too.


Super Army Wars is a perfectly non-generic and creative title.
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Re: This Week in Nintendo Downloads
« Reply #4 on: January 17, 2011, 02:51:57 PM »
It's pretty retro to have Super in the name of your game, they just don't do that anymore. No Super Killzone, no Super Uncharted, no Super Gears of War...