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This Week in Nintendo Downloads

by Nick DiMola - June 22, 2009, 8:50 am EDT
Total comments: 4 Source: Press Release

Yet another Art Style game makes its way to the DSi Shop alongside three new titles for WiiWare and a single Virtual Console title.

This week in Nintendo Downloads features, yet again, a hefty collection of titles with three for WiiWare, one for DSiWare, and one for the Virtual Console.

Easily the most notable release of the week comes to us from Skip Ltd. and Nintendo. The title is also the third entry in the Art Style series on DSiWare. Art Style: BOXLIFE has players folding cutting paper to create boxes in order to move up the corporate ladder. Art Style: BOXLIFE is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available now through the DSiShop for 500 Nintendo DSi Points ($5).

SimEarth: The Living Planet was originally released on the TurboGrafx-16 and is this week's only Virtual Console title. Players must foster both new and existing life and keep the world in equilibrium as civilizations sprout up across the globe. Players will also eventually have the ability to terraform other planets and raise life in a new environment despite the harsher conditions on the given planets. SimEarth: The Living Planet is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available now through the Wii Shop Channel for 800 Wii Points ($8).

This week's first WiiWare title comes from XSEED and is a brain-training party title. Players take the role of a boot-camp trainee in Drill Sergeant Mindstrong to complete mind-boggling mind-training mini-games. This four player title allows players to push their brain and concentration in order to become the top of their class and earn promotions based on their efforts. Drill Sergeant Mindstrong is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available now through the Wii Shop Channel for 800 Wii Points ($8).

The second WiiWare release of the week is from Aksys Games and is yet another entry in their Family line of games. Up to eight players will be able to square off in Family Mini Golf to see who can shoot the lowest score on the wacky courses. Players will also be able to download more courses online to extend their experience. Family Mini Golf is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available now through the Wii Shop Channel for 500 Wii Points ($5).

This week's final release is an enhanced release of the DS game NEVES from Yukes. NEVES Plus features the tangram-based gameplay from the original DS version, and also includes new multiplayer modes with an Egyptian theme. There are over 500 silhouette puzzles and four multiplayer modes for up to four players including Versus, Speed, Lucky Number, and Party Mode. NEVES Plus is rated E for Everyone by the ESRB and is available now through the Wii Shop Channel for 600 Wii Points ($6).

NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: CUT STRAIGHT TO THE FUN WITH PAPER, PLANETS, PUZZLES, MIND GAMES AND MINI GOLF

June 22, 2009

Familiar activities get a funky boost with this week's additions to the Wii™ Shop Channel and Nintendo DSi Shop™. A trio of fresh WiiWare™ titles will have players wrapping their minds around unique puzzles, entertaining brain drills and awesome mini-golf courses. A new Art Style™ game for Nintendo DSiWare™ turns cutting paper into a cool hand-held gaming challenge. And simple things like air and weather conditions become exciting game elements in the latest classic offering on the Virtual Console™.

WiiWare

Drill Sergeant Mindstrong

Publisher: XSEED Games

Players: 1-4

ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Mild Language, Mild Violence

Price: 800 Wii Points™

Description: Line up and get ready to use your mind. Drill Sergeant Mindstrong is a party game that allows up to four people to play at once. Players become boot-camp trainees under the tough Drill Sergeant Mindstrong, going through mind-boggling, mind-training games. The rules are simple, but concentration and quick thinking are key. Become the top boot of your class and earn promotions based on your efforts. This game is best played with friends and family.

NEVES Plus™

Publisher: YUKES Company of America

Players: 1-4

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Price: 600 Wii Points

Description: Try your hand at the newest puzzle craze to come out of Japan, NEVES Plus! Enhanced for WiiWare, NEVES Plus not only retains all the simple, mind-bending tangram-based game play from the original Nintendo DS™ version, but also includes new multiplayer modes wrapped up in an Egyptian theme. This time, you and up to three others can work together to move, rotate and flip the seven Lucky stones into each of the 500-plus silhouette puzzles. You can also challenge one another in new multiplayer modes such as Versus, Speed, Lucky Number and Party Mode. Whether you play every mode by yourself or with friends, NEVES Plus is set to charm you with harder-than-they-look silhouette puzzles.

Family Mini Golf

Publisher: Aksys Games

Players: 1-8

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Price: 500 Wii Points

Description: Daddy, Mommy, Sarah and Billy are back for some mini-golf action. Play through multiple golf courses that contain obstacles ranging from bumpers to speed ramps to fans and more. Up to eight players can play together using a single Wii Remote™ controller. You can download new courses to expand your fun-filled mini-golf experience, creating even more complex and difficult challenges to overcome. Can you conquer all the courses and become the mini-golf champion?

Nintendo DSiWare

Art Style: BOXLIFE™

Publisher: Nintendo

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)

Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points™

Description: Climb the corporate ladder in the world of BOXLIFE using your wits and... paper? Use the Nintendo DSi™ stylus to cut and then manipulate the paper into a box shape. Be careful-if you're not efficient with your cuts, you'll waste paper and be penalized. R&D mode teaches you new patterns and challenges you to complete various ranks, while FACTORY mode gives you the chance to earn money by making as many boxes as possible from an endless sheet of paper. Success in each mode brings its own reward: Clear ranks to earn a promotion, change your character's appearance, and use your earnings to acquire new items for your character's miniature garden. With this game's stylish graphics and catchy sounds, thinking inside the box isn't such a bad thing.

Virtual Console

SimEarth™: The Living Planet

Original platform: TurboGrafx16 CD-ROM

Publisher: Hudson Entertainment

Players: 1

ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Violent References

Price: 800 Wii Points

Description: An entire planet becomes your laboratory in this large-scale simulation game. Players help foster new life and promote its evolution into life forms of higher intelligence. Guide civilization along the path of evolution until it can achieve Exodus, the ultimate goal of settling on another planet. The basic challenge of the game is to maintain a comfortable environment for the life forms by adjusting atmospheric and geological parameters. Small organisms called Prokaryote and Trichordate will grow and evolve into a multitude of life forms. Making a drastic change is a recipe for disaster. The key to success is making small adjustments and watching how the life forms react. SimEarth also includes planets with environments different from Earth, such as Mars and Venus. Try your hand at terraforming these planets with harsh conditions and creating a world where life can thrive.

Nintendo adds new titles to the Nintendo DSi Shop and the Wii Shop Channel at 9 a.m. Pacific time on Mondays. Users with broadband Internet access can redeem Wii Points or Nintendo DSi Points to download the games. Wii Points can be purchased in the Wii Shop Channel. Nintendo DSi Points can be purchased in the Nintendo DSi Shop. A Nintendo Points Card™ can be purchased at retail locations. All points from one Nintendo Points Card must be redeemed in either the Nintendo DSi Shop or the Wii Shop Channel. They are not transferable and cannot be divided between the two systems.

Remember that both Wii and Nintendo DSi feature parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other features, visit Wii.com or NintendoDSi.com.

Talkback

Want Art Style game n0w PLZ!

AVJune 22, 2009

neves looks like fun. Good price too

Summer of WiiWare continues, as well as more desirable DSiWare releases!

Interesting that the TurboCD version of SimEarth was released. I remember renting it for SNES, but I didn't understand or like it at all.

Nick DiMolaNick DiMola, Staff AlumnusJune 22, 2009

BOXLIFE is great thus far. Pretty simple concept, cut and fold paper to make boxes. It's tough though when you are given a big sheet of paper and you need to cut and fold it as quickly as possible.

I'll try and crank out a review for you guys after I finish Starfy.

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