Best 3DS Estore Games

landsleaving

I picked up a 3DS today and grabbed a €15 estore voucher. What's worth spending it on, classics or new? Haven't had time to fire the thing up yet so I'm still open to suggestion!

ShaneU

Pullblox and fallblox are great

Mr E

Mole Mania, Balloon Kid on GB and Links Awakening on GBC.

Banjo

Another vote for Pullblox and Zelda : Links Awakening

Tokyo Crash Mobs is a bit of fun, would be even more fun if I could do that 2-lines level. It's kind of like Puzzle Bobble but with japanese people in natty suits instead of bubbles.

The games I most regret buying are a kind of sepia-toned side-scrolling cowboy shooter who's name escapes me (Steve the Gunman or something. It's grand and it's extremely cheap for an eshop title but life is too short for mediocre games) and Pokemon Radar (you're effectively paying 3 quid for 3 legendaries. Actually, that's not bad. But the torturous minigame you have to play over and over again to get them is ****e - a Ranch game would have been much much better.)

gubbie

I really like picross e2 (or e) and vvvvvv

Wolverine359

gubbie wrote: »

I really like picross e2 (or e) and vvvvvv

I was going to get these. Should i pick up the first picross e, or is e2 better? VVVVVV looks like good fun from the trailer. Might get Mutant Mudds too.

Wolverine359

Banjo wrote: »

The games I most regret buying are a kind of sepia-toned side-scrolling cowboy shooter who's name escapes me (Steve the Gunman or something. It's grand and it's extremely cheap for an eshop title but life is too short for mediocre games) and Pokemon Radar (you're effectively paying 3 quid for 3 legendaries. Actually, that's not bad. But the torturous minigame you have to play over and over again to get them is ****e - a Ranch game would have been much much better.)

Great, bought these only 3 days ago. :pac: Haven't played dream radar yet, just got it to go along with white 2. I like Gunman Clive though, only €1.99 and I enjoy the charming retro visuals with moving handdrawn-style graphics. I'm finding the gameplay to be deceptively challenging too!

Banjo

Oh, I'm not saying the Gunman game is bad. It's not. It's just not amazing and playing it makes me miss Sunset Riders (Like, say, if you were told you could ride Girls Aloud but only the Blonde one showed up. I spend more time thinking about what I'm missing than enjoying what I've got.)
*Disclaimer - I'm using G.A. as an example to appear younger than I am, and because there is no bad Nolan sister
*Disclaimer - hang on, I'm not that old either. But there were no girl groups when I were a lad, unless you count L7 and they were all Gunman Clives at best.

If you have oodles of time for gameplaying and 2 quid burning a hole in your pocket there are worse ways to spend your money. But there are also better ways.

Dream Radar is handier if you haven't started B/W2 yet - you can catch yourself Riolus (from the get-go)and Bronzors (after a while) and have them from the start - though they start at Lvl 30 so it's a bit of a cheat, now I think about it. On second thoughts it's better to wait Apparently once you've caught the 3 legends you can catch legends from other series by putting the appropriate cart into the slot. Eg. Diamond for Dialga, Platinum for Girantina. Those spellings may be off.

CastorTroy

Had to look up L7. weren't Bananarama about that time as well sure? Of course, speaking as someone born in 81, I would've gone with GA or The Saturdays........

Anyway, I've only bought Pullblox so far off the eShop. Pretty good though can be frustrating.
Isn't the Pokedex Pro 3D meant to be okay if you're a fan of pokemon?

Wolverine359

CastorTroy wrote: »

Had to look up L7. weren't Bananarama about that time as well sure? Of course, speaking as someone born in 81, I would've gone with GA or The Saturdays........

Anyway, I've only bought Pullblox so far off the eShop. Pretty good though can be frustrating.
Isn't the Pokedex Pro 3D meant to be okay if you're a fan of pokemon?

I Love the Pokedex Pro, all 727 Pokemon (including the different formes), all the data, and every time you open up a page you hear it say the name of that particular Pokemon, just like in the anime. It's expensive but well worth it IMO.

Banjo

Pokedex Pro represents exactly what is wrong with the 3DS.
Why in god's name would I want a Pokédex that I can only open when I'm not playing Pokemon? Surely that defeats the point? It's really handy if... say... you run into a Pokémon in real life but that hardly ever happens. and when it does you're usually too drunk to find your 3DS

That, the lack of a Ranch/Box app, the lack of a Streetpass feature that lets you collect surveys without locking out all your other SP data, the pitiful Dream Radar grind, all the scenes in the game that are clearly made to be 3D but aren't, the total absense of other eShop games I can export my 'mon to etc etc - it all shows that they couldn't give a half eaten rat turd for the 3DS.

Edit : Girlband music history lesson! Bananarama were early-to-mid-80's. L7 were early 90s. Then Spice Girls in the late 90s. (the really old one from the Saturdays would appear here if she'd hang out with girls her own age) 00ies had Girls Aloud. Then I guess the Saturdays. And finally One Direction, the natural inheritors of the Corrs Conundrum.

To give L7 their due, they were not a girl band and would make me eat my own skin for saying they were. They were rrrrrrRRRRIOT Grrrls (a sort of unrefined proto-Girl Power). Also they could (barely) play their own instruments and (this was incredibly important to their musical credibility when I was 15) they were prone to bouts of full frontal nudity on stage, so they weren't all bad

Edit edit : Wow, it really is called the Corrs Conundrum! I thought I was making it up - Thanks, Google!

landsleaving

Thanks for the recommendations. Picked up pullblox and Gunman Clive, really enjoying both of them. Gonna grab Link's Awakening when I finish them.

Side note: Every gamer should know L7 from GTA San Andreas.

Mr E

I'm playing through Picross E2 at the moment. All easy puzzles, some normal and a couple of Micross puzzles done (the micross puzzles take an hour or two each by themselves). Great game.

gubbie

Wolverine359 wrote: »

I was going to get these. Should i pick up the first picross e, or is e2 better? VVVVVV looks like good fun from the trailer. Might get Mutant Mudds too.

e and e2 are essentially the same with e2 having a bit more content. I'd go for e2 first and if you like it, go then for e

The ds also had a much more challenging and longer picross game which I'd say you'd be able to get for €10 so it might be worth picking that up if you want something more challenging than e2. There's also a wonderful picross 3D for the ds which is brilliant. I'd strongly recommend them both, probably over e and e2

o1s1n

Mighty Switch Force is great. Nice use of 3D as a gameplay mechanic.

Retr0gamer

I'm really enjoying the Guild 01 games. Crimson Shroud is a mini RPG that feels like a JRPG mixed with a table top DnD game. It's better than it sounds and since it's about 10 hours long it's well paced. Great soundtrack and writing as well.

I have a soft spot for Liberation Maiden as well. It's a lot of fun if a bit repetitive and I just love how over the top it all is.

Deano7788

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I'm really enjoying the Guild 01 games. Crimson Shroud is a mini RPG that feels like a JRPG mixed with a table top DnD game. It's better than it sounds and since it's about 10 hours long it's well paced. Great soundtrack and writing as well.

I have a soft spot for Liberation Maiden as well. It's a lot of fun if a bit repetitive and I just love how over the top it all is.

Cool, was considering getting these. Think I'll go for Crimson Shroud first.

Azure_sky

Aero-Porter

Links Awakening

Donkey Kong '94 (Game boy)

Plants vs Zombies (DSI)

PiCoPiCT

Punch Out

Liberation Maiden

Colours 3D

Gun man Clive

Kirby's adventure (3d classics)

Super Mario bros

Super Mario bros: lost levels

Tetris

Hana Samurai

Legend of Zelda

Ninja Gaiden

Gradius

Ghosts and goblins

Tokyo crash mobs

Xevious


You can't go wrong with any of these.

Retr0gamer

Went on the E-store to get some picross goodness to discover that they are only available on the EU and Jap store. What the hell? I what happened to Europeans getting the short end of the stick!

smokingman

I have an unhealthy number of eshop games on my 3ds but the one I keep coming back to is Hana Samurai for some reason. Others I'd recommend are Crimson Shroud, Marvel Pinball, Virtues Last Reward, Colours 3d, Gunman Clive, Liberation Maiden and deffo check out a DSi game called Goooooal Europa 2012. That one comes very highly recommended for just plain fun.

Retr0gamer

If anyone wants a quirky little RPG that plays a bit like Dragon Quest then Denpa Men comes highly recommended.

Banjo

I found it a little 1 dimensional. It was fun, but the Demo is as much fun as the full game, it just leaves you wanting more instead of getting bored. MP run out so quickly that I found myself mostly just dogpiling any beasties, so the gimic of catching different Denpa Men depending on what's happening in the airwaves in your local doesn't actually affect gameplay, the denpa men were all the same.

Then again, I'm a bit of a glass-half-empty-and-anyway-I-asked-for-water-not-juice kind of guy.

I'd recommend you play through the Demo 4 times. If you're still enjoying it, buy the game