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Nintendo first weekly downloads of this decade: let’s play a game to figure them out

by: Tina -
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I’ve gotten bored of my standard, cut and dry format of revealing the newest downloadable news from Nintendo. Who likes to read to get their daily news, anyway? We’re GAMERS so let’s GAME:

The rules of this game are as follows – match the seemingly nonsensical descriptions to their associated game. A prize, you ask? Er, how about my everlasting respect for your gaming knowledge/ability to match items together? Great! Let’s get going…

Oh, and as a disclaimer, if you’re not feeling the game go ahead and scroll down for the answers/full news.

First, the descriptions:

1. Read, aim, fire!
2. Shepherd + jigsaw
3. Midwest Manhattan
4. Daft Punk
5. Don’t drink and game
6. Westbang
7. Skull Cross
 
And the games to match with:

A. Heron: Steam Machine
B. Fast Draw Showdown
C. Trajectile
D. Final Fight 3
E. Hell’s Kitchen Vs.
F. Pub Darts
G. Animal Puzzle Adventure
 
Careful now, the answers are about to appear…

1C. Trajectile (500 points) – DSiWare – With a limited number of missiles, and a set position by which you can launch three kinds of missiles, Trajectile is a puzzle and shooter game in one.

2G. Animal Puzzle Adventure (500 points) – DSiWare – Herd animals to their barns, but watch out for pitfalls and cliffs. Completing each stage (10 per level) will unlock a piece of a photograph, eventually getting you the whole wallpaper image.

3E. Hell’s Kitchen Vs. (800 points) – DSiWare – Like the TV show, challenge your culinary skills against your opponent while minding the time.

4A. Heron: Steam Machine (500 points) – WiiWare – Did you catch the song reference? Manage the production of your rubber duckies, ensuring that your steam engine doesn’t blow out due to high pressure. Keep an eye on those gauges, and get to constructing your pipe lines.

5F. Pub Darts – WiiWare (500 points) – Just like it sounds, Pub Darts lets you hang out at a local pub while playing variations on the age-old dart-throwing games.

6B. Fast Draw Showdown (500 points) – WiiWare – Another Wiimote controlled imitating game like Pub Darts, you’ll use actual fast draw techniques to get the best of your opponent. I also really like the iPhone game, Westbang.

7D. Final Fight 3 (800 points) – Virtual Console – Metro City is overrun by the menacing Skull Cross gang and calling on Mike Haggar, Guy, Lucia, and Dean to take them on and clear them out.

So maybe I should stick to reviewing for now and not developing. Either way, I hope you enjoyed my spicing-it-up version of the typical Nintendo downloads reveals. As always, hit the jump for the full news.
Jan. 4, 2010

Nintendo Download

A New Decade Brings Seven New Downloadable Nintendo Games

Should old acquaintance be forgot? We can’t remember. But what we can remember is that this week’s downloadable lineup from Nintendo asks a lot of questions. The Nintendo DSiWare™ service wonders if you can master missiles with Trajectile™, lead animals to their proper pens with Animal Puzzle Adventure or match wits with TV chef Gordon Ramsay in Hell’s Kitchen Vs. The WiiWare™ service puts you in charge of maximizing your rubber duckie output with Heron: Steam Machine, asks you to aim for the bull’s-eye with Pub Darts and wonders if you have an itchy trigger finger with Fast Draw Showdown. Finally, Final Fight™ 3 on the Virtual Console™ service makes you wonder if the fight is ever really final.

Nintendo DSiWare

Trajectile
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points™
Description: Trajectile is a puzzle game that’s as much about firepower as it is about brainpower, requiring you to line up your shot and launch a flurry of missiles at enemy targets. Three types of missiles are at your disposal, each one with its own characteristics – but all of them can bounce off walls on their path to smash, blast or drill through enemies and blocks. Along the way, you’ll find item blocks just waiting to be destroyed so that you can obtain special power-ups … and cause even more destruction. Be careful though, as missile type and position are predetermined and you get only a limited number of launches per stage. Complete multiple classes containing numerous individual stages, earning medals when you clear stages in fewer than the given number of turns. Are you ready to take aim at becoming a Trajectile master?

Animal Puzzle Adventure
Publisher: Aksys Games
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) – Mild Suggestive Themes
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Animal Puzzle Adventure is a simple puzzle game where you have to lead various animals to their respective barns placed on the map, while avoiding pitfalls and cliffs and using the objects on the field to your advantage. There are 10 stages per level with a total of five levels, creating 50 stages in all. After clearing a stage, you unlock a piece of a photo. Once you clear all 10 stages in a level, the wallpaper for that level becomes unlocked and you can then view it in the gallery. With so many puzzles to unravel, you’ll find yourself immersed in the puzzle-riffic world of Animal Puzzle Adventure.

Hell’s Kitchen Vs.
Publisher: Ludia
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Hell’s Kitchen Vs. is based on the U.S. TV phenomenon where world-renowned chef Gordon Ramsay puts aspiring chefs through rigorous culinary tests. The game recreates the show’s pressure-cooker atmosphere as two players battle head-to-head in an arcade-style kitchen challenge. Try to conquer your opponent in each time-management test, while taking the heat of Gordon Ramsay judging and rating your performance at every stage of the game.

WiiWare

Heron: Steam Machine
Publisher: Triangle Studios
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Wii Points™
Description: Heron: Steam Machine is a game about a factory where rubber duckies are being produced by a large steam engine. On this steam engine, there are four different gauges which you will have to watch carefully. By connecting the pipes, you will earn points and relieve some of the pressure, keeping the machine running just a little bit longer. If one of the gauges reaches its maximum, the machine will eventually blow up, and the game is over. If you were lucky enough to achieve a high score, make sure you enter your name in the list so other players can compete with you. In Multiplayer, you are able to cooperate with friends in maintaining the steam machine. When you play with two, three or four players, the screen is divided into sections with different background colors. Each player is able to solve his or her own part of the puzzle. Players are restricted to their own section of the screen, so you will have to work together to make the pipes fit properly. (Additional accessories are required for multiplayer play and are sold separately.)

Pub Darts
Publisher: Big Blue Bubble Inc.
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Alcohol Reference
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: Pub Darts is a simple darts simulation which uses the Wii Remote™ controller’s unique controls to mimic dart-throwing motion. The game is set in a local pub where the players will settle in to play some of their favorite dart games, including 501, Cricket, Around the Clock, Killers and Baseball. Controls function just like throwing a real dart. Players are able to create their own personal profiles, including selecting their avatar image from a collection of creative characters and the design they would like displayed on the dart flights.

Fast Draw Showdown
Publisher: Digital Leisure Inc.
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Alcohol Reference, Violence
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: When it comes to fast draw there’re only two types of people: the quick … and the dead! Now you have the chance to find out where you stand, or lie, as the case may be. You’ll go up against the best quick draws in the business, including one of the world’s fastest, Wes Flowers. Unholster your Wii Remote controller and show ’em who the fastest draw really is, in this live-action shooter. You can even take on a friend in multiplayer modes, and see which of you has the quickest draw. You’ll need some serious speed and awesome accuracy to take on these gunslingers … so get ready for some real fast draw action.

Virtual Console

Final Fight 3
Original platform: Super NES™
Publisher: Capcom USA
Players: 1-2
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Animated Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points
Description: Following the defeat and subsequent disappearance of the Mad Gear Gang, a small group known only as “Skull Cross” is responsible for a new uprising of vandalism, terrorism and death. The government of Metro City is at a complete loss. Metro City’s mayor, Mike Haggar, and Guy are prepared to take on the new gang, but before they can act, the door bursts open, revealing Lucia, Cody’s old friend. “Metro City is under attack!” she shouts, “Skull Cross is loose, and they’ve got something up their sleeves.” But before any of them can move, a mysterious man appears in the doorway. “My name is Dean,” he says. “I know Skull Cross inside-and-out, and I hate them more than anything. I can help you, and you can help me. We must go!” All four fighters vow to bring Skull Cross down. It will be a tough assignment, and may even be their final fight!