Nintendo Downloads 7-27-09. (Monkey Island.)

NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: MONKEY ISLAND AND MUSKETEERS, CARD GAMES AND SUDOKU

July 27, 2009

Three WiiWare™ games anchor this week's Nintendo Download. Gamers can buckle their swashes with both the first installment of a five-part Tales of Monkey Island series and a Three Musketeers platform adventure. Meanwhile, fans of card games will enjoy a half dozen cIassic options in HB Arcade Cards. On the Nintendo DSiWare™ side, beginners can learn the basics of sudoku with Sudoku Student.

WiiWare

Tales of Monkey Island: Chapter 1
Publisher: Telltale Games
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E10+ (Everyone 10 and Older) - Alcohol Reference, Comic Mischief, Mild Language, Mild Suggestive Themes
Price: 1,000 Wii Points™
Description: Join Guybrush Threepwood, Mighty Pirate, in this first chapter of an epic five-part saga, filled with humor, romance and piratey swashbuckling. When a showdown with the demon pirate LeChuck goes up in flames, Guybrush gets marooned on a strange island. How will he escape? Where is Guybrush's beloved wife, Elaine? And what's up with the voodoo pox spreading through the isles? Jump into Tales of Monkey Island today to find out!

The Three Musketeers: One for All!
Publisher: Legendo Entertainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) - Cartoon Violence
Price: 900 Wii Points
Description: The Three Musketeers have been imprisoned by the treacherous Count Xavier and his sinister lieutenant, Count Orsini! Well, almost - take on the role of Porthos, famed member of the Musketeers, to save the day in this swashbuckling platform adventure inspired by the cIassic novel. Swing the Wii Remote™ to launch blistering sword attacks on your foes, avoid fiendish traps and discover hidden collectables. Packed with frenetic fencing, heroic leaps and fun puzzles, this is one adventure no aspiring hero will want to miss.

HB Arcade Cards
Publisher: HB Studios Multimedia
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 500 Wii Points
Description: HB Arcade Cards is a great collection of fun and easy-to-play card games. The collection of games included in this title includes: Rummy, Hearts, Euchre, Canasta, Cribbage and the always-cIassic Solitaire. Each game comes with an interactive tutorial to show you the rules and basic game play. You'll need to be clever to outsmart your opponents, and you can even team up with a computer partner to play Euchre and Cribbage. You can play HB Arcade Cards using a Mii™ character from your Wii™ console, or play with one of our four new characters. HB Arcade Cards has lots of styIe and flare, and will keep you coming back for more. Remember, it's never the same game twice.

Nintendo DSiWare

Sudoku Student
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points™
Description:Sudoku Student brings you the first Nintendo DSiWare sudoku experience with all the features you'd expect. For "students" of sudoku who are just getting their feet wet, Sudoku Student comes with a full tutorial. Once you've completed the tutorial, jump into simple and easy-going sudoku puzzles. Designed for entry- to beginner-level players, you'll find just the right amount of challenge to keep you hooked.

I really hope they release a harder Sudoku.. that's a very fun game, but I dont want to waste points on a entry level to beginners lol

I'll wait for Cave Story, Night game and La-Mulana. Thanks to Nicalis.

I would get Monkey Island on PC.

I'll get more old VC games like Super Castlevania IV, Donkey Kong Country 2, Contra III, Castlevania III, Vectorman, ...

That's the second biggest MIA of VC I've seen!!! lol :P

Monkey Island sure is the highlight for me. I guess with no VC, it's a time to catch up on the games that you missed twice! :D One on the original system, the other on VC...

I really hope they release a harder Sudoku.. that's a very fun game, but I dont want to waste points on a entry level to beginners lol

TaMuK711

Finallyy Monkey Island is released!! Anyone know how many blocks it is? I'm running out of room on my Wii/SD card. Need to pick up a new SD..

Pretty good week for Wii Ware. Maybe I will have to pick Monkey Island up.

SUDOKU IS FUN BUT I DONT HAVE ANY WII POINTS. OH WELL.

Why is it called the virtual console! If there not releasing any games for it?!?! *sigh*

Monkey Island seems to be another one of those $30+ WiiWare games. It doesn't interest me in the least.

Sudoku I may try out though.

Two weeks without any VC?MonsieurX

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Two weeks without any VC?da_chub

Sounds OK. But why won't the update the VC any more? :(

WTF? Did Nintendo run out of games to release for VC?

WTF? Did Nintendo run out of games to release for VC?

peach79

WTF? Did Nintendo run out of games to release for VC?

peach79

2 things:

1-They need to release some Wiiware stuff to reduce the number games on the backlogfor the service.
2-Many games can't be released today for the VC becausethey are licensed games, publishers don't exist anymore, the Square-Enix case (theydon't want to release their SNES games on VC but they wantto release their PS1 games on PSN) and the RARE games.

So, did anyone play Monkey island? Anyone at all? I have not yet read of a single person who played the Wiiware version. I cannot imagine it being identical to the PC version - Which is 200mb, and Wiiware has a 40meg size limit.

I can't wait for Monkey Island to come to the UK. According to Telltale there are virtually no differences between the PC and Wii versions, aside from controls. For those of you not sure on this, over all the chapters it'll be a good 15-20 hours. With this, plus Max the Magic Marker, my WiiWare future looks a happy one!

[QUOTE="TaMuK711"]

I really hope they release a harder Sudoku.. that's a very fun game, but I dont want to waste points on a entry level to beginners lol

alexh_99

:O I had no idea, looks like I finally have something to spend my free DSi points on, I love sudoku :D