The urban weirdness of 80s action staples like Big Trouble In Little China, They Live, and The Golden Child is alive and well in TinyBuild’s Garage, an overhead shooter for the Switch that takes place in a parking garage with “a passageway to a supernatural world that has never seen the light of day.”
Also set to launch for the Switch later this week is Battle Chasers: Nightwar, a traditional turn-based RPG from Nordic Games and Airship Syndicate that’s based on Joe Madureira’s cult comic series. It’ll be available to download on Tuesday, May 15.
Also on May 15, 3DS owners will be able to download Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux, an enhanced remake of Atlus’s Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey. Originally released for the DS in 2010, the remake features “new story content, additional endings, a new dungeon to explore, brand-new illustrations by Masayuki Doi, updated visuals and UI tweaks, and more.”
You can learn more about the rest of this week’s additions to the Nintendo eShop (including One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – Deluxe Edition, Hyper Sentinel, The Fall, and more) after the break.
Nintendo Download: Chase Battles Anytime, Anywhere! [Press Release]
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Battle Chasers: Nightwar – Battle Chasers: Nightwar is an RPG inspired by the console genre greats, featuring deep dungeon diving and turn-based combat presented in classic JRPG format, and a rich story driven by exploration of the world. Build your adventuring party by choosing three of six available heroes from the famed Battle Chasers comic series, each with unique abilities, perks, items and dungeon skills. – Available May 15
Garage – Garage is a shooter in the style of an ’80s B-movie. Explore every dark corner of an underground parking garage and discover a passageway to a supernatural world that has never seen the light of day. Find new weapons and master them to survive. Solve the mystery of this cursed place and the creatures that inhabit it.
Super Sidekicks 2 – Super Sidekicks 2 is a soccer game released in 1994 by SNK. Battle for the championship in the peak sports event held once every four years. This version introduces the actual rules as well as fouls in order to provide exciting and thrilling soccer matches. Another highlight is the variety of enhanced rendering.
Terra Cresta – Terra Cresta is a shooting game that was released from Nichibutsu in 1985. Players recapture parts that have been left in the ground, to intercept the enemy in the formation attack. To aim the space devil Mandora.
Hyper Sentinel – A face-melting, pixel-pumping, Neo-Retro arcade shoot ’em up featuring awesome power-ups, epic boss battles and spectacular effects at a blistering 60fps. Blast through hordes of Alienoids in Arcade Mode, tackle endless waves of invaders in Survival Mode and battle epic level guardians in Boss Run mode. – Available May 11
Immortal Redneck – Immortal Redneck is an FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. The game mixes old-school first-person shooter action with rogue-lite mechanics. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death, and nine classes with different traits.
InkSplosion – Why should war be hell when it could be fun? Enter InkSplosion, a single screen twin-stick shooter, where the only real enemy is beating your previous high-score! – Available May 11
L.F.O.: Lost Future Omega – Synchronize the sound, synchronize the future. As the screen changes your actions and the sound synchronize with the music. Some of the sounds you select can be passed to the next stage. By doing so and depending on your progress at that point, even if you are playing in the same stage, you will get feeling that you are listening to another arrangement.
One Piece: Pirate Warriors 3 – Deluxe Edition – Re-live the original ONE PIECE story from Fushia village, where everything started, to the kingdom of Dressrosa, a mysterious island dominated by the evil “Heavenly Demon” himself, Donquixote Doflamingo. Gather members of the Straw Hat Crew and sail to the most illusive places and enter epic battles: Marineford, Fishman Island, Punk Hazard and Dressrosa! The Deluxe Edition includes many of the previously released DLC and provides players with all of the fun and excitement right from the anime.
Splitter Critters – Splitter Critters is an award-winning freeform puzzle game that puts world-splitting power into your hands. Split and rearrange the world to bring faraway platforms together, move deadly lasers out of the way, and create floating swimming pools to guide alien critters back to their spaceship. – Available May 15
Suicide Guy – Suicide Guy is set in the incredibile and extraordinary dreams of its protagonist. What would you do in order to save the thing you love most? Immerse yourself into his weird dreams and help him to wake up before it’s too late.
Super Chariot – Designed for the Nintendo Switch™, Super Chariot is a 2D platform game that can be played through to the end in either solo or co-op mode. You play as either the brave Princess or her faithful fiancé in a subterranean fantasy adventure… Manoeuvre the wheeled coffin of the dead King through 25 levels and five colourful environments, trying to ignore the incessant insults of the King’s ghost.
The Adventures of Elena Temple – The Adventures of Elena Temple is a monochromatic puzzle platformer made to look as if it were created in the 80s. Overcome obstacles, figure out how to collect all the coins, find all the gems and remember your childhood while doing it! Progress through the game’s dungeon through non-linear exploration and keep an open eye for secrets to find. – Available May 15
The Fall – The Fall is a unique combination of adventure-game puzzle solving, and side-scroller action, all set within a dark and atmospheric story. Exploration will be paramount to surviving your adventure. Utilize ARID’s flashlight to uncover a myriad of interactive objects. If what you uncover is hostile, switch on your laser sight and kick some metal! Get ready for a disturbing journey as you fight, explore, and think your way forward, expanding ARID’s world, in spite of her protocols.
The Mystery of the Hudson Case – In 1979, a daring journalist sets out to investigate on his own, after continuous disapproval by his editorial department, the famous case of the Hudson Family, a family living in the vicinity of New New Orleans, near the mouth of the Mississippi River. They lived in the time of British America, around the year 1830. They boasted an estate of four hectares where the rich landowner Mr. Benjamin Hudson owned a large number of slaves from the African continent, whom he tortured and raped in numerous occasions, provoking death. – Available May 14
Three Fourths Home: Extended Edition – In her mid-20s, Kelly has been forced to move back to Nebraska. Back to that flat expanse, that seemingly endless sea of rustling cornstalks peppered by rusty silos and rustier towns. A typically intense Midwestern storm is approaching while Kelly is out. She has to get home. In the 20 miles between her grandparents’ crumbling barn and her parents’ house, she receives a phone call from her mother.
Wizard of Legend – Wizard of Legend is a fast-paced dungeon crawler with an emphasis on dynamic magical combat. Quick movement and even quicker use of spells will allow you to chain spells together to unleash devastating combinations against your enemies! Unlock over 100 unique spells and discover powerful spell combinations! A wide variety of elemental spells allows you to create a hand best suited to your play style. Dive head first into the fray or stand back and let your minions do the work for you. Play solo or co-op! The choice is yours! – Available May 15
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Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux – In the Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey Redux game, you play as a brave United Nations soldier investigating a spatial anomaly called the Schwarzwelt… a dome of dark energy that threatens to consume the world. Inside, you’ll find it home to a nightmare mirror of our own Earth, populated with demons dying to meet you. – Available May 15
Up Up Bot – In Up Up Bot help your robot friend climb the platforms by tapping the screen. Be careful and watch out for bad robots trying to stop you from progressing even higher. Endless fun for everyone!
