Feature: Nintendo Life eShop Selects - July 2020

CrossCode definitely. <3

Crysis only getting an honorable mention is a travesty on par with genocide.

@JHDK 100% this

Bloodstained CotM2 was fantastic, the original was good but I found this one improved on that in just about every way particularly in the way of challenge which is now way more reminiscent of actual old school Castlevania, co-op with a good friend is really great too.

I never expected CotM would get a sequel but I'm so glad it did.

Carrion is not just my favourite game of the month, it's actually a new entry in my list of favourite games ever in no specific order. Finished it several times already, and looking forward to my physical pre-order (which I usually don't do anymore). It was an absolutely fantastic move of Devolver to give a download code with each physical pre-order.

I got Warhammer because of the review on this site. Was not disappointed. The characters and the worldbuilding is totally out there.
Made me even consider getting into the whole Warhammer lore for a minute. But then I remembered I like sex too much to just give it up.

@Shambo
Wow thank you for sharing your experience with the game! I had no idea the publisher was handing out download codes if you preorder the physical edition. I jumped right over to the Limited Run Games preorder site to confirm.
That is a very classy move of them!! I absolutely love the idea of not having to wait 3 months to play the game! (I refuse to double dip except in rare exceptions.)

I also like the looks of Panzer Paladin and Crosscode this month. I think I’d own all 3 games already along with Arcade Archives Burgertime and Kangaroo (showing my age) if I didn’t have such a killer backlog! 😅

Surely Crysis should make the top 3.... Carrion is a blast nonetheless, highly recommended..

I plan on getting Creaks. I was hoping to see a Dodo Peak review here. There's only one critic review on Metacritic.

@Teksetter @jimtendog I think pre-orders are still open (maybe you can find someone to buy your download code if you already bought it digitally, and split the cost that way as to not technically double dip? I was thinking of looking for someone, but the game just looked too good to wait, and having a digital install of it definitely has its benefits, even if I prefer physical overall), both on Limited Run Games and on Special Reserve Games (which is Devolver's own limited physical publishing, basically).
The Special Reserve version is a bit more expensive but has a nice outer box, and different box art (in my opinion better, it's the whole image, not a detail of it as is the case with Limited Run). They also had a limited edition but that's sold out and was too expensive for me.

Nothing for me this month. I hope Nintendo announces some heavy hitters soon.

ROGUE COMPANY. I don't know what it is, but is my favorite competitive shooter next to OW on the Switch. Love the maps and the fast paced battles. Cannot wait to see what else the developer has in store.

@Shambo Wow, I didn't know they did that! I'd love for that to be standard practice! I'm still waiting to play that Jaleco game arcade shoot'em up (I've even forgotten the name of the game I ordered physically!), still waiting to play Panzer Dragoon at 60fps on my Switch, and there is probably at least one other game I've ordered and am waiting months to play while others are enjoying the digital download... Oh well, hopefully that idea catches on....

@WoomyNNYes Yeah, Dodo Peak looks pretty fun. I want to try it.

Buy Creaks y'all

It has a nice hand drawn art style and interesting setting and mechanics

You're at some kind of a magical place with furniture monsters that become regular furniture when in contact with light

I thought Amanita Design games (Machinarium, Botanicula, Samorost, and now Creaks) were more popular =(

@60frames-please I sent a msg to NL's editorial (via contact page) saying I'd like to see a dodo peak review, and mentioned Metacritic only has on critic review

@NullPointerExcep didn't know it's from the same people as Machinarium, it kind of reminded me of it going by the art style, but now knowing it is, has raised my interest in it.

I do need to grab Carrion, although it's hard to imagine the game will beat out Curse of the Moon 2 for me.

Crysis will be worth more than an honorable mention when its developers fix the gyro aiming.

I've been playing a lot of CrossCode, but I also am enjoying Curse of the Moon 2. I'm sure Crysis is great but I don't play FPS games.

@Shambo
Thanks again, this time for the heads up for the Special Reserve site! There’s so many small vendors for physical editions now it’s tough to keep track.
I agree the SpRes version standard edition has better cover art. I just have to decide if it’s worth the extra $10 over the LRG price to me.
I hadn’t bought Carrion digitally yet, so that perk of getting a digital download code as a free bonus for preordering the physical edition is most excellent and extremely tempting.

Like @60frames-please , there have been many long spans I’ve had to wait for preordered games just bc I prefer physical to digital in most cases. I think Celeste kept me waiting for most of a year!

@Teksetter Yeah I didn't get Untitled Goose Game, Cadence of Hyrule, Crysis, and Cuphead yet, among others I probably already forgot about, because I want a physical version of those. And now the goose game has one announced, but it's quite overpriced... Cadence of Hyrule gets the dlc and all that (and the benefit of technically being a Zelda game and probably never going to really drop in price), and Cuphead will also get the dlc included from what I think I read here a while ago, but I'm still not sure about Cuphead: I LOVE the art style, I don't enjoy the stress and frustration a hard game can make me feel... With Carrion I wanted to either wait for a physical or a sale, but then the limited physical runs were announced, destroying most hope of there ever being a standard release... And then I read on their site about that download code, and that sealed the deal, even though it wasn't entirely on my preset terms ^^
Others, like Hollow Knight, had such weird things going on about if there was going to be a physical version or not, and there was a decent sale during all that, so I bought it digitally instead. Shovel Knight I already bought on 3DS, was going to double dip if it got a physical release on Switch with everything on the cartridge, but a lot has changed since then and collecting for the sake of collecting is a thing of the past.

@Ralizah what’s wrong with the gyro in Crysis? Have you turned off the auto-aim?

Crysis is the Switch game for me this month. However the best game I’ve played this month is without doubt Banjo Tooie. Replaying with my Super64 and mClassic and it looks sweet! Plus I found in my wife’s attic basically 2 unused N64 controllerS. Oh that sweet sweet analogue stick is the stuff of dreams.

NB please nobody tell me what year it is- I don’t care baby!

@beazlen1 I've heard from at least two people online that the gyro isn't sensitive enough. Does that conflict with your experience of the game?

Carrion was a fast run through monster land for me and I LOVED it!! CrossCode is my second game that I picked up and I love it too, ever since I played the demo on PC as a 12 year old!!

@JHDK
Agreed. It's leaps and bounds ahead of these pixel games imo.

@WoomyNNYes Cool, that's good. I think Nintendo World Report has a review giving it a 7. It looks like fast Qbert with catchy music, and some Flicky thrown in.

@Shambo I'd say give Cuphead a try. I also don't usually enjoy difficult games, but Cuphead on the easier difficulty is doable. I'd still say it's hard, but not too frustrating. Like you'll die on stages but probably be surprised how you can beat them within 5 or so tries. I don't know, it's hard to judge difficulty. Also, the sound design is so amazing that I've enjoyed dying on some stages just to hear how reverb or whatever effect it is kicks in and warps the music upon death (it also slows the music, very trippy!).

@Shambo
Oh yes, I hear you about physical edition "purgatory" or whatever we should call holding off on purchasing games you want to play just in case a physical edition is announced later. I'm waiting for Cuphead and Cadence of Hyrule just as you are. But I almost don't mind the wait for those since the cart will (supposedly) contain all the DLC and patches "on the cart" for posterity. It's just so much nicer buying a finished product, haha!

I don't really buy physical for sake of building a collection, but rather for the sense of actual ownership (equity?) and the ability to lend games to friends.

Either way, I preordered Carrion standard edition through the LRG website (just to save $10) and am looking forward to getting my download code today or tomorrow, then can have horrible guilt pangs about viciously rending and murdering a bunch of poor pixel people with the monstrous murder blob.
I hope my poor brain can reconcile this with playing Paper Mario and Animal Crossing during the day, when the kids are around!

@Teksetter I won't spoil anything, it's just how I see what's going on in Carrion: I don't think the monster is necessarily the bad guy. If I reverse the situation, a human being captured on an alien planet, experimented on, and fighting to escape, the captors would be the "bad guys". I see humanity as the bad guy here, unless the creature is a hostile invader. But since there's no text, I don't think I saw anything that excluded either possibility. The player creature is trying to escape a research facility, who knows what horrible experiments it had to endure? On the other hand, I can't say the creature is "good" either but then again it doesn't claim a moral high ground it has to defend. I even see most "heroes" in action games and rpg's as kind of bad guys as well. Colonising countries or even planets, killing "monsters" and "terrorists" in their own home where they actually were just minding their own business... Or fighting for the absolute rule of one faction over another by erasing them from existence, killing each other with extreme prejudice... The way I see it, good guys try to live and let live, but hey, I can enjoy a good story about from my perspective flawed characters with a different idea about righteousness and justice than mine... I don't necessarily need to be able to identify with the player character, I just need to be able to not straight up hate them. And I tend to have these unpopular opinions and perspectives on things, rarely fully agreeing with either side of a conflict, often even being opposed to both.

I fully agree about the reasons to prefer physical, I also prefer to know that my game library isn't dependent on a server somewhere that may be shut down, and that I can lend or trade my games.

However you see Carrion though, it IS going to be a bloody massacre, and I do wish you enjoy it as much as I do (just started yet another playthrough, but the reviews I saw often mentioned "no real replayability"...)

Creaks is brilliant!!