Aa Mujou Setsuna (Oh Heartless Moment), Arika’s DSiWare shoot’em up releasing in Japan next week.

Priced at 500 Nintendo points, this original title from the Ketsui: Death Label developer includes a Pattern mode with set routes for enemies, a Random mode with random enemy routes, a Record mode for tracking stats, online leaderboards, replay videos of your best playthrough, and an option to download replays from the top 10 players.

Here’s another clip showing Aa Mujou Setsuna’s second ship option, which has a narrower shot spread:

Other Japanese DSiWare releases scheduled for next neek include two music apps from Intelligent Systems, both priced at 200 Points: Nintendo DSi Instrument Tuner for tuning instruments with the DSi mic; and Nintendo DSi Metronome for keeping a beat/tempo.

Both are priced at 200 Points and come with cute minigames. Instrument Tuner has Tuner Fight, in which you pop balloons by playing notes written on the balloons. Metronome gives you Donkey Metronome, which has you clapping to the beat to help Mario jump over Donkey Kong’s barrels. It looks really fun!:

Other DSiWare news you can use:

• Nintendo Power revealed TMNT: Arcade Attack, a two-player co-op beat’em up styled after the NES/SNES/Arcade games with eight levels.
• Nintendo Power also says its next issue will have a “major” DSiWare announcement that will “make many of you very, very happy”.
• Australia’s classification board rated Dragon Quest Wars — expect to see this simple strategy game in other Western territories soon!
• Nintendaan uploaded a video showing all of Japan’s DSiWare releases during August.

Phew, that was a lot of stuff for this DSiWare roundup!

Buy: U.S. Matte Black and Blue DSi

Import: Japanese Nintendo DSi (White, Black, Pink, Red, Lime Green, Metallic Blue)

[Via Kotaku, NeoGAF, Andriasang, Nintendo]

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