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“The eShop, I feel, has really turned things around for Nintendo on the digital side because the storefront is heavily feature-driven. Any publisher can still produce whatever it wants, similar to iOS in both regards. However, given the feature-oriented nature, the eShop is quasi-curated without being some lame PR line like, ‘consciously developing a curated portfolio.’ That’s a steaming pile of PR right there, but that’s another story altogether.”

Nicalis’s Tyrone Rodriguez praising the eShop in a Destructoid interview. No matter how you feel about the 3DS’s online store, there’s no denying it’s at least better than DSiWare.

Rodriguez goes on to explain that the eShop’s ability to feature some stuff over others helps the good software be noticed, unlike the DSi and Wii where everything is buried in an egalitarian manner.

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VVVVVV level designed by Minecraft creator Markus “Notch” Persson. Like the rest of this retro-styled 2D puzzle-platformer, this looks super difficult!

Nicalis actually released this on 3DS’s U.S. eShop today, so you can grab it now for $8. The European release will come at a later date, as Germany’s ratings board is holding up the game for some reason, according to VVVVVV’s original developer Terry Cavanagh.

Other eShop games out this week: Game Boy’s Bionic Commando (Virtual Console), Cake Ninja (DSiWare), and Slingo Supreme (DSiWare). Oh, and if you’re in Europe, you can pick up Flipper 2: Flush the Goldfish.

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Cave Story (DSiWare) trailer. So Cave Story will finally be released on DSiWare in Japan on November 22!

Is it just me, or is the new footage of Quote sitting in the dark playing Cave Story just slightly creepy? Like, not full-on creepy, but bearing an essence of creepiness.

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A story about Cave Story 3D →

I can confirm that Nicalis’s polygonal update of Cave Story is not butt. I can confirm this by having played the damn thing for a bunch of hours.

My review is up on Joystiq right now, if you’d like to read that opinion in more detail. Like all of you, I was hella skeptical about the graphics, only to come to the conclusion over hours of play that I liked seeing a new take on familiar environments, and I really liked the new look of some of them! The new Egg Corridor is awesome. The new Plantation is really strange!

Eric and I were both kind of surprised that this was actually coming out this week. Not really really, because we knew the date and I had that review copy and all, but just in terms of still feeling like Cave Story 3D is something we’d be waiting months for. Does that make sense?

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VVVVVV 3DS “banner.” Presumably this will be the little animated icon on the top screen before you open the game.

Why’d we go with a cassette? Well, that’s what Terry wanted, but also, it makes sense since VVVVVV was inspired by his love of the C64.

This is definitely the first 3DS game icon to have a Destructoid review score on it…

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New gameplay trailer for Cave Story 3D, mostly showing off the Egg Corridor, Grass Town, and Sand Zone. That remixed version of the Egg Corridor music is very nice.

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“Contrary to the wishes of two or three guys on the Internets, we’re not just going to rip through games we love just to put out sub-par versions no one is happy playing (that’ll give said trolls more reason to bitch).

I’m much happier hearing a few guys complain about our games ‘coming out in 2015-2020’, then have something out there that one of our developer friends or I’m happy to release.”

Nicalis delivers real talk while also announcing a delay of Ikachan for DSiWare, until 2012.

So what’s the developer doing with the extra time? “First, the artwork is being redone from scratch by Daisuke [Pixel].” New enemies and a new, larger play area are also being added. The team is making a new localization, too, replacing the fan translation in the English PC version.

I’m sure most of us will have plenty to play for the rest of the year even without this game. Maybe not on DSiWare, but everywhere else — certainly on DS cards. This game would get super lost in holiday 2011.

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Nicalis bringing VVVVVV to 3DS eshop

Cave Story WiiWare/3D/+ developer Nicalis still has NightSky on the way for eShop, and now it’s announced another indie port: Terry Cavanagh’s flippety platformer VVVVVV. Nicalis is acting as publisher for the port of the 8-bit-looking platformer, about “Captain Viridian” searching an open world for his lost crew, and using the ability to flip gravity to navigate that world.

The look is the same as the original PC title, but according to Nicalis, “full 3D awesomeness” has been added to the art. Other changes include “future content updates” and “new featured levels,” as well as, of course, a map screen. It’s also supposed to release before the end of the year.

The resolution on the top screen seems to match that on the bottom screen, even though the 3DS screens are different sizes. Maybe this has vertical black bars like 3D Classics Twinbee? Investigate for yourself after the break.

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Quote in 2D and 3D, exploring Cave Story 3D. In case you didn’t get the memo, you can play the game with the original 2D sprite through a selection on the main menu. For the rest of you who want to play something that looks more like the original Cave Story on your 3DS, well, you know the game’s also on DSiWare/eShop, right?

Don’t forget! We’re giving away five copies of Cave Story+ for Mac — it’s a suuuuper easy contest.

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Win a copy of Cave Story+ for Mac

Nicalis has offered us five codes for Cave Story+, its updated Mac release of Cave Story based on the WiiWare version. Would you like to welcome fall with a nostalgic trip through Pixel’s masterpiece? Doesn’t that sound comforting, like a cool breeze coming in on a warm day? (Not that I’d know, we haven’t really had “cool” anything here in Austin in months…)

We’re giving away five copies of Cave Story+ this week, from now until Friday at 11:59PM EDT. All you have to do to win, is go into the comments section of this post, and … describe Balrog. We’ll pick our favorites and dispense codes. Good luck, and thanks to Nicalis for the generosity!

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Surprise! Cave Story+ out for Mac

Out of nowhere, Nicalis has released Cave Story+, an enhanced port of last year’s WiiWare remake, to the Mac App Store (Windows release on Steam forthcoming).

Along with the upgraded “HD” graphics, remastered soundtrack, official re-translation, and bonus modes, Cave Story+ adds the Wind Fortress level, the first original area designed from scratch by Daisuke ‘Pixel’ Amaya since the original PC release. This version also has USB gamepad support, and will receive future content updates.

I wonder if Wind Fortress will make it into the upcoming 3DS remake? Anyway, you can download Cave Story+ right now for $9.99 — more screenshots after the break!

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NightSky coming to 3DS eShop →

Just a link to some Joystiq work I was happy about today! After Nicalis tweeted that it was bringing NightSky to the 3DS eShop, I checked in with producer Tyrone Rodriguez for more detail.

In short: yes, it’s totally happening, hopefully before Christmas, and it’s going to be totally in 2D. Whooooooooaaaaaaa. Pretty bold move, but a smart one, I think: I want to download this game on my 3DS, but that game really doesn’t need to be in 3D.

Nicalis also has some other eShop game planned, which they aren’t announcing yet. Two eShop games! That puts them ahead of pretty much everybody. I guess Arc System Works has two eShop games live in Japan already (Jazzy Billiards and Vector Racing).

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