September round-up of Japanese DSiWare releases.

I doubt you want want to sit through the Face Training clips and crossword puzzle footage in this 11-minute video, so I’ll list the highlights I think you should watch:

• 2:10 - Tuner Fight. This almost seems like a bare-bones Guitar Hero minigame, except with real instruments! Tuner Fight is included with Intelligent Systems’ Instrument Tuner application.
• 7:30 - Extreme Misfortune Side Square Action Vol.1 Cursed Game Blood and Vol.2 Cursed Game Prison. These Nanashi no Game platformers look more fun than I expected, even if they are crazy difficult.
• 8:30 - G.G. Series: Z.ONE. This is the first time I’ve seen this budget shoot’em up in motion, and it doesn’t look bad for 200 Points. Actually considering purchasing this and Chicken Spirit.
• 10:22 - Chicken Spirit (by G Mode, which also brought the hilarious Kukiyomi to DSiWare). This fantastic game tests how much of a coward you are by putting you in dangerous situations, measuring when you tap the A-button/screen to escape. I love this! Too bad it probably won’t release in the States!

Buy: U.S. Nintendo DSi (White, Pink, Black and Blue)

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

[Via NintenDaan]

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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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