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With the news of the 3DS eShop's impending closure, let's talk about which games that others may have missed but are worth picking up while there's still a chance.
I know we've had a few 3DS recommendation threads, but for this one I'm hoping to shine a light on games that stand a very real chance of disappearing alongside the system itself (be they obscure and overlooked, digital-only, or make such heavy use of the system's unique functionalities that a port becomes an unlikely prospect).
The first that come to mind, for me, is the Guild series. Crimson Shroud is fairly well-known, but none of the others ever garnered much attention— including from me. But with the prospect of these games going away forever, I'm looking back at the games here and I think I'm going to pick up Attack of the Friday Monsters! (a life-sim involving tokusatsu) and The Starship Damrey (sci-fi survival horror that throws you to the wolves), at the very least.
There's also the 3D Classics line, where 8- and 16-bit games got enhanced with the stereoscopic 3D treatment. These aren't terribly obscure, but I think still worth highlighting given how well they utilize the system capacity and how there won't be any way to play them on another system. Anyway, Nintendo's entries include Kirby's Adventure, which looks even more gorgeous than before; and Kid Icarus, which is not only based off the Famicom version of the game (with a save system and an extra sound channel) but even enhances the graphics with the addition of proper backgrounds, making it the best version of the game. Meanwhile, M2 has a whole host of Sega classics, all of which feature some sort of enhancement to make the game friendlier; Ecco the Dolphin adds a "Super Dolphin Mode" that makes Ecco invulnerable, allowing a player to forgo the punishing difficulty and just soak in the sights. Check the full list, there's a bunch.
Orion's Odyssey is a game I first learned about last year during the DSiWare delisting scare; it's a fun and clever puzzle game where you fit geometric shapes to a silhouette, which starts simple enough but gets tricky as it goes on. What really elevates it is that it has a surprising amount of effort put into its framing story, with a lot of charming pixel art. It feels like a real labour of love. It's also by our own ASandoval!
Oh, and I'm not sure picross really counts as obscure on this board, but Picross 3D Round 2 is a brilliant concept in the first place, a massive improvement over the first game, and download-only, so anyone who hasn't gotten it would do well to fix that!
I know we've had a few 3DS recommendation threads, but for this one I'm hoping to shine a light on games that stand a very real chance of disappearing alongside the system itself (be they obscure and overlooked, digital-only, or make such heavy use of the system's unique functionalities that a port becomes an unlikely prospect).
The first that come to mind, for me, is the Guild series. Crimson Shroud is fairly well-known, but none of the others ever garnered much attention— including from me. But with the prospect of these games going away forever, I'm looking back at the games here and I think I'm going to pick up Attack of the Friday Monsters! (a life-sim involving tokusatsu) and The Starship Damrey (sci-fi survival horror that throws you to the wolves), at the very least.
There's also the 3D Classics line, where 8- and 16-bit games got enhanced with the stereoscopic 3D treatment. These aren't terribly obscure, but I think still worth highlighting given how well they utilize the system capacity and how there won't be any way to play them on another system. Anyway, Nintendo's entries include Kirby's Adventure, which looks even more gorgeous than before; and Kid Icarus, which is not only based off the Famicom version of the game (with a save system and an extra sound channel) but even enhances the graphics with the addition of proper backgrounds, making it the best version of the game. Meanwhile, M2 has a whole host of Sega classics, all of which feature some sort of enhancement to make the game friendlier; Ecco the Dolphin adds a "Super Dolphin Mode" that makes Ecco invulnerable, allowing a player to forgo the punishing difficulty and just soak in the sights. Check the full list, there's a bunch.
Orion's Odyssey is a game I first learned about last year during the DSiWare delisting scare; it's a fun and clever puzzle game where you fit geometric shapes to a silhouette, which starts simple enough but gets tricky as it goes on. What really elevates it is that it has a surprising amount of effort put into its framing story, with a lot of charming pixel art. It feels like a real labour of love. It's also by our own ASandoval!
Oh, and I'm not sure picross really counts as obscure on this board, but Picross 3D Round 2 is a brilliant concept in the first place, a massive improvement over the first game, and download-only, so anyone who hasn't gotten it would do well to fix that!
