NintendoWare Weekly: Pushmo

Nintendo brings another original, downloadable 3DS game to the eShop, inspiring ... not quite cautious optimism, but a cautious lessening of pessimism. Intelligent Systems' Pushmo is a puzzler about pulling stacked 3D blocks into and out of the screen to make climbing paths. It makes sense for a puzzle game on 3DS!

On WiiWare, we finally have the opportunity to try out RedLynx's MotoHeroz without paying $15 for the privilege.

Pushmo (3DS eShop)

WiiWare

Paper Wars: Cannon Fodder (iFun4All, 1-4 players, 500 Wii Points): Defeat cut-paper enemies in iFun4All's self-professed "worst game ever," a tower defense game "developed by several Polish and Hungarian outsourced programmers of iFun4all team, in the cheapest way you can imagine."
Demo: MotoHeroz (RedLynx, 1-4 players, 0 Wii Points): Have a tiny, sample-sized amount of raucous racing fun.

3DS eShop

Pushmo (Nintendo, 1 player, $6.99): Pull and push stacked, stair-shaped blocks to create footholds, so the adorable Mallo can jump up toward a goal.

DSiWare

Castle Conqueror - Against (Circle Entertainment, 1 player, $1.99/200 DSi Points): Circle Entertainment's RTS series continues with an "advanced" game.
Word Searcher 4 (Digital Leisure, 1 player, $4.99/500 DSi Points): I just checked the shop and, yes, there have been three of these before.

Reader Comments (25)

From the video on the eShop it reminds me of Catherine. I'll try it, I did the same with Freaky Forms and thought it was decent.

The gameplay of Pushmo kind of looks like the puzzle sections of Catherine, but without...you know...sheep.

Sorry, still playing Mario Kart 7. Get back to me in a month.

Guys...

Club Nintendo is going to start offering games (eShop, VC, WiiWare) for 100 coins each!

http://nintendoeverything.com/79192/club-nintendo-getting-huge-makeover-will-offer-downloadable-games/

@FernandoRocker
Thanks for the scoop

@spekkio

I just checked and the games are already up to purchase. I already bought some.

@FernandoRocker

And the site is down now...

@FernandoRocker Hey, Fernando, how did you get banned from NeoGAF? I'm curious and I can't find anything in your "recent" post history that should be bannable.

@FernandoRocker
Nice scoop, now even Joystiq's commenters are beating the staff to the punch :)
If only they were tied to an account and not a system though :( I bought a ton of Wii VC titles assuming that I'd be able to transfer, at minimum, the NES and Super NES titles to the 3DS like the PS3 and PSP allow. But no, I put too much faith in Nintendo there :( This may encourage me to buy one or two now, even knowing I almost certainly won't be able to transfer them to Wii U or 4DS.

@Roto13

Long story. But I will share my story soon. I already bought a domain and I'm setting up my own forum.

The site is down, because I'm still working on it, but feel free to add it to your bookmars.

www.geektroid.com

@Vic Fontaine

You can transfer the content of your 3DS to another 3DS now, thanks to the just released update.

It basically transfer everything from your old 3DS (games, saves, friends, activity log... an exact copy of your system) into your new system and then reset the old 3DS to factory default settings.

Sure, not as good as having accounts, but it's something.

@FernandoRocker
I know that, but I was referring to taking VC games I own on the Wii and downloading them onto a 3DS, like PS3/PSP can do with mini's and PS1 games. Instead Nintendo "gifts" me half the games I bought on the Wii, and obviously expects me to rebuy them if I want to play others on my portable.

@FernandoRocker

If you look deeper into the this, there's a really interesting idea:

Nintendo now has a way of tying game purchases to an account, rather than just a device. I don't think we'll see anything as a result of this for a while, but I think we can now without a doubt expect to see our purchases show up on the Wii U (and future systems).

@Electrium

I should've read the comments, Vic Fontaine realized this as well. I think this news indicates Nintendo is dipping their toes into the water as far as accounts go.

@FernandoRocker
That's cool about games being available for points. But I hope the physical game & watch game that I've been saving up for is still available.

@FernandoRocker: Good to know. Super Mario Kart seems like the most appealing choice out of the first round of games. I still have over 100 points left so I can easily grab it. I didn't realize the eShop even had SNES games on it.

@djnforce9: Oh wait, never mind, it's Wii VC. Still would be neat though if SNES games come to the 3DS eShop eventually as well.

@FernandoRocker
wow, just 1 week after i bought the Tote Bag

Keep 'em coming, Nintendo.

Is it that hard to get games out at the same time as the rest of the world?

Looks really cool! I think I'll be voting with my wallet for this.

I wish we got atleast one decent 3DS title each week

Pushmo is awesome. You can even create your own puzzles by drawing with different colors, each color is it's own block.

@tendoboy1984

I spent an hour making a moderately difficulty level, just by doing whatever and playing around with it. It's *so* fun.

My guess is that the Japanese name for this game is 'Osu-mo ... Yeah? Yeah?

NintendoWare Weekly: Pushmo

Pushmo (3DS eShop)

Reader Comments (25)

Posted: Dec 8th 2011 12:36PM spacemanroo said

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