Nintendo eShop Choice – August 2022
We’re fast approaching the fall season, which means it’s time for another batch of our eShop Selects!
While August may have been a quiet month for top-notch Nintendo games (with the exception of one little pink ball, which we’ll get to in a moment), our online store wallets are crying with how many gems have snuck into the online store. You may have noticed that our testimonials page fills up quite quickly – and it will continue to.
So after a fun summer, what are the best of the best for August? First, let’s talk about some of the games that are equally worthy of a mention.
Honorable Mentions:
You know that when there is three 9/10 on the honorable mention list, it’s been a good month. Too many great surprises that we can’t top them off all. Not even Kirby is immune to losing his podium spot! Sorry Kirbs, at least you can eat a lot of cake and strawberries?
Publisher: Neos / Developer: Millennium Kitchen
It is happened! We eventually Received My Summer vacation game in the West. Better yet, it’s really pretty cute. Shin-chan’s irreverent humor and quirky characters fit perfectly with millennial cuisine. Boku no Natsuyasumi series, and the result of this is the cozy Shin-chan: Me and the Professor on Summer Vacation – The Endless Seven-Day Journey-.
This game is gorgeous, with hand-drawn landscapes and beautiful anime-style visuals that capture Shin-chan’s style perfectly. It’s as quirky as it is adorable, and given the ridiculous antics you can go for, the chaotic childlike imagination plays incredibly well with the more light-hearted gameplay. It’s like a real summer picnic in the form of a video game.
Read our 8/10 review to find out more about why we love this game.
Publisher: Thunderous / Developer: Laboratories Chuhai
Golf-like no longer means “it looks or feels like gold” – it means playing roguelike golf thanks to Chuhai Labs’ incredible Cursed to Golf game. It might look cute and whimsical, but make no mistake, this is one rough ride with a bunker full of surprises. I bet Zagreus was thinking about using golf to escape the underworld in Hades.
What we like most about this game is how creative it is. With a variety of course designs, ball types, traps and obstacles, endless possibilities await your lifeless golfer. It’s so addictive that we wondered if we even wanted to escape.
If you haven’t started yet, or even if you have, find out why it didn’t scare you in our review.
Publisher: Devolver Digital / Developer: massive monster
We united around the phrase “evil Animal Crossing‘, talking about Massive Monster’s Cult of the Lamb, but the combination of cute creatures, bloodlust and occult worship means, well… be-brilliant (Sorry).
Another brilliant twist on the roguelike genre, part of your time will be spent looting dungeons and slaying evil gods, while the rest of your time will be spent nurturing and caring for your cult so they can help with your stakes. While it looks very cute, it’s actually quite stressful and your sect members can die in a number of ways. We may have laughed several times at the creativity on display here.
Have you already joined the Nintendo Life cult and embraced your evil side? Whether you have one or not, you should read our rave review.
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How do we decide that our online store chooses the top three: As we get closer to the end of each month, Nintendo Life staff members vote on their favorite games from a list of games handpicked by the editors. To be included in this list, these games must be released digitally only on the Nintendo Switch eShop in that particular month and must be verified on Nintendo Life; we choose suitable games based on their ratings in reviews.
Employees are then asked to vote for the three games they think deserve to be ranked first on this list; the first choice gets 3 points, the second choice gets 2 points, and the third choice gets 1 point. Those votes are then counted to make a list of the top three, with the overall winner receiving that month’s top prize.
