Nintendo eShop Highlights December 22nd, 2022, until January 1st, 2023

Nintendo eShop Highlights December 22nd, 2022, until January 1st, 2023

• Highlights include: Sports Story (release), Picross X: Picbits vs. Uzboross (release), The Captain

Sports Story (Sidebar Games)

Sports Story is a sports RPG like no other. Featuring a mix of sports and sporting activities wrapped up in one big story. With a multitude of characters to meet, you will make plenty of friends and enemies along the way. Sports Story isn’t just about sports, it’s an all-out sporting adventure.

• Play and master multiple unique golf courses. Rise through the ranks as a tennis student. Your sporting destiny is in your own hands.

• Travel by train, helicopter and houseboat as you explore dungeons, abandoned ruins and the mysterious Wildlands.

• Raise your Sporting Rank to unlock new and varied activities like BMX, mini-golf, cricket, volleyball, fishing and more.

• Kick back at the mall with its daily attractions, specialty sports stores and mini games.

Picross X: Picbits vs. Uzboross (Jupiter)

Solve puzzles as they come at you non-stop and survive to the end! This Picross focuses on 5x5 high-speed puzzles! Enjoy a thrilling, stylish new kind of Picross! Local and online multiplayer are also supported! Defeat Uzboross with friends or strangers! Change the game screen, or characters' outfits however you like! If you have play data from the Picross S series or Working Zombies, you can get special skins by linking your data!

The Captain (Sysiac Games)

You are Captain Thomas Welmu, a Spacefleet science officer, lost on the other side of the galaxy. Dark forces are en route to Earth to destroy our planet—and you are carrying the only thing that can stop them. Race back home across the galaxy. Collect new friends on your journey. Make new enemies. You won't be able to save everyone. Who will you leave behind? Which civilizations will you save—or destroy—along the way? The decisions are all up to you.

The Punchuin (Shin’en Multimedia)

You are on a quest to solve the mystery of the treasure of Punch Mountain. Punch your way down, collect money and diamonds, improve your punching skills and make some new friends along the way.

• Explore the depths of Punch Mountain

• Play alone or against a friend

• Upgrade items from the Punch Shop

• Unlock branching paths to new levels

• Interact with NPCs that will help you to get the treasure

• High quality CRT emulation to customize your pixels look—awesome soundtrack!

Sail Forth (The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild)

Explore the Deepblue!

• Put the wind to your back and cast out into High Adventure over a vast ocean spanning dozens of eccentric regions.

• Discover countless isles bursting with their own flora, fauna, friendly folk, and fearsome foes.

• Playfully pursue a pod of curious dolphins, admire the beauty of the sun sinking into an icy horizon, or run down a clutch of cowardly criminals only to accept their apologies to the tune of wild cannonry.

Command a Sailing Fleet!

• Build and manage a custom cadre of specialized vessels to match any personality and play style.

• Buy, equip, upgrade, and modify your ships’ armaments to face off against the toughest privateers this side of the Eclipside.

• Crack open giant clams and loot lonely shipwrecks to fill your fleet’s treasure hoard and keep your crew in shipshape.

Sonority (Ashgames)

In Sonority the players explore a lost world in which music is magic and with whose help you can progress through the game. The puzzles are solved by the correct arrangement of notes. The solution is deduced acoustically or using symbols. No previous musical knowledge necessary.

The player takes on the role of young Esther, who sets out on a journey to help a friend. Equipped with her pan flute, she reaches the mysterious rockery. But soon her path is blocked and she must use the power of music to overcome the obstacles. Not always an easy task. In a world lapsed into silence, Esther rediscovers lost songs and mossy works of art. Naturally aided by singing stones and a talking raccoon. Yet there seems to be no trace of the legendary preceptors of music.

Hyper Gunsport (Necrosoft Games)

Hyper Gunsport is cyberpunk volleyball with guns—it's all about that hot arcade action! You can play 2v2 or 1v1, with a co-op and single player circuit mode as well. Each of the 7 teams has a light story, unique weapons, and a stage with its own gimmick. As you progress, new rulesets change the game, and there's an unlockable AI mode as well. This is a hardcore action game, but we are hardcore about our accessibility options too, ensuring the game is playable by anyone. Hyper Gunsport is arcade action with fighting game vibes, a pulsing soundtrack, a unique cast of characters, and unlockables to discover. As a unique feature to Nintendo Switch, you can play with four individual Joy-Con on one screen. This is Future Millennium Sporting Action!

Melatonin (Half Asleep)

Melatonin is a rhythm game about dreams and reality merging together. Harmonize through a variety of dreamy levels containing surprising challenges, hand-drawn art, and vibrant music without any intimidating overlays or interfaces. Melatonin explores the relationship between the dreams we have when we’re asleep and the experiences we go through when we’re awake, through unique rhythm game levels. Hand-drawn in a colorful and detailed visual style, with music produced to flow hand-in-hand with the gameplay and visuals, you will piece together elements about the main character’s life as you dive deeper and deeper into their dreams at night.

New Demo Releases

• Sonic Frontiers Demo (Sega)

• Picross X: Picbits vs. Uzboross Demo (Jupiter)

• Tinykin Demo 2.0 (Tiny Build Games)

• Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

• Disney Dreamlight Valley

• Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy

• Sonic Mania

• Super Mario Party

• Ori and the Will of the Wisps

• The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening

• Kirby’s Dream Buffet

• Sid Meier’s Civilization VI

• Persona 5 Royal

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