Two for WiiWare, one for DSiWare

By Robert Purchese Published 19 June, 2009

Icarian! Let's Catch! Brain Training!

Nintendo is offering two new WiiWare games and one new DSiWare game today.

Let's Catch, the Yuji Naka Wii accompaniment to Let's Tap, we know a bit about. It's based on the game of catch, but twists the formula to fit various mini-games. Pictures and videos on the Let's Tap WiiWare site help explain.

Icarian: Kindred Spirits is the other WiiWare title. This follows Nyx, a lovely winged girl who is trying to find Icarus. She'll fly, aim and shoot through Ancient Greece-themed platform levels, getting by with a little help from the Gods - whose powers can be unleashed by shaking the Wiimote, which you can also enlist a friend to do for you. Find out more on the Icarian: Kindred Spirits site.

Both Let's Catch and Icarian: Kindred Spirits cost 1000 Nintendo Points, which is roughly GBP 7 or EUR 10. Points bought online and points bought on cards in shops differ slightly in price.

The DSiWare game is the catchily named A Little Bit of... Dr Kawashima's Brain Training: Maths Edition. It's largely a reproduction of Brain Training's maths game, although there are new features added and some extra problems to solve. At 800 Nintendo Points (around GBP 6 / EUR 8) the price may be a little high, however.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • Jez360 #1 3 years ago

    When are we getting Minis March Again? I don't understand why Nintendo has such separate release windows for their downloadable games. Microsoft and Sony (mostly) have it right but Nintendo seem to pick randomly when to release games in certain regions.

  • toythatkills #2 3 years ago

    Brain Training is excellent and well worth 800 points. It's just the maths games (ie. the most fun ones) from Normal Brain Training with some new games added, and is constantly on the DSi so you can do it daily without the fuss of swapping carts. Sudoku aside there's easily as much content as in the £20 game.

  • Les #3 3 years ago

    US store has been much better recently with Minis March Again and that Flip Champs game. Glad I imported. ;)

    /edit: Flip Champs of course, instead of Flip Masters :)
    Edited by 1 at 19/06/09 @ 11:27

  • toythatkills #4 3 years ago

    Yeah, Mighty Flip Champs is the best game on DSiWare right now

  • CallousB #5 3 years ago

    Icarian looks good ..although I'll wait for a review.

  • Cadence #6 3 years ago

    Icarian looks ace, a bit like Lostwinds perhaps.

  • brof #7 3 years ago

    need a review fo Icarian... I don't trust the devs...

  • CaptianScarlet #8 3 years ago

    So, anyone have any idea why Nintendo have bother with DSiware?

    This is a totally dropped ball as far as I can see. Something that could have had the potential to be something like the Apple iphone apps store is just a curiosity with a few mediocre titles on offer. It was the thing I was most excited about when I got my DSi but it's just been a waste of time. It has so much potential too.

  • toythatkills #9 3 years ago

    If you thought DSiWare was going to be good after seeing how they've treated Virtual Console and WiiWare then you're living in mentalsville.

  • thiswaynow #10 3 years ago

    DSIWare: I've been enjoying the racing game a lot, Asphalt 4...

    also decent review here: [link url=http://dsiware.nintendolife.com/re views/2009/06/asphalt_4_elite_racing_dsiware
    ]http://ds iware.nintendolife.com/reviews/...[/link]

  • YenRug #11 3 years ago

    I downloaded Icarian over the weekend, played it for about an hour, or so. Interesting little platformer combining pointer based puzzles; quite early on you gain the ability to manouver certain marked objects, they then start combining this with tracking/moving them whilst manipulating the main character, Nyx, at the same time. If you can do the whole patting the head whilst rubbing your stomach thing with ease, you won't have much trouble; if you're crap at doing that, well...