The Nintendo eShop today under the name “Februarfest” launched a large sale with numerous games for Nintendo Switch, including some large exclusive hits. Apparently, Nintendo wants to bring some color and human heat into the cold month, because the focus is above all colorful games and multiplayer titles. In this article we introduce you to ten of the most interesting offers shortly. The overview of all deals of the action, which is still running until the 20th of February, you will find here:
Februarfest in the Nintendo eShop: to the offers for Nintendo Switch
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe
Mario Kart has been a king of the Kartracer for a long time and has successfully defended this title with the eighth part. The race game series still makes a lot of giant fun lies at the creative items, the controls perfected over the decades, and not least at the creative design of the bright colored trails. The Deluxe version for Nintendo Switch offers a huge scope with 42 drivers and 48 distances. In addition to the races, of course, various battles modes such as balloon battle or coin hunters are there again. Most fun Mario Kart 8 makes as usual in the local multiplayer, but there are also online multiplayer and a solar mode. Incidentally, the new Booster route pass was announced yesterday. Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is still supported.
Mario Kart 8 Deluxe instead of 59,99 € for 39,99 € in the Nintendo eShop
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening
The Switch version of The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening is a remake of the classic originally published for Game Boy. The colorful 3D graphics is completely new, but the old top-down perspective and the cute style were maintained. The gameplay has also been preserved in widths, albeit, of course, in modernized form. In the action adventure we fight monsters, solve tricky puzzles and explore dungeons. In addition, we travel as a link stranded on a mysterious island, a varied, open game world with desert, mountain and magic forest. The purchase is worthwhile for newcomers as well as for fans of the original.
The Legend of Zelda: Link’s Awakening instead of 59,99 € for € 39.99 in the Nintendo eShop
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin
A typical monster Hunter is not Monster Hunter Stories 2, because instead of simply putting down huge monsters, we collect the eggs here and pull the hatched monsters big. We then carry them in round-based battles, in which we need to use their special skills smart. By the way, the story that sends us on a journey through a variety of countries revolves around a strange egg, from which a creature could hatch the power to destroy the whole world. In addition to the solo mode, there are also local and online multiplayer. In the Nintendo eShop you will find a free demo that lets you play the beginning of the story campaign. The progress can be transferred to the full version.
Monster Hunter Stories 2: Wings of Ruin instead of 59,99 € for 39,99 € in the Nintendo eShop
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze is a classic action platformer that offers 3D graphics, but still 2D levels. We hop through six colorful and varied island worlds, from the mountain landscape to the Mangrovia jungle, and attach themselves with excellently animated opponents such as hammer-swinging polar bears or huge sharks. Among the greatest strengths of the Jump & Run count the creative leveldesign and the detailed backgrounds. The switch version contains a new, particularly strong playable character with Funky Kong, which can reduce the quite high degree of difficulty. In addition to the single player, there are also local co-op for two players.
Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze instead of 59,99 € for 39,99 € in the Nintendo eShop
Xenoblade Chronicles 2
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is an epic role-playing game with a huge and beautiful game world. We are located in the country Alrest, where people live on the back of huge Titans. As a Rex, we are looking for the birthplace of humanity after the Elysium, which is supposed to be in the middle of the country above the world tree. In the fighting we are supported by artificial life forms called “blades”. The combat system is pretty complex and requires some incorporation, but the longer motivates. In addition, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 convinces with its enormous playful freedom and its impressive scope of around 100 speed hours.
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 instead of 59,99 € for 39,99 € in the Nintendo eShop
Splatoon 2
Unlike other online shooters, Splatoon 2 is not about just shooting enemies. The destination in the switch-exclusive multiplayerhit is to dive the playing field into the color of your own team using the color cannon. We can change between a human-like shape and a square-like shape. The latter allows us to slide at high speed through areas with their own color. In addition to the team struggles, Splatoon 2 offers other modes, for example, the Koop mode Salmon Run, in which we fend together attacking salmon and fight against a hard boss. There is also a Singleplayer campaign comprising 27 levels.
SPLATOON 2 instead of 59,99 € for 39,99 € in the Nintendo eShop
Overcoooked! 2
Overcoooked! 2 is a hectic co-op game where we run a restaurant in the team with up to four players. With management we do not hit each other, instead we have to master the hectic kitchen life together. We can only satisfy our impatient clientele, if we work well and use the tasks, from vegetable cutting over the meat roast to the dish washable. Compared to the first part there are a few innovations. So we can save time by throwing ourselves across ingredients through the room. Also new are the dynamically changing levels. For example, we cook on two side by side on a river booting boats.
Overcoooked! 2 instead of 24,99 € for € 6.24 in the Nintendo eShop
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles is a bundle from the two games The Great Ace Attorney: Adventures and The Great Ace Attorney 2: Resolve, which will make it on the western market for the first time. This time we do not play the Phoenix Wright known from other ACE Attorney games, but his ancestors Ryunosuke, who has to clarify a total of ten murder cases in Japan and London of the late 19th century. The gameplay is divided into sections as usual in sections in which we look for evidence, consult witnesses and draw our conclusions, and the trials in which we make by dramatic word habits that the culprits receive the fair punishment.
The Great Ace Attorney Chronicles instead of 39,99 € for € 29.99 in the Nintendo eShop
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is 75 percent cheaper. A good opportunity to retrieve the first part before this year with Sparks of Hope the successor appears. In Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle, Mario and his friends with UbiSoft’s cute bunny are doing to save the mushroom kingdom together. The heart of the game are the round-based battles, in which we have to combine the individual skills of our heroes to be able to insist. In between, the gameplay is loosened by small puzzles and exploring the pretty, colorful game world where there is a lot of treasures to find.
Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle instead of 39,99 € for 9,99 € in the Nintendo eShop
Octopath Traveler
Octopath Traveler is a classic JRPG with a pretty mix of 3D and pixel graphics. Instead of a single we play here eight different heroes, each of which has its own history of eight chapters. If we have completed a chapter, we can switch to another story. In addition, Octopath Traveler offers a sophisticated, round-based combat system, in which we do not only use special skills, but also need to properly assess the remaining life points of our opponents as they are not displayed. The team behind the creative role play publishes with Triangle Strategy by the way soon the next big tactic RPG.
Octopath Traveler instead of 59,99 € for € 29.99 in the Nintendo eShop