Nintendo Life eShop Selects & Readers’ Choice (October 2024)
Here’s our second PS1-inspired horror, and it’s one that we were begging to see on Switch earlier in the year. Inspired by PlayStation classics Resident Evil and Final Fantasy VII (no, you’re not misreading), Crow Country uses blocky polygonal visuals and an angular camera perspective to its advantage. It’s not clunky, and it manages to feel fresh, even amidst the wave of retro horror games coming out.
We scored Crow Country an 8/10, and we loved rifling through this dilapidated theme park.
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Nomada Studio set the bar extremely high with its debut title, GRIS, and with its second game, Neva, Nomada has firmly established itself as one of the best developers out there. Ramping up almost everything from GRIS, Neva pulls on your heartstrings with beautiful visuals, arresting music, and fantastic combat and platforming. It’s slight on words, but always powerful.
Neva can howl proud as our winner of October’s eShop Selects, but if you want to know more about why it topped our vote, check out our 9/10 review.
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eShop Selects Reader’s Choice Vote (October 2024)
October was a crazy-packed month for game releases, and we’re sure some have slipped through the cracks. Note, we’re working on reviews for Clock Tower and the STALKER Trilogy, so we’ve counted those out for now.
Otherwise, if you’re desperate to tell us about a game we’ve missed and deserved to be on top this month, then vote in our poll below and let us know.
Plus, pick your favourite game from our own picks.
How we decide our eShop Selects top three: As we reach the end of every month, the Nintendo Life staff vote on their favourite titles from a list of games selected by the editorial team. To qualify for this list, these games must have been released as a digital-only Nintendo Switch eShop title in that particular month, and must have been reviewed on Nintendo Life; we select the qualifying games based on their review scores.
Staff are then asked to vote for three games that they think deserve to sit right at the very top of that list; first choice gets three points, second choice gets two points, and third choice gets one point. These votes are then tallied to create a top-three list, with the overall winner taking that month’s top prize.