Nintendo Download: Try Pokémon Before You Buy!

Pokemon: Let’s Go gets a pair of demos this week, along with the launch of Trials Rising and The LEGO Movie 2.

Let’s go!

It’s a bit of a deceptive week for Nintendo fans as far as new games. There really isn’t much, but there are some bigger names regardless. I think that actually might give this new Nintendo Download an air that it really doesn’t have.

Can you count the Pokemon demos as ‘new games’? I honestly don’t know, but they’re here nonetheless. So if you’ve been dying to try out Let’s Go Pikachu or Let’s Go Evee, now’s your chance to do that for free.

After that, there’s Trials Rising. Not that Trials isn’t popular, but it’s kind of niche-y. And I don’t know what kind of audience is left for LEGO games either, but the is here. This one playing off of the sequel hitting movie screens.

See what I mean?

Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch

• Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! / Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! – Demo Version – The demo version of the Pokémon: Let’s Go, Pikachu! and Pokémon: Let’s Go, Eevee! games is available now in Nintendo eShop. Have you visited the vibrant Kanto region on your Nintendo Switch system yet? Then play the free demo version and come see what the excitement is all about! (Note: The content of the demo version differs from the full versions of these games.)

• Trials Rising Standard Edition – Explore over-the-top action and physics-bending motorcycle racing in the latest entry in the Trials franchise. With more than 125 new tracks, the Trials RisingStandard Edition game is easy to pick up and play, yet challenging to master. Test your friendships with the new Tandem mode that allows two players to control one bike, or create and share unique levels in Track Central with more than 8,000 items available. Trials Rising Standard Edition is available Feb. 26.

• The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame – The alien monster invaders have left Bricksburg in ruins and taken Emmet’s friends. It is now up to Emmet and a host of heroic characters to go beyond their world and save their friends from the strange inhabitants of the Systar System. Journey into outer space, discover new worlds and test your Master Building skills. The LEGO Movie 2 Videogame is available Feb. 26.

Nintendo eShop on Nintendo 3DS

• Kirby’s Extra Epic Yarn– Demo Version – One ticked-off sorcerer just banished Kirby, warping the poor puffball to a yarn world in need of saving. The twist? Having a yarn body is epic! Kirby can transform into knitted wonders like tanks and flying saucers. Plus, his new ravel abilities mimic his classic copy abilities, adding something new to every stage of this action-adventure game! Full game available March 8.

Nintendo eShop sales:

• Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo 3DS and Wii U
  • Great deals this week! Check out the full list of deals available this week at http://www.nintendo.com/games/sales-and-deals.

Also new this week:

• Alchemic Dungeons DX (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Almost There: The Platformer (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Aragami: Shadow Edition (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Arcade Archives FRONT LINE (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Awesome Pea – Demo Version (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Car Mechanic Simulator (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Caterpillar Royale (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Daggerhood (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Feb. 22
• Devil Engine (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Dungeon Stars (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• GIGANTIC ARMY (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Hell Warders (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• I wanna fly (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Mindball Play (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• My Arctic Farm 2018 (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Pizza Parking (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Q.U.B.E. 2 (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• Quest for the Golden Duck (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Feb. 22
• Rad Rodgers Radical Edition (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Feb. 26
• Raining Coins (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• RemiLore (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Feb. 26
• Rotating Brave (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• SKYHILL (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Feb. 26
• Surfingers (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• The Golf (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• The Journey Down Trilogy (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• The Lost Light of Sisu (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Feb. 27
• Tyr: Chains of Valhalla (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch) – Available Feb. 22
• Warplanes: WW2 Dogfight (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• X-Morph: Defense (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)
• YUMENIKKI -DREAM DIARY- (Nintendo eShop on Nintendo Switch)