Our picks for the best eShop games in April.
It’s that time — welcome back to our monthly eShop Selects feature! This time, we’re covering April — somehow, we’re already in May.
As mentioned last month, we’ve made another change to the piece. Now you’ll be voting for your favourite hidden gem for the current month within this piece, rather than separately. Phew. So much change!
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I need to take all the opportunities to write about Fall Guys that I can get, given how much time I spend playing it with my son. This is a pretty good opportunity, too: a set of Star Wars skins are coming to the bean battle royale, as announced yesterday on May 4th, and they coincide with some major changes to Fall Guys’ platforming physics.
Vincent van Goomba.
Hey folks, and welcome back to another edition of Box Art Brawl!
We had a veritable doozy last week when we checked out Pokémon Yellow Version for the humble Game Boy; truly one of the standout titles in the gargantuan franchise.
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Spooky surprise.
Next month, Nintendo is reviving the 3DS title Luigi’s Mansion 2 on the Nintendo Switch. In the lead up to Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD, it’s now uploaded a new trailer for the game titled ‘Rude Awakening’.
In this “visually enhanced” adventure for the Siwtch, Professor E.Gadd calls on Luigi after the Dark Moon is shattered:
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“A galaxy of savings”.
As part of this year’s Star Wars Day celebrations, there’s currently a sale taking place on the Switch eShop in select regions. So if you’re looking for a Star Wars game to play this weekend, here’s a list of games you can currently grab on sale:
“You can score a discount on several Star Wars games right now! We hope you enjoy your adventures in a galaxy far, far away!”
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The UK government has responded to a petition asking for “government intervention” to force the industry to keep video games “in a reasonably working state when support ends”, rather than allowing them to become unplayable such as when online servers are shut down. The petition was prompted by the closure in March of ten-year-old Ubisoft racing game The Crew.
Earlier this week, Helldivers 2 players on PC were told that they’d soon need to link their Steam account to a PlayStation Network (PSN) account. Two days later and the game has received 100,000 new negative reviews on Steam.
What’s more, developers at Arrowhead have made several statements to say that they’re on the players’ side.
May 4th is here, which means it is officially Star Wars Day! To celebrate, all kinds of Star Wars games, toys, and products are available on sale today! The best deals for Saturday, May 4, include Star Wars Outlaws, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Nintendo Switch OLED, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, and more.
To celebrate Star Wars Day, Best Buy is offering a $15 gift card with the pre-order of Star Wars Outlaws. This applies to all versions of the game across platforms. The game is set to release on August 30, so be sure to get your pre-order in now for a free gift card!
What better way to celebrate Star Wars Day than to pick up Star Wars Jedi: Survivor at a discount? Right now, Amazon has the title available for just $25, which is the lowest we’ve seen it so far. Set after the events of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, Cal Kestis has become a powerful Jedi, traveling through the galaxy to maintain peace. With new force abilities, lightsabers, and melee combat options, Survivor is an excellent sequel and a title any Star Wars fan should try out.
Woot currently has the White Joy-Con Nintendo Switch OLED Model for $314.99. If you’ve yet to pick up a Switch console, the OLED Model is the one you should aim to buy. With a gorgeous OLED screen, games on Switch pop and look vibrant. Additionally, the new reworked kickstand makes this device much easier to play in tabletop mode.
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga recreates all nine films into one incredible LEGO experience! Hundreds of characters are playable, with massive planets to explore and complete quests across. If you were a fan of the Complete Saga game, the Skywalker Saga makes everything grander.
If you enjoy cosplaying or even buying replicas for your home, Amazon has an amazing deal on the Star Wars The Black Series Axe Woves helmet. Modeled after its appearance on The Mandalorian, this helmet features an illuminated heads-up display, an adjustable headband, and plenty more.
Walmart has The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Complete Edition for $20 right now. This title is the expanded and ultimate version of the massive RPG, with improved visuals, load times, and textures for Xbox Series X. The game even includes items inspired by the hit Netflix series, so you can experience the ultimate version of this beloved title.
For Star Wars Day, this LEGO Star Wars The Child set is on sale! The Child, known as Grogu, is a prominent character in The Mandalorian series. Joined by Din Djarin, the two set out across many missions throughout the galaxy. This LEGO set even includes a tiny minifigure of Grogu!
Every SaGa game, ranked by you.
Square Enix has a plethora of RPG series under its belt, but of all of them, SaGa is certainly its most experimental, unique, and the hardest to crack into.
Starting life on the Game Boy, and initially marketed as a Final Fantasy spin-off in the West, the SaGa series is known for ditching traditional levelling mechanics and storytelling for something a bit more open. While earlier games have you selecting characters and classes as blank-slates, later entries had a set cast with their own individual storylines.
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It’s Star Wars Day, everyone! In honor of May the 4th, this most auspicious day, let’s take some time to celebrate and honor one of the galaxy’s greatest heroes: no, not Luke, not Leia, not Rey or any of them. I’m talking about Lugubrious Mote.
You know, the flea that saved Luke’s butt from Jabba the Hut? That flea??? Come on.
This comes from 2020’s The Legends of Luke Skywalker: The Manga, and more specifically, the chapter titled The Tale of Lugubrious Mote. The story follows Luke and Leia’s rescue of a carbonite-frozen Han Solo from Jabba the Hutt on Tatooine, but presents a strange twist on what we know from Return of the Jedi. It introduces Lugubrious Mote, a mole-flea living on the back of Salacious B. Crumb, Jabba’s palace clown. Mote is intrigued initially by Luke’s recorded message to Jabba played by R2, and later by the appearance of Leia when she’s captured by Jabba.
(You can see the lil guy in the photo below – excuse the Android photo.)
Late at night, Mote makes herself known to Leia, and the two form a fast friendship. They stay up all night chatting, during which time Leia encourages Mote to put her faith in Luke. The next day, when Luke shows up to negotiate with Jabba in person, Mote is impressed with his heart, if not his overconfidence. She follows him down into the rancor pit, where Pateesa emerges.
In the film, this is the bit where Luke grabs a bone, shoves it in Pateesa’s mouth, and runs around a bit before shutting a closing gate on Pateesa’s neck, killing it. That’s still how the story plays out, but in The Tale of Lugubrious Mote, we learn this wasn’t Luke’s genius idea. Mote whispers to Luke as he runs around in a panic, and Luke hilariously mistakes the mole-flea for a Jedi Spirit guiding him. Mote steers him, Ratatouille-style, by nibbling on his head, letting Luke think the itchy scalp he has from a literal flea is Force tingles, and Mote’s instructions are just a Jedi Ghost. Every brilliant idea Luke has in that scene – every dodge, every clever use of a bone – is fed to him by Lugubrious Mote.
Ultimately, Mote feels fulfilled by the encounter, as she’s inspired by Luke’s hope, optimism, and confidence. But at the end, she asks Leia not to tell Luke about her, preferring to allow Luke to think he tapped into the Force during his encounter with Jabba and Pateesa. It’s not like Luke hasn’t used the Force before this point or anything, so it’s a little weird he doesn’t recognize the difference – but sure, whatever. In the end, Mote joins the circus, despite Leia’s seeming promise of an advisory position in her government nestled safely in Chewbacca’s fur.
Side stories like that of Lugubrious Mote are meant to be more fun than serious. The Star Wars universe is full of fun little tales about goofy characters doing silly things that often intersect in unusual ways with the main heroes of the films. It’s a big galaxy, after all – big enough for Jizz music, IG-88, the Max Rebo Band, and whatever Glup Shitto is.
Happy May the 4th, everyone! Justice for Lugubrious Mote!
Rebekah Valentine is a senior reporter for IGN. Got a story tip? Send it to rvalentine@ign.com.
