Say goodbye to the 3DS eShop with this two-cent console exclusive

destructoid.com:

The Queen TV-Game 2 starts with the distorted voice of a wistful woman. “I remember when we first met nine years ago. Love Hero was on TV.” Then suddenly, her nostalgia turns to bitterness.

“It got fucking canceled.”

Wait, did this random two-cent 3DS eShop exclusive just say fuck? The 3DS fucks now? And this is how I find out?

It takes a lot of guts to add fucks to an otherwise all-ages eShop title, cursing it with an M-rating and pushing away millions of potential buyers. On one hand, it takes integrity to stick to your guns like that. On the other, it’s totally self-destructive. Genuine, hopeless anger lies at the heart of The Queen TV-Game 2. I guess when the world is about to end — or in this game’s case, when the online storefront you call home is about to be shut down for good — nihilism comes naturally. Now, thanks to this 3DS eShop oddity,you can hear directly from your 3DS about how bad all that really feels.

The Queen TV-Game 2 is actually the second-to-last of a series of four games on Nintendo consoles from Butterfly, an indie dev from Savannah, Georgia.

The first was Daikon Set, a 100% free Wii U eShop game from 2017. That’s another one you should grab before that shop closes down. Next was Love Hero, a $1.oo 3DS eShop game from 2019. Then came The Queen TV-Game 2, released in 2020, nine years after the launch of the 3DS. By that time, everyone knew the system was on its way out, but despite the futility of it all, Butterfly still squeezed out Gal Galaxy Pain in late 2021. It’s a $0.50 3DS eShop game about computer programming, Suda51, and misery.

When taken as a whole, the four games tell a story of a developer who’s sweet and optimistic at the start, then joyless and zombie-like at the end. The Queen