The sad thing is that I'm just so starved for something new on my 3ds, that I may end up coughing up the $2. $2 is not a huge sum of money.

Everybody's gotten spoiled by free demos. It didn't used to work that way. Anybody remember buying the first episode of Doom, Quake, or Wofenstein 3d for $15 and having to pay full price later to unlock the whole game? This is an old business model for the games industry. At least $2 is a lot cheaper than $15.