SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘Azure Striker Gunvolt 3’, ‘Strange Horticulture’, Plus Today’s Other Releases and Sales
Hello mild readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for July twenty eighth, 2022. It’s mighty Thursday today, and we’ve obtained a big-pants list of new games so that you just can check out. A few really attention-grabbing ones, a few really unhealthy ones, and a complete lot of in-between. We’ve got summaries of all of them, as all the time. After that, it’s time for the ever-present lists of recent and expiring gross sales. Let’s get into the mix!
New Releases
Azure Striker Gunvolt three ($29.99)
After six lengthy years and a few spin-offs, Azure Striker Gunvolt is back with a third game. Gunvolt and newcomer Kirin blaze into this adventure, and the truth that it’s designed for the Switch instead of the Nintendo 3DS means you possibly can sit up for some juiced-up motion in more ways than one. Despite the new hardware, followers of the earlier Gunvolt video games will find this recreation suits like a comfortable pair of sneakers.
Koumajou Remilia: Scarlet Symphony ($29.99)
It’s another Touhou Project sport, this time biting off of the Castlevania sequence, particularly Symphony of the Night. That doesn’t imply it isn’t loaded up with the similar old Touhou bullet hell nonsense, though. The bosses can get fairly wild. It’s a really, very tough game. But it performs nicely and the presentation is most agreeable to this old vampire-slaying fan. I’ll have a evaluation of this one as quickly as I can drag my apparently weaksauce butt through the the rest of it.
Arcade Archives Roller Jammer ($7.99)
We’re heading again into the weeds for this one, folks. There are some fairly huge games coming quickly in the Arcade Archives line this summer time, however there will at all times be gaps within the schedule and that is where the Nichibutsu catalog comes in. This is a 1984 behind-the-back racer that distinguishes itself by swapping vehicles for curler skaters. You can and will beat up the opposite racers on the street, making this a bizarre forerunner of kinds to the likes of Road Rash. If you’re uninterested in the same old stuff within the Arcade Archives line, that is actually not that.
Strange Horticulture ($14.99)
Here’s a neat one. You play as the proprietor of a local plant store in a slightly offbeat town surrounded by mountains and forests. A strange town naturally has strange residents, and many of them are going to stop by your shop. You want to search out and establish vegetation and use them to influence the story, and it’s quite a story. It might sound like an adventure sport, however it’s really more of a puzzle recreation. Kind of a thriller game, too? There’s really nothing else out there quite prefer it. If that’s what you’re after right now, it will serve you properly.
Japanese Escape Games The Hospital ($9.99)
Yes, we’re escaping rooms again. This time it’s in a spooky hospital. I’m sure everyone studying this knows where they stand on this kind of game, and this type of theme. This particular one doesn’t go very far exterior the lines, but it does its job. The relaxation is as a lot as you.
Captain Velvet Meteor: The Jump+ Dimensions ($24.99)
This could presumably be awesome, or it might be not-so-awesome. It’s a tactical RPG starring a kid with a wild imagination who daydreams about being a superhero. As he’s a kid, he also daydreams about a few of his favorite comic characters becoming a member of him on his adventures. Loid Forger from Spy X Family (c’mon, no Yor or Anya?), Slime from Slime Life (he’s such a great boy), Hibino Kafka from Kaiju No. 8, and more characters visitor star in this game. I haven’t had a chance to play this but, so I really don’t know if the reality lives up to the admittedly promising premise.
Strikers 1945 III ($9.99)
It seems that City Connection is lastly swinging again around and individually releasing the remaining titles from the Psikyo Shooting Stars collections that didn’t make it to the North American eShop before. Here’s Strikers 1945 III, a stable vertical shoot-em-up with a well timed fighter jet theme. Features the entire similar choices as other Psikyo particular person releases, and the entire similar iffy enter lag too. Yay! Unless you solely want this sport particularly, I’d recommend shopping for the Psikyo Shooting Stars collection over this separate launch. It’s a far better value.
Samurai Aces III: Sengoku Cannon ($9.99)
And right here is the opposite Psikyo game that hadn’t had a person launch. It’s a horizontal shooter, and it’s one I’ve never actually gotten on with very nicely. It’s price noting these releases hit the Japanese eShop literal years in the past, and the function set in them feels very “early Switch period”, if meaning anything to you. Unfortunately, the poor input lag right here isn’t any different from the Psikyo Shooting Stars sets. As mentioned with Strikers, if you want these video games you’re far better off shopping for the units for thirty dollars than one launch for ten unless you actually only need this one.
Yuoni ($15.99)
The Switch has already seen a visual novel spin-off of this, but here’s the primary recreation. It’s a horror sport with a robust Japanese vibe to it where you play as a ten-year-old woman who has to play a deadly sport with some otherworldly creatures. Each day sees you exploring to discover a doll, which you’ll then should bring back to the start as all manner of dangerous forces nip at your tail. You don’t have any technique of defending yourself, so you’ll should depend on stealth and fast moves to stay alive. The ambiance is finished well sufficient, but critiques haven’t been kind to this recreation on different platforms and I doubt that will change here.
Supaplex Think! ($9.99)
Yes, it’s more Supaplex. I suspect it is not going to be the final. You get sixty extra stages here, this time with a focus on difficult puzzles that you’ll actually have to make use of your head to unravel. It’s not like it’s unhealthy or anything, as long as you aren’t exhausted with the idea yet. I feel this may be beginning to push it for lots of people, though.
Puzzletronics: Digital Infinite ($3.99)
Puzzletronics is back, and it’s more or less the identical as earlier than. Move the pieces to make the logic circuits work. Soothing stuff, if your mind is wired right for it. You get a hundred thirty five new ranges to play, so if you didn’t get your fill with the primary one you’ll be all set for some time with this.
LootLite ($4.99)
This appears like about as generic a top-down roguelite hack-and-slash as you will get. But for five dollars, which may be sufficient. You have seven different characters, most of whom will need to be unlocked, and a good bit of loot in the type of weapons and runes. One good function is the native co-op multiplayer, which allows you to pull a buddy in for some mindless action.
Lord Winklebottom Investigates ($18.99)
An adventure recreation set within the Twenties featuring a gentleman giraffe detective and his useful hippo sidekick, Lord Winklebottom Investigates is a decent instance of the style that’s elevated by its absurd sense of humor. Search for clues, talk to strange characters, seize the killer, and find out the darkish secrets and techniques behind it all. The giraffe is smoking a pipe, and if that doesn’t a minimum of advantage some curiosity I don’t know what does.
Romeow: To the Cracked Mars ($2.99)
And here’s a follow-up to Romeow: In the Cracked World. Like the first sport, every stage takes the type of one space broken up into items and shuffled round. Your aim is to collect whatever gadgets you have to and attain the goal. There are forty ranges, and whereas they do become more difficult as they go, it’s a fairly low strain experience on the whole. Maybe that is what you’re after today?
Counter Recon 2: The New War ($14.99)
You know, I almost wish Activision would put out some kind of Call of Duty or one other in order that Switch house owners on the lookout for that sort of factor didn’t have to resort to this sort of shoddy expertise. This first-person shooter has a few totally different modes to play and the similar old level-up treadmill that’s seen in many of writer TROOOZE’s games. I wouldn’t purchase it, but I’m not the sheriff of your purse-strings.
City Super Hero 3D – Flying Legend Warriors Deluxe Simulator ($9.99)
Another pile of crap from INSTAMARKETINGANDGAME, which is a publisher name that should have any reasonable individual suspicious from the get-go. Handheld solely, because it is a low-effort mobile recreation flip and the writer lacks the skill or drive to add button controls. Get within the trash together with your trash writer, trash game.
Sales
(North American eShop, US Prices)
A short list of new sales, however there are definitely some video games we don’t see often in there. Are they any good? I don’t know. Super Zangyura seems a bit enjoyable, I suppose. Jade Order is an effective pick for a pair bucks. Pretty a lot the entire numerous configurations of Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid and its DLC are discounted right now as nicely. In the outbox, there’s the Alwa’s games, Cathedral, and a bunch of Resident Evil games amongst others. We’ll probably see a a lot larger list tomorrow, so don’t blow all of your money today.
Select New Games on Sale
Date Night Bowling ($6.99 from $9.ninety nine till 8/8)
Fire Tonight ($4.19 from $5.99 until 8/8)
Land of Screens ($4.19 from $5.ninety nine until 8/8)
SpongeBob Krusty Cook-Off ($4.ninety four from $14.ninety nine till 8/8)
Power Rangers: BftG ($10.99 from $19.99 until 8/11)
Power Rangers: BftG CE ($16.49 from $29.99 until 8/11)
Power Rangers: BtfG SE ($27.forty nine from $49.99 till 8/11)
Super Zangyura ($15.99 from $19.ninety nine till 8/15)
Vazial Saga XX ($22.10 from $34.00 until 8/15)
ZombieVital DG ($7.15 from $14.30 till 8/15)
Flying Girl Striker ($7.50 from $15.00 until 8/15)
Magic Scroll Tactics ($5.99 from $11.99 until 8/15)
The Adventure of Ravi ‘n’ Navi ($12.00 from $15.00 till 8/15)
VasterClaws 3: DSotGW ($19.50 from $30.00 until 8/15)
Jade Order ($2.09 from $6.ninety nine till 8/17)
Dying Light: Definitive Edition ($29.ninety nine from $49.ninety nine until 8/17)
In Rays of the Light ($4.79 from $7.ninety nine until 8/17)
Pantsu Hunter: Back to the 90s ($7.seventy nine from $12.ninety nine till 8/17)
Music Racer ($4.19 from $6.ninety nine till 8/17)
Summertime Madness ($8.ninety nine from $14.ninety nine until 8/17)
35MM ($5.ninety nine from $9.ninety nine till 8/17)
Sales Ending Tomorrow, Friday, July 29th
Adios ($9.89 from $17.ninety nine until 7/29)
Airport Simulator Day & Night ($10.forty nine from $34.ninety nine until 7/29)
Alwa’s Awakening ($4.ninety nine from $9.99 until 7/29)
Alwa’s Legacy ($8.ninety nine from $17.ninety nine until 7/29)
Battle Princess Madelyn ($3.99 from $19.99 till 7/29)
Battle Princess Madelyn Royal ($2.99 from $14.99 till 7/29)
Behind the Frame: Finest Scenery ($11.sixty nine from $12.99 until 7/29)
Cake Invaders ($3.59 from $5.99 till 7/29)
Camper Van Simulator ($5.19 from $12.ninety nine until 7/29)
Cathedral ($7.forty nine from $14.ninety nine till 7/29)
Cook, Serve, Delicious 2 ($2.00 from $12.99 till 7/29)
Cook, Serve, Delicious 3 ($7.ninety nine from $19.ninety nine till 7/29)
Devastator ($4.89 from $6.ninety nine until 7/29)
Dungeon of the Endless ($3.99 from $19.99 till 7/29)
Elves Fantasy Hentai Puzzle ($2.39 from $2.99 till 7/29)
Empire of Angels IV ($9.ninety nine from $19.ninety nine until 7/29)
For The Warp ($12.59 from $17.ninety nine till 7/29)
In The Mood ($3.ninety nine from $4.99 till 7/29)
Inferno 2 ($1.99 from $4.99 until 7/29)
Luckslinger ($2.99 from $9.ninety nine until 7/29)
Metro Simulator ($5.99 …