Saturday, May 18

SwitchArcade Round-Up: ‘SaGa Emerald Beyond’, ‘Wrath: Aeon of Ruin’, Plus Today’s Other Releases and Sales

Hi mild readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for April 25th, 2024. In today’s post, we have a huge list of brand-new releases to go through. Some excellent video games, some bad video games, some in between. I’ve summed up all the video games worth summing up, and it wasn’t a little task today. After that, we have a lot of sales to take a look at. Golden Week is beginning here in Japan, which suggests a huge variety of sales, a lot of which have actually dripped through to other areas. That’s the lot for today, however it’s plenty. Let’s dig in!

New Releases SaGa Emerald Beyond ($49.99)

A brand-new Legend video game is upon us! And it’s on practically every platform, too. There’s no warranty any provided Legend video game will be rather like the last, however for its part Emerald Beyond does not look like a wild departure from Scarlet GraceThat’s an advantage in my books, since that video game was exceptional and I anticipate this will remain in the exact same ballpark of quality. I’ll be examining this on one platform or another soon, it’s simply a matter of which. Try to find it quickly, however the brief response is that Legend fans will remain in paradise and those who do not understand or like Legend may have a bumpy ride with it.

Rage: Aeon of Ruin ($29.99)

Get your growing and shooting on in this first-person shooter that does that stylish thing of admiring the 1990s period of the category. 3 centers, fifteen maps, fifteen various opponent types, a lot of cool artifacts to gather, and a soundtrack by Andrew Hulshult of Sunset and Quake Champions popularity. Our buddy Mikhail will be doing an evaluation of this video game, given that he’s been on a major boomer shooter kick of late. If absolutely nothing else, it’s great to see some Quake-motivated video games from time to time.

Another Crab’s Treasure ($29.99)

You understand, I value that somebody is out there making Soulslikes that aren’t simply Grimdark McShadow affairs. In this one, you’re a hermit crab that discovers itself in requirement of fighting animals a lot larger and more powerful than it. Fortunately you can discover all examples to utilize as shells, and each of them will provide their own particular advantages. A fascinating technique to a well-worn category, however we’ll have to see how it plays. I have not had a possibility to go hands-on with it yet, so all I can state it that it looks great and I believe the set-up is smart.

Game Archives Numan Athletics ($7.99)

Ah, now we’re getting to the option cuts of the Bandai Namco brochure. This is 1993’s Numan Athleticsa track-and-field design multi-event sports video games including superhuman professional athletes called Numans. As these button-slapping sports video games go,

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