Hiya light readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Spherical-Up for October eleventh, 2023. We’re again round to a different Wednesday, and as ordinary it’s not precisely the busiest day of the week. There are a few critiques at this time. Our pal Mikhail has his overview of tomorrow’s Swap launch of Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious!, and I’m reviewing a little bit sport you may solely purchase from the Japanese eShop referred to as Suika Sport. After that, we now have just a few new releases to take a look at, after which the lists of recent and outgoing gross sales. Let’s go to it!
Opinions & Mini-Views
Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious! ($12.99)
Effectively, it lastly occurred. The unique Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious is now on Swap, and apparently coming to extra consoles sooner or later. Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious is a legendary sport, and one I’ve adored for years as I mentioned in my interview with David from Vertigo Gaming throughout a number of platforms. When Vertigo Gaming began porting video games to consoles, we had the wonderful Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious 2 and 3 hit consoles (however not cell), whereas the unique gave the impression to be left on iOS in its outdated construct whereas additionally being on PC.
When a remaster was introduced, I assumed that is how the workforce would convey the basic to fashionable consoles, however I used to be unsuitable. Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious noticed a shock announcement, and it’s out now on Swap. I’ve beloved this sport from the beginning, however I used to be curious the way it had aged at this time, and likewise the way it in comparison with its PC and cell variations. I’m going to cowl all of that on this overview.
If you happen to’ve by no means heard of this sport collection, the primary Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious has you managing your restaurant throughout its menu and working it whilst you strive and ensure dishes are cooked appropriately, served on time, cope with robbers, clear the bogs, and extra. That is all executed by a mixture of shoulder buttons, face buttons, directional inputs, and analog stick actions. Having skilled this sport largely solely on contact, I used to be glad to see contact controls accessible right here in some kind, however I’ll get to the controls in a bit.
The unique Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious is an easier sport, however a greater one total. It stays my favourite of the primary trilogy, and it has aged very well. The backgrounds, catchy music, timeless sound results and voiced sounds, and extra come collectively to essentially take me again to after I first performed it on cell and PC.
In relation to controls, the controller assist is nice, however the contact controls want work. Proper now, it looks like the contact targets are smaller than they need to be, and you may solely use contact controls to faucet the button prompts as an alternative of the buttons if that is sensible. I hope this may be patched to work just like the cell model. Barring that, there are not any management points.
On the visuals and efficiency facet, Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious seems to be wonderful on Swap, but it surely seems like some character motion is a bit jittery in comparison with different platforms. The colours look wonderful on the OLED display screen, and it has been nice taking part in it on my monitor as effectively.
Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious on Swap is a straightforward suggestion whether or not you’re new to the collection, or inquisitive about its origins as a newcomer. As soon as the contact controls could be improved, this will likely be my favourite model of this basic. I’m glad it lastly bought ported, and hope we get a bodily trilogy launch now. -Mikhail Madnani
SwitchArcade Rating: 4/5
Suika Sport/Watermelon Sport (Japanese eShop Solely, 240 Yen)
Suika Sport! It’s the most recent craze sweeping the nation (of Japan)! It got here out months in the past however for some purpose has gone extremely viral of late, and let it by no means be mentioned that Shaun isn’t on the forefront of digging his arms into viruses. Or one thing. After seeing my favourite Vtuber Inugami Korone play the sport, I made a decision to pop into the Japanese eShop and use among the cash I had saved as much as purchase Suika Sport. It was solely 240 yen, which is lower than two American bucks. So what’s all of it about? How is it?
‘Suika‘ is the Japanese phrase for ‘Watermelon‘, and your purpose within the sport is to attempt to make as many watermelons as you may. You do that by dropping fruit right into a container. When two of the identical fruits contact, they’ll merge into the following greater fruit within the chain. On the finish of all of it awaits the extraordinarily massive watermelon. In case your fruit spills too far out of the highest of the container, the sport is over. Sure, it’s a merging sport. I think about most people studying this web site have performed a minimum of one sport of that kind earlier than.
There are some things that make Suika Sport work in addition to it does. Initially, it’s completely lovable. The fruits have faces, and so they all look tremendous charming. The music is catchy with out being annoying. The physics of the fruit and the best way they transfer and settle can enable for some sudden outcomes, which provides to the joy and hazard of every spherical. The sport retains observe of your finest scores for the day, week, and all-time. There are additionally on-line leaderboards for these three classes, permitting you to see the way you stack up towards others.
That’s actually all there may be to it. Nonetheless, there’s one thing arduous to withstand about Suika Sport. My spouse really requested to borrow my Swap to play it, and he or she has actually by no means had an curiosity in utilizing my Swap earlier than. It’s low cost, it’s enjoyable, it’s not accessible outdoors of Japan, and it’s amusing sufficient to be value studying how one can get round that exact challenge so that you could decide it up. Not too long ago, after I’ve solely bought a little bit time to kill, that is my go-to. I hope they launch it globally so extra individuals can simply take pleasure in it.
SwitchArcade Rating: 4/5
New Releases
RedRaptor ($4.99)
Right here’s one other vertical shooter, one which introduces itself as a throwback to “style classics of the 90s”. My hunch is that it means Raptor: Name of the Shadows, however who can say? It affords up 5 phases to play by means of, and has a persistent improve system. You additionally get on-line leaderboards. Not unhealthy for a fiver, if that is the flavour of shooter you want.
Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG ($14.99)
Effectively, if you happen to can’t make an incredible RPG, a minimum of convey an attention-grabbing gimmick with you. And that’s primarily what we now have right here from BoomBox. The story sees you fixing a thriller at a magic academy the place the language is completely different from your personal. Which language? You get to decide on the goal language from a choice of ten. Simply by taking part in the sport, you’ll be capable of be taught some vocabulary from that language. In all probability not sufficient to have you ever delivering speeches in Portuguese or something, but it surely is perhaps a enjoyable complement to different language studying actions you’re doing.
The Bin Bunch
Supreme Automobile Parking Simulator 2024 ($4.99)
Gross sales
(North American eShop, US Costs)
A really tiny checklist for at this time’s inbox, it appears. I don’t have lots to say about something on there, although if you happen to like Sonic-ish platformers that Retro Rollers Bundle is nifty for a fiver. The outbox is extra attention-grabbing. I can’t stress sufficient that almost all Arcade Archives titles solely get one sale of their complete lifetime, so if you need any of the video games in there you’ll most likely by no means have one other likelihood to get them this low cost. There isn’t the rest in there that I’m going to shout about, however do take a look at each lists fastidiously.
Choose New Video games on Sale
The Companion ($1.99 from $19.99 till 10/18)
Dordogne ($13.99 from $19.99 till 10/20)
Name of Cthulhu ($7.99 from $19.99 till 10/20)
A Plague Story: Innocence – Cloud Vers. ($15.99 from $39.99 till 10/20)
A Plague Story: Requiem – Cloud Vers. ($32.99 from $59.99 till 10/20)
Vampyr ($9.99 from $39.99 till 10/20)
Othercide ($11.99 from $29.99 till 10/20)
Darkish Quest 3 ($5.69 from $18.99 till 10/30)
Retro Rollers Bundle ($4.99 from $9.99 till 10/30)
Gross sales Ending Tomorrow, Thursday, October twelfth
ACA NEOGEO Magician Lord ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Steel Slug 5 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Over High ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Energy Spikes II ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Pulstar ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Puzzle Bobble 2 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Sengoku 2 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Stakes Winner 2 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters 2003 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO World Heroes ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Chack’n Pop ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Champion Wrestler ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Darius ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Elevator Motion ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Combating Hawk ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Flipull ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Halley’s Comet ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Kurikinton ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives QIX ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Raimais ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Military of Wreck ($7.19 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Baseball Membership ($3.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)
Blackberry Honey ($3.89 from $12.99 till 10/12)
Blasphemous 2 ($23.99 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Bramble: The Mountain King ($20.09 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Caffeine: Victoria’s Legacy ($8.99 from $17.99 till 10/12)
Fortress on the Coast ($2.99 from $14.99 till 10/12)
Catmaze ($4.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)
Dariusburst CS Core + Taito/SEGA Pack ($17.99 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Ducky’s Supply Service ($7.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)
Effie ($3.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
Farm Slider ($3.49 from $4.99 till 10/12)
Components Bit Racing DX ($1.99 from $4.99 till 10/12)
Backyard In! ($5.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)
Intrepid Izzy ($6.59 from $10.99 till 10/12)
Islanders ($2.24 from $4.99 till 10/12)
LogiKing ($10.49 from $14.99 till 10/12)
No One Lives Underneath the Lighthouse ($9.59 from $11.99 till 10/12)
Parasite Pack ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
PHOGS! ($11.24 from $24.99 till 10/12)
Rubberduck Wave Racer ($15.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
Ruku’s Coronary heart Balloon ($7.69 from $10.99 till 10/12)
Severe Sam Assortment ($10.49 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Keep Out of the Home ($14.39 from $17.99 till 10/12)
Stray Cat Doors2 ($3.99 from $7.20 till 10/12)
Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of the Wolf ($7.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
The Diabolical Trilogy ($4.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
The Sport of Life 2 ($8.99 from $29.99 till 10/12)
The Final Hero of Nostalgia ($18.74 from $24.99 till 10/12)
The Final Hero of Nostalgia DE ($22.49 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Ziggurat ($2.99 from $14.99 till 10/12)
Ziggurat 2 ($17.49 from $24.99 till 10/12)
That’s all for at this time, mates. We’ll be again tomorrow with the massive Thursday checklist of recent releases. It’s wanting like a decent-sized batch of about twenty video games, and we’ll have summaries of all of the video games that deserve them. There may even be the standard lists of gross sales, and if any huge information rolls in we’ll hit on that as effectively. I hope you all have a beautiful Wednesday, and as at all times, thanks for studying!
