Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 7th, 2024. It’s a surprisingly slow day today outside of a bit of news from Nintendo’s president saying that the company will talk about Switch’s successor sometime this fiscal year, but not at the June Nintendo Direct. I do have one review for you to look at, and there are a couple of Bin Bunch new releases as well. Sales? We’ve got a few of them. Lists of new and expiring ones are here as ever. Let’s get to business!
Reviews & Mini-Views
Cyber Citizen Shockman 3: The Princess From Another World ($5.99)
We’ve finally hit the last of the PC Engine Shockman games with this release from Ratalaika, which means we are a mere single Super Famicom release away from having the entire series available on Switch. Is that a good thing? Sure, I suppose so. Up until these Ratalaika releases the only entry in this series to be localized for the West was the second game, which seemed to have been reasonably well-liked by TurboGrafx-16 fans but didn’t do a whole lot for me personally. The first game wasn’t all that hot either. This third game certainly had some of that forbidden import fruit vibes around it back in the day, pumped up by it being a CD-ROM game and having some really good-looking visuals in screenshots.
So is Shockman 3 the one that finally breaks the pattern of mediocrity? I wish I could say yes, but you’ll have to settle for it being as close as we’ve seen so far. Just as Shockman 2 was a dramatic departure mechanically from the first game, so too is Shockman 3 different from them both. While it’s still a side-scrolling action platformer, the emphasis this time is definitely on the action. It’s also simplified considerably from the second game, playing out more like a Valis game than anything else. Some light platforming and a whole lot of sword-swinging, with the occasional set piece to break things up.
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