SwitchArcade Summary: Reviews covering the ‘Rose & Camellia Collection’, plus today’s new releases and sales

Hello, dear readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Roundup for April 22, 2024. It’s a new week, and in step with the new week, I even have some reviews for you to envision out. Everything from you actually today, as I have a look at , and . Will any of them impress me? I assume you will have to read on to seek out out. We then review the day’s new items as they can be found and then finish with a listing of new and expiring sales for the day. Let’s get this show began!

Reviews and mini-views

Rose and Camellia Collection ($19.99)

What can you actually do with lots of the popular Flash games of the past? Most are designed for quick fixes and short bursts of creative expression that could be played from start to complete during your coffee break. Some might say that even an A is simply too high for lots of them, but they’re undeniably a vital a part of gaming history. How can we keep these games accessible with Flash in the rearview mirror? WayForward challenges this with a game that takes the popular Flash series from creator NIGORO and presents it with as much sparkle as possible. Enough?

The basic tone is mixed with high society Victorian melodrama. Here you get five different games, each of which involves fighting several opponents until the end. You hit your opponent, he responds, you are attempting to dodge at the right moment and counterattack. The loser is the one whose life bar runs out first. There’s somewhat more of it, but not far more. Pay attention to the hints and get out of the way. This could be done using motion control in docked mode or by swiping on the touchscreen in handheld mode. The former works quite well, the latter reasonably not. In each cases, it isn’t possible to regulate only with buttons. Just play with the motion controls, that is the best method to enjoy it. You must deal along with your own cheeks, and if nobody is watching, you could even act like a conceited high society lady.

I like this quirky idea, and with voice acting, a flowery opening, and loads of cutscenes, this collection highlights the charm of this quirky setting. The biggest problem, nonetheless, comes from its very nature. Each game/episode only takes a couple of minutes to finish, and none of the fights even reach the complexity of the second or third battles in the games. You can rinse your entire collection in under an hour, and most of your time is spent watching scenes unfold. There is multiplayer here and it’s good for a couple of extra laughs, but that is all. Add to this the indisputable fact that in manual mode it is just unbearable, and the negatives begin to weigh heavily on the positives.

Keeping the legacy of Flash games alive is very important, and in that sense I’m glad it exists. However, its small nature and clunky controls make it difficult to recommend with much enthusiasm, despite its charming presentation. Apart from adding a couple of standard controls, I can not imagine anyone making a greater collection than this one, so in the event you’ve ever enjoyed this series in your computer, definitely pick it up. Otherwise, I’m undecided there’s enough here to chew on for such a formidable price.

SwitchArcade Score: 3/5

Ready, regular, ship! ($14.99)

Sure, that is undoubtedly a game that tries to capture a few of that magic. You’re doing a job that involves quite a lot of easy tasks, but combining those tasks and a timer can result in some nice, crazy chaos. Fun enough by itself, but incredibly fun with friends. It’s a solid formula, even when “friends” here is proscribed to “friend.” Two player only, local co-op only. The task in query involves preparing and loading boxes for shipping. It’s a process that enables developers to throw in all types of fun wrenches as they work through the thirty steps offered.

As with most games of this kind, it is not very fun to play alone. Grab a friend and you will get an actual game as you are attempting to divide up tasks to more efficiently accomplish goals at each stage. It all starts easy enough: you arrange conveyor belts that help boxes get to the trucks. Then you get a number of trucks and box colours, then vehicles, then damaged parts that need repair and maintenance, then boxes that should be filled and sealed using special machines, and so on. The game never really stands still with any particular mixture of elements long enough so that you can get uninterested in them.

That said, it suffers from quite a lot of strange bugs and glitches. Boxes would often fall out of the game environment through invisible cracks and holes, making it unimaginable to get to 100% with out a restart. If you are not careful, you may get stuck in inaccessible places. In some ways, these bugs could make the time much more fun, but in the event you’re focused on getting all those stars, it could be annoying to miss it because the box fell into the Phantom Zone.

Limited to simply two players, it is not one other fan-friendly party solution, but there’s enough fun here that those that don’t mind the smaller player count will find it value their while to envision it out. It’s a bit clunky and buggy, but that is only an issue if you desire to perform at your best at every stage. Otherwise, it’s just an additional little bit of tomfoolery in a game that only capitalizes on things like this.

SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5

Sokobalia ($4.99)

This is as easy an approach to puzzles as possible. There’s a cute theme here where you are an alien pushing cattle onto the beam of a tractor reasonably than being a man pushing crates into designated squares, but that is really the only virtue of the game. Oh, and you may unlock hats. From an audiovisual standpoint, it looks like a five-dollar game, but the actual gameplay does what it’s imagined to do. If you might be a devil who needs one other fix, it will restore you. Others probably won’t find much charm in it.

SwitchArcade Score: 3/5

The Paper Story: Reassembled ($14.99)

There are elements of this game that I liked, but this Switch version suffers from poor technical performance and quite a lot of bugs. Loading times are long, image quality and frame rates are throughout the map, and I needed to restart the game multiple times attributable to one bug or one other. Sometimes the brace gets stuck in a wierd place and won’t come loose. Sometimes I got stuck in a wierd place and couldn’t break free. I say this up front since it truthfully ruined the experience for me. This is a game where your job is to experiment along with your skills and the environment to unravel puzzles, but that is the surest method to find considered one of the many problems in the game.

The game itself is an interesting puzzle platformer by which you play as a paper creature that may tackle various forms to assist overcome obstacles in its path. He’s relatively atmospheric, although his wordless nature is not handled well and he doesn’t appear to say much in consequence. However, in the event you enjoy games like , you’ll likely enjoy the means of progressing through this game. You know, so long as you do not get uninterested in the above-mentioned problems. If you may, play some place else.

makes an honest enough entry into the cinematic puzzle platformer genre, but this Switch version might be the worst method to play the game. From the common technical issues that always crop up in an Unreal Engine game, to a slew of bugs that result in a frustrating variety of resets, quite a few issues pile on top of one another, making it difficult to recommend the game in its form. Those who’re all in favour of this premise would do well to try it out on the platforms as an alternative.

SwitchArcade Score: 3/5

New releases

Risky Chronicles and the Curse of Destiny ($9.99)

This has the huge platform energy of a five-dollar Switch, but attributable to inflation it now costs ten dollars for considered one of them. Either way, lead the titular “Risky Chronicles” (now there is a stripper’s name on it if I’ve ever heard one) on an adventure that is actually legally different from the adventures of Dr. Jones. Start! Jump! To swim! Ride your motorcycle in a scaled 3D sequence! Maybe you are in the Arctic sometimes! That is a bit strange! Well, that is the way it is. Some people will buy it, and that will even include you.

Bunch of Bins

Ping Race ($0.99)

Helichapter X ($2.99)

Turnover

Quite a giant list in your inbox to get things ready for Monday. Is any of this good? Well, there are some cool games there. There’s nothing to hop over, though, so I’ll leave that to you. The outbox is brief and there really is not much in it that I might recommend, but I’m not an ancestor of the ruler of your funds, so do with it what you would like.

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($27.99 from $39.99 to five/6)
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($2.39 from $14.99 through 5/12)
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($3.67 from $22.99 through 5/12)
($3.99 from $9.99 through 5/12)
($2.39 from $14.99 through 5/12)
($7.49 from $14.99 through 5/12)
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($10.79 from $17.99 through 5/12)
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Sale ends tomorrow, April 23

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($4.66 from $5.49 through April 23)
($6.59 from $10.99 through April 23)
($8.99 from $11.99 through April 23)
($3.99 from $7.99 through 4/23)
($4.49 from $14.99 through April 23)
($4.99 from $9.99 through April 23)

That’s all for today, friends. We’ll be back tomorrow with more reviews, more news, more sales, and perhaps some news. Today I’m very late, as is usually the case on Mondays. I hope I can get home before dinner gets too cold. Have an exquisite Monday everyone and, as at all times, thanks for reading!