Episode IX – The Misseds of Time.
Hello there, and welcome to the latest edition of our ‘Games We Missed’ series.
As you might gather from the name, this is our bi-annual round-up of reader-recommended Switch games which we weren’t able to cover for one reason or another.
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A further 32 members of staff affected.
After axing 530 jobs across the company this January, League of Legends developer Riot Games has announced that a second wave of layoffs has put a further 32 members of staff out of work.
In a statement released to Eurogamer, a Riot Games spokesperson confirmed that the majority of those affected come from the League of Legends team, with 27 roles being cut. A further five roles have been cut from the publishing department.
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Stalking on Switch this month.
The developer of 2022’s The Outbound Ghost, Conradical Games (now working under the Radhood Games label), has revealed the release date for its next project, a survival roguelike billed as ‘Vampire Survivors meets Slay the Spire‘.
Soul Stalker lands on the Switch eShop on 24th October, and while we can certainly see hints of the two aforementioned titles in its bullet heaven gameplay and roguelike progression, it’s nice to see that the developer’s Paper Mario-inspired visuals also make a return — albeit in a slightly more stabby way.
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You got boost power!
Following a rather sizable update earlier this month, Nintendo’s Switch Online battle royale racer F-Zero 99 has now received another patch.
This bumps the game up to Version 1.5.1 and includes a bunch of fixes. There’s also a confirmation that certain things haven’t been recorded correctly for customers running on Version 1.4.1 or before.
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Download it now.
The competitive retro compilation Nintendo World Championships: NES Edition is still getting plenty of support from Nintendo. As part of this it’s now updated the game to Version 1.1.1.
According to the official support page, this “fixes issues”. Here are the specifics:
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Can Hyrule’s destiny really depend on such a lazy boy?
Editor’s note: We’ve now updated this review with our final thoughts and a score having spent some quality (sleepy) time with Alarmo.
Nintendo Sound Clock: Alarmo, one of Nintendo’s most perplexing yet delightful products in recent memory, was announced and launched simultaneously on Wednesday 9th October.
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Blazin’ squad.
A totally original pixel art fighting game in 2024 is certainly a welcome surprise. What’s more of a surprise, though, is discovering that Mark Minkyu Chung touts himself as a solo game developer. Known by his developer handle Rarebreed, we hopped to Blazing Strike’s credits roll to corroborate the seemingly impossible. And, sure enough, he appears to have done pretty much everything himself, from programming to art direction, rollback netcode implementation, and sound. Where he’s had help, he’s still the lead credit of two individuals for things like animation, character, and environment design. To that end, it appears Blazing Strike’s vast majority is indeed the effort of one man – a head-spinning feat considering the comprehensive nature of the end product.
A love letter to the fighting game hardcore, there’s plenty of SNK about Blazing Strike, with incredibly tall, superbly rendered sprites, tons of animation frames, and a scaling effect that zooms in and out based on the proximity of the combatants. Indeed, the game’s graphical style is arguably its most polished asset, and bears some visual kinship to Rage of the Dragons. The spritework appears genuine, as if it was crafted on old-school tools, and boasts a near-CPS3 quality (that being the hardware that fuelled Street Fighter III and Red Earth). The colour palette positively beams, with attractive blending, and, although samey at times, the backgrounds are truly top-notch, featuring a range of sci-fi cityscapes and in-theme prison courtyards.
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Re-bite.
We had a sublime time with Castlevania Dominus Collection when it shadow-dropped onto Switch back in August and now Konami has released a new patch to make things that bit better.
The latest update is a small one, we’ll admit, but there are some nice tweaks here all the same. The most notable addition this time around is a new helping of Order of Ecclesia artwork in the Gallery Mode, though the ver. 1.0.1 patch also reproduces some of Portrait of Ruin‘s minor glitches (for some OG exploits) and fixes a bug in Dawn of Sorrow.
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Available right now!
The Wand Company has expanded its range of die-cast Poké Ball replicas with another series deep cut.
The Beast Ball, which first appeared in Pokémon Sun and Moon, is now available as a stunning metal replica from The Pokémon Center website for a spicy £119.99 / $199.99.
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Join Sonic and Shadow Chao on a “special journey”.
SEGA has announced it will be releasing a new manga on 18th October which documents Sonic Chao and Shadow Chao on a special journey.
It’s officially titled Sonic X Shadow Generations X Chao and will be written by fan favourite Ian Flynn, with lines by Misa Shion and colours by Min Ho Kim. No other information has been shared beyond this, but we do have an illustration to go with this announcement:
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