Welcome to the SwitchArcade Roundup for June 15th, where we’re talking about the most interesting games in the Nintendo E3 eShop sale! Because you didn’t need to spend more money. After a busy week, you get only one new release: LEGO The Incredibles. This doesn’t necessarily follow the plot lines of the movies straight-up, but it does feature elements from both movies, and an open world with crime bosses and supervillains to defeat. A huge hub world is available for you to explore and do your super missions in. You can play as the entire Parr family, and also a bunch of superheroes that otherwise don’t have big roles in the series. These games are usually pretty solid, and if you like The Incredibles, keep this one in mind!
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Overcooked! Special Edition ($11.99 from $19.99 until June 21)
This fun party game is one of the most popular third-party games on Switch, and it’s quite fun. You work with friends to cook food, with ingredients to collect, food to be cooked, and dishes to wash so you can repeat the whole cycle. It’s a chaotic game because you have so many chaotic elements that pop up that you then have to deal with. Check this out before the sequel hits in August. Or wait until that one? Either way.
Splatoon 2 ($39.99 from $59.99 until June 21)
Seriously, if you’ve never played Splatoon 2, you ought to do so now that it is on sale. It’s so different from every other shooter that’s out there, and the ranking system is structured in such a way that you’re generally grouped with people of the same experience, so it’s such a smooth ramp-up as you improve. My one criticism is that the game really requires full teams on each side, so if someone disconnects, it is pretty much a guaranteed loss, because all the modes are objective-based. Turf War is about splatting as much paint around the landscape as possible, and so if you have one fewer person splatting, that’s a massive disadvantage. You could maybe focus on getting kills, as they really disadvantage the player killed, but it’s tough to coordinate with your team unless you’re playing with people you know, and chatting through the smartphone app (or through Discord, but in Turf War, you’re not always on the same team, but you can team up for Ranked Battles which contain other modes).
The whole lack of voice chat is actually somewhat beneficial because it means that there aren’t any malcontents – your racists, sexists, trolls, etc. – and so you get an experience that’s extremely non-toxic except for your burning hatred for those who disconnect. But it’s nice to not have to mute anyone. Also, the game has a whole singleplayer campaign, and the Octo Expansion DLC out now throws a whole bunch of crazy new stuff, though multiplayer is the focus here. And the motion controls are a revelation once you find a setup that works for you. This is the future of first-person shooters…I hope. Definitely check this out if you haven’t yet.
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild ($44.99 from $59.99 until June 21)
Nintendo putting a Zelda game on sale feels like a shocking, momentous occasion. If you don’t own this, you should probably buy this now, because you might have to wait months, if not years, for this to happen again. It’s massive, widely considered to be a masterpiece, and contains dozens of hours of gameplay as Zelda fundamentals meet modern open-world conventions. Seriously, do you need my words to convince you or what?
Golf Story ($9.89 from $14.99 until June 21)
If you miss Mario Golf‘s Game Boy incarnations, where you got to get involved in RPG shenanigans while also playing some solid 2D golf, this is the best thing you’ll get until Camelot makes a Mario Golf game for Switch. Hey, we’re getting Mario Tennis Aces from them next week, so your dreams can come true!
Night in the Woods ($13.99 from $19.99 until June 21)
One of the most acclaimed indie games of the past year, winner of the prestigious Seumas McNally Grand Prize at IGF, goes on sale for the first time. The story involves a young woman (er…anthropomorphic cat) dealing with mental health issues who has dropped out of college and returned home, and also has some strange stuff going on in the woods to deal with, as well. The game’s a unique experience by all accounts, and I probably ought to check it out at some point.
Pac-Man Championship Edition 2 Plus ($9.99 from $19.99 until June 21)
Pac-Man Championship Edition games are awesome, and Namco keeps finding ways to make the series more and more ridiculous than before. Half-off for this one is more than fair, and I definitely picked it up at this price. Expect to eat a ton of ghosts, and experience dynamic mazes, with all sorts of clever tricks to throw you off of your rhythm.
Ultra Street Fighter II ($19.99 from $39.99 until June 21)
I held out buying this for months. Street Fighter 30th Anniversary seemed like such a better deal, and I struggled with the idea of paying $39.99 for another version of Street Fighter 2. Now that the game is half-off, even with 30th Anniversary out now (and just being arcade versions of each game), I’m kind of intrigued to pick this up, even though, yeah, the Joy-Con’s d-pad buttons are not great for fighting games. I’ve been curious about the Hori handheld-only Joy-Con, or maybe one of those Joy-Con mods that adds a real d-pad. Hmm…
Anyway, this is the latest modern enhancement of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo, featuring the modern HD graphics first introduced in the HD version of the game released on Xbox 360 and PS3, as well as the classic visuals. You can play as Evil Ryu and Violent Ken, who have new moves and evil appearances compared to their normal versions. The game also boasts online play, and a maligned “Way of the Hado" first-person mode where you use motion controls to pull off Hadokens and Shoryukens. More interesting is the 2v1 mode similar to Street Fighter Alpha 3‘s Dramatic Battle.
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