Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 5th, 2021. Today I spent half the day at the hospital, which had me worried that I wouldn’t have time to put together today’s article. Lucky me, it seems like there’s very little going on today in the world of Nintendo Switch. We’ve got a little news to check out, a single new release to summarize, and the lists of incoming and outgoing sales. Don’t worry, tomorrow will be a big one. It has to be, right? Right. Let’s go!
News
‘New Pokemon Snap’ Free Update Now Available
New Pokemon Snap was already a pretty big game compared to the original game, but we haven’t seen the end of it yet. Today, a version update was delivered to the game, bringing it up to version 2.0.0. What does that mean for the player? Three new areas have been added to the game: Barren Badlands, Secret Side Path, and Mightywide River. Travel through these new areas and you’ll be able to find twenty new Pokemon to photograph. New research titles, profile icons, photo filters, stickers, and frames have been added to the game, and a number of quality of life improvements have been made. The wild thing is that all of this new content is completely free! Just update your game and you’ll be good to go.
New Releases
Enter Digiton: Heart of Corruption ($7.99)
Take the role of one of the last survivors of a ruined society and try to overthrow the evil demon lords ruling over four areas of your former home. It’s an action-platformer that bills itself as a Metroidvania but it’s more of a Mega Man-like thing where you pick the stage order and get useful abilities as you go. Those abilities may make other stages easier or allow you to pick up other things, but don’t come into this expecting a Metroid-style adventure. This is a pretty solid action-platformer though, and one with a rather unique art style. I like the idea of playing as a hero who chucks a shield around. It reminds me of that one guy. You know who. I think his name was Rory Calhoun. Always battling that one guy with the red face. Don Rickles. Anyway, decent game for the price. Worth looking into if you enjoy run-and-shield action games.
Sales
(North American eShop, US Prices)
Not much to report on as far as new sales go, friends. The newly-released Dragon Star Varnir has its launch discount, and that’s really the most exciting bit in the lot. The outbox is bigger, and there are some good games in there but nothing we won’t see again in a few weeks or so. Buy what you like, or save your money to see what comes up in the next couple of days. We can’t be far from a big summer sale or something like that, I’d imagine.
Select New Games on Sale
Degrees of Separation ($5.99 from $19.99 until 8/10)
Deer Drive Legends ($3.99 from $19.99 until 8/10)
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince ($5.99 from $29.99 until 8/10)
Beast Quest ($3.99 from $19.99 until 8/10)
Rock of Ages 3: Make & Break ($7.49 from $29.99 until 8/10)
Override 2: Super Mech League ($9.89 from $29.99 until 8/10)
Troll and I ($3.99 from $9.99 until 8/10)
Deployment ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/10)
Dragon Star Varnir ($23.99 from $29.99 until 8/11)
Turmoil ($2.99 from $14.99 until 8/11)
Grip ($7.19 from $39.99 until 8/18)
Cardaclysm: Shards of the Four ($13.49 from $14.99 until 8/21)
Outbreak: Epidemic ($7.49 from $14.99 until 8/24)
Outbreak the Nightmare Chronicles ($6.49 from $12.99 until 8/24)
Outbreak: The New Nightmare ($6.49 from $12.99 until 8/24)
Outbreak Lost Hope ($6.49 from $12.99 until 8/24)
Outbreak: Endless Nightmares ($14.99 from $19.99 until 8/24)
Deadly Fighter 2 ($1.99 from $3.99 until 8/24)
Croc’s World 2 ($1.99 from $5.99 until 8/24)
Candy Match Kiddies ($2.99 from $3.99 until 8/24)
Sales Ending Tomorrow, Thursday, August 5th
A Street Cat’s Tale ($6.39 from $7.99 until 8/5)
Air Hockey ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Amazing Brick Breaker ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
ANIMUS: Revenant ($20.69 from $22.99 until 8/5)
Art Sqool ($2.98 from $12.99 until 8/5)
Atomicrops ($7.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
B.ARK ($7.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Black the Fall ($4.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Bossgard ($9.99 from $19.99 until 8/5)
Bowling ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Caveman Warriors ($1.99 from $12.99 until 8/5)
Clumsy Rush ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Crawlco Block Knockers ($5.39 from $8.99 until 8/5)
Cube Blast: Match ($9.00 from $18.00 until 8/5)
Cyber Protocol ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Dandara: Trials of Fear ($5.24 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Dangerous Relationship ($10.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Dark Quest 2 ($3.29 from $10.99 until 8/5)
DreamBall ($2.49 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Drift Legends ($4.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Drunken Fist ($4.79 from $7.99 until 8/5)
Earthlock ($5.98 from $29.90 until 8/5)
Elemental Knights R ($2.00 from $8.64 until 8/5)
Emma: Lost in Memories ($3.99 from $7.99 until 8/5)
Enchanting Mahjong Match ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Escape Trick: 35 Fateful Enigmas ($9.99 from $19.99 until 8/5)
Fairy Knights ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Furwind ($2.49 from $9.99 until 8/5)
GoNNER ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Guess the Character ($2.00 from $2.99 until 8/5)
Homo Machina ($2.09 from $2.99 until 8/5)
Hotel Sowls ($6.39 from $7.99 until 8/5)
Kingdom: New Lands ($3.74 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Knock ‘Em Down! Bowling ($4.94 from $14.99 until 8/5)
MachiKnights -Blood Bagos- ($7.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Macrotis: A Mother’s Journey ($9.59 from $11.99 until 8/5)
Max & the Book of Chaos ($1.99 from $7.99 until 8/5)
MazM: Jekyll & Hyde ($8.99 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Monochrome World ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Mosaic ($9.99 from $19.99 until 8/5)
My Secret Pets! ($10.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
My Universe: Cooking Star ($14.99 from $29.99 until 8/5)
My Universe: Fashion Boutique ($14.99 from $29.99 until 8/5)
My Universe: School Teacher ($14.99 from $29.99 until 8/5)
Mystic Fate ($4.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Nekopara Vol.3 ($5.99 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Nekopara Vol.4 ($11.99 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Nevaeh ($2.59 from $12.99 until 8/5)
Night Call ($7.99 from $19.99 until 8/5)
Nirvana Pilot Yume ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Office Lovers ($10.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Omega Labyrinth Life ($23.99 from $59.99 until 8/5)
OMG Police: Car Chase TV Sim ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Out There: Omega The Alliance ($3.74 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Party Trivia ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Piano ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Ploid ($2.09 from $2.99 until 8/5)
Ploid Saga ($8.39 from $11.99 until 8/5)
Pool ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Pool Billiard ($1.99 from $7.99 until 8/5)
Pretty Poker Girls Battle: FWE ($4.19 from $5.99 until 8/5)
Princess Maker Faery Tales Come True ($20.99 from $29.99 until 8/5)
Princess Maker Go Go Princess ($10.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Project Starship X ($4.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
QV ($7.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Rainbocorns ($2.59 from $12.99 until 8/5)
Reknum ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Reknum Cheri Dreamland ($4.89 from $7.99 until 8/5)
Robox ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Rodent Warriors ($4.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Sacred Stones ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Secrets of Me ($10.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Shakedown: Hawaii ($7.99 from $19.99 until 8/5)
She Sees Red: Interactive Movie ($2.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Silent World ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Snakes & Ladders ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Spot the Difference ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Spy Alarm ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Squad Killer ($3.49 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Star Renegades ($14.99 from $24.99 until 8/5)
Story of a Gladiator ($3.29 from $10.99 until 8/5)
Street Racer Underground ($2.99 from $5.99 until 8/5)
Strikey Sisters ($2.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Sudoku Relax 2 Summer Waves ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Super Hyperactive Ninja ($1.99 from $8.99 until 8/5)
Takotan ($2.79 from $3.99 until 8/5)
The Amazing Shinsengumi ($5.99 from $11.99 until 8/5)
The Card: Poker Etc ($1.99 from $4.99 until 8/5)
The Golf ($3.49 from $9.99 until 8/5)
The Men of Yoshiwara ($9.79 from $19.99 until 8/5)
The Number Puzzle ($2.49 from $4.99 until 8/5)
The Wanderer: Frankenstein ($4.79 from $15.99 until 8/5)
Uurnog Uurnlimited ($1.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
Vandals ($1.99 from $3.99 until 8/5)
Vectronom ($3.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
West of Dead ($11.99 from $19.99 until 8/5)
Wizodd ($4.24 from $4.99 until 8/5)
Wonder Boy Returns Remix ($7.49 from $14.99 until 8/5)
Zoo Dentist ($4.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
123 Dots ($6.99 from $9.99 until 8/5)
That’s all for today, friends. Tomorrow is Thursday, and that means we’ll have a bunch of new releases to check out. Perhaps the weekend Smash event will be announced by then, too. Naturally, we’ll also have whatever cool sales and big news come along. For those wondering about my hospital test results, it was mostly good news. No progression, which isn’t as good as improvement, but also not so bad as what progression would mean. I should be kicking around for a while yet. I hope you all have a good Wednesday, and as always, thanks for reading!
