Reviews Featuring ‘Cook, Serve, Delicious!’ & ‘Suika Game’, Plus the Latest Releases and Sales – TouchArcade

Hey light readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Spherical-Up for October eleventh, 2023. We’re again round to a different Wednesday, and as ordinary it’s not precisely the busiest day of the week. There are a few evaluations right this moment. Our pal Mikhail has his overview of tomorrow’s Swap launch of Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious!, and I’m reviewing slightly recreation you possibly can solely purchase from the Japanese eShop referred to as Suika Recreation. After that, we have now just a few new releases to take a look at, after which the lists of latest and outgoing gross sales. Let’s go to it!

Evaluations & Mini-Views

Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious! ($12.99)

Effectively, it lastly occurred. The unique Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious is now on Swap, and apparently coming to extra consoles sooner or later. Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious is a legendary recreation, and one I’ve adored for years as I stated in my interview with David from Vertigo Gaming throughout a number of platforms. When Vertigo Gaming began porting video games to consoles, we had the wonderful Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious 2 and 3 hit consoles (however not cellular), whereas the unique gave the impression to be left on iOS in its previous construct whereas additionally being on PC.

When a remaster was introduced, I believed that is how the group would deliver the basic to trendy consoles, however I used to be unsuitable. Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious noticed a shock announcement, and it’s out now on Swap. I’ve cherished this recreation from the beginning, however I used to be curious the way it had aged right this moment, and in addition the way it in comparison with its PC and cellular variations. I’m going to cowl all of that on this overview.

Should you’ve by no means heard of this recreation sequence, the primary Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious has you managing your restaurant throughout its menu and operating it whilst you strive and ensure dishes are cooked accurately, served on time, take care of robbers, clear the loos, and extra. That is all carried out by a mix of shoulder buttons, face buttons, directional inputs, and analog stick actions. Having skilled this recreation principally solely on contact, I used to be glad to see contact controls obtainable right here in some type, however I’ll get to the controls in a bit.

The unique Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious is an easier recreation, however a greater one total. It stays my favourite of the principle trilogy, and it has aged very well. The backgrounds, catchy music, timeless sound results and voiced sounds, and extra come collectively to essentially take me again to once I first performed it on cellular and PC.

With regards to controls, the controller help is sweet, however the contact controls want work. Proper now, it looks like the contact targets are smaller than they need to be, and you’ll solely use contact controls to faucet the button prompts as an alternative of the buttons if that is smart. I hope this may be patched to work just like the cellular model. Barring that, there aren’t any management points.

On the visuals and efficiency aspect, Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious appears wonderful on Swap, nevertheless it appears like some character motion is a bit jittery in comparison with different platforms. The colours look glorious on the OLED display screen, and it has been nice enjoying it on my monitor as nicely.

Cook dinner, Serve, Scrumptious on Swap is a straightforward suggestion whether or not you’re new to the sequence, or interested by its origins as a newcomer. As soon as the contact controls could be improved, this can be my favourite model of this basic. I’m glad it lastly received ported, and hope we get a bodily trilogy launch now. -Mikhail Madnani

SwitchArcade Rating: 4/5

Suika Recreation/Watermelon Recreation (Japanese eShop Solely, 240 Yen)

Suika Recreation! It’s the most recent craze sweeping the nation (of Japan)! It got here out months in the past however for some purpose has gone extremely viral of late, and let it by no means be stated that Shaun isn’t on the forefront of digging his palms into viruses. Or one thing. After seeing my favourite Vtuber Inugami Korone play the sport, I made a decision to pop into the Japanese eShop and use a number of the cash I had saved as much as purchase Suika Recreation. It was solely 240 yen, which is lower than two American bucks. So what’s all of it about? How is it?

‘Suika‘ is the Japanese phrase for ‘Watermelon‘, and your objective within the recreation is to attempt to make as many watermelons as you possibly can. You do that by dropping fruit right into a container. When two of the identical fruits contact, they’ll merge into the subsequent greater fruit within the chain. On the finish of all of it awaits the extraordinarily massive watermelon. In case your fruit spills too far out of the highest of the container, the sport is over. Sure, it’s a merging recreation. I think about the general public studying this web site have performed at the least one recreation of that kind earlier than.

There are some things that make Suika Recreation work in addition to it does. To start with, it’s completely lovely. The fruits have faces, they usually all look tremendous charming. The music is catchy with out being annoying. The physics of the fruit and the best way they transfer and settle can permit for some surprising outcomes, which provides to the joy and hazard of every spherical. The sport retains monitor of your greatest scores for the day, week, and all-time. There are additionally on-line leaderboards for these three classes, permitting you to see the way you stack up towards others.

That’s actually all there may be to it. Nonetheless, there’s one thing arduous to withstand about Suika Recreation. My spouse truly requested to borrow my Swap to play it, and she or he has actually by no means had an curiosity in utilizing my Swap earlier than. It’s low cost, it’s enjoyable, it’s not obtainable exterior of Japan, and it’s amusing sufficient to be price studying the way to get round that exact subject so as to choose it up. Not too long ago, once I’ve solely received slightly time to kill, that is my go-to. I hope they launch it globally so extra folks can simply get pleasure from it.

SwitchArcade Rating: 4/5

New Releases

RedRaptor ($4.99)

Right here’s one other vertical shooter, one which introduces itself as a throwback to “style classics of the 90s”. My hunch is that it means Raptor: Name of the Shadows, however who can say? It affords up 5 phases to play by, and has a persistent improve system. You additionally get on-line leaderboards. Not dangerous for a fiver, if that is the flavour of shooter you want.

Terra Alia: The Language Discovery RPG ($14.99)

Effectively, in the event you can’t make a tremendous RPG, at the least deliver an attention-grabbing gimmick with you. And that’s primarily what we have now right here from BoomBox. The story sees you fixing a thriller at a magic academy the place the language is totally different from your personal. Which language? You get to decide on the goal language from a collection of ten. Simply by enjoying the sport, you’ll be capable of be taught some vocabulary from that language. Most likely not sufficient to have you ever delivering speeches in Portuguese or something, nevertheless it is perhaps a enjoyable complement to different language studying actions you’re doing.

The Bin Bunch

Supreme Automotive Parking Simulator 2024 ($4.99)

Gross sales

(North American eShop, US Costs)

A really tiny checklist for right this moment’s inbox, it appears. I don’t have loads to say about something on there, although in the event you like Sonic-ish platformers that Retro Rollers Bundle is nifty for a fiver. The outbox is extra attention-grabbing. I can not stress sufficient that almost all Arcade Archives titles solely get one sale of their complete lifetime, so in order for you any of the video games in there you’ll in all probability by no means have one other probability to get them this low cost. There isn’t the rest in there that I’m going to shout about, however do take a look at each lists fastidiously.

Choose New Video games on Sale

The Companion ($1.99 from $19.99 till 10/18)
Dordogne ($13.99 from $19.99 till 10/20)
Name of Cthulhu ($7.99 from $19.99 till 10/20)
A Plague Story: Innocence – Cloud Vers. ($15.99 from $39.99 till 10/20)
A Plague Story: Requiem – Cloud Vers. ($32.99 from $59.99 till 10/20)
Vampyr ($9.99 from $39.99 till 10/20)
Othercide ($11.99 from $29.99 till 10/20)
Darkish Quest 3 ($5.69 from $18.99 till 10/30)
Retro Rollers Bundle ($4.99 from $9.99 till 10/30)

Gross sales Ending Tomorrow, Thursday, October twelfth

ACA NEOGEO Magician Lord ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Metallic Slug 5 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Over Prime ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Energy Spikes II ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Pulstar ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Puzzle Bobble 2 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Sengoku 2 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO Stakes Winner 2 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO The King of Fighters 2003 ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
ACA NEOGEO World Heroes ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Chack’n Pop ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Champion Wrestler ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Darius ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Elevator Motion ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Combating Hawk ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)

Arcade Archives Flipull ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Halley’s Comet ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Kurikinton ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives QIX ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Arcade Archives Raimais ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Military of Damage ($7.19 from $7.99 till 10/12)
Baseball Membership ($3.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)
Blackberry Honey ($3.89 from $12.99 till 10/12)
Blasphemous 2 ($23.99 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Bramble: The Mountain King ($20.09 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Caffeine: Victoria’s Legacy ($8.99 from $17.99 till 10/12)
Fortress on the Coast ($2.99 from $14.99 till 10/12)
Catmaze ($4.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)
Dariusburst CS Core + Taito/SEGA Pack ($17.99 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Ducky’s Supply Service ($7.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)

Effie ($3.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
Farm Slider ($3.49 from $4.99 till 10/12)
Components Bit Racing DX ($1.99 from $4.99 till 10/12)
Backyard In! ($5.99 from $9.99 till 10/12)
Intrepid Izzy ($6.59 from $10.99 till 10/12)
Islanders ($2.24 from $4.99 till 10/12)
LogiKing ($10.49 from $14.99 till 10/12)
No One Lives Beneath the Lighthouse ($9.59 from $11.99 till 10/12)
Parasite Pack ($3.99 from $7.99 till 10/12)
PHOGS! ($11.24 from $24.99 till 10/12)
Rubberduck Wave Racer ($15.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
Ruku’s Coronary heart Balloon ($7.69 from $10.99 till 10/12)
Critical Sam Assortment ($10.49 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Keep Out of the Home ($14.39 from $17.99 till 10/12)
Stray Cat Doors2 ($3.99 from $7.20 till 10/12)

Tales of Aravorn: Seasons of the Wolf ($7.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
The Diabolical Trilogy ($4.99 from $19.99 till 10/12)
The Recreation of Life 2 ($8.99 from $29.99 till 10/12)
The Final Hero of Nostalgia ($18.74 from $24.99 till 10/12)
The Final Hero of Nostalgia DE ($22.49 from $29.99 till 10/12)
Ziggurat ($2.99 from $14.99 till 10/12)
Ziggurat 2 ($17.49 from $24.99 till 10/12)

That’s all for right this moment, associates. We’ll be again tomorrow with the large Thursday checklist of latest releases. It’s trying like a decent-sized batch of about twenty video games, and we’ll have summaries of all of the video games that deserve them. There will even be the standard lists of gross sales, and if any massive information rolls in we’ll hit on that as nicely. I hope you all have a beautiful Wednesday, and as all the time, thanks for studying!