Reviews Featuring ‘Rainbow Skies’ & ‘Xtreme Sports’, Plus Today’s Releases and Sales – TouchArcade

Whats up light readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Spherical-Up for August twenty first, 2023. In at this time’s article, we’ve received a few evaluations to get issues going with. The tactical RPG Rainbow Skies and the gnarly Xtreme Sports activities get their time within the Judgement Chair at this time, and who can say which can fly and which can fall? I imply, apart from me. After that, there’s a little bit of junk to wade by way of within the new releases, and a fairly sturdy record of latest gross sales to take a look at. Let’s get began on the week!

Opinions & Mini-Views

Rainbow Skies ($19.99)

Rainbow Skies is a kind of video games the place I’m totally conscious of all of its flaws, and they’re quite a few, however I discovered myself having a reasonably good time with it anyway. The story is 2 slices of bread with nothing between them. The writing borders on irritating more often than not. Not one of the characters are notably attention-grabbing or likeable. The battle system is as fundamental as a turn-based tactical RPG can get. Enemy AI is sort of poor by the requirements of the style. The world design is admittedly bland. Certain, it seems and sounds good, however in any other case what does it have going for it? And but, I ended up stepping into it.

It’s probably not a thriller why, although. It is a sport filled with limitless lists of issues to test off. Facet quests, upgrades, monster assortment, exploration, and so forth. As you full issues, the sport will let you realize. You’ll be able to see your progress in this stuff always from the menu. When mixed with a comparatively frictionless and considerably senseless sport, this assortment of largely pointless achievements is sufficient to preserve me going once I simply wish to chill with one thing. I’d examine it to a KEMCO RPG, albeit with much more oomph thrown behind it.

Given the reasoning behind my sticking with the sport, I can’t actually give it greater than a lightweight suggestion. In case you’re like me and typically prefer to dig right into a sport with plenty of lists of issues to fill out, you may need an honest time with Rainbow Skies. It doesn’t do something notably properly, and it definitely does a couple of issues badly, however there’s a hook right here that labored on me and really properly may work on you too.

SwitchArcade Rating: 3.5/5

Xtreme Sports activities ($9.99)

WayForward was a kind of hidden secrets and techniques again within the day after they had been within the licensed sport salt mines. The developer is fairly well-known as of late due to its flagship Shantae collection and high-profile initiatives like River Metropolis Ladies and Advance Wars 1 + 2: Re-Boot Camp. If you wish to dig into the historical past of the corporate’s video games, issues may be fairly powerful. I doubt we’ll be seeing reissues of Sabrina: The Animated Sequence: Zapped! or Wendy: Each Witch Means anytime quickly. However there may be not less than one sport from these early pre-Shantae years that the corporate owns outright, and we will now play it on the Change through Restricted Run Video games’ Carbon Engine. Hailing all the way in which from the 12 months 2000, it’s Xtreme Sports activities for the Recreation Boy Colour.

Sure, a Recreation Boy sports activities sport that focuses on rad to the max ‘tude may look like it could age about in addition to a cup of milk on a picnic desk in Japanese summer time, however Xtreme Sports activities has extra happening than you may assume. Relatively than taking the Monitor ‘n Subject/Epyx Video games method of providing you with a bunch of occasions and presenting them as-is, Xtreme Sports activities creates somewhat world that you just discover. Your freedom is restricted by the variety of medals you might have, and also you earn extra medals by finishing challenges issued by the characters hanging across the numerous areas. You too can discover some hidden medals in case you go searching arduous sufficient. Your goal is two-fold: win the Xtreme Sports activities match, and work out what’s up with the gang generally known as the Bone-Heads. This construction elevates what would in any other case be an amusing however restricted mini-game assortment.

There are 5 sports activities on provide on this sport: skateboarding, inline skating, browsing, sky boarding, and road luge. As is common for this sort of sport, every of those occasions basically performs nearly solely in another way from the final. There are some widespread parts nonetheless, such because the Twitchy Shakes you’ll be able to acquire as a way to give your self momentary power-ups. The entire occasions will observe your time and rating, and a few of them even have flags you’ll be able to acquire. The challenges would require you to fulfill or exceed the NPC’s efficiency in a number of of these classes. The best way you play will depend upon which of those circumstances you’re making an attempt to fulfill. There are numerous phases for every sport, and also you’ll possible have to do some memorization of them to finish sure challenges.

Every of the sports activities is fairly enjoyable, and a few are higher than others. I don’t love the road luge as a lot because the others, and I actually received into the browsing. However once more, they’re all gratifying sufficient. Going for top rating was typically my favourite sort of problem, whereas looking down the flags was typically simply annoying. The inline skating programs really feel like they’re meant to shuffle you from left to proper, so backtracking and exploring to get the entire flags includes lots of irritating trial and error. The controls work properly in all of the occasions, and I believe WayForward received lots of graphical mileage out of the restricted {hardware}’s capabilities. The Carbon Engine wrapper does its work properly right here, providing strong emulation, a very good LCD filter you’ll be able to activate or off, a couple of show ratio choices, save states, and a collection of borders. You additionally get a pleasant Extras part with some artwork and a 3D duplicate of the unique cartridge.

Xtreme Sports activities is a kind of video games that will have flown previous most gamers again when it launched, and as a WayForward Recreation Boy Colour providing it nonetheless tends to stay within the shadow of Shantae. I’m unsure if I may be the one to alter anybody’s thoughts about it, however I can not less than again up the numerous different evaluations of this sport through the years by saying that there’s extra to this sport than you may assume at a look. In case you’ve ever loved any events-based sports activities sport or can admire a very good rating/time assault sport, you actually ought to give this one a shot.

SwitchArcade Rating: 4/5

New Releases

Nothing however Bin Bunch video games at this time, buddies. The weekend is quickly changing into the place the place these sorts of video games get dumped and immediately deep-discounted. Don’t fall for these tips! Until you wish to, through which case, do!

The Bin Bunch

Rescue Group 911 Simulator – Ambulance,Police, Firefighter ($11.99)

Skateboard Drifting with Maxwell Cat: The Recreation Simulator ($9.99)

FRMaster – System Racing Simulator ($6.99)

Stack Ball Run! ($0.99)

Gross sales

(North American eShop, US Costs)

First up, I wish to spotlight God Wars The Full Legend. It’s not the most effective tactical RPG round, nevertheless it’s absolutely value that 4 {dollars} it’s on sale for. It is a final probability sale, as will probably be pulled from sale on the finish of this month. Past that, there are fairly a couple of respectable video games in at this time’s record. I’ll name out Donut Dodo, Galacticon, and Murtop for followers of arcade-style video games, however do look by way of that record your self. There are some good video games within the outbox as properly, so have a very good gander.

Choose New Video games on Sale

Mayhem Brawler ($7.99 from $19.99 till 8/26)
Halftime Heroes ($2.49 from $4.99 till 8/26)
Monster Menu: The Scavenger’s Cookbook ($39.99 from $49.99 till 8/28)
Prinny Presents NIS Classics Vol. 1 ($27.99 from $39.99 till 8/28)
GrimGrimoire OnceMore ($39.99 from $49.99 till 8/28)
Disgaea 1 Full ($19.99 from $49.99 till 8/28)
Disgaea 4 Full+ ($19.99 from $49.99 till 8/28)
Disgaea 5 Full ($19.99 from $39.99 till 8/28)
Disgaea 6: Defiance of Future ($29.99 from $59.99 till 8/28)
God Wars The Full Legend ($3.99 from $39.99 till 8/28)
Langrisser I & II ($17.49 from $49.99 till 8/28)
Rubberduck Wave Racer ($17.99 from $19.99 till 8/28)
Kizuna AI: Contact the Beat! ($27.99 from $34.99 till 8/30)
Parasite Pack ($3.99 from $7.99 till 8/31)
Cthulhu Pub ($1.99 from $9.99 till 9/1)

Worms WMD ($5.99 from $29.99 till 9/3)
Killer Frequency ($18.74 from $24.99 till 9/3)
Dormitory Love ($29.04 from $34.99 till 9/4)
Imp of the Solar ($9.99 from $19.99 till 9/4)
Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator ($11.87 from $17.99 till 9/4)
Disjunction ($5.27 from $15.99 till 9/4)
My Pretty Daughter ($4.49 from $14.99 till 9/4)
My Pretty Spouse ($7.49 from $14.99 till 9/4)
Silt ($9.89 from $14.99 till 9/4)
Embraced by Autumn ($15.19 from $18.99 till 9/8)
Sable’s Grimoire: Man & Elf ($4.79 from $5.99 till 9/8)
Papertris ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/8)
Donut Dodo ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/8)
Galacticon ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/8)

Murtop ($2.49 from $4.99 till 9/8)
The Legend of Gwen ($9.99 from $19.99 till 9/8)
Time of Conflict, Arkano ’90 ($9.14 from $14.99 till 9/8)
Sandream ($7.49 from $24.99 till 9/8)
ANIMUS: Revenant ($4.59 from $22.99 till 9/10)
Fashionable Conflict: Tank Battle ($3.74 from $14.99 till 9/10)
Counter Delta 2 ($11.99 from $14.99 till 9/10)
World Conflict Prologue ($8.99 from $14.99 till 9/10)
Crime Busters Strike Space ($5.99 from $14.99 till 9/10)
Bunker Life ($8.99 from $14.99 till 9/10)
Haunted Zombie Slaughter ($6.74 from $14.99 till 9/10)
Automobile+Toon Race ($2.74 from $10.99 till 9/10)
World Class Champion Soccer ($4.39 from $10.99 till 9/10)
Useless Rain: New Zombie Virus ($4.94 from $10.99 till 9/10)
House Genesis ($1.99 from $14.99 till 9/10)
Dungeon Limbus ($2.99 from $14.99 till 9/10)

Gross sales Ending Tomorrow, Tuesday, August twenty second

AEW Combat Without end Elite Version ($71.99 from $79.99 till 8/22)
Annalynn ($3.99 from $4.99 till 8/22)
Battle Chasers Nightwar ($11.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)
Darksiders III ($19.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)
Descenders ($9.99 from $24.99 till 8/22)
Destroy All People! ($19.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)
Disney Speedstorm ($20.99 from $29.99 till 8/22)
Disney Speedstorm Final Pack ($45.49 from $69.99 till 8/22)
Everlasting Radiance ($7.99 from $19.99 till 8/22)
Concord: The Fall of Reverie ($17.49 from $24.99 till 8/22)
Cover & Dance ($2.99 from $4.99 till 8/22)
Hypnospace Outlaw ($6.99 from $19.99 till 8/22)
Koumajou Remilia Scarlet Symphony ($26.99 from $29.99 till 8/22)
Mother Hid My Recreation! ($2.99 from $4.99 till 8/22)
Mother Hid My Recreation! 2 ($2.99 from $4.99 till 8/22)

Monster Jam Metal Titans 2 ($19.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)
My Brother Ate My Pudding! ($2.99 from $4.99 till 8/22)
Nekopara Vol.1 ($5.99 from $14.99 till 8/22)
Not Tonight: Take Again Management ($2.49 from $24.99 till 8/22)
Nowhere Prophet ($2.49 from $24.99 till 8/22)
OmegaBot ($6.49 from $12.99 till 8/22)
Remnant From the Ashes ($33.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)
Risen ($25.49 from $29.99 till 8/22)
Siralim 3 ($7.49 from $14.99 till 8/22)
Siralim Final ($9.99 from $19.99 till 8/22)
Sophstar ($6.49 from $12.99 till 8/22)
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake ($33.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)
The Sin ($4.73 from $5.99 till 8/22)
Titan Quest ($11.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)
Marvel Boy Returns Remix ($5.99 from $14.99 till 8/22)
Wreckfest ($25.99 from $39.99 till 8/22)

That’s all for at this time, buddies. We’ll be again tomorrow with extra new video games, gross sales, evaluations, and maybe some information. I’m actually drained at this time. Typically days off aren’t as restful as one would hope. Nicely, one foot in entrance of the opposite. The mattress awaits quickly sufficient. I hope you all have a powerful Monday, and as all the time, thanks for studying!