Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for February 9th, 2021. In today’s article, we take a look at a handful of new releases that hit the eShop today. One of them is good! The others are… well, at least not as dubious as some of the games we saw in the last couple of Round-Ups. We also have a Mini-View for recent release Blue Fire, and the usual lists of incoming and outgoing sales. Let’s get to work!
Mini-Views
Blue Fire ($19.99)

This is one of those games that I feel is a few smart changes away from being great, but instead settles into being merely good. It’s a cross between a Zelda game and a 3D take on Hollow Knight, though it gives up on its ambitions towards the former all too quickly and never hits the heights of the latter. It gets off to a decent start, but the content soon runs thin and the ways the game tries to stretch what it has just didn’t work for me. Platforming controls are thankfully solid, but the combat simply doesn’t have enough depth to it to keep things interesting across the many skirmishes you’ll engage in. The presentation of the game is quite good, though the lengthy loading times make deaths sting that extra bit more. I think if you’re patient with Blue Fire you’ll find a lot to like here, but it really could have been a lot more. SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5
New Releases
Hero-U: Rogue to Redemption ($19.99)

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