Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 2nd, 2019. In today’s jam-packed article, we’ve got a full review of the Switch port of Darksiders 2, Mini-Views of 80 Days, Sayonara Wild Hearts, and Northgard, one new release to check out, and a bevy of sales. Phew, that’s a lot. Oh, and lest I forget, we’ve also got some news to look at. What a magical day. Let’s roll on into it!
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‘Super Mario Maker 2’ Update Allows Online Play with Friends

Sometimes Nintendo makes some really baffling decisions that don’t seem to have much rhyme or reason to them. Restricting Super Mario Maker 2‘s online multiplayer to strangers and not allowing players to play with their friends was one such move. Well, a new update for the game has just come down the pipe, and as of version 1.1.0, you can now live the dream of using your friends list for something other than seeing what everyone else is playing. Play co-op or versus against your friends, select courses uploaded to Course World as well as those saved to Coursebot, and use that fabulous Nintendo Switch Online mobile app to facilitate it. But wait, there’s more. You can now use touch and button controls when editing courses in handheld mode! Wow. Lots of other little things in here, and Nintendo says more course parts will be coming later, so it’s all good for Mario Maker fans today. ‘ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!’ Drops P...