Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for January 17th, 2019. It’s Thursday, and that means we’ve got a ton of new releases to look at. As usual, that’s going to be the bulk of today’s article, so settle on in and get ready for some quick, scorching takes. Okay, probably not ‘scorching’. More like ‘lightly toasting’" ‘Baking until golden brown’" I don’t know, but whatever you want to call it, I’m going to do it. Let’s enter the jungle!
New Releases
YIIK: A Postmodern RPG ($19.99)

I’ll be direct: I hated this game. I hated it more than I thought I could hate a game, and friends, that’s a lot. Some of the things I disliked are very subjective. You may detest the characters and plot as much as I did, or you may take a shining to them. I don’t know. You may find the battle system engaging or tedious. Other things are less subjective; I don’t know anyone who likes lengthy load times before and after every battle in an RPG, nor do I know that many folks who like bugs that stop you from progressing unless you reload the game. This is a surreal game about the redemption of a complete jerk, all wrapped up in a slightly inauthentic late 1990s style. Mechanically, it’s uninteresting at best, so I suspect whether or not you take to the game will depend on how you click with the story it’s telling. For me, it did not click. It really, rea...