Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for March 2nd, 2020. In today’s article, we’ve got two full-length reviews for you, a Mini-View, summaries of all of the latest releases, and of course the usual list of sales. News has been a bit flat, likely due to the unusual circumstances the world finds itself in at the moment, but there’s still plenty to read, friends. Let’s dive on in!
Reviews
Samurai Shodown ($49.99)

One of the fun things about being a Switch owner and/or follower is seeing some truly impressive ports hit the system. Games like The Witcher 3, Alien: Isolation, GRID Autosport, and Dragon Quest XI among many others stand as outstanding feats of squeezing every ounce of power out of some fairly humble hardware. Even knowing what can be done, however, I was still a bit worried about Samurai Shodown. Fighting games rely on smooth technical performance more than most genres, and SNK frankly dropped the ball pretty hard with SNK Heroines. Thankfully, the company has done a far better job with Samurai Shodown. While it’s not hard to spot the differences in terms of visual quality between this version and the game on other consoles, especially in handheld mode, the game runs very well. Performance has clearly been prioritized with this port, which is definitely a good thing. In docked mode, the game appears to hold fairly steady at 60 fps except during certain special attacks. The resolution and geometry have seen s...