Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 4th, 2020. The current calendar date be with you, friends! Today’s article features a full-sized review of Streets of Rage 4 along with Mini-Views of a handful of other recent releases. Not too much in the world of Switch-specific news in the last couple of days, and there aren’t any new releases to cover today either. But we do have sales, and lots of them. There’s plenty to see, so let’s get down to business!
Reviews
Streets of Rage 4 ($24.99)

Streets of Rage 4 lives up to its name. Fans of the series will know how much that statement means, especially since it has been 26 years since the last installment. Scrapped plans from SEGA, unsuccessful pitches from outside developers, at least one high-profile fan project that got shut down, and seemingly countless hacks of the existing trilogy were the only signs of life for the brand for literal decades. When a sequel was finally announced, it wasn’t even coming from SEGA. Rather, DotEmu would publish, with Lizardcube and Guard Crush Games handling the development. Was this really going to be fine, or did we have another Sonic 4 on our hands" If during the height of the 16-bit console era you had asked me what I thought a Streets of Rage game might look like 20 years in the future, I might have imagined something like Streets of Rage 4. Perhaps it’s a blessing that this sequel has come long after the idea that every ...