Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 18th, 2019. I had hoped to do more than just the new release summaries and sales lists today, but the eShop had to go and drop fifteen new games and more than a hundred new sales, so that put an end to that. But hey, it’s not so bad. You’ve got summaries to read for all of the many new releases, and a real mighty list of sales to comb through. Not the worst way to slide into the weekend, I’d say. Let’s check it all out!
New Releases
Ring Fit Adventure ($79.99)

SwitchArcade Highlight!
If there’s one good thing that came out of the Wii U face-planting, it’s that Nintendo has been careful to take a new approach when it reintroduces old successes. Wii Fit was a massive success back in the day, but a new approach was clearly needed if Nintendo wanted to go back to that well. And so we end up with Ring Fit Adventure, a fantasy adventure where you defeat a body-building dragon and his followers by doing exercises with a flexible ring peripheral. See, the fun thing about covering Nintendo is that sometimes you get to write sentences like that one. I don’t know how good it is as an RPG, but it certainly seems like an interesting, fresh take on the whole exercise video game deal. A Hat in Time ($29.99)

SwitchArcade Highlight!
You know, I don’t want to give Yooka-Laylee too much stick because I think it was closer to Banjo-Kazooie than most people’s memori...