Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 7th, 2021. Today was looking like it was going to be a bit of a dull one in terms of new releases, but then Interplay threw us a surprise out of the middle of nowhere (Or not – the game has been delayed a few days!). Well, I won’t complain. There are a couple of other decent games today aside from that big-pants release, and a lot of more… dubious titles. Well, that’s how things go sometimes. We’ve got summaries of everything, as usual. We also have the expected lists of incoming and outgoing sales for you to look at. Let’s get on the road!
New Releases
Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance ($29.99)

SwitchArcade Highlight! What" Where did this come from" You’re just going to go and suddenly drop a game like this on us, Interplay" Hey, that’s cool by me. Things are a bit different these days, but time was that you couldn’t get many decent Diablo-style action-RPGs on home consoles. In the PlayStation 2/Xbox/Gamecube generation, Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance (and its sequel) scratched the itch quite nicely. You and a friend could hack, slash, and zap your way through an entire Monstrous Compendium worth of trouble set in the Forgotten Realms world. And now you can do it again on your Switch! Just be advised that it’s not quite as long as some more modern games in the genre. Still a good fifteen to twenty hours, though. (This...