Hello, gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for December 5th, 2018. There’s no featured game today because there’s just way too much news to go over. But if you really need something to play, go open up your list of games and pick… I dunno, the sixth one from the end of the list. Have fun! Anyway, we’ve got a bunch of news items today, one new release, a few new sales, and a bunch of finishing sales. Let’s get into it.
News
Ancient Corp Has a Couple of Switch Games Cooking

Ancient Corporation, the developer headed by wunderkind composer Yuzo Koshiro, has pulled back the curtain on not one, but two upcoming Switch games. The first is the latest in the Gotta Protectors series of tower defense games. If you missed the previous one and still have a Nintendo 3DS, I’d strongly recommend giving the game a go. Great aesthetics and just a lot of fun all around. And that’s more or less what I’d expect from this new one, which will be releasing in Japan sometime in 2019. Ancient also revealed an RPG called Royal Anapoko Academy, and while details are scarce, it too should be coming out in Japan next year. There’s no talk of English releases, but previous games have made it to the West, so that’ll probably happen here as well. Rumors are Swirling Again About a Switch Release of ‘Metroid Prime Trilogy’

Metroid Prime Trilogy was a collection of all three Metroid Prime games, originally released ...