Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for February 25th, 2019. The last couple of days have been pretty quiet as far as news goes, but we’ve got one heck of a week ahead of us. Warhammer Quest and Trials Rising hit tomorrow, Deltarune and ToeJam & Earl are coming later this week, and that’s just scratching the surface of the avalanche of new games. So let’s enjoy a sip of our chosen beverages and have a bit of a breather today. Here we go!
Impressions
SEGA AGES Alex Kidd in Miracle World

The Switch SEGA AGES releases aren’t coming as quickly or as smoothly as most had hoped when the project was originally announced, but at the very least we can all agree that once they arrive, they’re quite good. Not only do they do a good job of bringing back the classics, they also add some interesting options for you to play them in new ways. The result is that, at least in my opinion, anyone can enjoy a little trip into SEGA’s history with each new release. While Western players wait for the highly original cult favorite Gain Ground to arrive, Japan’s eShop saw the release last week of a slightly more famous chapter of the company’s history: Alex Kidd in Miracle World. An early effort at creating a mascot platformer to counter Nintendo’s industry-changing Super Mario Bros., Alex Kidd was a reasonably big success in the relatively small pond that was the Master System market. The titular Alex Kidd charact...