Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 7th, 2019. In today’s article, we’ve got a review of The Alliance Alive HD Remastered by yours truly, and a guest review of Daemon X Machina by TouchArcade’s resident mech expert Mikhail Madnani. We also take a look at a trio of new releases, check out a brief bit of news, and run through the usual lists of sales information. Let’s get to it!
News
‘SEGA AGES Columns 2’ and ‘SEGA AGES Ichidant-R’ Come West October 17th

It’s been a bit touch and go, but thanks to a couple of delays on the Japan side it seems that the Western SEGA AGES releases are finally going to catch up to the Japanese releases. SEGA has announced that Columns 2: A Voyage Through Time and Puzzle & Action: Ichidant-R will release in Europe and North America next week. Neither game has ever seen wide release in the West before, though Ichidant-R did have an English localization prepared for it. Both games include internet multiplayer, and by chance both also include a bonus Genesis/Mega Drive mode. Columns 2 features a slightly stripped-down version of the Genesis port of Columns, and Ichidant-R includes the Mega Drive version in addition to the arcade original. Sadly, the Mega Drive version of Ichidant-R is completely in Japanese, but hey, a bonus is a bonus. The two games will release on the North American eShop on October 17th. Reviews
The Alliance Alive HD Remastered ($49...