Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for October 8th, 2019. In today’s jam-packed article, we’ve got reviews of two new releases: Trine 4 and Call of Cthulhu. In addition, there are summaries of today’s many new releases, including Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair, The Alliance Alive HD Remastered, Asphalt 9 Legends, and more. Finally, a nice batch of sales on some great games round things out. Let’s get right to it, shall we"
Reviews
Trine 4: The Nightmare Prince ($29.99)

The original Trine is now just a hair over ten years old. It was one of the many successes in the big indie boom of the late aughts, a well-crafted Lost Vikings-style puzzle platformer that put players in control of three unique heroes. Each hero had his or her own abilities, and players had to use them together in order to move forward. While hardly the first game of that sort, its gorgeous visuals and excellent execution made Trine a winner. A couple of years later in 2011, developer Frozenbyte put together a sequel that largely built on the mechanics of the first. Trine 2 didn’t reinvent the wheel, but players and critics were hungry for more of what they had seen in the first, so it went over quite well. Frozenbyte did some other non-Trine projects here and there, but none of them seemed to connect with audiences quite the same way. So in 2015, the developer decided to revisit the franchise with Trine 3: The Artifacts of Power. With the...