Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for September 3rd, 2019. Today’s article is a little lighter than the last few, but we’ve still got a bunch of amazing new releases to check out. A small nugget of news and the usual sales information round things out. We’re only on the third day of the month and the list of purchase-worthy games already adds up to well over one hundred dollars. This is going to be a rough one, friends. Let’s venture forward!
News
‘Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair’ Arrives on October 8th

Yooka-Laylee may have been created as a spiritual successor to Banjo-Kazooie, but there’s another very popular Rare-developed franchise that many fans would love to see the ex-Rare folks at Playtonic Games tackle. Now, Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair is obviously going to be a bit different from those games thanks to the overhead stages and the unique moves of its protagonists, but those side-scrolling stages have a nice familiar ring to them anyway. The game is set to arrive on October 8th, and pre-ordering will net you some extra goodies. New Releases
Final Fantasy VIII Remastered ($19.99)

SwitchArcade Highlight!
Squall Leonhart and company are back just in time to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the game’s North American release. Square Enix put a little more oomph behind this revival than it did for Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy IX, creating new, more detailed 3D models...