Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for May 23rd, 2019. For a Thursday, there aren’t a whole ton of new releases, but that’s probably partly owed to the downpour that fell on Tuesday. Still, we’ve got several games to look at and a few that are actually pretty interesting. I’ve also got a little hands-on preview of an absolutely bananas upcoming action-RPG, a little bit of news, and some nice sales information for the road. Let’s save a magic dog!
News
‘YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World’ Comes West in October

Once upon a time, there was a Japanese game publisher named ELF. They were known for two things, broadly speaking: making porn games for computers, and making porn games for computers that were sometimes worth playing. The best of the bunch often got slightly sanitized releases on home consoles. YU-NO was one of those. A visual novel with an outstandingly ambitious storyline involving parallel worlds, YU-NO was a pretty big seller on computers and an even bigger seller in its SEGA Saturn release. In a sense, its expansive storytelling makes it a great-grandfather to games like Steins;Gate. ELF is no longer with us, but modern VN publisher 5pb has picked up the rights to many of its games, including YU-NO. A remake was produced for a number of platforms including the Switch, and it is that version that will finally see an English release on October 1st of this year via Spi...