Welcome to the SwitchArcade Roundup for July 5th! I hope your July 4th was good, regardless if you were in America eating some barbecue and watching fireworks, or elsewhere, enjoying a normal Wednesday. Unfortunately, developers decided that releasing a game after the holiday, and not before, so that people could spend said holiday playing games that released before, but I guess it?s the weekend coming up. Anyway, there’s a ton of new games today, let’s talk about them.
New Releases
Pocket Rumble ($9.99)
I don?t know why I was quite so excited for this one to pick it up right away, but I despaired a little at not being able to dive into this on the July 4th holiday. This is a fighting game with simplified controls and no complex button movements. All specials are done by holding a lower diagonal and holding A or B. What?s odd is that there are normal moves available by tapping A or B, but the difference between a tap and hold is slight at best. Thankfully, you can skirt around these restrictions by setting buttons to specifically be ?Tap A? and ?Tap B?, giving you a bit more control if you please. Also, this game is surprisingly tough in singleplayer, with CPU opponents that are coming after you right away. It?s a definite trial by fire. Thankfully, the game offers lessons on how to use different maneuvers and tricks, and it does so in a minimalist fashion. So you don?t just get tossed around, if you?re a dabbler in fighting games like I am, you can learn the tr...