Welcome to your SwitchArcade Roundup for October 22nd, 2018. Your hardened adventurer Phil is back with more news and discounts pertaining to the Switch! This week is going to be extra spooky with impressions of Dark Souls: Remastered and Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption coming at you later. Nevertheless, let’s stick to the present for now, and take a glimpse at the Game of the Day to start of this week of new SwitchArcade Roundups!
Game of the Day
Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana ($59.99)

It’s a rarity to see the Ys series hit a Nintendo system in the modern era of gaming (the last was a 3D remake of Ys I and Ys II on the Nintendo DS). However, thanks to NIS America, the latest entry in the series–and the first original entry in eight years–sees its arrival on the Nintendo Switch with Ys VIII: Lacrimosa of Dana. When a gigantic squid monster capsizes the luxury ship that protagonist Adol Christin and his adventuring partner Dogi are sailing on, everyone on board the ship finds themselves washed up on an island. Unfortunately, this island is one from legend–a cursed one where those who find themselves on it never get to escape. With this nugget of knowledge understood, Adol searches to discover others who washed up on the shore of this island and bring them back to a makeshift town that serves as a hub in Ys VIII, Castaway Village.

Ys VIII is very much a more expansive game with plenty of exploring to do. While many of the areas of the island are i...