Welcome to your SwitchArcade Roundup for November 2nd, 2018. Your smash champ Phil is here to deliver all the news that’s fit to print… er… post online regarding yesterday morning’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Nintendo Direct, as well as share some thoughts on Dark Souls: Remastered, and mention today’s new releases and eShop sales. Let’s kick things off!
Game of the Day
Dark Souls: Remastered ($39.99)

Long overdue for the SwitchArcade Roundup, we wrap up this week with a Game of the Day featuring Dark Souls: Remastered. I’m a total newbie to the Dark Souls series, so to say I got my butt kicked every which way but the subway would be an understatement. Dark Souls is the type of game that will constantly put you in your place, but each time you perish, it’s a lesson to be learned. You eventually pick up on enemy tells, how to block, how to evade certain attacks, when an enemy is vulnerable, where an enemy hides–awaiting an ambush, and much more. I love the interconnected world of Dark Souls, and how different paths open up, leading to shortcuts to previously explored areas. As always, seeing a bonfire is such a great relief, allowing you to spend your hard-earned souls and also use the bonfire as a continue point for when you die next. Note: I said WHEN you die next, and not IF you die.

The amount of secrets and ways to go about exploring the world of the game are truly many. While the developers/designers of Dark Souls...