Welcome to the latest edition of the SwitchArcade Roundup, where it's the calm before the storm that is this week's release schedule. 10 games will hit the Switch on Thursday, the 22nd, but only one title is on the Switch today, Layers of Fear: Legacy. However, there are still a few interesting pieces of news and some sales to discuss before tomorrow's madness, and I'm sensing a pretty strong theme of brutality running throughout a lot of the news...
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Sega's bringing back the Shining RPG series to the west, and the Switch is coming along for the ride, too. Shining Resonance Refrain is a remaster of the PS3-only title Shining Resonance. If you're expecting a turn-based strategy game, or even a first-person dungeon crawler, prepare to be disappointed, as this is a party-based action-RPG, more similar to the Tales series than anything previously released in the Shining series. With the possible exception of Shining Soul for the Game Boy Advance. The Shining name is really just a brand at this point, but hey, this could be a fun time, especially if it manages to maintain the Shining aesthetic. Now how about some new Shining Force games"
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The Switch is getting its own physics-based side-scrolling bike stunt game. Urban Trial Playground clearly exists in the genre populated by the Trials series of games, with plenty of offshoots like Bike Baron and Trial Xtreme. The relatively short levels and high replayability of the ...