Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 13th, 2024. Today was an important holiday of sorts in Japan, and I also had to go to the hospital for the usual reasons. Nevertheless, I still had time to bring you two reviews, covering and , as well as looks at the new releases of the day and the usual lists of new and expiring sales.
Cutting it very close to the wire here, mind you. Well, let’s get to it before my supper gets cold! Friends, it has been a long time since I was a kid. It gets longer every year.
It’s also been a very, very long time since I got to have a month-long summer vacation where I was free to do whatever. These days are well in the past, and they are not coming back. Every once in a while, Kaz Ayabe gives me a chance to relive those days in a virtual way, and I always appreciate it.
Whether it be through the original series, the quirky , or even with the impish little , Ayabe’s games have a way of evoking nostalgia for things you might not have even experienced to begin with. feels like it’s going all the way back to , presenting a more straightforward take on a child’s summer vacation in the countryside. I mean, as straightforward as being the child of a traveling circus owner can be.
You arrive in the town of Yomogi at the beginning of August and are told by your parents that you’ll be moving along at the end of the month. You’re free to do what you want to fill those days, with plenty of activities, missions, a.