Platform: Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC via Steam (worldwide).(A word for everyone else: the port's perfectly fine, don't stress.)
Helpful tip: A word for serious scorechasers: this version seems to confirm to the Steam/Nesica versions from a few years ago, with all the minor deviations that implues. Why should I care? Ikaruga is both the first undisputed classic shooting game available for Switch and the last authentic Japanese shooting game released to mainstream acclaim and, while it's not universally admired by hardcore shooting fanatics, the game's intuitive systems and heavy emphasis on puzzle-style stage design ensure it's a very accessible game that still retains a wealth of challenge for superplayers. What's this? Treasure's classic polarity-switching bullet hell shooter, ported to Switch with all the features you'd want and expect, including online leaderboards and a vertical display option for handheld mode. Useless fact: Joe & Mac's popularity in Europe was such that Nintendo Germany saw fit to give the two cavemen a cameo in their Club Nintendo Mario comic alongside Mega Man's Dr Wily and the Pickford Brothers' would-be mascot, Plok. (Infinite credits doesn't hurt the experience either, mind.) Why should I care? Despite being a little shorter than the version you may have played at home, Joe & Mac is a fun pick-up-and-play game that's surprisingly amenable to co-op play. What's this? Data East's cartoony caveman side-scroller, released in arcades in 1991 and followed by a handful of ports and a few sequels despite the "caveman ninja" moniker, Joe & Mac's first adventure is less Ryu Hayabusa and more Ghouls 'n' Ghosts and Wonder Boy/Adventure Island. Platform: Nintendo Switch (North America).Useless fact: Ninja Combat is the first game in an unofficial trilogy of "wacky ninja games" from Alpha Denshi/ADK, the others being the overhead run-and-gun game Ninja Commando and the weapon-heavy fighting game The Ninja Master's. Why should I care? You want to play the one Neo Geo game with gameplay that matches the quality of the voice acting. What's this? A launch-window Neo Geo brawler developed by Alpha Denshi, starring a gaggle of ninjas on a quest to hurl approximately eight hundred shurikens into every individual opponent they cross, until they get bored or immediately stunlocked to death. Platform: Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4, Xbox One (worldwide).
Two major collections dropped this week: one hard not to love, one hard to hate.
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