![]() ![]() Maybe the one that just killed you! Nifty. You’ll then use them until they take too much damage, at which point you can discard them and, if you have enough phantasmal energy, take over another one. It’s an interesting side-scrolling action game whose chief hook is that you can possess the bodies of any enemy to take them over. Jaleco’s Avenging Spirit is as good a place as any to start. ![]() Ratalaika is expanding its emulation efforts to cover some arcade titles now, it seems. SwitchArcade Score: 3.5/5 Avenging Spirit ($5.99) If you’ve checked off the big-pants games in the action-RPG looter genre on the system and you don’t mind the price, then and only then should you consider grabbing Dark Alliance II. These no-frills rereleases of the games are highly enjoyable in a vacuum, but when measured up against similar games in the genre available on the Switch, they feel lacking. That’s really the bottom line with Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II, and it’s exactly what I would say for the port of the first game. Perhaps not as grand of a time as you would have with Diablo or Torchlight, but let’s assume for the sake of argument that you’ve tapped those games out and want something else like them. If you have someone who can join you for local multiplayer, you’ll really have a grand time. You get to explore lots of suitably creepy dungeons, and there are several interesting characters to play as. There’s lots of red meat here for Forgotten Realms fans (yes, you can play as Drizzt), loot flies everywhere with wild abandon, and it’s hard to argue with that Dungeons & Dragons Monstrous Compendium. That all said, I can’t say I didn’t get sucked into this stupid button-basher again, just like I did in my university days. It’s by and large the same Diet Diablo it was twenty years ago, and while I think a person can still have some mindless fun with it, it’s a tough game to recommend at the price it commands. Everything is a bit sharper graphically, but it doesn’t have any major improvements or even online play. This isn’t a fancy remake of Dark Alliance II, either. The Torchlight games, which rival Diablo to a far better extent than the Dark Alliance games, are also on Switch and they’re even cheaper. But the Dark Alliance games and sister title Champions of Norrath were good enough.īut we live in different times now, don’t we? I can pick up Diablo III for about the same price as this game on Switch if I catch a decent sale. We didn’t have a ton of choices for games like these on PlayStation 2, Xbox, or GameCube. And in that sense, they were fine games for the era. I mean, apart from the extremely dope PlayStation port of Diablo. Here’s the thing about the Dark Alliance games, friends: for console gamers looking to get their Diablo-style hack-and-slash looter fix, these were the McDonalds we had at home. I really wish this game wasn’t as expensive as it is. Let’s head on out! Reviews & Mini-Views Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II ($29.99) We close things out with the usual lists of new and outgoing sales. The big one today is Frogun, a lovely-looking thing that I hope lives up to its promise. First I dive into the Forgotten Realms to review Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance II, then I enter the afterlife for a little Avenging Spirit. In today’s article, I’ve got a couple of new reviews for you to look over. Hello gentle readers, and welcome to the SwitchArcade Round-Up for August 2nd, 2022.
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