Two for the Price of None

Oh, that whole Nintendo Direct thing? I didn't watch it... but fortunately, these guys did! Some highlights include a sequel to Splatoon, a new game in the Mario Golf franchise, and remakes of titles from a few console generations ago, including Legend of Mana and late Xbox Classic obscurity Stubbs the Zombie. Okay, I can see another Mana game on the Switch, but Stubbs the freaking Zombie? The action game built on the Halo engine, where you lob your own decayed, exploding body parts at residents of a quaint 1950s town? That came out of left field. Hell, that came out of a baseball stadium several miles to the west.

I don't want no Stubbs, a Stubbs is a corpse
that will get no love from me...
(image from USGamer)

Also, some sword-wielders from Xenoblade Chronicles are being added to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate, and I will not be buying them. At the rate things are going, the cast of the next Smash Bros game will be fifty percent Fire Emblem and Xenoblade characters by volume. They can call it "Oops! All Swordies."

Now for the news that excites me! Match of the Millennium, the best fighting game and possibly best game ever on the Neo-Geo Pocket, has found a new home on the Nintendo Switch. That'll set you back $7.99, like all the other games in the Neo-Geo Pocket Color Selection series. Also, Capcom Arcade Studio has finally arrived, bringing with it two free games. You'll get 1943 by default, but you can also have Ghosts 'n Goblins gratis if you download it before the 25th. Oh yeah, I'd buy that for no dollars. 

The remainder of the games in CAS can be bought in packs, split into three different eras of gaming and each costing $14.99. The problem is that many of the games from the latter two packs were already available in Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection and Capcom Beat 'Em Up Bundle. No, they don't automatically unlock in CAS if you already own those two Switch games, although they really should. 

One other thing worth mentioning: Capcom Arcade Studio awards a fake currency called "CASPO" for your performance in the games, which appears to have no other function but online bragging rights. As if anyone would brag or even openly admit their high scores in a game that sounds like a brand of condoms. On the plus side, you won't have to feed all your CASPO (the machine gun toting ghost?) into a slot machine to unlock goodies, as you did in Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded for the PSP. On the down side, why didn't they call it Zenny? That's been the coin of the realm in Capcom games since the late 1980s.