

The gimmick here is that you move the slime, and when it hits a wall it splatters into a new shape. This is a collection of two puzzle games offering up a total of more than forty levels to play. And hey, look at that! There’s a demo, so you can do just that. If you love RPGs, you’ll most assuredly want to give this a try. This new remake gives the game the HD-2D treatment, and it looks absolutely amazing. Live A Live is one of its more unique RPGs, with seven different tales to choose from that ultimately come together for a grand finale. And I’m fully okay with this, because Square’s 16-bit output is so much more than Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana, and Chrono Trigger, and now more people can see that. I have to say, there have been a whole lot of English releases lately of old 16-bit RPGs that I started studying Japanese back in my teenage years just to play. You can easily enjoy it even if you don’t understand Japanese, so you may want to check that out if you know how to.

Over on the Japanese Super Famicom app, they’ve swapped out Kirby’s Avalanche (which had no Japanese release) for Kirby’s Star Stacker. It’s a strategy/action game that was never brought out in the West back in the day, and it is indeed fully in Japanese here too.

The NES gets something rather bizarre, with T&E Soft’s Daiva Story 6: Imperial of Nirsartia joining the service. On the Super NES, there’s the Puyo Puyo reskin Kirby’s Avalanche and Data East’s once-controversial fighter Fighter’s History. With little fanfare, Nintendo has dropped more Super NES and NES games for Nintendo Switch Online subscribers to play.
