Time for our regular bunch of quick-fire reviews and impressions of what’s been under the spotlight at Retro Arcadia this week, old and new and a bit of both… I’ve actually spent most of the week in New York so not quite the bumper crop we looked at last time, but it’s a decent crop all the same!

And the cream of the crop, mere days before a whole year had passed since I waited in a virtual line during injury time at a football match to order it, my Deathsmiles I+II Collector’s Edition finally turned up in the post! It contains the Switch port of the enhanced Xbox 360 presentation of Cave’s 2007 supernatural side-scrolling bullet-hell shoot ‘em up, which also happens to be my all-time favourite shoot ‘em up, and its 2009 sequel, which doesn’t quite reach those heights but it probably is my all-time favourite Christmas…
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