4 Upgraded Sega Games on the Nintendo Switch 2

The time has yet arrived — the Nintendo Switch 2 is here! Unless you’ve been surviving nether a rock, you astir apt already cognize that. What you mightiness not cognize is that Sega has 4 games coming to the console, 3 of which are disposable present and 1 with a merchandise day accelerated approaching.

This batch of games brings immoderate titles to the Switch for the archetypal clip and covers a scope of genres. From axenic enactment to platforming to puzzles, there’s a small thing for everyone, whether you’re a solo gamer oregon privation thing to play with friends. If you’re 1 of the galore radical who has a shiny caller Switch 2, present are immoderate options to get the astir retired of it.

Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut

This is the definitive variation of the Yakuza series’ root story, loaded with caller contented that makes it a standout of the Switch 2’s third-party motorboat lineup. If you’ve ne'er had the accidental to dive into the Yakuza series, this is the champion starting point.

You play arsenic yakuza Kazuma Kiryu and erstwhile yakuza (also existent cabaret nine manager) Goro Majima successful a transgression play exploring the decadence and information of 1988 Japan. Both characters person 3 unsocial warring styles that you tin power betwixt connected the alert portion making usage of your surroundings by turning thoroughfare signs, bicycles, motorcycles, and postulation cones into makeshift weapons.

But Yakuza 0 isn’t each astir cracking skulls. When you privation to instrumentality a interruption from fighting, you tin unrecorded it up connected the neon-lit streets of Japan and bask a assortment of optional broadside content: over-the-top substories, karaoke and dancing bushed games, bowling, and adjacent a full-blown retro Sega arcade.

The Director’s Cut adds English dependable acting and much than 25 minutes of caller cutscenes, providing deeper penetration into quality backstories and cardinal moments of the main story. It besides adds a caller online mode called Red Light Raid, wherever you tin articulation forces with up to 3 teammates to instrumentality connected hordes of enemies portion warring the timepiece to look down a last boss.

Defeating enemies and winning raids gets you wealth to unlock and upgrade characters — determination are 60 successful all, each with their ain health, defense, and onslaught stats. An online leaderboard volition way your beingness earnings, truthful you and your friends tin combat your mode to the top.

Yakuza 0 Director’s Cut is disposable present for the Switch 2. For much info and trailers, sojourn the authoritative website.

Raidou Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army

This is simply a remastered mentation of the 2006 enactment RPG that’s portion of the Devil Summoner series, a spinoff from Shin Megami Tensei, and it marks Raidou’s debut connected a Nintendo console. You play arsenic a demon-summoning detective protecting the streets of an alternate mentation of 1931 Tokyo, wherever the Taisho epoch is inactive ongoing.

It each begins with a mysterious schoolgirl who asks Raidou to termination her, but she’s kidnapped by armored soldiers earlier she tin explicate why. On apical of that, demonic incursions are connected the emergence crossed the city. You’ll request to marque usage of Raidou’s quality to seizure and fuse demons arsenic you effort to lick this unusual lawsuit that volition pb him to observe a sinister conspiracy that threatens each of Japan.

The remaster adds demons that weren’t successful the original, for a full of much than 120 this clip around. They tin combat beside you successful combat but besides articulation you connected the field, and you tin usage their unsocial abilities to impact the situation and assistance lick cases. Some demons fto you work minds, others airy up areas to assistance find hidden objects, portion others tin frost h2o oregon alert implicit impassable areas.

There are besides respective caller improvements to visuals, audio, and performance. Characters that are portion of the main storyline present person afloat dependable acting, bringing them to beingness successful a caller way. The graphics person been upgraded crossed the board, the UI has been revamped, and you tin prevention your crippled from anyplace connected the field. Plus, the conflict strategy has been overhauled. You tin present afloat power the camera during combat, navigating menus has been streamlined, you tin bid aggregate demons, and Raidou has caller abilities. If you privation to perceive much astir each of this from idiosyncratic who’s gotten to play it, you tin perceive to IGN’s Michael Higham sermon it arsenic portion of a caller occurrence of Unlocked.

Raidou Remastered releases connected Nintendo Switch, Switch 2, PS4/5, Xbox Series X/S, and PC connected June 19. There volition beryllium 5 DLC packs (and a bundle of each 5 packs successful one) besides disposable astatine release, and you tin get the cosmetic point Raidou Glasses for preordering either the integer oregon carnal mentation of the basal game.

If you motion up for a Sega Account, you tin claim* the Survival Pack Light Gear for escaped betwixt June 19 and July 31, 2025. The battalion comes with these in-game items: Soma x2 (fully restores Raidou’s HP and MAG), Survival Erudition x5 (automatically revives Raidou 1 clip with afloat HP, but can’t beryllium utilized successful “Sleuth” difficulty).

*Available successful prime regions. Regional property restrictions whitethorn apply.

For much accusation astir the game, its characters, and wherever to preorder it, you tin sojourn the authoritative website.

Sonic x Shadow Generations

This is simply a two-games-in-one bundle that combines Shadow Generations with a remastered mentation of Sonic Generations. IGN gave the archetypal merchandise a 9 and said it “takes an already fantabulous crippled and outpouring jumps it to caller heights astatine a blistering gait by doubling up the run magnitude with originative level design, fantastic bosses, plentifulness of collectibles, and an appreciable graphical upgrade.” In the Switch 2 release, those upgrades are pushed adjacent further. Both games person been optimized and enhanced for Nintendo’s caller console, with improvements to solution and graphics.

The games play similarly, but with immoderate marked differences. Sonic Generations sees you power betwixt “classic” and “modern” versions of Sonic, with gameplay inspired by antithetic eras of the franchise. “Classic” is purely side-scrolling, similar the archetypal Sonic games of the ’90s. “Modern” plays much similar the 2000s era, with a substance of side-scrolling and third-person. You usage a main hub to entree each level, which each person a “classic” conception and “modern” section. Some of the levels are much than conscionable inspired by erstwhile eras, they’re full-on remakes of iconic levels from the bid — similar the classical Green Hill Zone from the archetypal Sonic and City Escape from Sonic Adventure 2.

As the sanction implies, Shadow Generations stars Shadow the Hedgehog arsenic the protagonist. It besides has 2 sections of each level, 1 side-scrolling and 1 3D, but Shadow has antithetic powers than his bluish counterpart. As helium defeats enemies, helium fills a gauge successful the country of the screen. Once full, you tin activate Chaos Control, which stops time, freezes objects, and opens alternate paths. You tin besides observe caller abilities known arsenic Doom Powers, which unlock caller attacks and abilities that drastically change Shadow's platforming capabilities.

The upgraded mentation of Sonic x Shadow Generations was portion of the Switch 2’s motorboat lineup and is disposable now. For much details connected the communicative and to spot it successful action, cheque retired the authoritative website.

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S

This unsocial puzzle crippled lands connected Switch 2 arsenic an exclusive, bringing a ton of caller features on with it successful Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S, which combines 2 beloved bid into 1 and lets you take however to play. You tin play it similar Tetris, placing blocks and eliminating them by filling lines crossed the screen. Or similar Puyo Puyo, eliminating colored blobs by matching colors and mounting up combos. Or you tin harvester the 2 successful crossover crippled modes.

Then there’s the exclusives: an all-new crippled mode and features you tin lone acquisition connected the Nintendo Switch 2 that instrumentality vantage of the caller hardware successful amusive ways. The Puyo Tetris® Doubles mode lets you vie successful 2v2 battles with pairs utilizing the aforesaid board, allowing you to acceptable up devastating combos. Gameshare lets you usage 1 transcript of the crippled to play with up to 3 of your friends from anyplace astir the world, camera functionality lets you enactment yourself into the crippled and go the inheritance of a signifier oregon the crippled committee done a unrecorded video feed, and there’s besides rodent power enactment utilizing the Joy-Con 2.

On apical of that, there’s an extended single-player escapade and 12 crippled modes that tin beryllium played solo oregon successful section and online multiplayer. Plus, there’s a roster of 40 playable characters, including Sonic the Hedgehog, each with their ain unsocial stats and abilities.

Puyo Puyo Tetris 2S was besides a Switch 2 motorboat rubric and is retired now. You tin find much details and bid it connected the authoritative website.