Soccer is the most disappointing: it plays like a slower, less flashy version of Rocket League. Badminton is also the only sport in the collection that made me notice the Joy-Con’s HD Rumble – precise haptic feedback that I could feel in my hand whenever the racquet connected with the birdie to make a satisfying *ting* sensation. It’s limited to two players at a time, but the often-heated returns feel much more intense for it. You can even hold the trigger to initiate a drop shot, forcing your opponent to rush the net so you can then satisfyingly smash the birdie to the opposite corner of the court. It offers the most control, rewarding underhand returns, smashes, birdie placement, and more fine-tuned executions. Once everyone gets the hang of these motions it’s a lot of fun and made us feel like we were working as a team, but getting to that point wasn’t nearly as instinctive as the other games.īadminton is easily my favorite sport of the bunch. Your success is almost entirely based on cooperation with your teammate, because well-timed sets, jumps, and spikes compound into stronger, harder-to-return shots. During any given match you’ll be automatically shuffled through all the different positions, from server to setter to blocker.
Some of the individual games fare better than others when it comes to the intuitiveness of the controls – specifically, volleyball is the most difficult sport to simply pick up and play.
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Every single game in the collection is immediately more fun in this setting – chambara becomes a series of wild flails while onlookers cheer on, badminton emerges as an intense back and forth with neither player willing to accept defeat, and soccer turns into a mad sprint to the ball to try and get some last-second diving headers in before the clock hits zero. Beyond some of the routine headaches with connecting all the Joy-Con correctly, getting my friends up and at it was a breeze. So I got together with a group of 12 friends and let them have at it. The special sauce that Wii Sports always had to bring in frequent gamers and the uninitiated alike is absolutely still here, and it’s the simplicity of the motion controls that makes it work.īut to really test out Switch Sports in its natural environment, you need a party. Similarly, when bowling, both my parents tended to walk up to the screen every time they threw the ball because the simplicity of it made those movements feel all the more natural to them – like they were bowling a round in real life.
There’s fun to be had in playing a quick tennis match against some NPCs or bowling a few frames alone, but Switch Sports is undeniably at its best when you’re playing in the same room with other people, waving your arms and legs around like maniacs.Īlthough I stood relatively still when playing a match of badminton against my mom, making the bare-minimum motions with the Joy-Con necessary to trigger on-screen movements, my mom would lunge across the room to return a shot, throw her shoulder into each smash, and ultimately ended up winded because she wasn’t playing Switch Sports like a video game: she was playing it like the real thing.
My first day I spent time playing each sport alone to get a feel for them, and while putting spin on a backhand return in tennis to the tune of its excellent music tracks gave me a dose of nostalgia, it wasn’t until I decided to play a few rounds with my parents that the magic of Wii Sports came back in force.
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They’re all generally high quality, but pale in comparison to Wii Sports Resort’s 12 (admittedly less consistent) games when taken as a full package. You can play any of Switch Sports’ six games (volleyball, badminton, bowling, soccer, chambara/sword fighting, and tennis) alone or with friends, both locally and online. Just like Wii Sports before it, Nintendo Switch Sports is best played as a fun but shallow party game that you can break out for friends and family in a pinch, though this time it’s not quite the novelty it was back in 2006. Remember when everyone and their grandma was caught up in the Wii Sports craze more than 15 years ago? Nintendo Switch Sports tries to recapture that lightning-in-a-bottle moment with a tighter but all too familiar experience, refining the same concept of simple, family-friendly motion-controlled games and applying it to new and old sports alike.
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