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Wii Sports’ successor lacks decoration,
In Nintendo Switch Sports, you throw bowling balls, kick footballs, or smash volleyball with motion controls. Just like in the past with Wii Sports. Is Nintendo Switch Sports a modern update to that classic?
It’s inevitable to compare Switch Sports to Wii Sports. Nintendo promotes Switch Sports as a game where the whole family is fanatically waving controllers, just like at the time with Wii Sports.
There are also many similarities in terms of content. Switch Sports contains six different sports: volleyball, badminton, football, chanbara (sword fighting), tennis and bowling. The latter three sports were also in Wii Sports or Wii Sports Resort.
Good steering
The motion controls in Wii Sports were already good and not very surprising: it is in Switch Sports too. With a little practice, you can quickly bowl strike after strike.
Tennis also imitates racket strokes well, including slices and topspin. It is annoying that you do not control your characters directly. As a result, you sometimes get strange behind the ball and it becomes clumsy improvising to return the ball.
The angle at which the player holds his sword translates twisted well to the screen and with a little practice, pots become true tactical jousting. Nice is the option to hit with two controllers and therefore two imaginary swords at the same time.
Wii Sports’ successor lacks decoration
Volleyball, football and badminton
Volleyball is varied in that players have to catch underhand balls one moment, then give an overhand set-up and then smash again with a sense of timing. Together with swordsmanship, it is also the most intense sport.
Badminton is the only miss. Underhand strokes seem absent or register not well. The sport seems to want to imitate professional badminton, while the average player prefers to play camping badminton.
No family game nights
Despite the good controls: Switch Sports falls short. Whoever starts the game and gets started immediately has all sports and options at your disposal.
There are no higher difficulty levels or extra options to unlock. Also missing are high scoreboards on which the whole family can compete against each other.
Unlocking extra outfits, other balls or rackets is also not possible offline. For that you have to play online. In addition, all sports are inserted on short pots. The option to organize a tournament offline would have been nice.
Switch Sports is suitable for short games and not so much for a game night with the family, as a Mario Party or Mario Kart is.
Wii Sports’ successor lacks decoration
Online offers a bit more, but not enough
Online there is a bit more to play for. The online mode is for one or two people. By playing sports you earn points with which you unlock hats, other rackets or emoji for your character. Over time, you will also be assigned a rank that indicates which level you are at.
The online highlight is the set-up of bowling. Sixteen players bowl at the same time and after three frames, players always fall off. It is therefore nice and busy and exciting at the bowling alley.
Unfortunately, that line is not extended to the other sports. There, too, loose and especially short pots strike the clock.
Come back later
Whoever plays online for a few hours, has earned all the unlockable items and really only has the online ranks to play for. Fortunately, the unlockable items rotate, so it pays to come back later.
That goes for all of Switch Sports. Nintendo has already indicated that a future update will add wave. This was the absolute winner of Wii Sports because of its depth and long shelf life.
It is therefore good that this sport is added, because Switch Sports is just too bare to really stay fun for a long time.
Wii Sports’ successor lacks decoration
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