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Nintendo Switch Sports (2022)

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So you've probably at some point played Wii Sports.

Came out in 2006. Everyone basically played it. Put motion controls on the proverbial map.

I mean, Wii Play certainly wasn't gonna do it... and we were years before Mario Sports game were gonna utilize motion controls, so it was just you, this weird new controller remote thing, the Miis, and whatever sport suited your fancy.

You got tennis, baseball, boxing, golf, and bowling.
Small, little game but the replay value was certainly there.

Then a few years later, when people found out that there wasn't a gyro in their standard issue Wii remotes, Nintendo released Wii Sports Resort; which had way more games and basically was there to show off the new one-to-one motion controls of the Motion-plus add-on.

Many new sports were added, like sword-fighting, archery, and plenty more.

Same classics were there too, like a re-done bowling, which for the life of me, feels pretty identical to the original Wii Sports bowling, but whatever-- still bowling.

Obviously all the games, including the re-released ones had more control nuance packed in, so that had to be taken into consideration.

It cemented Wuhu Island, the new setting for the game, as being a new favourite Nintendo location that they'd re-use in the 3DS generation of games.

But as we got further away from the original Wii Sports, we could kinda see Nintendo losing the initial blast of originality and cultural significance.

After that we had the Wii U system and... yeah that era wasn't Nintendo's best.

Om Wii U was Wii Sports Club, which was basically originally pitched as a membership plan thing... and then eventually just sold as an entire product.

Wii Sports Club has the original sports from Wii Sports, but this time with Gamepad specific features.

Many of which kinda didn't really end up affecting the overall gameplay experience, at least in my opinion.

I thought the Wii U gamepad was a huge missed oppurtunity when it came to software made for it, but at least Nintendo did try some ideas in this game... not that they paid off all that much, but it's at least still something.

Wii Sports Club aloso wanted to make you box with two Wi remotes at the same time, which is one of the first times I've ever seen dual wielding Wii remotes as a gameplay concept.

And interestingly enough, I felt like it was just as accurate as the original Wii Sports which just used the nunchuk attachment.
Even kinda... less at some points. Maybe I just wasn't playing correctly? I don't know.

Wii Sports Club, much like the Wii U, isn't all that remembered, and for pretty fair reasons. It's just kinda bland, and didn't feature much to keep players coming back the same way the two previous Wii Sports titles did.

So now that we're in the Switch era, Nintendo abandoned the Wii Sports namesake, and finally produced Nintendo Switch Sport... which is also kinda alright.

Personally I would have called it Mii Sports, but that's just me.

But then again, Nintendo even designed new player avatars just for the game, of which I am really not a fan of.

They're not terrible, I just find them highly generic. You can still use Miis though, thank God.

There's new sports, new control methods, but most importantly, there's still bowling.

Everything feels pretty good, and you can tell Nintendo has been putting in more effort to keep things feeling familiar, while also refining core mechanics so that there's more to this title, over those previous.

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