Nintendo Switch Sports review – the return of slapstick fun
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2022/apr/27/nintendo-switch-sports-review-the-return-of-slapstick-fun
Nintendo Switch; NintendoIt’s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it’s as entertaining as ever
For all their polymath complexity, all their melding of artistic and cinematic and technical achievements, timeless video games sometimes boil down to one very good idea. In 2006 Wii Sports’ idea was this: wouldn’t it be fun to wave a controller around like a tennis racquet? That’s it. That’s the game. But man, it’s so entertaining. Wii Sports sparked a brief obsession with motion-control video games in the late 00s that has since died out again, but now that we’ve all had a break from flinging our limbs around in front of a console, I’m glad it’s back again.