{"id":5523,"date":"2022-04-27T14:37:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/nintendo-switch-sports-review-the-return-of-slapstick-fun\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T14:37:06","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:37:06","slug":"nintendo-switch-sports-review-the-return-of-slapstick-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/27\/nintendo-switch-sports-review-the-return-of-slapstick-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Sports review \u2013 the return of slapstick fun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo Switch; Nintendo
<\/strong>It\u2019s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it\u2019s as entertaining as ever<\/p>\n

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<\/a>\u2019 idea was this: wouldn\u2019t it be fun to wave a controller around like a tennis racquet? That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the game. But man, it\u2019s so<\/em> 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\u2019ve all had a break from flinging our limbs around in front of a console, I\u2019m glad it\u2019s back again.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Switch Sports<\/a> brings that idea to a new wave of families. Snapping off the Joy-Con controllers, you hand one to another person and compete in one of six simple sports: tennis, badminton, volleyball, bowling, football and swordfighting. That last one is Nintendo\u2019s own invention, called chambara, in which two opponents wield wooden swords at each other and try to knock each other off a raised platform into a swimming pool. If you\u2019ve got extra Joy-Cons, you can play some sports with four players; if you\u2019re solo, you can compete online to win glory and cute outfits for your adorably androgynous character. But playing alone robs you of slapstick comedy moments such as watching your partner hit the wall with a wild badminton swing and swear loudly in front of your children, which for me is rather the point.<\/p>\n

Nintendo Switch Sports is out 29 April; \u00a339.99<\/p>\n

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\nNintendo Switch; NintendoIt\u2019s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it\u2019s as entertaining as ever
\nFor 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\u2019 idea was this: wouldn\u2019t it be fun to wave a controller around like a tennis racquet? That\u2019s it. That\u2019s the game. But man, it\u2019s 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\u2019ve all had a break from flinging our limbs around in front of a console, I\u2019m glad it\u2019s back again.
\nNintendo Switch Sports brings that idea to a new wave of families. Snapping off the Joy-Con controllers, you hand one to another person and compete in one of six simple sports: tennis, badminton, volleyball, bowling, football and swordfighting. That last one is Nintendo\u2019s own invention, called chambara, in which two opponents wield wooden swords at each other and try to knock each other off a raised platform into a swimming pool. If you\u2019ve got extra Joy-Cons, you can play some sports with four players; if you\u2019re solo, you can compete online to win glory and cute outfits for your adorably androgynous character. But playing alone robs you of slapstick comedy moments such as watching your partner hit the wall with a wild badminton swing and swear loudly in front of your children, which for me is rather the point.
\nNintendo Switch Sports is out 29 April; \u00a339.99 Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nintendo Switch; NintendoIt\u2019s been a while since a video game got us up and moving like this, and happily it\u2019s 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\u2019 idea …<\/p>\n

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