Game Review: Nintendo Switch Sports – Nintendo Switch
Fun, but repetitive
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Hello, dear friends! Last Friday we received our review code for the recently released Nintendo Switch Sports on Nintendo Switch. During the weekend we set aside a few hours to play the latest game from Nintendo that tries to capture the fun and magic of the good old Wii Sports from 15 years ago.
Nintendo Switch Sports comes with six games that we can play on our own, with friends and family, or online. We have Soccer, Volleyball, Bowling, Tennis, Badminton, and Chambara, which allows us to play with swords.
All the games are fun in their own way, but we fell in love with Bowling and Badminton. These felt to us the most addictive and entertaining.
Offering different play styles as it should, Nintendo Switch Sports doesn’t feel necessary as a title from 2022, but more like a rehash of the above-mentioned Wii Sports and that’s not a novelty anymore. The game is good, that’s for sure, but becomes very repetitive and there are not too many things to do in it after you switched disciplines for one hour.
We didn’t try the online features because we are not subscribed to the Nintendo Online service and they didn’t provide membership codes this year, so we can’t talk about that functionality, but I guess and hope that Nintendo Switch Sports should be better with online friends.
The good part is that Nintendo Switch Sports is easy to play, has intuitive controls, and can be enjoyed by casual and hardcore gamers alike. The entire family can join you in the fun, regardless of their age or skills, as long as none of them is disabled.
Sadly, Nintendo continues to not make any efforts when it comes to accessibility for their games. Aside from an alternate color scheme and some really minimal customization, there’s nothing that can be considered ease of access for disabled and impaired gamers in Switch Sports. No text to speech, no menu narration, no larger text, no controller layouts or special vibrations, nothing. That’s too bad because these games could have been made accessible for almost everyone.
The presentation is colorful from what Alina tells me and the performance is satisfying, offering a stable, butter-smooth, 60 FPS in all the different sports. The soundtrack is excellent and helps the player to reach a better level of immersion.
Although Nintendo would like to believe that Switch Sports could bring back the nostalgia of the times long gone, the truth is that it’s just another somewhat dated and barebones experience. Sure, it’s fun for a short time, and probably it’s even better for friends, but with just six titles at launch and with Golf releasing later this year, I don’t think that it will ever become the fitness program they intended it to be.
The lack of accessibility options detracts even more from its potential, but who knows, maybe they will manage to turn this around in the future with the release of more content and if they acknowledge that impaired gamers should receive support and be treated with the same respect as abled ones.
Verdict – Good
Review copy provided by CD Media
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Victor Dima
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Victor Dima is a Blind Gaming Journalist and Accessibility Ambassador, Living in Oslo with his wife Alina. Victor was the first journalist in Romania to receive the PS5 & the PS VR2 from PlayStation. He is also working closely with Xbox Nordic and other game publishers such as Ubisoft, Ea, Bungie, Activision, blizzard, square Enix, Capcom, Rockstar Games, Sega, PlayStation studios, WB Games, Bethesda and many others.
With over 12 years of experience covering the Gaming Industry, he started victordima.net in 2013 and since February 2022 all his articles are posted in English in order to reach a more global audience.
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