[S]Wii[/S] Switch Sports

[Violentvixen]

Switch Sports came out a couple weeks ago and I really like it!

Bowling is fun, although it took me a bit to get used to not letting go of the trigger. Rumor is that this is to help prevent people letting go of the wiimotes joycons and breaking their TVs but who knows. In offline mode there's a trick mode with moving platforms and bumpers and such.

Tennis works well, I like that you control both characters at once and the AI has been good at realizing which character I intend to control at the moment.

Volleyball took me a bit to get the flow of but I like it. I'm terrible at volleyball in real life and struggle to get the timing of the bump right here too but oh man getting a spike feels good.

Badminton is probably the only "meh" one of the bunch. It's fine and everything works well, it's just boring. I'd rather play tennis.

Soccer is utterly bonkers and the least exercise of them all in online mode. It's just Rocket League really. In offline mode there's a shootout mode which is the only thing in the game that actually uses the leg strap. I successfully scored a goal by doing a header/faceplant so A+.

Chambara is, um, sword fighting? But on a platform above water? And sometimes you do flips? I love it, especially that there are three different sword types.

Right now the first round of clothing/accessories is about to cycle out, I'm guessing they'll return later. This is one thing in the game I'm grumpy about though, as different players seem to get different options for items and there doesn't seem to be a way to use cloud saves to keep items unlocked on another console even if you sign in with the same Nintendo profile.

I'm pretty limited in mobility due to an injury in January and haven't been able to do Ringfit or walk much or anything else. So this been the first time in a while I've gotten to do anything really competitive and damn does it feel good.

Also they use the riff from the Wii Sports theme because seriously how could you not.

Edit: well phooey I guess the strikethrough code doesn't work in thread titles? Bah.

 

[Mogri]

header/faceplant

This is the game's killer feature as far as I'm concerned

 

[John]

We got this too! At first I didn't like that all avatar upgrades are locked behind playing online, but the interaction's minimal at the moment. Bowling's getting competitive though, at first my kids could get in the top brackets by getting some spares here and there, but the last couple times they played, if you didn't get at least two strikes in the first 3 frames you were out.

Oh, and if anyone was worried, the Wii Sports Injuries live on. My kids were playing Tennis, and my daughter clocked her brother on the side of the head pretty good with a serve. We make them wear the wrist strap, and had moved the coffee table in front of the TV as a barrier, but didn't have anything between them. My son will bounce all around the room even if it has no bearing on the game, and he just got into her bubble at the wrong time. Respect the bubbles!

 

[Violentvixen]

Finally got to the ranked league in soccer and am relieved, because every now and then I'd get paired up with some newbie who kicks the ball into the wrong goal or a whole team of people who just crowd the ball.

Much more fun to actually play as a team, although I wish there were better communication methods. Ah well.

 

[Violentvixen]

We played around a bit in offline mode today and tried volleyball with our AI partners set to Powerhouse. Both of the AIs started spiking the ball waaaay back from the net which I'd never seen before! I looked it up and apparently that's a technique called a quick spike!?

To execute a quick spike, the spiking player should initiate their jump just before their teammate sets the ball. By switching between regular and quick spikes, players can mix up the tempo of the match in order to throw off their opponents.

Gonna have to try that out in an online match later.

 

[Paul le Fou]

I got this and played once for a little with my girlfriend, but I really need to put some more time in on it. But then, of course, my own shoulder and/or neck haven't been doing great which did impede or at least worry me a bit last time...

 

[Violentvixen]

Bunch of updates came out yesterday. We're still playing this and I am honestly not bothered by the weekly unlock structure like so many others are. The majority of things do seem to eventually show up again.

 

[Violentvixen]

Oh, I didn't realize the patch added the ability to make Room IDs and start games that way. I'd be up for playing with people on here sometime!

 

[Paul le Fou]

Oh, I didn't realize the patch added the ability to make Room IDs and start games that way. I'd be up for playing with people on here sometime!

...Heck! I'd better get back into this again.

 

[Violentvixen]

An item I didn't get recently was a cast iron pan for a tennis racket.

I've very sad I don't have it yet because the sound is hilarious.

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1565177515844698112

 

[Violentvixen]

Bah, due to some really bad bug Nintendo has taken the servers offline since last Thursday or Friday. Sounds like they finally fixed it and the update should come out later this week, but it's kind of weird they couldn't just roll it back? Dunno.

At least it sounds like people will get extra ways to earn items as an apology.

Edit: Oh hey, also your Switch Online subscription gets extended a week? Not bad.

 

[Violentvixen]

Golf is available now! I guess it has been since December but I'm just trying it. I've never played actual golf and only a few golf games but it seems fine. Takes less time for an online match than I thought although it's still the slowest sport in the game by far. At least the unlock points seem to scale appropriately, you earn quite a lot for one session.