There’s not much to play right now. Many of the marquee titles that Nintendo has highlighted for the Switch aren’t out yet. There’s almost no interactivity, no little avatars that look like you playing virtual games of tennis or bowling, instead just videos of random adults in strange outfits doing the exact same thing you’re doing in your living room.
The entire $50 game is a collection of mini-games that just involve watching videos on a screen and flailing your arms in the hope that you’re doing what you’re supposed to be doing.
It’s almost as if Nintendo knows that the people who loved their consoles growing up are getting to that age where they themselves have young kids.ġ-2-Switch is very bad. It’s worth pointing out that the game that is supposed to highlight all the novel things you can do with the Switch is dull. The cartridges taste bad. A surprising little addition: Nintendo coats Switch cartridges with a non-toxic bitter substance (that really tastes truly awful) so that small children will be less inclined to swallow them. A traditional console wouldn’t be able to coax me to play like this. But I keep ducking back in for a few minutes here and there to see if I can figure out what I’m actually supposed to be doing other than cooking up dishes with all the wild mushrooms I find. I can’t tell if it’s because the game is intrinsically better than all the others, or if it’s because I can pick up the Switch when some else is watching TV, or when I’m on the subway, or even over lunch. But the new Zelda game launched for the Switch, The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, has kept me enthralled like none of its predecessors. I just wander around smashing pots and talking to village people until something kills me or I get bored.
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It’s very easy to pick up the tablet and keep playing a game and get a nearly identical experience, whether you’re playing on a 60-inch TV or the Switch’s tiny tablet screen. You can take your games with you. If you’ve ever lived with someone else and had to battle over what to watch on television, being able to pick up your console and continue playing on a tabletop or in your hands is a wonderful experience that Nintendo absolutely nailed. The Switch is meant to be picked up, put in bags-parts of it slide off and are swung around-and the hardware feels sturdy, like it will handle years of being jostled. The review unit I played with, as well as a few friends’ systems I’ve played on, have been error-free. Many users have reported connection problems with their Switches, as well as faulty screens and other issues. There are games that make use of the new controllers, called Joy-Cons, in ways that are very similar to the flailing about on the Wii, and others that use each of them as separate controllers, allowing two people to play a game together on one machine. It can be played in three ways: as a handheld tablet, as a small tabletop console where the controls slide off the tablet into your hands, and indeed plugged into a TV. There are so many ways to play. Unlike just about any other major console released since kids in 1972 first fired up a Magnavox Odyssey and played some virtual ping-pong, the Nintendo Switch isn’t shackled to a television. The Switch, which incorporates the best aspects of the Wii, along with more traditional gaming experiences, and the ability to play on the go, feels like it has the potential to surpass what the Wii achieved. Its main competitors launched similar offerings, but nothing matched the Wii’s ingenuity and fun-not even the Wii U. Nintendo inspired a generation of gamers to get up off the couch, move around, and really interact with games when it launched the Wii. Games like Snipperclips, where players have to work together to solve puzzles by cutting shapes out of their characters’ paper bodies, or 1-2-Switch, where you basically are competing to see who can flail a controller better than someone else, are so bizarre and are the sorts of things that only Nintendo would ever think of releasing. Not that other consoles aren’t also fun, but there’s always a sense of whimsy and levity to Nintendo systems. If there’s one characteristic that every Nintendo console embodies ( well, just about), it’s fun in gaming. Quartz/Dave Gershgorn The Switch stands on its own, in more ways than one.
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