Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - The Official Video Game Is Still Coming To Switch This Summer

Bought it last year on the Japanese e-shop. It is good but not great. The London 2012 game was far deeper and this is much more arcadey. Online mode is pretty dead but it's alright fun.

I love how this and the Euros still have the 2020 branding. Despite it being 2021.

@nessisonett IOC decided last year the branding 2020 would not change. And the next games are scheduled for 2024, not 2025.

It’s a great game. I love the Top Athletes rotation. Even if I lose badly. Mostly playing Judo.

It's not Mario and Sonic so no one is gonna care to buy it.

@nessisonett It would likely be way too expensive to rebrand everything, including things like the merchandise, for very little benefit.

@Ghost_of_Hasashi
Because of the Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games series, I totally forgot there were games that more closesly resemble the Olympics. Maybe because Tokyo 2020 is the first time since the Salt Lake 2002 Winter Olympics that an official non-M&S Olympics video game has appeared on a Nintendo system.

Truth be told, I get the M&S games mostly for preservation purposes, I do play them before, though. Right now I have all the games except the two versions of Rio 2016, and obviously the arcades.

EDIT: They should do what the Mexican Soccer League did at the start of the pandemic: Celebrate the Olympics by having the athletes play the vidoegame and stream/air it on TV.
I cannot believe the exposure FIFA got in Mexico those days.

Seriously, why Baseball wasn't included in Mario & Sonic Tokyo 2020? That event alone might make me get this game.

You can't make a game with Basketball, Soccer, Tennis, Baseball and have them all be good, it's too hard to get just one of those right.

Got it from jp long time ago. I really like it. Especially Baseball

If I can I moto-whip the bike in the game, it's probably a good game. I'm guessing you can't moto-whip. Keeping an open mind.

How about a game where we shoot at members of the IOC?

@HaloOfFlies There was an ehsop game where you can snipe ski jumpers. Unless it got removed.

edit: Nope, still there. https://www.nintendo.com/games/detail/ski-sniper-switch/

@WoomyNNYes thanks,I will check it ou

Funny, there are rails on the bmx track. Not a bad idea for a game, though. https://youtu.be/bIdfaxowaCA?t=339

sonic the hegdehog

This game is Vaporware. There weren't any Olympics in 2020...

@WoomyNNYes Ha! That's hilarious! How the heck could I have missed that one? That's an insta-buy from me. Thanks for pointing it out to us.

I must have imported this back in late 2019 when it launched in Japan and Southeast Asia.

The graphics are better in motion and the character customisation options are surprisingly robust. I managed to make one of my friends and the resemblance is uncanny. Mine is perhaps a little too flattering to the reality.

There's some fun to be had here, but don't expect to pour too many hours in to it. I enjoyed my time with it though. The victory animations are also adorable.

While the Japanese/Asian versions have had English support since launch, I've noticed that the Australian (and by extension European) eShop page for the game indicates that Japanese/Chinese aren't supported, so, the Western version is obviously a slightly different build to theirs.

I'll grab the Australian release to support the local release and suss out the differences between the two versions (if any). Plus, the Japanese/Asian version didn't include all sports at launch, and were added incrementally in the months that followed.

@Silly_G I think the character customization is pretty amazing and fits great to the overall graphic style. (Which I agree looks not so good on still pictures)