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Wait... you can do VS Races... by yourself...? That's interesting.

the "former nintendo employees" clickbait wasn't enough, now we're just straight up lying 😭😭😭

I hope they're using whatever they put in my Joy-cons. I got them repaired before Nintendo Switch Sports came out (nearly three years ago!)--and have actively used them basically every day--and they haven't shown any sign of drift.

WE ARE SO BACK

@Not_Soos Because stuff like constantly tracking the location and rotation of several objects onscreen and supporting a whole building mode takes a lot of work and polish to not be a bug-ridden mess on the Switch?

I remember always wanting to go over to my grandpa's house to play Wii Sports.

@Poodlestargenerica You'd think that a game with microtransactions would be free...

Nevermind. I'm not hyped anymore. It looked so cool too.

Why even bother reviewing the game? You kinda already knew what the game was going to be like... the exact same game as the last 6.

This game was my jam back in the day!

@willatschool No, Club is much, much worse than Switch.

The game had a confusing release strategy--you could rent all 5 sports for 24 hours for $2, buy each sport individually for $10, or buy the whole package physically for $40. The game released with Tennis and Bowling, and Golf, Baseball, and Boxing came through free* updates. *Free being if you rented the sports or bought the full game.

The gameplay was a mixed bag overall. In Tennis, you had full control over the position of your racket, but it was much slower-paced, and the motion controls had to be recalibrated nearly every swing.

Bowling was pretty much unchanged from Resort, which isn't a bad thing. However, the "throwing the ball backwards" happened way too often, which is likely why they removed it from Switch Sports.

Golf was also largely unchanged, except you had to put your GamePad on the floor so... you could see the ball, I guess. Instead of replays only happening after impressive shots, a replay happened after every shot, which got annoying fast.

In baseball, the batter is basically the same from OG, but the pitcher both pitched and controlled outfielders' gloves with the GamePad, which was cool, until you had to repeatedly switch between the two.

Boxing was definitely the worst out of the bunch. Punches are much slower than the original, and your Mii stopped dead in its tracks when it threw a punch. You also needed two remotes for each player, so if you didn't have two remotes, you had to do one-handed boxing.

Every sport had online play, but instead of online actually functioning like online play in Switch Sports, it was basically pretending that the other players were in the next room. You had to take turns in Bowling and Golf, and in the other sports, the game literally slowed its frame rate to account for lag.

Every sport also had 3-6 other modes. It sounds cool having nearly 20 modes, but when you account for the gameplay being the mixed bag it is, I really couldn't bring myself to try every one.

Obviously graphics don't make a game. But they're still just as necessary, which the Wii Sports Club team didn't understand for the most part.

The Miis use basic lighting and texturing, despite having better lighting and texturing built into the console. Their animations are also largely copied from Resort and OG, with the exception of Boxing's stiff mannequin movements.

The environment, apart from the bowling alley, is pretty generic and colorless. Grass looks like someone poured soda on the fake grass they put on soccer fields, dirt and rock looks like they stole the textures from Google Images, and the city background looks like a Roblox game.

If that wasn't enough, the game sold horribly--currently, it clocks in at around 380,000 copies. For comparison, Switch Sports has sold 8.61 million by the end of December 2022.

So yeah, Nintendo gave the fans what they wanted: an "HD" remake of Wii Sports with new modes, but they screwed it up and it sold horribly. That's probably why Switch Sports is so different: they don't want to just rehash the same game for a new console, they actually want to make something new. And clearly, it worked.

@TopazLink Try to make the CPU think you have a pattern: do repeated smash or drop shots, then do the opposite to throw them off-balance.

In other words, you want the CPU to think they can stay in one place, then hit the birdie as far away from them as possible.

@TopazLink Playing in any mode counts towards the rookie outfit.

@TopazLink You have to get under par in an 18-hole game offline. You don't have to get under par for every hole, you just have to finish with a score under par.

@WookAttack
1. The gold outfit for bowling over 200 is only available in the Play Locally mode and cannot be obtained by guest accounts.
2. The reissued items only count cards you've started but not completed. You have to have at least one item from a card to get it reissued.

@willatschool sorry for necroreplying but what you're looking for is Wii Sports Club. It's much worse than Switch Sports for a multitude of reasons.

There are also 14 different outfits that can be unlocked through offline play: 7 gold and 7 rookie, for each sport. The gold outfits can be unlocked by beating a Powerhouse CPU, scoring >200 points in bowling, and scoring under par in golf. The rookie outfits can be unlocked by playing a sport online or offline 15 times.

good thing i saved up 1.5k points for this!

I'd agree that the minigames can be a bit meh most of the time. However, my sister and cousin both agree that running around in the open world is definitely the best part.

@Judgedean How does this confirm a Switch Pro?

@Kiz3000 How does this confirm a Nintendo Direct?