Everybody 1-2-Switch Preview – The life and horse of the party?

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There’s been a kind of morbid curiosity surrounding Everybody 1-2-Switch since it was announced out of the blue last month. Why is there a horse-man for a mascot? Was anyone asking for a sequel like this? Isn’t this that game that was rumoured to be an absolute disaster? Well, having now played it, I can say that Everybody 1-2-Switch absolutely has a reason to exist, and with the right group of people, it can actually be pretty fun.

If there was one Nintendo Switch launch title that didn’t really deserve a sequel, it was 1-2-Switch. While it had some fun ideas and was able to showcase the nuance and capabilities of the Joy-Con motion sensitivity and haptic feedback, it boiled down to being a bundle of tech demos that had been polished up and sold to early adopters and people wanting a quirky little party game. Considering how many still needed convincing about the Switch back in 2017, it made a bit of sense, even if it was the source of many memes and jokes.

Six years later, everybody and their gran knows what the Switch is all about, and Nintendo has built out a broad array of games that caters both to hardcore gamers, casual gamers and non-gamers alike. Everybody 1-2-Switch is a mini-game collection that tries to be as inclusive and broad as possible, so as long as you can use a smart phone and/or are comfortable with some mild motion controls, every single person at your party to play along.

There’s 17 mini-games included in Everybody 1-2-Switch, and then plenty of variations on top of that. Of those 17, most of them can be played with both Joy-Con and with smartphone, while there’s a handful that are exclusive to one or the other controller type for a variety of reasons – Joy-Con games can will be limited to the 8