PSA: If You Aren't Going To Play Switch Sports Online, There's Not Much Point

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This is not my review of Switch Sports. This is not even an M&S review of Switch Sports. You can read my full review here, which goes into detail of the various sports, comparisons to the original Wii Sports, and includes a charming Aaron Ramsay meme which took me a whole four minutes to make. Seriously, you should check it out. But anyway, this is not a full review. It's a very specific breakdown of Switch Sports' biggest flaw, and while I still had a lot of fun with the game, it's worth getting the message out there: if you're not planning to play online, there is very little in Switch Sports for you.

Switch Sports comes with six sports in total: Tennis, Bowling, and Chambara all return from previous editions (Chambara was called Sword Fighting), while Football, Volleyball, and Badminton join the fray. The original three are as solid as ever, while Badminton is easy to pick up and surprisingly different to Tennis in its execution. Volleyball and Football are more complex, but Football justifies this with rewarding and engaging gameplay, while Volleyball feels like the odd one out. Football, at least, comes with a Shoot Out minigame, which despite its name is not about scoring penalties but instead about diverting crosses. Bowling has a mode with wacky barriers on the lanes too, but other than that the sports are just the sports.

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There is an easy, medium, or hard setting for the CPU, but unlike Wii Sports where you earned Skill Points and climbed a chart until you became a pro with 1,000 points, there's nothing like that here. No points, no progression, no sense of difficulty that adapts to you organically, no chance to discover a nemesis like so