{"id":142,"date":"2021-09-09T14:54:07","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:54:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=142"},"modified":"2021-09-09T14:54:07","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T14:54:07","slug":"nintendo-switch-sports-hands-on-reviving-a-surefire-formula-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Switch Sports hands-on: Reviving a surefire formula for fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='booster-block booster-read-block'><\/div><p>iThis content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe Taz from <em>Looney Tunes<\/em> and try to overwhelm your opponent with a flurry of swings which, pro tip, doesn\u2019t really work. The goal is to knock your opponent off the platform into the water below, which can take as little as one or two hits in later rounds. There are even charge and twin sword modes to spice up the action, but I didn\u2019t get to try those out, which is probably a good thing because the standard mode is hectic enough.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption><\/figcaption>Nintendo<\/figure>\n<p>Finally, there\u2019s my absolute favorite of the bunch: badminton. It feels twice as fast as tennis, and even though I only played one match, it might have been the most fun workout I\u2019ve had in weeks. Rallies are frenetic, and if you can make your opponent flub their timing, you\u2019ll be rewarded with a soft lob (denoted by a wobbly birdie) that you can smash back with extra aggression. There\u2019s even a command for doing a drop shot, which adds a nice bit of strategy.<\/p>\n<p>For those thinking about becoming <em>Switch Sports<\/em> pros, there\u2019s an online competitive mode that lets you rank up as you develop your skills. Bowling also gets a special survival mode that pits 16 players against each other simultaneously. And in the fall, Nintendo is going to push out a second free update that brings golf back to the mix.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly, <em>Switch Sports<\/em> is so engaging my only question is why something like this wasn\u2019t available at the Switch&#8217;s launch in 2017. <em>1-2 Switch<\/em> was fine, but it often felt more like a tech demo than a collection of party games. And it didn\u2019t really have the replayability or the pickup-and-play appeal <em>Wii Sports<\/em> provided. But no matter, a proper sequel is gonna be here soon, and from what I\u2019ve played so far, it\u2019s going to be even better than the original.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>iThis content is not available due to your privacy preferences. Update your settings here, then reload the page to see it. It\u2019s hard to believe Taz from Looney Tunes and try to overwhelm your opponent with a flurry of swings which, pro tip, doesn\u2019t really work. The goal is to knock your opponent off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[115,67,264,262,261,64,167,166,265,263],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/engadget.vip\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}