If you’re prepared to make yourself look foolish, there’s limited joy to be found in Nintendo’s latest swing at the party game concept.
You know we’re coming full circle with this incarnation of the Nintendo Switch (I refuse to believe the hybrid style will totally be absent in Nintendo’s next console) when one of its most infamous launch titles gets a sequel. This isn’t just any sequel, however, but a sequel to 1-2 Switch; AKA a game that pretty much everyone agreed – even back then – should have been a pack-in experience similar to how Wii Sports for the Nintendo Wii was handled. And look how successful that turned out!
As a showcase for the Nintendo Joy-Con’s HD rumble capabilities, 1-2 Switch worked perfectly fine and even impressed to some extent. Shaking a Joy-Con to try and size up how many ice cubes were inside, or slowly pulling down to mimic milking a cow felt silly, but was a great statement of intent for how the Nintendo Switch would be fun and family-orientated in a way that PS4 and Xbox One simply weren’t. Yet the novelty quickly wore off. I feel like even Nintendo admits this, given Everybody 1-2 Switch’s de-emphasis on the Joy-Con and HD Rumble in favour of party games playable on a phone.
