Nintendo Switch Sports Resort is the latest entry in Nintendo’s motion-control-based sports collection game series that started back in the Wii. Now with this Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive experience, the company brings to the table an experience that showcases the possibilities of the new hardware.
Like its predecessors, Nintendo Switch Sports Resort is a collection of multiple sports reimagined for motion controls. There are 13 options here, including: Tennis, Bowling, Archery, Boxing, Volleyball, Table Tennis, Basketball, Golf, Thumb Wrestling, Prop Plane, Skateboarding, Power Cruising and Jump Rope (presented here strictly as a warm-up rather than a full-fledged activity).
Each sport is simplified and adapted to take into account a few key motions of the activity. The player has to mimic those actions and the timing will be the defining factor in the matches, making the simulation feel more like a rhythm experience.
Out of the options, Thumb Wrestling, Skateboarding and Jump Rope are strictly new, while others are variations of games available in previous entries of the Nintendo’s sports collections, now with Joy-Con and Joy-Con 2 support. Skateboarding in particular draws attention to the Switch 2’s new mouse scheme being a perfect showcase of this function.
The unique control schemes of the sports are cleverly planned and make a lot of sense to feel like you’re going through the actual motions. However, there’s a significant effort to simplify things, and it ends up automating key elements of these sports as a result, which may lead to the matches feeling wrong for players looking for more involved control. This is particularly true of Basketball and Volleyball, which cut a lot of the spatial awareness demands of the sports and make things feel constrained.
For most games, there is some sort of tutorial to learn how to play, as well as a few pointers that can show up during loading screens or in a special Advice menu. Tennis and Table Tennis don’t have a dedicated tutorial, however, and the specific aspects mentioned in the tips can be hard to grasp, so it would have been much better to have more involved tutorials for all of them.
The key element of the game is the ability to play quick matches in any of the available sports in single player or multiplayer. There are also specific challenges for some sports, like a bowling variation with 100 pins, receiving consecutive volleyballs with perfect timing based on the sounds or trying to get three-pointers in basketball.
There are also unique achievements to keep in mind as a test of the player’s understanding of the fundamentals and ability to pull them off. Long rallies, consecutive perfect strikes, abusing “smashes” after making the opponent’s attacks lose strength, and many more elements become targets.
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