Nintendo Switch Sports Resort Review: Dense Island Behind One Mode
Nintendo Switch Sports Resort returns the series to Wuhu Island with 12 sports, among them tennis, bowling, golf and basketball. Two are new to the series: skateboarding, played with Joy-Con 2 held as a mouse, and finger sumo.
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Why it matters
The objection is structural rather than cosmetic: the most detailed version of Wuhu Island the series has had is reachable only through a side mode, while the sports themselves stay on the main menu.
A single-player Island Ranking ladder starts at 20th and ends against the island champion. The review finds the island tour mode, with about 100 photo spots reachable by propeller plane, the most finely built part of the game, and regrets that it exists only inside that one mode.
The island tour takes the place of Wii Sports Resort's sightseeing flight. The goal is to touch as many photo spots as possible before the timer runs out, by propeller plane, skateboard or marimba bike. Skateboarding holds the Joy-Con 2 like a mouse: slide forward to kick, tilt to turn, lift to jump. Roughly 80 spots are reachable by skateboard and about 60 by marimba bike, against about 100 by plane. The tour also marks where each sport is played, a volleyball court in the woods, a boxing venue on the beach. None of it carries into the sports menus.
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