1-2 Switch - Nintendo Switch

After writing this review, I felt I should preface it by saying up front that my rating is based mostly on price. As a game itself, it is definitely unique and fun. At $20-$30, I would have given it 5 stars for being cool, quirky, and showing off the system. At $50, it feels overpriced. I had been a huge proponent for this not being a pack-in title, but after playing it.... it should have been a pack in title. It tells the story of the system.... take it anywhere you want, hand a joy-con to a friend, and play with the goal being fun more than the highest quality graphical output. Additionally, in the same way that Wii Sports introduced us to motion controls and NintendoLand introduced us to the novelty of having a second screen; this title serves to show off all the cool little things the joy-cons can do (really refined motion control, IR, HD rumble). The mini-games themselves are mostly fun. The haptic response of the HD Rumble in the marble box game is a real standout. Others are more confusing or awkward than enjoyable. I'd say about half the games are good, 25% are bad, and the remaining 25% are somewhere in the middle. My real issue with this game (beyond the price) is the annoyance of constantly taking the wrist straps on and off for different mini games. While not rocket science it's also not exactly easy. Sometimes it doesn't make sense why you can't leave it on for particular games but they tell you take it off. It's almost impossible to press the release button and slide the wrist strap off without pushing some other button. Also, there's enough resistance in the hardware that you have a nagging fear that you're forcing it apart and that the whole thing will break. It's not a bad game, and young kids will like it, but you're not missing much by skipping this one. If you plan on showing your system to friends coming over and just want to introduce them to the joy-cons then it's worth having. As a standalone game it's weak.

*with the exception of price and value 1 2 Switch is a game that succeeds on its own merits. It aims to refocus your attention from the TV and instead focus on your own opponent. Herein lies the rub, however. In many cases, the mini games succeed in creating fun experiences, especially with kids (Draw, Milk, Plate Spinning, Treasure, Joy-Con Rotation) but there are still quite an astounding number of duds at hand (Gorilla, for instance, was just lame and got no response). Even more confusing, some games like Ball Count or Liars Dice might be too slow, cerebral, or complicated for what the other games in this package are trying to accomplish, which makes the entire thing somewhat less cohesive as a party game. That being said, they are still fun if you are doing a one on one session with a friend. The other main issue is the price. At $50, it's hard to say that this is worth the purchase. Personally, I'd be comfortable with asking people to pay $20 or so. Those who argue that this should be a pack in title for the Switch aren't wrong either and I'd expect it to be one come the fall pre-holiday season. All in all however, if you're willing to look past the pricing issue, there are positives here in that the game _experience_ is something that isn't currently replicated by any other currently out there (barring something like Johann Sebastian Joust, which costs considerably more to set up than the 50 bucks of value here)

I bought this game knowing that I wouldn't play it a lot. But I wanted to grab something else other than just breath of the wild. I played it with my girlfriend for about 10 minutes and got really bored of it. I took it out and honestly thought I would never play it again. Then my girlfriend's niece and nephew came to our house to stay for a night. They hadn't seen or heard too much of the Switch, but they were aware of it and seemed interested in checking it out. 1-2 switch being the only game that I had that multiple people could play. I felt bad and had to reiterate that the system just came out and I was sorry for the lack of games. I thought they would become disinterested quickly. Boy was I wrong. They got to the point in the game where you unlock all the minigames, and we all started passing around the joy-cons. The game turned out to be quite fun! We were laughing and having a blast! Now I can't wait to pull it out one weekend and play it while drinking with friends. It's not the best game ever, but it will do for a party game for now until we get another Mario party, or when Mario kart 8 is released. With the small lineup of games for the switch right now, this is a game that you could either miss out on and never worry about it once we start getting more titles, or you can play right now and enjoy it while you can.

I knew this game wasn't going to be great, but I still went ahead and picked it up since I have kids and was looking for a game that would show off some of the Switch's capabilities for friends. This is not the game to do that. The games just aren't that fun. The video instructions on how to play each minigame are cringeworthy and the games have you constantly attaching and removing the Joycon straps: some suggest having them on and others don't. It's a huge break in the action that occurs generally every 2-3 games. One of them has you hold the Switch like a baby. That's a minigame. Really. Another one has you hold a yoga pose to see who can be still better. I'm putting myself to sleep just thinking about the games while writing this review. Some games are fun: The quick draw is OK, fake draw (in which the announcer says a bunch of words beginning with F - frog, fair, fight, foul before saying FIRE in an attempt to throw you off). The plate spinning game is fun, as are the ones where you're milking a cow and guessing the number of balls in a box. Other than that, there's just not much to it. I'd wait until this title inevitably drops to $10 or $15 before buying it otherwise you're throwing your money away.

This game if you want to call it that is nothing more than a tech demo trying to show developers how to use the new hardware. Not even Nintendo can make that fun. The problem here is that none of the demos are expanded into anything that I would call an actual game. Where Wii Sports excelled, 1-2 Switch fails...miserably. I'm sure they didn't want to rehash the same games that they featured on Wii Sports, but doing exactly that would've been better than this mess. Based on the reviews I read, I knew I wasn't going to pay full price. Instead I waited and purchased it on Black Friday thinking "at 50% off, I would be able to find at least $25 worth of enjoyment out of this, right?" Wrong! Nintendo should've called this Tech-Demo Party. I don't know...maybe someone out there thinks it's fun to hold, feel, pick up, swing, twist, or turn a controller and at the same time try to do it better than a friend or family member standing beside them. Maybe you'll get some fun out of this. The only laughs I got were when I realized how stupid I looked trying this out and that my $25 would've been better spent on the eshop.

I brought it to my friends house and we all played it that one time. I actually just left it there for their 2 young kids to play since I was sure I wasn't going to pick the game up again. There are a lot of mini games and some were fun but nothing worth repeating. We had the most fun with the boxing game. We first tried playing with the small tablet screen but realized it wasn't working since we couldn't look at the screen and stand far enough away from each other to be safe, so we had to attach it to the tv. Some of the games actually need that side piece that attaches to the controller...before I thought it was just for a strap but it's actual buttons (you can play the game without it but the button are more depressed so they're harder to press) The straps were definitely needed when the 3 and 5 year old were playing! My friend and her young son had fun playing it together just goofing around while trying to teach him too, so maybe it's more of a family game than group of adult friends game. Just glad this game didn't cost as much as the other Switch games!

There is a lot of fun to be had with 1 2 Switch if you have the right environment, that being a few friends together in a quieter setting (many of the games are sound based, so not ideal for a party environment). It's a good game if you want to have people come check out the switch as it puts a lot of what the console, specifically the joy cons are capable of at the forefront. There are some stand out games like Quick Draw, Boxing, and Milk that we went back to over and over again, but a lot of other games felt more of a one off experience that lost some appeal the more they were played. Plus, there is no solo experience to this game and not much substance past a quick board game style game mode that adds some structure to playing the minigames. I wouldn't say it should have been a pack in, but it surely doesn't need to be $50. I think $20-$30 would have been fair. One standout for this title is Ball count. It's a spectacle of the hardware and shows the promise of "HD Rumble." I'd say hold off on this one. I expect a decent price cut in the coming months.

I couldn't give but I wanted to give three and a half stars out because it's bad because it is what it is it's 28 party games they're really easy to play but you have to play with in the sandbox Nintendo creates because it's very easy to cheat but why she you want to have fun so even though I'm giving it three and a half Stars that's only because maybe there could be more maybe there could be records or Rewards something to more to achieve the other reason is because it's only $10 cheaper than Zelda really it should be 20 maybe even $30 cheaper it's not a bad game and it's a definite must buy with the Nintendo switch at lunch not because of the lack of games because anyone and everyone can play of all ages it's fun whether you're drunk or sober I myself play with my daughter and if I take the switch with me we could have that fun on-the-go no matter where we are not just play Zelda that's the beauty of the system that's the beauty of the game until it evolves maybe they'll even release DLC but it's still worth the buy