"She is the glue that holds our family together. But right now, I am kicking her ass at video game bowling, and it feels good! In the 00s, my mum was the best Wii Bowling player in the world. She was unbeatable. Strike after strike after strike. The Dudette in our family's Big Lebowski. So when she said she was coming to visit us in Canada, I thought the time was right to buy the updated Nintendo Switch Sports version of her favourite game."
"I fire up Nintendo Switch Sports to get the lay of the land. Tennis and golf have survived the almost 20 years since Wii Sports, along with bowling. The tennis has nothing to keep me entertained for longer than 10 minutes, and I have been terrified of any golf game where you swing a controller since Christmas morning 2009, when my wife surprised me with Tiger Woods PGA Tour Golf for the Wii and I surprised her by throwing my back out after a six-hour session on it."
"Basketball has been carried over from Wii Sports Resort, and Chambara is an updated version of fencing. The latter is every bit as chaotic as the original, the former is still a car crash: the hand motion that you have to use to move and dribble is one that I haven't vigorously practised since I was a teenager. And I don't want to do it in front of my mother."
An adult prepares to face his 76-year-old mother's legendary Wii Bowling skills by buying Nintendo Switch Sports as a nostalgic and competitive gesture. The mother dominated Wii Bowling in the 2000s, inspiring expectations of a rematch. Classic modes such as bowling, tennis and golf persist, but tennis quickly bores and golf evokes a past back injury. Volleyball and badminton register as underwhelming, while Chambara retains chaotic fencing action. Basketball inherits awkward motion controls, and the new football mode plays slowly and clumsily, diminishing the overall enjoyment compared with the original Wii experiences.
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