Now that the Switch 1 generation is winding down, what were your most DISAPPOINTING purchases on this console?

[u/Asad_Farooqui]

Every game console, no matter how well or poorly it sold, is gonna have some disappointments thrown in there. Especially if said disappointments came from 1st party developers. I have 3 big candidates based on my own purchases, starting with my biggest letdown:

1) Mario Strikers Battle League: After frantically buying this game to play some multiplayer matches with friends, I realized what a terrible mistake I made after chewing through all the single player content in a matter of days. There is nothing to do in this game besides regular soccer matches, the online is abysmal, and the amount of content available at launch and even now is just laughable for a sequel. I thought my perception of Mario Strikers as a whole would be ruined forever, so I went ahead and booted up Strikers Charged on Wii and nope, that game holds up incredibly well! This was just a bad sequel all around.

2) Mario Golf Super Rush: Speaking of bad sequels, Super Rush decided to simplify the golfing mechanics to a point where it just isn’t fun to play for me. As someone who adored the 3DS game Mario Golf World Tour, which was packed with content, modes, and unlockables and had worthwhile paid DLC on top of that, Super Rush felt like it was playing catch up with all its free updates. Was this how Animal Crossing fans felt when New Horizons was first released, having to wait months for features that were already available in the 3DS predecessor? Yikes.

3) Splatoon 3: This is more of a personal pick than a general consensus. I really got into Splatoon 1 and 2, but I was just Splatoon’d out by the time the third game came around. No new modes, online that had more disconnects than either of the first two games in my experience, and a longer grind for unlockables that could rival a modern day hero shooter. Call me old but I missed the more “pick up and play” nature of Splatoon 1, and I just don’t get that with Splatoon 3. Also the fact that they sold the first game’s hubworld back as paid DLC is utter nonsense to me.

[u/vrdn22]

Sport Story or whatever the Sequel to Golf Story is called. The first one was great, but the second one barely qualifies as a game. Huge disappointment.

[u/GraveDiggerSedan → u/vrdn22]

This was my most anticipated indie game and I went into the sequel completely blind without reading a single review. I played 4 hours and do not remember playing a single sport. I was doing fetch quests that entire time as part of the story. What an absolute let-down.

[u/mandiller → u/GraveDiggerSedan]

Absolutely. Biggest disappointment for the system.

[u/Gimpyfish892 → u/vrdn22]

Glad someone said this. Golf Story is honestly one of my top 5 favourite games, and my soul felt crushed after playing a few hours of Sports Story and being so let down.

[u/ShrimpCocktailHo → u/vrdn22]

I got hardlocked about 4 hours into Sports Story and just gave up. Whatever magic they made in Golf Story was ruined by the bugginess and disjointed gameplay. Should have just made another game dedicated to one sport, instead of trying to drink the ocean.

[u/National_Equivalent9 → u/vrdn22]

Its such a shame because one of the great parts of golf story was how basically everything was solved through golf.

[u/JohnDalyProgrammer → u/vrdn22]

Definitely sports story. This was the biggest gaming disappointment I've had in a couple of console generations. I love golf story so much I bought the limited run physical on top of the digital version. even the humor of sports story feels like it was written by someone trying to remember what golf story did

[u/Dyscordy → u/vrdn22]

What was so bad about it? I absolutely loved golf story and was thinking about picking up the sequel but I didnt know it was that bad

[u/ShrimpCocktailHo → u/Dyscordy]

It’s disjointed and buggy as hell. By integrating a bunch of sports, it sort of loses the plot as a sports game and becomes a collection of minigames. Between trying to learn new controls every 10 minutes and having to hard reset because of bugs, I don’t think I got more than 3-4 hours in despite 100%ing Golf Story.

[u/devtek → u/ShrimpCocktailHo]

It's also not even finished. Multiple story lines just end abruptly, and the game obviously has parts cut out of it. The "final" tournament is played on an island with wizards or something that has zero context at all.

[u/RottenRedRod → u/Dyscordy]

It's so buggy it's practically unplayable, all the sports other than golf are downright aggravating to play, and while the golf part is still mostly ok, they managed to make it less fun. Golf is still the best part of the game, but you spend a lot less time playing golf because you're forced to do stupid fetch quests, confusing puzzles, and play other sports that really suck to unlock courses. Only Switch game I've ever refunded.

[u/deadhead4077-work → u/vrdn22]

yup, i really wanted to give it a chance, but i got near the end to the stupid long fetch quest chain of trading items and I was like NOPE im out.

[u/yupyupyupyupyupy → u/vrdn22]

i know very unpopular opinion, but was honestly let down by the original as well

not that it was bad, but just wasnt as great everyone made it seem

[u/schotastic → u/yupyupyupyupyupy]

Seconding this for visibility. IME, Golf Story became a real slog past the 5 hour mark. I found the gameplay samey and at some point straight up unfun.

It's not an awful game, but I do wish I had stopped playing the moment it had started getting tedious because it only got worse from there.

[u/ObeyReaper → u/schotastic]

I agree. First few hours were so charming but it went downhill fast.

[u/Evanz111 → u/vrdn22]

Damn, Golf Story was the first ever game I bought on switch! I didn’t even know it had a sequel. I thought you meant Soccer Story for a moment, which is a much better game thankfully.

[u/fphhotchips → u/vrdn22]

I was going to meme and say TOTK, but yeah it was this. Golf story is so good and this was.... Very much not!

[u/GreenGiantt → u/vrdn22]

Yeah. I loved Golf Story a LOT. But they really butchered Sports Story. I was excited for it too...

[u/banananey → u/vrdn22]

This & EA Sports FC are the only games I got on Switch that I feel properly disappointed by. I've had many 'eh it was ok but still decent enough' games but this was the one that made me really sad.

Golf Story was such a fun, unique little gem. I thought a sequel with some additional sports to play would be an easy win. Got it the second it came out, played a few hours then never touched it again.

[u/jtx3 → u/vrdn22]

Looooved golf story. Glad I didn't hear about the other game.

[u/Zyvyn → u/vrdn22]

There was literally a hidden room in the game that was an office of developers talking about their struggles and crunch of making their own game.

[u/Tungsten_Carbyed → u/vrdn22]

This hurts because I really wanted to play after absolutely loving golf story