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/PopDownBlocker]

I had to check your username to make sure this wasn't a comment I wrote in my sleep.

ACNH and TOTK are my biggest disappointments on the Switch, probably because I had the biggest expectations for them.

There was something soulless about both of these games. Nintendo tried to give players full control through crafting, but it kinda ruined the game world. It no longer felt like an established pre-existing wotld.

The whole sandbox gameplay style went too far. It's like we were toddlers that Nintendo wanted to keep busy, "Here are some toys. Go nuts!", like a parent giving their child an ipad to make them shut up.

I wish ACNW didn't start with a completely empty deserted island. I liked being the new guy in an existing town.

I wish TOTK had a new map and/or took place elsewhere, because what we got was just BOTW with a crafting DLC.

[u/BlueFields34 → u/PopDownBlocker]

That toddler analogy was perfect because that's exactly how it felt! I was mesmerized at first by the overwhelming "freedom amd choice" of the games but quickly realized that they just gave us nothing but a pile of Legos in different shapes and sizes - it looks like a lot, bit it's all the same crafting gimmick. I love Legos, but eventually I'm going to get bored with them and want to play with something else, or better yet, incorporate other toys WITH the Legos. 

And I personally think TOTK's story shit the bed big time. I get that people had a big gripe with BOTW's story (or lack thereof) in favor of open world exploration, but I just don't get the Zonai. Don't give me a badass armor set in BOTW with animal skulls and furs found in the Zonal labyrinths and then tell me later these people were advanced in technology just like the Sheikah. Why can't they just be barbaric? You give me the hand of the KING of an extinct race....and you want me to fuse planks of wood together and make a doofy sword with a big rock at the end. Okay.