I played Nintendo Switch 2 and it’s worth

The new attachment mechanism for Joy-Con 2 is also an improvement and very satisfactory improvement. The magnets in the system and the socket guide the joy-with 2 inches, and create a very robust connection without oscillation and no fear that you can accidentally tear them into pieces. When you want to separate them, the triggering factors on the back put them in part with a warm Ca-Chunk. It is not that the sliding railway system of the original bowel has been bad, but in this way it is much faster and less complicated.

Otherwise, everything works largely as before in terms of control; Get a basic socket in the box, but there are other options sold separately. A charging socket has a battery to recharge your Joy-Cons and a USB-C port for the wired game, while a new pro controller brings the sticks and improved buttons on an Xbox-style swab that also supports movement controls. Both also have a couple of grip buttons on the back you can use with central fingers or rings.

The big guns

But the most beautiful system in the world is not good without games. And the first I played was Mario Kart WorldThe one -day launch game that Nintendo hopes to become a killer app for Switch 2.

Mario Map 8 It is the most popular game that Nintendo has ever made, as regards sales, but World It is a surprising departure. Rather than running on discreet tracks, games on a huge continent that passes perfectly through dozens of places and themes.

It is fantasticly familiar to play, managing to melt wide open spaces with narrow traditional treatments, also integrating new elements that make everything seem like a living world. A treasure of Goombas could become a surprise obstacle, a shot star that falls from the sky can be captured to make you invincible, or a bad guy could arrive to start throwing stiletto balls out of the back of a van to throw a key to throwing a billion.

What is most impressive is how dense everything is. A skate park of the center and a ghostly at the level of infested films are both ideas that I can imagine in the previous Mario Karts, but here they must exist somewhere within a contiguous world, and Nintendo seems to detach it.

Together with a huge list of characters (including, Bizarrely, a cow), each with unlockable clothes and 24 -playing races, including a demonstration where you have to drive in each new position between the races or a royal battle where the slowest players are eliminated for every checkpoint, this game seems a strong start for switch 2.

Donkey Kong BanzaNintendo’s next largest offer has not proven. It is a smooth and beautiful adventure of action that gives greater Super Mario Odyssey Vibe, while DK explores large levels in search of hidden inagiiellate bananas. As I ran and rolled, I could hit, down or forward at any time, and since most of the level was destroyable, he finds himself climbing or tunnel through thick layers of earth. It is an impressive undertaking, but in my short demo I have not heard much direction. Is a Minecraft Stange found-tHE-Oghe-Onth-Fun affair? I suspect that there is much more in this we still have to see. Will have to issue in July.

The third exclusive Switch 2 game that I played is a strange that uses the new ability of the Joy-Con 2 to behave like a computer mouse. Drag x drive It is a game of robot basketball on wheelchairs where you drag the controllers forward or back to simulate the wheels of the wheels with your hands. It was difficult to adapt, but I can see him develop a sequel of worship in the competitive scene, just like Arm He did on a switch.

And everything else

A large part of the reason for the switch update is so that the games of the most powerful systems can come and now having played how Ring Elden AND Cyberpunk 2077 On Switch 2 I can confirm that they work well. When displayed on a large 4K TV, they show the obvious sharpening and artifacts of a game that runs to a much lower resolution and is updated (the Switch 2 supports DLSS, a sort of supersampling fueled by artificial intelligence), but having them on a small and light portable machine like this is wonderful.

And while all existing switch games can passively benefit from improved power in the new system, you will also be able to pay a refresher fee to transform them into full switch switch games. I saw Zelda’s legend: Breath of the Wild AND Tears of the kingdom, as well Kirby and the forgotten world Run HDR with high frame rate and really transformed their look. Those games also get new content in the deal; The Zelda with smartphone functionality capable of keeping track of your notes and missions, Kirby with a new story to reproduce.

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I also played Switch 2 Edition of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, a game that is not yet out for Switch. It was running to 120 frames per second and could be moved without a solution between the movement control mode and the mouse control mode simply by placing joy 2 on a surface or collecting it.

And finally, the Switch 2 edition of Mario Party Jamboree adds new minigames that exploit the compatibility of the Switch 2 camera. With a camera attached via USB-C, the game becomes something directly from the Xbox Kinect era, with crushed and distorted images of the four players of the real world injected in the game, where Bowser submits them to cruel challenges. They were the type of melting arm, screams like you can challenge that you probably could not tolerate for too many games in a row, but that children seem to love unanimously.

The writer traveled to New York as a guest of Nintendo.

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