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Valdney on 21 February 2022
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Slownenberg said:
Jumpin said:

It's the same as Wii Sports, the focus of the game is how you hit the ball rather than moving your character around - So, sorry guys, no soup for you :D

I think the sort of tennis game you'll want won't involve motion controls, but something more simplistic when it comes to actually hitting the ball. That way the game can be about positioning. Worrying about both things would just make for a frustrating game experience.

I mean, as is, from my opponents, without the previous Wii tennis experience, my opponents failed to hit the ball, and I ended up with very short 7-0 games. Imagine throwing manual movement at them too? It would be a lot of 1-2 hit games, and anything over that would be a rarity.

Table tennis might possibly including manual movement. There's actually space for it with each player being single characters at opposing ends of the table as opposed to being two characters on the field. I'm not sure, though. So, we'll see how that one turns out, it might be more what you're looking for.

Nope that's not what I'm looking for at all, what I'm looking for is Wii Sports Tennis but where you can actually move the character.

Wii Sports Tennis felt like it was made for babies by taking away controlling the character. Controlling movement and swinging would not be hard for a player and would feel very natural. That is what I want. It's very sad to see that Nintendo is once again making the biggest mistake they made with Wii Sports, and all it would take is few minutes of coding to fix it. Wii Sports was probably considered a tech demo and motion controls were completetly novel when the Wii came out, so keeping everything simple maybe at least made sense in that regard. But Switch Sports is a game that will be selling on it's own merit and there is no reason to handicap the Tennis game so drastically when the easiest fix imaginable would make it a fantastic part of the overall game. This would be like in golf if the computer chose your club and your direction and the only thing you got to do was swing - which would make it very lame, which is what Wii/Switch Tennis is.

Tennis games are fun, motion controls tennis makes tennis much more fun, but without controlling the character you're not playing Tennis you're just swinging. So Wii Tennis, and apparently Switch Tennis, takes what could be amazing and turns it into another dud.

I plan on getting Switch Sports but sadly once again Tennis will be gathering dust as they ruined it by leaving out basic controls.

I agree and disagree at the same time. Let me try to describe what in my opinion would make the game a lot better while keeping accessibility: I still think that automatic movement should be kept but the player should be able to position his character to either hit a forehand or a backhand based on how he or she is holding the joycon. This simple change would make a world of difference in how many strikes you would be able to pull off.  It would feel so good to hit an inside out forehand across court.