1-2-Switch! and Arms
And speaking of 1-2 Switch, what the heck happened with that? If nothing else, it certainly had one of the weirdest openings to a game trailer in recent memory. Given the opening showed two cowboys facing off against each other in a duel, you could probably think that this was going to be some long awaited Call of Juarez sequel. Or heck, maybe even Red Steel 3, if you were feeling particularly risky.
But no, the duel instead turns out to be a selling point for the Joy-Con-focused game. Which, whatever, a cowboy duel is an alright way to get that across. But then the trailer closes off with a montage of people in silly color coded outfits (what is it with Nintendo and pastel?) performing actions with the Joy-Cons, like swordfighting, dancing, magic, and all sorts of stuff. If you can imagine what an old Wii commercial would be if it was filmed inside the set of an Old Navy, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark. Both in terms of how it looks and how dumb it looked.
Arms, meanwhile, was a thing that happened. Nintendo can do fighting games, as Pokken and the Smash Bros. series have shown us. And it’s likely that Arms will be some sort of fun. But man, that trailer just didn’t get things off on a good note; from the announcement of it being Joy-Con heavy to the little girl transforming her arms, it didn’t land with the oomph they were hoping to. Then again, looking like Mr. Fantastic’s tweaked out son likely didn’t help its odds, either.
