Wii Motion Control Games for the Switch
Tiger Woods PGA Tour
In 2019, mentioning the name of Tiger Woods will evoke reactions that range from nostalgia to pity, as the once dominant golfer tries his best to remain competitive in a sport that seems to have all but passed him by.
Rewind the clock 10 years, however, and you’ll get a very different response.
This was the face of golf; a man with such skill and charisma, he brought fans in from all walks of life. He turned the whole image of the golfer around, from a bunch of sweaty old men to something hip and trendy, akin to a real life Happy Gilmore. Except he never punched Bob Barker in the face. I’m pretty sure.
His tie-in series of video games were top of the class. Tiger Woods was to golfing games what John Madden was to football; emblematic of innovation and quality. And rarely was this quite so apparent as it was on the Wii, where the sometimes maligned implementation of motion controls was done in a way that was both fun and unique.
It hit its crescendo in Tiger Woods PGA Tour ’12, where the Wii Balance Board was brought into the equation. You would look like an absolute wanker playing it, but you’d have a blast all the same.
Does this suggest we believe that the Wii Balance Board will someday come back into the Switch accessory lineup? Not necessarily. If it did, you could potentially have a Wii Fit revival (a runaway hit for Nintendo, in case you forgot). But failing that, you could surely cobble together some sort of Labo contraption instead.
Yes, I do intend to arbitrarily insert Labo into any Nintendo game I can, in the same manner eccentric retirees force Christmas sweaters onto unhappy cats.
If you don’t like it, build a bridge. Preferably out of Labo.
