
We both enjoy Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but that’s a meal for one. It’s fun, but we’ve been spoiled by a diet of progression-heavy games on other platforms: Resident Evil 5, EDF 2017, Dark Souls-the types of games where you invest dozens or hundreds of hours and are rewarded with upgrades and continuity from session to session. When we want to play a multiplayer game, we turn to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.

Same tracks, same characters, same mini-games, same rules. Then the party disbands until the next time you go back to the game, where little to anything has changed. You get together with your friends, run a few races or play a few dozen mini-games. and Mario Kart to the heyday of Rayman’s rabbid pals on Wii, Nintendo and its third-party publishers drown consumers in party games on every generation of Nintendo hardware.


There was a huge gap in the Switch's library of multiplayer titles until recently.įrom Super Smash Bros.
