Playing Nintendo Switch Sports with family rn.
It's fun, but the other games were much more charming IMO.
That's how I feel about a lot of Nintendo games since the 3DS era TBH.
Like, Nintendo still makes incredible stuff, and call me nostalgia blind, but...IDK, there's a certain charm some of these games have lost. The Mario Sports games are excellent examples: Mechanically and as games themselves, they're fine, and pretty fun. However, they just feel...Lifeless? These characters aren't acting like themselves anymore, they feel like skins on top of generic player models. I think part of why I'm so lenient with Strikers compared to other folks was at least they tried to inject some life back into it and did so wonderfully.
Granted, a lot of Nintendo franchises have kept that old Wii era and GCN era charm: Mainline 3D Mario, Zelda, Splatoon, Kirby, and Metroid have all been killing it and have not disappointed in that regard at all. Heck, even Paper Mario: The Origami King was a halfway back to form.
I feel like I'm rambling now and I don't wanna make too giant a wall of text, but this is actually something that's been bugging me about Switch era Nintendo for a while now.