Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour

Like us, we imagine that your first goal on setting up a new console is not to sit and read about its features but to play with them. And yet the first exhibit we land on in Welcome Tour is a series of information boards explaining the ins and outs of Switch 2’s new mouse control, followed by a quiz in which we regurgitate the information just fed to us.

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This is an oddly dry and clinical package in many ways. As you trot around giant renditions of the console — outside and in — Nintendo’s public mask of cheery characters and fantasy worlds dissolves, baring the businesslike workings beneath. Any enthusiasm here feels inauthentic, forced through the mouths of NPCs in the virtual exhibition as they proclaim their amazement at the genius of HD Rumble 2. The Disneyland promise of new Nintendo hardware thus manifests as a school trip to the science museum.

Not that there isn’t a certain genius to HD Rumble 2, and when you enter