Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour costs £7.99, and for a while it does feel a bit like you’ve paid someone to show you their carefully alphabetised 5K completion medals. A big part of the tour is a stamp rally. You are a tiny little person moving through dioramas formed by massive versions of the Switch 2 hardware and its accessories, and whenever you reach a new feature – a button, a port – a little stamp station pops up and you collect the stamp.
Nintendo Switch 2 Welcome Tour reviewPublisher: NintendoDeveloper: NintendoPlatform: Played on Switch 2Availability: Out now on Switch 2.
I love stamps, me, but this can be a bit much. Last night, I was wandering over a huge model of the Switch 2’s Joy-Con 2 Grip Controller, dutifully looking at rubber pads that allow things to slot together safely. I have had more fun with Nintendo products. I say that, but have I had a more Nintendo-like experience? We will return to this.
So, the stamp rally can be slightly enervating at times, particularly since you have to unlock all of an area’s stamps before you can move onto the next. I also wasn’t particularly taken with the quizzes, that offer a range of facts on specific parts of the new console and then test you on what you’ve just read. Despite some witty alternate answers, it’s exactly like the kind of eLearning that large companies make you do – even when you just work in filing – to ensure that you know not to accept jewels from foreign royalty.
As a rule, I would do anything to duck eLearning, and I remember being particularly annoyed at it when I detected that I was having a modicum of fun on the test section. It’s the same thing here. I’ll laugh at one of those witty alternate answers and feel like my brain has conspired against me.