It’s a sports video game staple, but NBA 2K20 does a stellar job of making it engaging, fun, and relatively simple to work through. MyLeague is a little more traditional, letting you take a team or two through multiple seasons, managing the roster and playing the games throughout. It’s still charming and the interaction with players and staff is something distinct from every other mode in the game, but it just might not have as much depth as other modes. While the novelty of seeing my created GM talking with Eric Bledsoe about starting a Fraser fandom podcast is delightful, I saw a lot of those conversations repeat over my few hours with the mode. Playing this mode so close to Three Houses made the comparisons between the two very clear, though Fire Emblem’s turn at these characters interactions is infinitely more compelling. There’s even a skill tree for improving your management abilities.
Spend time training or maybe increasing your support level with specific players. You control the team of your choice and try to guide them to victory by making use of allotted Action Points, which are almost literally just like the Ability Points in Three Houses. MyGM honestly might share more in common with Fire Emblem: Three Houses than any other game on Switch. Instead, most of my time was drawn to the MyLeague and MyGM modes. It’s a damn shame because this could and should be a better mode, but it’s pay to win for the most part. That’s where the real nonsense starts with lottery pulls and more loot box crap. Nothing really improves when you take your character through their NBA career. Bottom line: the supremely novel create-a-player and take on a story mode is bogged down by microtransactions. While the publisher and developer swear the grind is better this year, it’s almost irrelevant by what degree it’s improved. Making it worse is the fact that your character can only be upgraded using the in-game currency, which can be earned in the game but also can be bought using real money. Unfortunately, the writing’s dalliances with promise wash away quickly, especially when interspersed with drawn-out gameplay segments centered on preparing your character for the NBA Draft. I find these modes compelling - perfect for the prospective player who wants a deliberate narrative alongside their sports games.
The cast assembled, as per usual, is eclectic and way better than the content requires, with stars like Idris Elba, Rosario Dawson, and Thomas Middleditch showing up. That mode is only accessible online for obvious reasons and so is the M圜areer mode, where you can make your own player and take them on a story from the beginning of the career to the pros. That mode is extremely not my kind of thing and I have zero desire to buy packs of cards using real money. There’s the microtransaction-heavy MyTeam mode, similar to Ultimate Team in EA Sports games. Hopefully future games can make the WNBA component deeper.Īside from the WNBA addition, the majority of the content is par for the course. They can only be used in exhibition matches and a limited WNBA-specific season mode, but it’s still awesome that you can play as one of the 12 teams from the league to your heart’s content. WNBA teams and players are featured for the first time ever in the series. Requisite improvements and additions help make this entry a good one, but much like last year’s edition, peripheral elements like a gross focus on microtransactions and, for the Switch’s case, online needed to access most modes make NBA 2K20 on Switch a Finals-bound squad marred by the sixth man from hell.įirst off, my personal favorite addition is mostly a tacked-on one.
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Because of that, it’s a welcome sight to see 2K Sports bring NBA 2K20 to the system, making it the third consecutive year of the well-regarded basketball series on Nintendo’s console. Licensed sports games on Nintendo Switch are still, in general few and far between.
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