Review: ‘Arms’ Is Weird, Wonderful, and Maybe the Perfect Switch Game

Arms is a fighting game for the Nintendo Switch about not exactly punching. Also not exactly jumping and juking or weaving and bobbing. It's not even exactly about the eponymous appendages the game bids you fling at its menagerie of goofball pugilists, whose corkscrew arms uncoil in slow-mo arcs like lethal cruise missiles. Things are often more than they seem—like the title, meaning "arms" as in limbs, but also armaments, the game boasting a funhouse arsenal's worth.