Nintendo’s Switch 2 is entering the latter half of 2026 with some games that seem to be pushing what’s possible for its soon-to-be $500 console. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave tries so many new things, testing the limits of the handheld’s graphical capabilities. It’s too bad it’s not always flexing what makes the Switch 2 so unique. I still dream of a console-based strategy game that can marry the couch-based comforts of consoles with the versatility of a mouse-and-keyboard control scheme. It’s why I was so smitten with the Steam Controller. Fire Emblem: Fortune’s Weave takes the Switch 2’s mouse controls and effectively makes the feature pointless, especially because it refuses to employ a typical mouse cursor. Mouse controls don’t change how you play the game at all. It would have been better with a mouse cursor. © Nintendo The game series—going back to its Game Boy roots—has always relied on simple controls that fit their grid-based combat systems. That hasn’t changed with the latest title. You can use your controller or Joy-Con 2’s sticks to select various tiles and then send them close to enemies to attack. Otherwise, you can use the Joy-Con’s mouse mode to do the same. You don’t have a mouse cursor appear on screen. Instead, you roll over to the right character and tile, then use the Z1 button as the pseudo mouse click. Even selecting items in a menu is basically the same as if you were using a joystick.