Mario Tennis Aces Review Switch
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Mario Tennis aces Switch is the newest and a solid addition to the growing library of
Nintendo switch games Mario Tennis Switch brings fast-paced action-packed game
play with a few new mechanics that keep the gameplay relatively simple but at a
deeper level that allows for more strategic gameplay that is just a lot of
fun a lot of the mechanics are kind of fighting game inspired bringing some of
the mechanics like the growing energy bar and a special move over from that
genre and implementing it into this tennis sports game it seems to work very
well keeping things kind of back and forth fatigue ik taking actions here and
there and you have the option to make strategic decisions with these new
mechanics as you play throughout the rally your energy gauge will charge up
but you have a certain option about how and when you want to use these you can
use the zone speed ability to quickly defend and move around the court making
so that if you're out of position you can hustle back and return one over
or you can power up and save it for your amazing crazy smash attack that you just
go to aim and crush the ball wherever you kind of want on the court if you're
skilled enough nice the addition of this energy gauge adds different swings in
momentum as the rally goes along making it so if you make a nice defense and you
know you could be up and around thinking you're gonna head then your opponent
pulls out a huge special shot to come back and win the rally making things
really exciting and even if you're out of a rally you still have a chance to
kind of crawl your way back in to earn those points all this is built upon the
foundation of basic tennis gameplay with the slice power and topspin shots along
with the drop and lob shots to allow for a varied array of options for you to
choose from as you play this refined and simple gameplay with a few additions of
the mechanics really makes for a solid gameplay experience when you're playing
the tennis game in Mario Tennis ace just planets go the single player
adventure mode offers a short but diverse set of challenges for you to
undertake as Mario Tennis aces and go through this adventure there's a wide range of
different challenges using all sort of that you're familiar mario creatures
like the Piranha Plants you've got a smack back and forth with or a varied
amount of bosses that force you as a player to use all the games different
mechanics it takes a page out of the first-person shooter
book where you have to use all the game's mechanics in a short but
substantial campaign that allows it serves as kind of a teaching for the
multiplayer modes there is some light RPG progression in the adventure mode
but overall it ends up feeling kind of pointless the things you accumulate on
the long the way and the levels you gain and the increase in stat seem almost
meaningless you can definitely feel the effects but at the end you're kind of
left with no earned extras or goodies to use in the other modes of the game so
it's just here and once you've completed the mode all of that is seemingly unused
elsewhere there's also not a ton to earn here in this mode you accumulate extra
rackets as you go which are kind of useful in that mode they don't apply
elsewhere which kind of sucks plus there's no secret characters or extra
earned characters or content that you can earn in this mode making it so that
the mode is just for fun and doesn't really help you carry over into the
other modes when you're finished with it the tournament mode allows for some
increased amount of single-player play but these modes are essentially just
increasingly difficult CPU matches that kind of go organized in a tournament
style it's pretty linear and it harkens back to the original days of the
original Mario Tennis Reviews back on the n64 and don't really serve to add a ton more
gameplay time into the game because you can't earn anything in this mode it's
really just to kind of play against the computer in a semi organized fashion the
multiplayer mode is really where this game is meant to be played and where it
really shines the head-to-head matches going back and forth with this
fast-paced action-packed style fighting mechanic edition type of gameplay makes
things really fun when playing with other players and
is a great experience to have it is a little bit quirky that when you're
playing locally multiplayer you do have to have a split screen because when you
use this special shot it would be kind of jarring to switch the camera angle
this kind of seems a little bit unnecessary and I get that it has to be
that way but forcing the screen to be split into when you're looking at the
same thing going back and forth seems a little bit kind of quirky and I wish
there was maybe a better way to handle it but it does make sense that it has to
be that way but otherwise the multiplayer mode works fairly well
another couple of small gripes that I think hold the game back overall is that
there's a lack of customization and feel between the characters they do feel
slightly different but there's not a ton of customization or really to build out
the way you play as it relates to your character it's really more about your
play style things are fairly balanced and try to keep things not too diverse
so it doesn't make one character way better than other those things still do
happen and there are differences to be found but it would be nice to see
different choices in brackets or clothing or arenas or whatever that
really changed the gameplay there is the party mode which adds some fun quirks
and different things there which is a lot of fun but it would be nice to be
able to customize your character to maybe fit your play style may be a
faster character with a lot of spin or a power character who gets even more power
from an optic or something like that additionally these swing modes so when
you actually take the controller out of and you're not playing you can actually
kind of swing it it has a tough time detecting what kind of shot you're doing
a slice or a drop or a lob or or whatever kind of shot you're choosing it
it doesn't detect it that well and sometimes you might find yourself
getting frustrated I found the best way and most enjoyable what way to play for
me was playing on the controller which is kind of unfortunate they could have
taken better advantage of the technology but I think it still works just fine
using the controller okay and then drop shot
no okay topspin yeah no come on okay winner no not a free Kinect overall
I think Mario Tennis Asus is a pretty solid game with some solid and refined
gameplay mechanics with a few new additions to this edition of the game
that really upped the ante make it more action-packed and make it
feel different than the other editions in the series with just a few minor
drawbacks lacking in single-player gameplay time and options lacking
customization lacking unlockables and hidden characters but with a solid base
of gameplay that it proves four hours of fun if you have friends to play with and
playing in Mario Tennis aces so for that reason my final verdict for Mario Tennis
aces is a 7 out of 10 a good game if you have a Nintendo switch and people to
play this game with I would recommend picking it up it is a lot of fun and you
can have hours of gameplay and lots of fun playing this game with your friends
in the multiplayer mode there's a lot to be had here if you're not really one
who's go leans toward playing multiplayer I might skip this one
there's not a ton of single-player content not a lot of unlockables and not
a huge amount of time that you can spend in there without getting bored or have
exhausted all of the content there so either get some friends or maybe give
this one a skip anyways that'll do it for Mario Tennis
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Mario Tennis Aces Review