Yoshi Face-Kicking Simulator | Mario Strikers: Battle League REVIEWMPRESSIONS
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
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Mario Strikers: Battle League is a thing now! Here are my thoughts on the game.
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I think the worst part of the game is the incredibly small roster. More characters are coming in the future, but they really should have been in the game originally. 10 characters in matches with 8 just means you're going to see the same characters over and over again.
Nintendo will release updates with at least 10 new characters. But I hope they generally improve stuff. For instance that 4 vs 4 online is actually possible.
@@sparkypack This should be stuff thats already in the game.
Yeah, and the only thing that differentiates characters are their stats which can be manipulated with items, so more characters isn't even that helpful. In the old game at least every character had their own special tackle and special item.
I am happy to know they're adding more, but yeah, when this new installment has less characters to choose from than the one before it, that's not a good sign.
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 Agreed 👍
Not pre-rendered, all in-engine, because NLG's tech artist and optimization needs to be applauded!
@Don't Read My Profile Photo o.k I w.o.n.t
@Don't Read My Profile Photo You sound like that one reverse psychology joke from that one Scott the Woz episode on Virtual Boy
@@Jackie_burnp For the love of God, *don’t **-buy-** read it!*
Its not pre-rendered?? Damn, they aren't kidding when they say Next Level!
Yep, easy to tell since the cutscenes incorporate all of your custom gear and colors.
Man do I wish they had the cup structure from Charged. It was so cool with the little news snippets and the top scorer and brick wall trophies. Also the unlockables just made it that much better
Ok but playing the charged cups are a nightmare
@@therandomguy2212 never was able to unlock Petey. Got so close and then had to replay the entire tournament every time I lost
@@shotguntornado I hate road to striker cup so damn much because of that
I actually hated that cup so much as a kid as well, but I went back to charged a couple weeks back and beat petey 8-0 as a sort of vengeance for my childhood self
@@ovenbongos5831 Same here! It feels so good to destroy a boss that once gave you so much trouble, Goes to show how much depth charged had.
the tutorial makes you kick Yoshi SO many times that this video could never have been titled anything else
I only saw the thumbnail and tapped on it and seeing your comment I have been thoroughly shocked.
*@spenstoppable*
I *_DO NOT_* condone in kicking Yoshi in the face!!! 😠😠😠
That is the case, *_unless_* it is another Yoshi (albeit in a different colour and uniform) - in which case it is fair game (pun not intended here).
Ohhoho looks like I need to get this game now
That kicking is terrifyingly smooth.
@Don't Read My Profile Photo
I think everyone is going to follow that instruction to the T
Also, this falls under the umbrella of unwanted commercial content or spam.
8:24 I LOVE this immediate shift in tone lmao, well done
@Don't Read My Profile Photo why would you waste your own time with this?
@@BryantheArchivist don't respond just report
SAME
It felt like a wild plot twist xD
@@BryantheArchivist It’s a bot numbnuts
I feel like saying the Mario Sports games never had personality feels inaccurate because at a time they were dripping with personality. It's part of why people adored them so much on top of their solid gameplay. It's just the newer titles where people take issues with the sterilization of the Sports games
Heck, even just like the TAUNTS in the previous Mario Golf games (especially the GameCube entry) were chalk full of personality! XD sure they weren't as over the top as Mario Strikers Charged on Wii but... Then again, that was a WHOLE 'NOTHER BEAST.
Nintendo just removes stuff like the taunts because... Reasons?
Yep it’s the newer games that have the lack of personality. I adored Mario Tennis Power Tour partially because it had loads of personality
Yeah seriously. I'd rather play Toadstool Tour over Super Rush because they celebrations and sulks were over the top and hilarious. In Super Rush they just feel like they go meh to every single result. It also annoys the crap out of me that the game doesn't remove the flag when you're putting.
I get it for golf but I just can't agree with Aces lacking personality.
@@ElainaMaruyama Even World Tour's post hole animations are better than Super Rush. Super Rush literally only has 3 animations (one for Birdie or higher, one for Par, and one for either getting a Bogey or lower or flat out losing a hole), and they're not interesting _in the slightest_
A bit of a nitpick I suppose, but the previous strikers games had brand new voice lines made specifically for the game- think along the lines of Wario yelling at you to “shoot the ball” or to “gimmie the ball” in classic Wario fashion or Mario taunting you while you had possession of the ball. While I believe NL still did good job incorporating the old voice lines from other games, I think the game loses some of its attitude compared to the previous entries. Arlo I’d highly recommend playing Mario Strikers Charged and seeing the comparisons between that one and Battle League.
I feel the same, it's not a big deal but it bothers me to see so many reused clips when the other two had new clips that fit the style of the game
Even the losing screens are toned down from the previous games
@@benjaminchi1989 Honestly, the attitude comes from Boom Boom lol.
Too bad the gameplay is shallow and offers little content. It feels more like a 20 dollar game and not a whopping 60. This game was just lazy plain and simple. Does not live up to the previous games
@@SoggySlopster gameplay IS NOT shalloe lol
3:08 it's definitely toned back compared to the old games, lol. The animation in battle league is off the charts for sure, but the characters' personalities and the overall tone of the game doesn't go nearly as hard as it did in charged (presumably because Nintendo would never allow them to do that again).
Next Level games did their best, but this game is just as hamstrung by Nintendo as every other mario spin-off in terms of being bold and creative.
Only charge the it's not that toned back from the original.
Well then, that at least shows how much juice Next Level Games can inject into anything!
I feel like Nintendo's unwillingness to do fun things OUTSIDE of the gameplay with their various core IPs is going to be a story that gets repeated a LOT until we get another shakeup in their management.
Like, they still produce fine video games, and there's nothing that says they NEED to allow more creativity back into Paper Mario or Mario Strikers or Mario Tennis. But I can't help but wonder how much more entertaining these games would be if they did more than just be "Mario stuff, but Paper, and in a JRPG" "Mario stuff, but Golfing" "Mario stuff, but 'Soccer'" "Mario, but Tennis".
@@cmdrfokker hold they still have creativity say what you want about the new title but they are creative. Tennis made a whole new system, strikers made alot of changes to it's gameplay. They are being creative.
@@aaronjones6299 That's why I said "OUTSIDE of the gameplay". Everyone knows they can design the heck out of the actually-playing-it part of a videogame.
The major issue with this game is that there's just a lack of content that would make this game even more fun and enjoyable for a least a decent amount of time down the road. There's a small amount of characters, a small amount of stages to choose from, a small amount of gear and a small amount of equipment that can be used to design the characters before the soccer match. I feel as though this game would have been even more better if it had at least 20 to 30 playable characters, at least a decent amount of stages and gear to implement into the game, a decent single player experience, and at least a story mode for this game that can at least be somewhat interesting. This game doesn't feel like a 60 dollar game, it feels like at least a 30 dollar game with "SOME" interesting things implemented in the game. Mario Strikers Charged is such a better game just for the amount of stuff that it contains more than Mario Strikers Battle League. That's not to say that the game is bad by any means, but it's incredibly lackluster in content that isn't worth my money in my personal opinion.
It’s a shame too. Miyamoto always said a delayed game that’s finished is better than rushed game that’s incomplete. Was really forward to this game but after hearing the disappointment from players it’s not really worth my $60 even with the crappy online system. Sucks man 😔
I largely disagree with the gear, there’s enough to make multiple builds for all 10 characters
@@therandomguy2212 the gear is fine, which is what makes this game interesting. However, having only 10 characters at launch using similar gear is going to get very stale quickly. Not Next Level’s fault, but Nintendo doing the bare minimum again instead of professionally giving us at least a game that feels like it’s complete. I hate that they’re rushing deadlines
@@elijaharroyo4846 I haven’t seen people using similar gear to mine. I’ve seen a lot of unique gear and team types. The strikers discord community are doing to many type of builds
@@elijaharroyo4846 and for me personally, the gameplay is really fun that I never cared for dittos
The lack of content is a big part of why I'm skipping this one. Got burned one too many times with these Mario Sports games on Switch. Maybe it'll turn out much better in the long run with more updates, but the online will be dead by then. So it's an easy pass.
I hate how all of the Mario sports games have this issue. Like sure, most switch games don’t have it, but the fact that these sports games are singled out is annoying. Why is every other Nintendo game finished when it comes out? Even stuff like animal crossing was pretty good at launch imo. Other games like arms, kirby, and Switch sports share this issue. That’s seven games, which isn’t a lot, but it still sucks that a significant portion of the library is taken up by these games, even if it isn’t that big of an amount. Take a game like Mario maker 2, smash, or splatoon 2 and use those as a free update kind of model. Those games had a lot of content and were held up by new updates. That’s what these games should have. Games that are mostly single player don’t suffer (thank god) but these games do for some reason:
I don't think the updates will really improve the game that much like some people are thinking.
The characters are a big thing, but the stages are just aesthetics and music. I don't think there's gonna be any extra modes or something added like that.
Battle League is very much finished aside from its lack of characters and stages.
@@DaNintendude I can kinda see that, but I feel like they could do a little more. A sequel needs to build off the ideas in the previous games. This feels like a new Mario strikers, when it should be a sequel to Mario strikers with new modes and such. I know plenty of people think the switch is nothing but ports and unfinished games, and while I don’t think that’s true (Wii u ports ‘mostly’ supplement new games), there are a few games, especially the sports titles, that lack substance. Overall I enjoy the exclusive library but that’s a whole ‘nother argument.
@@joshua9832
My argument for that is that it's a new Strikers built from the ground up.
Mario Strikers Charged had so much stuff because it was built off of the original GameCube game and reused a very large amount of assets.
Battle League definitely should have more content but it makes sense why it doesn't. It's not built off of anything. They had to start from scratch.
There are definitely a handful of smaller things that could improve the game a lot, and I hope the free updates add some of that in. But I think it's fully understandable why they focused on making the gameplay as solid and polished as possible instead of trying to evolve the series.
@@DaNintendude I'd still consider it unfinished, if only for the lack of characters/stages that are already in the code, just being held back. I agree though, the characters aren't going to add much substance to the game. Nintendo is making $20 games and selling them for $60.
Been binging your reviews recently and really love your style and analysis. I actually started playing Zelda BotW again thanks to your big fat review of it
That's the video that introduced me to Arlo. I saw a 3 hour vid of a game I was into that had a fuzzy blue monster in the thumbnail and I thought, "Huh. That could be good." Now this is easily one of my favorite channels.
Ok
Just started but the two arlos facing off was very Surreal. The arlo raycon lore is getting deep.
Do you think he has other puppets?
@@matthewlong7547 Are you implying that arlo is a mere puppet and not a monster?
Funniest thing I've seen all day
@@matthewlong7547 He does.
The sheer surrealness made me realise that arlo has no ears, odd that he sells earbuds.
The delivery of “I do not like to play it” along with the editing was brilliantly done, made me chuckle lol
the fact that Daisy isn't a default roster character is wild to me. Like, Daisy was pretty much made for mario sports games. Where is she?
Arlo sounds like a Cat person justifying why he doesn’t want a dog in the nicest way possible.
After the Sonic 2 movie review, he's been even more careful... Don't blame the guy
And the comments are telling him that the dog recently got a new owner that's making the dog misbehave, sadly
@@GreatestLeaf he got #sonicsweep
What happened to Arlo in his sonic 2 movie review? Is it still up? @@GreatestLeaf
Damn I don't think I've ever seen one of Arlo's videos shift so drastically in tone halfway through. I've never played a Strikers game, but when this was announced, I was interested because I really like the style. Not paying $60 for this though. As Arlo says the only thing it has going for it is the multiplayer and even that has glaring issues.
I can assure you that even fans from the previous entries, and especially fans of the previous entries are the most dissapointed with this game
Deeper than just the lack of contnent, the contnent that the game does have has been heavily sterilized, easily comparable by watching the introduction movies of Battle League and Charged back to back
Even the music has been heavily sterilized, when the previous entries had multiple generes for each character, and Even in-between modes and menus, while Battle League is exclusively Rock
Really, the only improvements we have are Wario, Waluigi and Donkey Kong
@@elkarlo1593 Well said!
It doesn't have glaring multiplayer issues. I'm calling bad take on this review.
Arlo said in this video "I'll leave the club management stuff to other people" then said "no robust multiplayer experience."
The club IS the robust multiplayer experience! More than splatoon has for community! It has a seasonal division ladder climb, the same mechanic that a little game called "League of Legends" uses to drive engagment.
If you don't like multiplayer, that's whatever, but don't say "no robust multiplayer" if you don't hit the "robust multiplayer" button in the menu.
Also fact that nowadays you need to PAY for online. This killed Pokemon for me.
I get that the characters are customisable, but it doesn't feel like a good excuse to to not include long time, popular roster mainstays like Daisy and Diddy
I'm not a fan of holding big names off for later, they have to impress me with a good base roster if they want me to buy
and the lack of Sidekicks kinda sucks honestly, I think I would have preferred having two captains and three sidekicks a team
Uh, Diddy being a mainstay is stretching it. He’s 50-50 for being in the Mario Spin offs.
@@Mojo1356 Not really? He was in almost in every game in the GameCube and Wii era dude
the customizaitons looks like crap, I did not use them because the characters look so bad with them...
@@Duskool back then yes, but these days? It’s 50-50. He was scrapped from the mainline Mario Kart games, and he wasn’t even in any of the sports games on the Switch at launch. I don’t think Diddy was on a single 3DS Mario Spin off either.
Adding characters used to be much less effort. Now they require high-poly models, animations, and unique models for every piece of gear. The lack of characters is 100% justified to some extent.
It’s just that, you can definitely tell that Nintendo owns Next Level Games now.
What's just that
@@DR.DisInfect "It's just that" is an expression when you are making a complaint..
This was being developed even before they were bought by Nintendo, if they were still 3rd party it wouldn't have changed the live service approach to it.
The "i dont like to play it" is an iconic transition
I screamed at the reveal in February. Strikers Charged on the Wii was the only game my Dad would play with me over the years before we all got older and I got a job.
However, having played the online play test and then playing Charged the following day after, this game didn't cut it for me. The smaller field and new tackle system made the game more finicky and frankly more chaotic, but not in a good way. The flow of this game to me is off and there's not much room to breathe between each rush into either zone. Power ups appearing on the stage for pickup was not a good idea because players should be rewarded or punished based on their actions, not picking up an item box just from walking somewhere. It works for the hyper strike, but not for items.
Finally, free the Kremlings! Please bring them back in some capacity.
Yes thank you! I was beginning to think I was the only one who missed Kritter! Also, NO DIDDY KONG, DAISY OR BOWSER JR!? WHAT THE HELL!?
Ah well, I'm a huge Mario Strikers fan, so I'll probably end up buying the game despite it's shortcomings.
"Power ups appearing on the stage for pickup was not a good idea because players should be rewarded or punished based on their actions, not picking up an item box just from walking somewhere. "
Um, players ARE punished for making free tackles by giving the other team items. Having items in boxes is a good risk-reward mechanism because "just walking there" means pulling yourself out of position.
@@krausewitz6786 Hmm, ok perhaps I was mistaken because I don't recall getting an item the old way, just kept seeing the boxes on the ground for power ups.
I hope I live to see the day the Mario series' creativity is unrestrained by whoever is keeping it on a leash.
Nintendo?
@@Luijbi Some unknown person within Nintendo, specifically. Prime example being Paper Mario: the dev isn't allowed to create new races or give classic races names and backstories like they could in the first 3 games. Someone is holding back the team's creativity, according to the director. My guess being the director himself or Miyamoto.
@@fuzzydude64
I doubt it's Miyamoto, considering he's been on board for loads of games that introduced new characters amd such like Galaxy and the old Paper Mario games. My best guess is that these decisions come from the CEOs of Nintendo Japan
0:15 This is getting out of hand. Now there are two of him.
I'd probably buy more of these online nintendo games if they launched with fuller content. I bought arms at launch, I like the core gameplay in ranked, but it wasn't much for content. When the game finally got updates for it to become a properly sized game, the playerbase was dead and now it's impossible to find ranked matches. I know this is how the new mario strikers will be too, so I'm skipping it.
Its not dead, went on for two hours and found matches. Play on weekends to find lower ranked players.
Yeah Nintendo online is in the dark ages
I played the demo and frankly in my opinion it felt like a major downgrade from Stikers Charged on the Wii. That game felt faster and more fluid, the camera felt more zoomed in making the field feel like it had more room. And you talk about personality, having one character as a captain and the rest as sidekicks really was great. Dry Bones just warping the ball into the goal, Hammer Bro dropping hammers as you run to take out defenders and then hucking a bunch to wallop the goalie and knocking the ball into the now-empty net, the character theme songs for each captain, Strikers Charged had it all and this game just feels like a much more sanitized version of that to me. Again, just basing it on the demo and not the full game but I was excited when this launched and quickly realized it was not the game I was hoping for it to be. But like you said maybe free DLC later will help?
The best way I can describe my feelings about this game is that this feels more like a Mario: Soccer than it is a Mario: Strikers. Most of the identity the series was known for has been sanded down or cut out entirely: no more rough dirt and grime, less explosive line-art, no more map variety, less character personality, less special abilities and toned down item-effects.
They even sanded down the roster into 10 playable characters in a game with 8 player slots. The series' fun of inventive cheesy ways to score has been eliminated from the game; making it a lot more focused on esports, a decision that's strange for Nintendo to make considering their focus on party games and cracking down to deny any tournaments of their games.
Thank god they removed that un-fun cheesy goal scoring game breaking mechanic from Charged. It was stupid to begin with.
So it is closer to the original then charge
The core gameplay is fantastic, I too own this title. Food for thought, how is it that Nintendo nails single player in Kart but does not understand that we are still the same audience? Not all of us have a bunch of on line friends to play a season with but I got time after kids go to bed to play a few matches but the cup mode is just kinda bland compared to Kart or something like Subspace Emissary! Remember that on the Wii Smash? Good times for us single players.
Gotta wait for the content to roll in i guess.
There are much less characters (remember the sidekicks like birdo and dry bones). One thing charged did rly well was making the captains stand out (own color, special move), now teams kinda mesh.
Considering how this game promotes 4v4, they definitely needed a bigger roster to make it work.
Best raycon sponsorship I've ever seen. The amount of emotion portrayed in those two arlo's faces is both masterful and hilarious.
I really respect that even though Arlo didn’t enjoy the game, he was able to - and spent a lot of time talking about - parts of the game that he still thought were cool / perceived that others would like.
From someone who played the first 2 games, even with it’s faults & setbacks, Battle League is a Mario Strikers that fits right at home w/ the rest of the series.
The presentation is immaculate & everyone is unbelievably cute & charming w/ still that grit & angry attitude throughout, even when the artstyle’s cleaner overall & the gameplay especially is so stupidly deep & layered that it could spawn a competitive scene from how insane it is. It is insanely fun & an intense wall, but an intensely fun time learning all the tech & advanced moves BL has.
The primary thing holding this game back for me is the roster & I feel that’s most people. Strikers used to have more characters across captains & sidekicks so BL’s roster is the smallest in the series & even doesn’t have obvious mainstays like Daisy or Bowser Jr., primarily Daisy. & when Strikers has a boatload of charm put into these characters & was what defined Daisy’s persona too, I do wish it had more character variety at the start. That & as you said, skimping on some of that multiplayer potential w/ no true 8 player online. The Cup Battles being it’s main ‘single player’ never really bothered me personally because Strikers since the start was always one of the most barebones Mario series in terms of content. BL effectively has the same exact amount of content as the Gamecube one & w/ how amazing the presentation & gameplay are imo, that’s not that big of a problem for me but I can understand why others would need more content to get them to come back to keep playing and/or if you don’t have many friends to keep playing. Charged at least had challenges for example, but still.
Even w/ that though, even when I wish the roster was bigger & better, the multiplayer wasn’t stupidly restricted, I’m not only really glad Next Level got to make a polished & really deep but really fun Mario Strikers again, I’m glad the series has a viable shot at continuing to live. The fact my favorite Mario sports spinoff is back & it’s newest entry has that polish & attention to detail in gameplay & presentation, the 2 biggest aspects about Strikers, still leaves me w/ plenty of delight & happiness.
I could imagine Bowser coaching Bowser Jr.'s elementary school soccer.
That ad was hilarious.
Very honest review. Really appreciate it. Lot of really weird omissions on this one. With free DLC characters coming, hopefully they can patch basic stuff like the 4v4.
I haven’t been this happy to dropkick yoshi since smash
Yes. I agree about dropkicking Yoshi in Smash, but personally, I enjoy throwing Toad so hard that I end up wiping out his family lineage.
Arlo is absolutely the only youtuber I don't skip the sponsored part
Arlo and Internet Historian I never skip the ads
Don't forget Pyrocynical as well
Is the same reason why kids pay attention to Sesame Street
I also never skip Ordinary Sausage's or MAndJTV's sponsored bits.
am i really missing out on that much? ive never watched a single one of arlo's ads because... why would i watch an ad if i can skip it..
First tennis, then golf, now soccer & even Nintendo Switch Sports are all empty on content. At least the Metacritic for Battle League is funny to look at. All that's left is baseball, & I'm scared even that will be barebones.
Me too I'm scared! I don't want a new Mario Baseball for that reason!
I think that was the first Raycon ad plug I sat through in any video… double Arlo had me shook and yet heavily entertained at the same time. I loved it.
It compares favorably to the first Mario Strikers, but pales in comparison to Charged, which has more characters (each with their special abilities), much more varied fields (plus all the fields from the first game) more Items (they removed the Ice Shells and the triple shells) and way, WAAAY more personality:
Each character had their own particular musical theme, each one a different music genre (you all sure remember Luigi's), the characters used to look dirty because of all the explosions, and there were twice as many goal and defeat animations for all characters.
And I haven't even mentioned the Kremling goalies.
I'd argue the first game was also better than this one. The first game had better personality (subjective here, but Waluigi had the crotch chop in Super), had more varied arenas (though they functioned the same), had more items (freeze, triple, spiny, Chain Chomp, etc.), had cheats for special matches, had challenges to unlock said cheats, and had 13 characters. Furthermore, Super Team was awesome.
This game does have better visuals and animation though.
@@theonewhowrotethis5681 A much more complete game indeed, and there's also something I just noticed: the characters no longer react to the electric fence when electrocuted. They just play their dissapointment voice sound.
DUDE THE HARD-CUT FROM THE “this video is sponsored by raycon earbuds :)” TO THAT SHOT OF TWO ARLOS WITH ONE BEING LIKE HORRIFIED AND THE OTHER JUST LOOKING AT HIM KILLED ME HAHAHA
I will say that for the most part, I do enjoy this more than the first one. I think the main reason for this is because with that one, I always found that the key to winning was just to keep passing to the team captain and spamming charge shots. At least with this one, not only can you not spam them, but I do find it a lot easier to score without relying on them.
Although in all seriousness, when I saw that title card with Mario and Bowser wearing armor, all I could think about was how amazing it would be if they made a Mario pro wrestling game with similar outfit options. Not that Volleyball hybrid game they were planning for the Gamecube, but a full pro wrestling game with cartoon physics. They could even give the characters signature moves that fit them, like Mario would use a flaming powerbomb, that sort of thing.
I would buy that game so fast
8:23 I actually bursted out loud laughing at this because I definitely relate
I don't necessarily know about a story mode, but Strikers Charged on the Wii had challenges for single player, things like "make a comeback from a 0-3 score" or "use a super shot and score this many goals," but the one thing that I think has been absolutely destroying the single player experience on these games as of late is the lack of unlockable content. Whether that be characters, stages, skins, whatever. Yeah, this game has the gear system with the coins, but something about that doesn't strike me as being substantial enough to want to play the game.
Story mode in mario tennis aces and super rush: barebones
Also no tourneys
Strikers: We did what you asked for. No half baked story mode. Here the 6 easy tourneys and 6 hard tourneys
@@guyfierimtwi I really don't understand the complaints about more single player stuff in a sports game. It's a sports game. FIFA, Madden, etc just have league play modes for single player, no story or whatever. People just played the league. Adding a bunch of cutscenes between matches doesn't really improve the match all that much and adding side missions like in Tennis Aces just made the game more tedious. Those tennis based mini games were just bad. People asking for RPG stuff in a sports game don't understand sports games. It needs more characters, collectives, but single player at most it just needs more types of fields and match options but single player for sports is just different names for tournament/arcade mode.
@@sws212 Let me try to explain this for you in a way that you'll understand.
Its called "love, heart, and soul". Those IRL sports titles deserve it too! Could you imagine a story mode in an actually finished modern madden game, starting out from either high-school or college football as a prologue or tutorial, before slowly making your way up the ranks, getting to know key players on whichever team you get drafted into over time and forming a bond with them to work better together, having characters back home to meet or having a determined rival to take down during future matches? What about winning your first superbowl? You CAN make an epic story out of that, and thats just plain old IRL football!
Now imagine a cartoony game like this. I introduce Super Sluggers on the wii! That game literally had an entire plot surrounding a hostile take over of various ballparks. It was simple, but you got to run around, gather teammates, and eventually you even got to defeat Bowser JR and eventually Bowser in special boss games that really tested your limits as a player.
You CAN do great fun things in a story mode for a sports title, they just choose not to because the big suits on top don't care, they just wanna grab at every penny they can and whip their employees raw just to release a game faster.
It does have a unlockable gear ser you get at the end of the tournament mpde and unlockable hard mode for the tournaments.
@@sws212 THANK YOU.
When I bought NBA 2K17 (one of the first games I bought for Switch) I bought it to play basketball. That's it. I've put in nearly 100 hours because I like playing basketball. I don't need "challenges" or "story mode". I just want to play the 1997 Lakers and take them to the championship. That's it.
How many modes does a sports game need? I don't want a half-baked, grindy RPG. I'll play a real RPG if I want that experience.
Look at something like Civilization. Functionally there is only ONE game mode....and people pour THOUSANDS of hours into it. Why? Because every single game is different. Sports games operate in exactly the same way.
I feel like the complaints of a 'lack of content' are coming from people who don't actually like sports or sports games (or they don't have any friends....I mean, no one complains about the 'lack of content; in MarioKart, and Mario Kart games are way more basic mechanically than Strikers).
The core gameplay is incredible, if they just add 4v4 online and add like 10 more characters I would have no complaints.
True 👍
Yea I can play online for like 3 hours straight n not realize
Again, love your reviews not for before I buy a game, but you have the exact vibe I want after I’ve played a game. Like, I have all these thoughts about Strikers and you just NAILED them perfectly
The only thing i miss is the music. in charge every captain had their own special music in this one everyone has kinda the same scoring/win and defeat theme
This video has the BEST advertisement section I’ve EVER SEEN! I’m all for the extended Arlo-verse.
And the award for “Video Title That Sounds Disturbing Out Of Context” goes to…
6:15 This one thing sold me on the game.
There's no way Arlo would have caught this reference but Rosalina's special strike is the freaking _Jecht Shot_ from FFX!! No wonder she's a shooter!
. . . I have so many other games to play and I can't keep up but now I want this.
Gosh I ADORE these raycon ads! Arlo is the only one that can get me excited when an ad starts xD
That ad was one of the best I've ever seen. Big props, man.
I'd still rather a Strikers Charged remake.
It had more personality and stage variety. The captains and sidekicks system made each team stand out more. The simpler mechanics didn't detract from it and it had something of a single player.
In the event of a Strikers Charged remake, the only singular thing I would change is how Megastrikes work, from motion controls, to a set 2×3 grid of blocking spots, randomly assigned a button from ABXYLR. Because let's be real: Everyone who played Strikers Charged has to have lost at least one Megastrike goal due to trying to move the cursor too fast, & the Wii's motion controls just can't keep up.
Charged had super complex depth, the competitive scene is still going strong to this day. They unfortunately removed those mechanics though so I'm not sure they would maintain it in a remake either
While I'm over the moon that my favourite traditional sports series finally got a new entry, I'm still not paying $60 for this. What put me off as well was them getting rid of the sidekicks, being characters we rarely get to see outside of maybe avoiding/stomping them a couple times a game in the main series, many of these characters are really interesting/cool and them all having their own abilities AND being able to mix and match them made everything very interesting and the captain felt extra special.
And as the games' been out for longer and more people, including youtubers, are talking about it, I'm also realising just how little variety there seems to be in this game, Strikers Charged had alot of stages, including some from the first game as well as a whole lot of brand new ones which all had their own gimmick, maybe there were pits of lava on the ground or the arena floor was muddy. There was even a stage where at the start of each round, 1 or 2 players on each team including the Captain, would get literally disintegrated by crystals.
And besides the 8 sidekicks, there were 12 captains, 3 of which being unlockables and every captain had their own unique power up. Here, there only seems to be a total of 10 characters AND up to 8 of them can be active in a match at any time instead of the sidekicks. I don't know why Nintendo went from having an absolutely incredible character roster in Super Mario Party to now having absolutely tiny rosters. Mario Party Superstars, while an amazing game, when playing with my friends, it often became a race to who could navigate their cursor to Yoshi the quickest, while I myself don't find any other characters super interesting. IMO, Battle League should've started with at least 16 characters.
At $20, I'd consider getting it if I was going to frequently be playing this with my friends, but I'm going to be skipping this and seeing where it ends up.
Alternate Arlo going silent and turning slowly legit gave me chills
Arlo. I see you are doing the Neytirix, style of sponsored content. You're setting up an entire LORE for your sponsored segments. I promise you. I will watch every one of them if you keep doing this gag and building on it. I will come back at the season finale to rewatch the buildup. You don't understand how happy this has made me.
Well, one thing I don't agree with is that characters have different moves. Everyone has the same move list. They are just stat lines. But the game still wants you to memorize a lot of things, at once. That is hard to sell, ngl.
I will say this and you have done so too: This game is great competitively and I hope it keeps growing there. But the way it has released should be unacceptable. 'Free' updates shouldn't cut it anymore. I'd rather have a full-fledged game from the word go, and that the updates add to said game, instead of the kickstarter model. Where expansions are already promised to a game that has yet to be released.
On the other hand, I am going to huff that copium. The competitive side of things looks to be very interesting and there's quite a lot to learn. And this is where I hope to find my fun with the game. To meet new friends, compete, improve, and maybe reach that top.
But I doubt this game will last as long as mario golf super rush, if even that.
I had to drop a like for the SPONSORSHIP alone. You've got the best ad reads in the business
Actually, the way the ui looks in this game is really bad and unintuitive, because me and many other people who have played the previous games have noticed that it just blends Togheter with the backgrounds and characters, while previously, it was clear and sharp, and just better to identify on the go
I played it just now at a friends'. It's easily the most dynamic (also read as messiest) first party game on Switch. And I'm one who likes Smash (which I can't get any friends into because of how fast paced it is) but this goes way above and beyond in that department. Super fun, equally frustrating.
@@mattb.1236 indeed, the gameplay itself is the best it has ever been, but that one UI problem brings everything down with it
@@elkarlo1593 so much depth, so very little accessibility.
I still think this way. It's hard to identify where I am or who I am when I have to look ahead to know where everyone else is. This becomes a problem when you need to fast in order to stop a play from happening in the first place. The visual aids do little to remedy that.
The smaller fields don't help either. Very easy to lose track of the ball when there is a lot of stuff going on.
idk why but arlo standing their flabbergasted during the ad read is just so funny to me
I played Charged for the GameCube and loved it! When a new Strikers game was announced for the Switch, I was ecstatic! The art style associated with the games is amazing to study!! And man, the grit, the personality, all the cool little exciting things you could do with the characters!! I was looking forward to seeing how they would expand on what was already there. But this new game, from what I've seen, feels so... limited? And the vibe just doesn't seem the same. It's... clean??? During the big character kick cutscenes. Which doesn't quite fit. The original art style designed specifically for this game is messy- intentionally so. It's messy and raw and powerful and truly adds character to the series. It's a lil strange seeing how the art style became sort of polished when, imo, that's missing the point
Where's my all time fav to play, Dry Bones?? Where's so many other iconic characters??? Why do we only have a handful of stages to choose from? Why lock so much away and drip feed us DLC instead of just making regular unlockables? I honestly feel like I have to wait until "the full game actually comes out" before considering buying it. It's so weird to me that this DLC stuff happens! It's one thing for DLC to include fun EXTRA stuff, but this isn't a big huge game to begin with, so the small amount of what we have feels like they gave us a Smash game but the base game is just the Melee, which is fine for a bit, while the DLC is the Story Mode, which can give more meaning to the base gameplay and break up the monotony just a bit. Like, yes, there's the core gameplay there, the game is about doing the sport and that's exactly what you can do, that's all well and good. But there's so much more you can do even with the limited stuff ultimately going on and I feel like they're just... sitting on potential. Granted. I understand crunch. I understand deadlines and that it's really heckin time consuming to make a game. But the decision to push these games out so rapidly in spite of that will consistently boggle my mind. At least this new Strikers game ultimately seems to play alright
Arlo actually making people watch the sponsored ads establishing the Arlore of the Muppet Multiverse
The fact that the maps don’t actually change up game play how they used to sucks… loved your review.
That intro ad is the funniest thing I've watched this week!
The first game was such a huge part of my childhood. I need to pick this up soon!
You should be warned that there is an extreme lack of contact in this game. It was released unfinished
Piece of advice, wait for the update.
Piece of advice, if you actually loved Strikers you’ll enjoy it regardless. If you want to wit for a sale you can, either way you’re still going to get the updates if you buy it now or later.
I'm glad I waited, and now I'll pick up TMNT: Shredder's Revenge for less than half the price of this finely-tuned, yet single-mode experience.
It's crazy how they thought it was ok to release a 4v4 game with no way to play 4v4 online and with only 10 characters for $60. It doesn't even have enough single-player content to compensate for it either.
That slow turn from alternate arlo kinda kicked in my childhood fear of dolls/puppets Lmfao bruh
I totally agree with most points arlo is mentioning. I actually think that strikers charged was WAY better than the new one... The lack of content, the arenas that have no hazards, the horribly designed euqipment etc. . I totaly get now why they started their marketing campaign less than a month before the game came out... There was just nothing they could show.
Even if they add new characters now the game is still lacking so much.
One of the better RUclips ads Ive seen honestly. Appreciate the creepy and mysterious comedy.
Always hyped for new Arlo Raycon ads!
lol arlo with the everyday ear bud adds. I just about died laughing.
The contrast between this game and Strikers: Charged is STARK. Charged had a huge roster of playable characters, a challenging single player campaign with unlockable captains that felt like genuinely triumphant rewards, and most of all... A simple, addictive set of controls & mechanics to play with. I highly recommend giving it a try if you can get your hands on it.
Sure, it was a bit more chaotic (you could score like, 8 goals at once out of nowhere) - so not as competitively viable. It was a PARTY game. But that's what made it fun. idk, playing through the Battle League demo tutorial and realizing how awkward, complex, and devoid of personality the whole thing was, on top of hearing that there's hardly a single player experience to be had... I'm really disappointed in how they soured the legacy of yet another beloved franchise. Even NLG couldn't save this spinoff.
Yep....rest in peace yet another beloved spinoff and it's dignity...
Does have single player in the form of cup battles like every strikers game
@@aaronjones6299 Fair enough - edited my original comment from "no single player experience" to "hardly a single player experience"
Is there like, some kind of weird Arlo multiverse lore developing? If so I'm here for it lol, even funnier that most of it is done through the ads lol
Mostly disappointed by this game compared to strikers charge, but overall still happy we got a new strikers games.
This game has a lot less content and depth compared to charged. The roster is at 10, whereas the old game had 20 : 12 captains + 8 sidekicks. And each sidekick had their own unique special shot, and every character had their own unique dodge/tackle.
I feel like there's less options because of the lack of special shots and tackles. But that may actually make the game more balanced.
In the end its a lazy sequel with very little content.
And you are happy with this old sport?
@@apairofglasses775 These people call it a lazy game despite the evolution in game mechanics. Reddit has conditioned them to think “free updates” = “bad”.
@@wifi961 i don't know man the game seems the same to me and with even less content than charged.
@@wifi961
Except...we're right. Like, we're actually right.
Its not even that free updates by themselves are bad, thats just a strawman you invented to mock us. No, our issue is when its used as an excuse to rush out a game that, on release, is literally stripped back from a 12-14 year old game in every single way, just to finish it later. This would not be acceptable in ANY other industry, but people like you just LOVE to excuse it. Free updates should be things like bug fixes and minor balance updates, not finishing the game a year down the line.
This is a PLAGUE on the gaming industry that has affected many games for years now, and we should not have to put up with this. So before you go whining about "muh reddit", and before you start tasting Nintendo's boot leather again, how about you listen to our side for once?
Less characters, and stages yes. But I wouldn't say it has less content has a whole. It has more tournaments then charge, more costmizble then charge, and end of tutorial task. Really it's only characters that ut us lacking.
8:23 Arlo successfully distracted us toddlers while he stuck the needle in 😅
I feel like this should have been Nintendo Strikers.
Kirby eats the ball and then you roll yourself into the goal.
Samus loads her gun with the soccer ball.
Link uses his sword to bat the ball.
Ness physically controls the ball.
Villager puts the ball in his net.
I love the beginning where arlo is just speechless about a second LMAO
"THE GREAT MENDING" I CANT
Was thinking the other day about how a story/adventure mode would work and I just... could not think of anything.
I think there's definitely _something_ they could do, but the way the game is, it's just kinda hard, ya know?
Baseball works because the field is so big. There are lots of different mechanics and things to keep track of.
Tennis is a small-scale sport that allows for loads of wacky challenges and bosses and stuff.
Golf also has a lot of different mechanics and a very large field. You can easily set up challenges there too.
But with Strikers? It's small scale like Tennis, but it's also a team sport. The mechanics are crazy, but there's a lot going on, and your goal is just to make goals. How do you incorporate a ring or target challenge into the game and make it feel interesting?
I think the one thing that could maybe work are boss battles. Throw in a massive boss and make it so you have to strategically pass to other teammates so the bosses can't get the ball.
But other than that? idek. In Sluggers a lot of the challenges are basically just teaching you to get better at the mechanics. They're like little minigames. But how do you incorporate that into Strikers without just making it feel like the tutorial we already have?
So ultimately a story mode might just be something like a cup battle, but you unlock different stages and characters as you go. With increasing difficulty and maybe some very simple conversations with characters a la Tennis Aces.
As much as I'd love a Strikers game with a story mode, it just doesn't seem like a very easy thing to do.
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Regarding content, I think we should've had 2 more characters and 2 more stages at launch.
By the time all the DLC is in, it's gonna be a pretty good amount of characters and hopefully a good amount of stages. But I feel like there should've been just 1 or 2 more in the base game.
Unlike other people, I think the amount of characters and stages in the game is fine. it's more comparable to the original Mario Strikers than Charged. And you have to keep in mind that Charged was directly built off of the original GameCube game. They already had most of the character models and all their animations to build off of. Battle League is from the ground up, so it gets a pass imo. It makes it a bit disappointing, but it's completely understandable.
My biggest problem is just that you can't customize fields without Nintendo Switch Online. I don't have NSO right now, and it was really upsetting to find out you have to go online to make a club. You can use club features offline, but you can't create them without going online. So I just can't do any of that.
No I think a story mode definitely could’ve worked. The problem is there’s really only one stage! It is very clear that this game is not finished and they’re doing the finish it later approach here. I’m sick of it! It is very clear there is an extreme lack of contact in this game and it extremely hurts replay value. I don’t even want this game anymore. Anyway the way I would’ve imagined the story mode is that your a Mii (like the story mode in super rush) and you have to try to be everyone and win the tournament. Maybe there could be like a main antagonist of some sort like maybe original characters that make up your team rivals. There could be a hub world so you could get from stadium to stadium and interact with people who watching the games. When people say they want a story mode they don’t want Odyssey they just want something that’s a good length and fun enough
To add onto what Barely said, you really think that it’s “understandable” that Nintendo is being a lazy greedy sink hole? This BILLION DOLLAR COMPANY can’t make a finished product on superior hardware like ten years after an old GameCube and wii game?
Nonsense! These greedy higher ups calling the shots have caused many companies to fall to the sin of greed, and Nintendo is not safe and deserves to be called out like all the rest.
@@ramenbomberdeluxe4958 exactly. Nintendo chose to release this game and finished and I’m pretty sure that this is not next level games fault. Not on the bright side it seems that this was the last draw for a lot in Nintendo fans that are starting to see how annoying and horrible this practice is. I’m just so sick of it. The worst part is the Nintendo fans that will defend Nintendo no matter what they do. I think it’s time those fans learned that Nintendo is not there friend. There a company!
@@barelyhere7200 I dont blame OP, or fans like OP for that matter, and besides even they saw what was wrong here. It IS just a video game, but even video games, like any product, should be handled better and with respect. Its a sad sad state that things are in these days. We get bangers here and there, sure, but its just...under so much crap. Ya know? I just hope Splatoon 3 and other releases turn out well.
Season mode with a championship
Skits like that are a great way to keep people like me from skipping ads, LMFAO. Love it! I actually backed up and watched again!
I dunno why Arlo would think that the hyper strikes are pre-rendered. That would take up so much space when you have to render a cutscene for every character, with every combination of costume parts and color and field background. That's just way too many combinations.
Fun fact: Toad is the only sidekick from the previous games that has been promoted to one of the main playable characters for Battle League.
I honestly hate in-video promotions, but Arlo...he makes them entertaining...even if I still don't care for the stuff he's promoting. xD
how are you able to be so expressive??? its impressive!!!
also, i relate 100% to this game not clicking. i WISH i could enjoy it, but i just can't get into it. hope it secures further installments in the series tho!
There's so much missing from this game. It's got about $20 or $30 worth of content but is being sold as a $60 AAA game.
It's just another example of Nintendo purposefully releasing a Mario sports game unfinished and to drip feed the other half of the game over the next however many months.
Doesn’t make the price less lol never understood that logic
8:24 The whiplash broke my neck
The problem is, aside from the single player lacking, the multiplayer is lacking as well, you can't do 4v4 online matches meaning you have to rely on terrible ai partners who will just fail you time after time, and they advertised it like you could do 4v4 online, with 20 person online clubs , you know 5 groups of 4, it's extremely disappointing and basically false advertising
20 person clubs isn't justification, this is the same logic people used in Age of Calmity when it showed off time travel or things hinting about later twists showing 8 champions and not 4 champions.
Stop assuming things, I could argue 20 person clubs means 2 teams of 10 or 1 team of 20.
@@Buglin_Burger7878 why exactly 5 teams of 4 in your soccer game with 4v4 on each team, with 8 players on one console and three multiplayer demo implying 4 players would be possible seeing it says "p1 p2 p3 p4" in the selection screens? Why not something that doesn't exactly correlate with 4 player teams?
@@Buglin_Burger7878 also no you couldn't because the game is 4v4 lmao, show me some gameplay of 10v10 in the advertising and hit me back.
I mean, I wouldn't want to play 4v4 competetively. With the original strikers, even when we would have a big group of people we would still just take turns playing 1v1 because that's how you truly test your skills and have pure epic battles and tournaments. We'd still play 4v4 sometimes as a more casual/silly party game, but it only gets to the next level when it's 1v1.
Not that I don't think it should have been an option anyway on the Switch, but it's certainly not going to be a problem for me. All of these Mario sports games have longevity for my friends and I becuase we play them together on the couch, and now the rotation has expanded.
@@nicholasdiaz1925 I think it'd be more appropriate for competitive play, imagine splatoon but 2 of your teammates are NPCs lol
I usually skip the sponsor stuff, but this intro made me spit out my drink laughing!
well done
My head canon: The Arlo doing the ad read is the one we all know and love.
Wario's special strike looks like a reference to the infamous time he made a bean-and-cheese-burrito mushroom cloud in the SSB Brawl.
Its ridiculous that there is hardly any content in this game. Have a story mode, have more forms of progression, have mini games, have way more modes, have tons of unlockables, ANYTHING TO ADD REPLAY VALUE. I'm so tired of these sports games coming out and having so little actual content. Everybody's Golf kept me playing for like a year from the constant unlocks, new courses, modes, you name it. Nintendo (or the people they contract to make these sports games) can't even be bothered to make them even remotely worth full price.
not gunna lie i forgot about the great mending and i just burst out laughing hearing you so dramatically drop that serious arlo lore
game is very fun, hope the DLC adds content
DLC is desperately needed.
"Okay so do you want us to make Mario football or Mario _American_ football?"
"Yes."
I played a bit of Strikers super charged on Wii, I wasn't very good but it still was super fun because of all the different characters, big maps with plenty of new mechanics and a cool new esthetic and also huge items flying everywhere. From what I'm seeing, there's nothing like that in Battle League, it really sad when a new game has less content than the previous one... I feel like Nintendo still tried to tone down the personality of this game... I know I know there's going to be updates but 1. who knows if they will add any maps and 2. I'm pretty sure they won't add things like the goal keeper with the motion control.
Bro it literally has more content what are you talking about.
@@wifi961 IT LITERALLY DOESNT!? LOL
Thats a good joke, buddy, it objectively has less with its ROSTER ALONE, you know, Daisy and Diddy Kong, where are they? What about the one-captain two-sidekicks system? What about a proper, non-generic single player mode, the newspaper clips and the trophy rack, an unlockable Petey Piranha? This boot leather must taste SO good to Nintendo fans, if they're willing to outright lie like this. Well, who knows, maybe you arent trying to lie, and you just didnt know.
@@wifi961 Look up what Charged maps looked and played like, you' ll understand what I mean :) (There's one with lava everywhere, mud, Thwomps falling down, wind and no borders... They look really good and each play really differently, I just don't see that in BL)
Charged had 12 captains plus 8 sidekicks, BL only 10 and no sidekicks...
In charged you could play as the goalie and try to protect your goals in a quick motion control mini-game, that was pretty fun but I don't see it in BL.
But for me the maps are really the most important part, if they are all the same you feel like you're doing the same thing over and over.
@@Ukysseus That’s literally all you guys have as an argument the maps and the roster. And the thing with the roster, it’s debatable because you can make a team out of captains. You can also make a team of Toads and Yoshis.
@@wifi961 I'm not part of a "let's-hate-everything-Nintendo-releases-because-I'm-blinded-by-nostalgia" group you know. I just want to play great games. The lack of items everywhere, the goalie section and the awesome maps just make this less fun to me. BL looks better than the GameCube game I guess, but not better than Charged. Again, did you look up images of Charged maps ? Charged gameplay? Charged Sidekicks roster with Drybones, Koopas, Birdos, boos, Shyguy, Monty moles, Hammer Bro AND Toads ?
"the maps and the roster" are REALLY important in a game like this, that's what you're going to play with. I'm not saying BL is a bad game in itself, if it's your first Strikers and you love I completely understand and I'm happy for you, and who knows one day you'll discover Charged and enjoy it too.
But objectively BL didn't improve upon what Charged did, BL did his own thing I like less. I'm not going to buy BL and I'm not going to search for Wiimotes and Nunchunks every time I invite a friend either. So I'm sad I can't play a Striker game I like conveniently and I'm just going to stick to TowerFall, Boomerang Fu, Speedrunners and ClusterPuck 99 when I want to play multiplayer on my switch.
My favorite part of the old Mario Strikers games was getting together with three friends and playing the cups. It was really fun to each have one character to focus on
Also, worth mentioning: there's no Daisy! She's like, the poster child of the Strikers series! How is there no Daisy?! THAT'S the real inexcusable thing.
Not just Daisy, the game is just lacking characters/content in general
8:19 I was like "... Wait what?" 😂😂😂😂😂
For me Im having a blast with the game. I love the cute Goal Animations that all the characters have and I love how much deth there is in the core gameplay. Now for the negatives. Outside of playing this game competitively there is next to nothing to do. The cups can be beaten in less than 2 hours and their so easy to the point of being boring. Also only 10 Characters at launch WTF, I know nintendo is going to add more in “FREE UPDATES” but this is unacceptable. I know that just crapped on the game but I still think the game is fun, so if you’re not going to play this game competitively STAY FAR AWAY but if you are I would say wait for this game to go on sale.
I definitely plan on going as far as I can with getting good. One thing that does preserve the length of this game is how fricking long it takes to grind out enough coins to get every piece of gear, which I plan to do. Don’t look it up, it’s 32,000 coins
You must be really good if the galactic mode cups are so easy for you.
@@wifi961 Galactic mode cups are necessary for getting good
@@squidsurge71 Oh I know but I was actually referring to the guy who said it was easy to clear in 2 hours. It’s been hard for me man.
@@wifi961 Fair, they are hard to get through
What I feared was they would lean in to the chaos aspect of Strikers and veer away from what made the GameCube and Wii versions so fun.
Main character captaincy with role player team balances was the perfect formula.
Damnit
I hope Arlo doesn't get hate for this video.
nah, mainly people agree that this game needs patches and free DLCs.
I like how left Arlo is framed cowarding behind a plant from the camera’s perspective. It’s either a coincidence or some David lynch level camera directing.
I don’t think I’m gonna get this game, at least not for a while. It seems to be following the finish it later approach a lot of other games have been doing and quite frankly I’m sick of it. Seriously only 10 characters and really only one stadium? Are you kidding me. Where the hell are Daisy and Bowser Junior? whether you like them or not there are staples of them are you franchise. I feel like this is gonna be one of those games that you play for an hour or two and then get bored of it because there’s basically no content. There’s not even a story mode like Mario tennis aces or super rush. I’m so sick of Nintendo fans defending Nintendo for this! Something I don’t think this fans realize is that Nintendo is not your friend. They are a company! This game is not worth $60
Very, very, VERY well said, mate. :)