@@orangeslash1667I bought it because, when I saw it on the Direct, I went: „HOLY SH#T A NEW MARIO STRIKERS?!?!?! I thought Nintendo abandoned the franchise because of its Brutal and dystopian artstyle!”
This is just basically the Mario tennis ultra smash version of strikers soulless rushed and DOA makes you hope that the series stays dead in the hopes this doesn't happen again which is sad seeing how good the original was and especially strikers charged.
I can't agree. Saying it is soulless is just wrong with how much personality is put into each character. Can't even call it the ultra smash of the series sense even at launch it wasn't the most lacking in content in the series.
Legit the best thing I can say about Battle League is that trading it into my local independent game store allowed me to buy the disc for Symphony of the Night PS1 for $34.
The thing/phenomenon of people incessantly asking for a game series to come back only to not care at all when it released absolutely does not apply in this case. This game was genuinely just complete and total ass. Most if not all the people who were constantly asking for this would've 100% bought it if it weren't rushed soulless slop. Same with Starfox Zero.
What's also disappointing is how they treated Daisy. She was the face of the Mario Striker series. But in this game, she got replace by Rosalina and wasn't in the game until the updates. If they would've done them the complete opposite, than it would make sense because it's Rosalina's first debut in the Striker series.
@@TommyDeonauthsArchivessource I made it the f**k up She is litteraly one of the best mk8dx character and even in the latest strikers game she was one of the best.
Had the potential to be a great game, all of the groundwork was there and the gameplay is fun but Nintendo did not give them anywhere near enough time to do anything but the bare minimum. However the game's soundtrack is very underrated though.
Following that horrid trend of "releasing an incomplete, bare-bones game which requires a ton of incremental upgrades to approach something decent" other companies are abusing nowadays... yeah, they're definitely better when they do their own weird ideas, instead of following those dreadful trends.
Like everyone else said, free update model giving Nintendo an excuse to release a barebones game with the promise of future content. It is sad how much smaller Nintendo games suffered from this bullshit.
No 4v4, boring single player mode, fields too small & generic, all the grittiness and “anger” of previous instalments removed, half of the content withheld at launch so it could be released as “free updates”… Clearly Nintendo didn’t care one bit about this franchise and saw it as a quick cash grab.
It really is way too small. From the very back of the arena you can hold L to do a manual perfect high pass to the front, followed by a perfect direct shot for a goal. That simple, no strategy required to push forward.
No joke, I have more appreciation for Animal Crossing amiibo Festival than I do this game. I can at least respect something that tries something new and fails at it compared to a sanitized watered down version of an old idea.
@@MatthewSmart I'm going to take it a step farther and say that both that and mario tennis: ultra smash are less bad than battle league In addiction to your points about amiibo festival, battle league was far more disappointing than ultra smash ever was
I remember watching a competitive mario kart wii channel getting excited for battle league that he was going to make that his next main focus content / a second channel on as he made multiple tips and tricks and strategies for the demo and beta. Once battle league fully released he disappeared and that second channel became a highlight / clip channel of his competitive mario kart wii team, ha ha. Battle League did not change at all from the beta / demo. It is exactly as Scott said, "Battle League is What you see, is what you got" it is a shame that a third entry has less or the same content as the first entry over two decades ago.
only reason i got this was cause it was on sale during the holidays for like $30-$40 i dont remember exactly but im glad i didnt pay the full $60 for it
Spinoff Marios are looking like Sonic games. Every year they have to release one no matter what. But Nintendo knows it can't lose its polishing reputation like Sega, so they just put the minimum content possible, so it doesn't have any delays because of polishing.
You underestimate just how much the gear impacts the game. You wanna min-max the characters stats or mitigate their weaknesses. For example a too low strength level will mean that a single uncharged tackle will take the ball away from you. Waluigi and Pauline for example will max out on Strength and Speed to become the most powerful defensive options on slot 4. Rosalina already had high shooting so increasing her stat even more meant noticeably more easily secured goals. And speed is the most important stat in the competitive scene. All that counteracts the games multiplayer design in which you can only bring one character into a club and rely on the picks of your other club members.
Oh yes, the game where the online test gave you the entire game to play. That's not a compliment, this dogshit is painfully barebones. Which is to say, it's a Mario sports game on Nintendo switch.
You can be glad that you didn't try out the Multiplayer Mode. It's horrible. You can host your own football club (allowing you to choose a name, your stadium, customization and two jersey colors), but you have to hope that a bunch of other people join it (which is not gonna happen). OR you join another club and have no saying in the decisions whatsoever. Every club member can then choose to bring in one of their characters with their respective gear into the club. And when you play a match you have to choose 4 characters, meaning 3 of them have to be the ones from other club members (which are often shitty choices as the gear contradicts their play style).You cannot pick the same selection twice, even if it's Toad, Yoshi or Shy Guy. But you can select multiple selections of the same characters so e.g. 4 Bowser teams are possible if your club has them. It's so restrictive and limiting on purpose, making you miss out on even the little content this game has by choice. Overall a very frustrating time and I have no idea how the game design department messed up so bad. You really can't screw up that hard not on purpose
feel bad for the people that buy these titles, there's only about 10 ish games that the switch is good for, rest of them are undercooked or available elsewhere in better forms.
I have well over TWENTY games exclusive to Switch that are both fun and work well on the console, and I'm planning on getting more. Stop assuming because of one bad apple.
I have never played a Mario Strikers game in my life. Never played the GameCube original nor Strikers Charged... and yet I was initially excited for Battle League when it was initially revealed... But then... a thought I had in my mind that eventually came to the forefront was that Nintendo was gonna do the same thing with this game like they did with Mario Golf on Switch. Release the game with minimal content at launch and give it no more than 3 free updates afterwards. And lo and behold, that is what they did with Battle League. The game was bare bones at launch, and it was given 3 free updates. What's worse about this is that Nintendo even announced after the first update that two more updates would happen later down the year, like it was meant to be exciting or something. I just viewed that as Nintendo killing the game, before it even got started. And the updates were pathetic... as was the game itself.
The Switch Mario Sports games have all been mediocre or worse. Mario Golf and Mario Strikers both technically made their gameplay deeper, but made them significantly less intuitive and less fun. Thankfully i still physically have all of the previous versions
The Switch has been an incredible success with so many excellent games, but the one genre that was definitely the most disappointing were the sports games. They are all a far cry from the Gamecube/Wii days, especially Battle League.
It's just a shame that it's a worse version of a game released 15 years before. You should try Mario Strikers Charged if you want more now that they stopped updating this.
Before anyone whines about the whole Daisy in free updates, lemme remind everyone that in Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7, you HAD TO UNLOCK Princess Daisy by winning a cup.
At least right there Daisy was avaliable day 1, you just had to do certain requirements which most of them was just winning a cup. For this game you had to wait months just for a character
My guy, there's a pretty big difference between a character being unlockable in the base game and being completely absent from the base game. If you're trying to defend Nintendo, you're doing a pretty crappy job.
There was a huge uproar when Daisy wasn't included as the main character when in every other party game she was always included so Why was this one the only Game to do Daisy Dirty and make her Free DLC. in like 2 years when nobody is gonna play the game.Yes Im still pissed about that. Daisy should've at least been in from the start, so should've Diddy and bowserjr and Birdo. Whats worse this was on the final legs / stretches of Unfinished game update it in 4 months clause. Someone at nintendo Finally had the balls to stand up and say no to this shit. Cause we haven't gotten anything like this since.
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Mario Strikers Battle League shouldn't have been done this dirty.
So far the game sold 2. 54 million. It's clearly because of Mario characters.
You mean by Nintendo or their customers, because it absolutely deserves its reputation by the latter.
@@orangeslash1667I bought it because, when I saw it on the Direct, I went: „HOLY SH#T A NEW MARIO STRIKERS?!?!?! I thought Nintendo abandoned the franchise because of its Brutal and dystopian artstyle!”
@@mr.master4 Which is why Nintendo removed the dystopian feel in order to appeal to newcomers.
@nsbathome It's not a game that is very far from the previous ones but it's also not this horrible game you keep painting it as.
This is just basically the Mario tennis ultra smash version of strikers soulless rushed and DOA makes you hope that the series stays dead in the hopes this doesn't happen again which is sad seeing how good the original was and especially strikers charged.
DOA isn’t fully dead but on hold. Rumor saying a reboot of DOA is coming soon but I have mixed feelings.
@@therealjaystone2344 Dead on arrival, not dead or alive lmao
@@Absol776i feel like that also applies when comparing doa5 to doa6
So you'd rather not learn from your mistakes, then?
I can't agree. Saying it is soulless is just wrong with how much personality is put into each character. Can't even call it the ultra smash of the series sense even at launch it wasn't the most lacking in content in the series.
The game that just make you sad
Ah yes, my favorite Mario sports game, Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes.
Crap, it's Fire Emblem Warriors Three Hopes release day again...
I hate to say it but while Golf Super Rush made my confidence in future Mario Sports shakey, Strikers Battle League utterly killed it.
Legit the best thing I can say about Battle League is that trading it into my local independent game store allowed me to buy the disc for Symphony of the Night PS1 for $34.
Smart move
The thing/phenomenon of people incessantly asking for a game series to come back only to not care at all when it released absolutely does not apply in this case. This game was genuinely just complete and total ass. Most if not all the people who were constantly asking for this would've 100% bought it if it weren't rushed soulless slop. Same with Starfox Zero.
What's also disappointing is how they treated Daisy. She was the face of the Mario Striker series. But in this game, she got replace by Rosalina and wasn't in the game until the updates. If they would've done them the complete opposite, than it would make sense because it's Rosalina's first debut in the Striker series.
I felt the exact same way with Daisy, Nintendo never cared about her in the first place.
Realistically, both should be expected to be in the main roster day 1
No wonder Daisy gets called the worst character in the other Mario games.
I seriously didn't get why Rosalina replaced Daisy for the first version of the game, I know she's "popular," but it just doesn't make sense.
@@TommyDeonauthsArchivessource I made it the f**k up
She is litteraly one of the best mk8dx character and even in the latest strikers game she was one of the best.
Had the potential to be a great game, all of the groundwork was there and the gameplay is fun but Nintendo did not give them anywhere near enough time to do anything but the bare minimum. However the game's soundtrack is very underrated though.
They should reuse the groundwork and make a better game for the next Nintendo system. Like what they did for Mario Tennis Aces.
Charged was the ultimate soccer game, Battle League lost the edgyness that made the previous games so cool.
Absolutely love these review snippets. Such a good idea
how tf did Nintendo fumbled the bag hard
Following that horrid trend of "releasing an incomplete, bare-bones game which requires a ton of incremental upgrades to approach something decent" other companies are abusing nowadays... yeah, they're definitely better when they do their own weird ideas, instead of following those dreadful trends.
@@dpv007 releasing games 60% done and update it later (i hate that trend)
Like everyone else said, free update model giving Nintendo an excuse to release a barebones game with the promise of future content. It is sad how much smaller Nintendo games suffered from this bullshit.
@@Surepeaanot even fully completed from updates because the game flopped so hard that the other four characters were cancelled
Because modern gaming is aids
Why does the thumbnail look like one of ign old video review videos
Can't wait for the "Nintendo Switch: Seven Years In" video
Oh, yeah. TOTK, Pikmin 4, Mario Wonder, Mario RPG 2023, and. . .Everything 1 2 Switch, all coming soon.
I waited for a significant content update... and waited.... and waited...
No 4v4, boring single player mode, fields too small & generic, all the grittiness and “anger” of previous instalments removed, half of the content withheld at launch so it could be released as “free updates”… Clearly Nintendo didn’t care one bit about this franchise and saw it as a quick cash grab.
no unlockables either
why are the fields/pitches so S M O L.
it feels like you pass to someone once and you could shoot for a goal🥲
Fr, you can fit one half of the field on the screen.
It really is way too small. From the very back of the arena you can hold L to do a manual perfect high pass to the front, followed by a perfect direct shot for a goal. That simple, no strategy required to push forward.
It's the same size just a different camera angle.
No joke, I have more appreciation for Animal Crossing amiibo Festival than I do this game. I can at least respect something that tries something new and fails at it compared to a sanitized watered down version of an old idea.
@@MatthewSmart I'm going to take it a step farther and say that both that and mario tennis: ultra smash are less bad than battle league
In addiction to your points about amiibo festival, battle league was far more disappointing than ultra smash ever was
Holy sh*t, that game that exists!
I will not stand by the Shy Guy slander, show my boy some respect!
I remember watching a competitive mario kart wii channel getting excited for battle league that he was going to make that his next main focus content / a second channel on as he made multiple tips and tricks and strategies for the demo and beta.
Once battle league fully released he disappeared and that second channel became a highlight / clip channel of his competitive mario kart wii team, ha ha. Battle League did not change at all from the beta / demo.
It is exactly as Scott said, "Battle League is What you see, is what you got" it is a shame that a third entry has less or the same content as the first entry over two decades ago.
only reason i got this was cause it was on sale during the holidays for like $30-$40 i dont remember exactly but im glad i didnt pay the full $60 for it
One of the Mario games of all time
I was looking forward to this one ☹️
Spinoff Marios are looking like Sonic games. Every year they have to release one no matter what. But Nintendo knows it can't lose its polishing reputation like Sega, so they just put the minimum content possible, so it doesn't have any delays because of polishing.
It's a good game, I enjoyed playing it with friends in hgh school, but mario strikers charged is way better. Like, A LOT
This is one of my least favorite games of all time, right next to pokemon S/V. They should've called this "Mario Strikers Zip Lash"
We will never get another strikers game as edgy as charged 😔
This is why we don’t want a new Mario Baseball game
You underestimate just how much the gear impacts the game. You wanna min-max the characters stats or mitigate their weaknesses. For example a too low strength level will mean that a single uncharged tackle will take the ball away from you. Waluigi and Pauline for example will max out on Strength and Speed to become the most powerful defensive options on slot 4. Rosalina already had high shooting so increasing her stat even more meant noticeably more easily secured goals. And speed is the most important stat in the competitive scene.
All that counteracts the games multiplayer design in which you can only bring one character into a club and rely on the picks of your other club members.
This and Warriors Three Hopes release the same month that year. Can’t believe I had more fun with the Warriors game
The game that turned me off from Mario Sports entirely, save Hoops 3 on 3.
At least it has Daisy Maguire.
The biggest sin that this game could commit is not having daisy on day 1
One of the few Switch games I returned - the amount of content is pitiful. Hope it comes back with more effort and energy someday.
each soccer game is fun in its own way to me… but this one gets boring to me after like 2 matches
I feel like it’s too repetitive idk
Just pull a Mario Tennis Aces and reuse a bunch of things for next time.
Oh yes, the game where the online test gave you the entire game to play. That's not a compliment, this dogshit is painfully barebones. Which is to say, it's a Mario sports game on Nintendo switch.
One of the very few mario games that make me pissed first one was top 100
You can be glad that you didn't try out the Multiplayer Mode. It's horrible. You can host your own football club (allowing you to choose a name, your stadium, customization and two jersey colors), but you have to hope that a bunch of other people join it (which is not gonna happen). OR you join another club and have no saying in the decisions whatsoever. Every club member can then choose to bring in one of their characters with their respective gear into the club. And when you play a match you have to choose 4 characters, meaning 3 of them have to be the ones from other club members (which are often shitty choices as the gear contradicts their play style).You cannot pick the same selection twice, even if it's Toad, Yoshi or Shy Guy. But you can select multiple selections of the same characters so e.g. 4 Bowser teams are possible if your club has them. It's so restrictive and limiting on purpose, making you miss out on even the little content this game has by choice. Overall a very frustrating time and I have no idea how the game design department messed up so bad. You really can't screw up that hard not on purpose
This game… WHY?!
Me and my friends play this mf its hella competitive
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feel bad for the people that buy these titles, there's only about 10 ish games that the switch is good for, rest of them are undercooked or available elsewhere in better forms.
I have well over TWENTY games exclusive to Switch that are both fun and work well on the console, and I'm planning on getting more. Stop assuming because of one bad apple.
I have never played a Mario Strikers game in my life. Never played the GameCube original nor Strikers Charged... and yet I was initially excited for Battle League when it was initially revealed...
But then... a thought I had in my mind that eventually came to the forefront was that Nintendo was gonna do the same thing with this game like they did with Mario Golf on Switch. Release the game with minimal content at launch and give it no more than 3 free updates afterwards.
And lo and behold, that is what they did with Battle League. The game was bare bones at launch, and it was given 3 free updates. What's worse about this is that Nintendo even announced after the first update that two more updates would happen later down the year, like it was meant to be exciting or something. I just viewed that as Nintendo killing the game, before it even got started. And the updates were pathetic... as was the game itself.
0:42 probably because the rest of the world calls it football
Whats the hell, somebody stop this bots
It's my least favorite game of all time. It's nothing but wasted potential, and it should have never been made!
The way I am still mad over this game after 2 years is insane. Probably my least favourite game ever.
Still better than FIFA
When the bar is in hell, doing the bare minimum looks like reaching for the stars.
@@nsbathome🔥🔥🔥🔥✍️
@@nsbathome based
I don’t hate this game and I was excited at the reveal and still play it but yeah they really should have done more
Inazuma Eleven is better.
This game was terrible, I regretted buying it so bad.
The Switch Mario Sports games have all been mediocre or worse. Mario Golf and Mario Strikers both technically made their gameplay deeper, but made them significantly less intuitive and less fun. Thankfully i still physically have all of the previous versions
Mario Strikers Battle League is a game that exists…
I watched the trailer and knew Nintendo had already screwed ut up, beta confirmed that. Game isn't even worth pirating
The character models are also weird looking, like rosalina especially looks so ugly in this style😢
The Switch has been an incredible success with so many excellent games, but the one genre that was definitely the most disappointing were the sports games. They are all a far cry from the Gamecube/Wii days, especially Battle League.
At least it's a better Mario Strikers game than Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes!
Three Hopes is a TERRIBLE soccer game!!
Game is a 6/10 at its finest
How dare you give it that high of a score!
Nah even 0 is too high
From what I've seen, I'd say 3/10
@@superdajoka So far the game sold 2. 54 million. It's clearly because of Mario characters.
No. 3/10 at absolute best.
I love the series, but this game in particular is not good.
It’s impossible to do a lob shot, for example.
Nonsense
Battles league rules. Me and my friends played it on the couch all summer of 22. Perfect game to play with friends and beer.
^ the roster sucks tho
It's just a shame that it's a worse version of a game released 15 years before. You should try Mario Strikers Charged if you want more now that they stopped updating this.
@@Lichelf grew up with the original and charged. Easily better games but I just don’t think battle league is as bad as people make it out to be
A bunch of lousy normies that won't give a game a fair shot and only echo whatever trended on social media.
You said in another comment that you haven’t even played the game
Yikes
Before anyone whines about the whole Daisy in free updates, lemme remind everyone that in Mario Kart DS, Mario Kart Wii and Mario Kart 7, you HAD TO UNLOCK Princess Daisy by winning a cup.
At least right there Daisy was avaliable day 1, you just had to do certain requirements which most of them was just winning a cup. For this game you had to wait months just for a character
My guy, there's a pretty big difference between a character being unlockable in the base game and being completely absent from the base game. If you're trying to defend Nintendo, you're doing a pretty crappy job.
@@GenesisSanctuary So far the game sold 2. 54 million. It's clearly because of Mario characters.
No, just no.
@@orangeslash1667 it only sold because it had Mario on the cover, people see Mario on the box and it’s an instant buy for them
I think this game is overhated. All it needed was more things to do. The gameplay is great and it's definitely not Ultra Smash-levels of bad.
It's definitely not bad. But it misses the mark on what made the series so good to begin with.
There was a huge uproar when Daisy wasn't included as the main character when in every other party game she was always included so Why was this one the only Game to do Daisy Dirty and make her Free DLC. in like 2 years when nobody is gonna play the game.Yes Im still pissed about that. Daisy should've at least been in from the start, so should've Diddy and bowserjr and Birdo. Whats worse this was on the final legs / stretches of Unfinished game update it in 4 months clause. Someone at nintendo Finally had the balls to stand up and say no to this shit. Cause we haven't gotten anything like this since.
Yeah. It is insulting. But hey. At least she got her redemption back when she's playable in Super Mario Bros. Wonder.