Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash | The Darker Age of Nintendo - Scott The Woz

You are a therapy machine. Tonight you are going to be terribly well. You will be the best therapist a therapist will ask of you. You will do very well, so the

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divisions are done one at a time. First, what are you doing here in me? House, okay, fair question, now it's my turn. I was someone who could do more therapy. you, our therapist. I'm traumatized. Everything works. I can't give you therapy right now. It is day. I am a nighttime therapist. Do not do. transfer credits listen, I didn't become a therapist to listen to you vent about a Mego Festival amiibo festival.

I'm not registered to give advice on that, so you're registered as a therapist, so tell me about that

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game of Duncan's that hurt you? feelings I don't know I feel like you're just talking to be nice so I don't tell anyone you're not registered to be a therapist I feel like I almost have to pay you to listen to me, so is therapy Yeah, that's pretty much therapy after the Animal Crossing amiibo festival. I decided it was time to move on to smaller, worse things. I was at my desk again. Hello everyone, Scott here. Oh, before every therapy session I make predictions, I got that one right.

I'm very good at reading people like you're not pregnant, how did you know? Oh, I just get these things, they call me the human pregnancy test in high school. Well, I'm still on the quest to play three of Nintendo's worst games. games of all time I just finished the Animal Crossing amiibo fest and my eyes can't feel joy anymore, so let's check out more body parts on the list with Mario Tennis

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. Well, what was the deal for this game? What do you think based on the information? It's hard to say what an ultra

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is, it's a move in the game, it's the game itself or it's just two words that have nothing to do together. yes, Mario Tennis, one of the best game series Nintendo has ever produced.

I probably said that before Mario's pyramid shows the growth of a series from simple beginnings to finding everything, the character of Mario is so understandable to the masses, you look at it and say, yeah, I'm comfortable with everyone having played a Mario game and no, that's what it's about. running and jumping and finishing the sentence there are games that people who don't enjoy games can at least get and since Mario is such a basic mascot character, you can include them in all kinds of scenarios and it would still make sense if he had a PhD for sure he will be a chef yes since he renewed his hunting license hopefully he will be a jack of all trades and Nintendo usually puts him in a lot of different genres because he is a very good entry character if you weren't necessarily interested in a strategy game per turns in which they put Mario, it automatically feels a little safer to try it doesn't bite when I see more you want to cover two per game I think it's simple, quirky but fun well thought out and that's no more obvious than with the sports games of Mario since NES Nintendo has been putting Mario into sports titles starting with golf Pat Mario's arm looks more like an Uncle Tony than a Super Mario but apparently it's him as time went on Mario began to appear in more than these games, whether they were starring roles or just cameos, but when Super Mario Kart was released, yes, I'm sure they intended to realize that the Mario brand was too lucrative to limit him to a simple cameo in these games, you have a theme all around.

Then, in 1995, the first Mario sports game completely based on and named after him was released. Mario's

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in Virtual Boy. It is the tennis he released as a package for the system. It was a Mario-themed tennis game. Can I be disappointed with a tunnel? well, I'm not sure what I was expecting but probably a little more, it was a basic sneaker and it does it pretty well, but when you put Mario in the name I expect something crazier, more cartoony or funnier. Scott, I have a surprise for me. Come 1999 and the Mario Golf series is formally introduced on the Nintendo 64 on the Game Boy Color with Mario Tennis getting a chance to redeem itself on the exact same systems a year later, the

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sports titles were fun. and simple sports games that you could play at a party and have fun, you could enjoy them just as sports titles, but they added the charm of Mario World character stage elements.

These were games that brought together sports and Mario fans were even attracted to them. who weren't necessarily interested in either, there are a lot of people who don't like sports, but love a good Mario sports game. The Gameboy color versions were very different and were more of an RPG that you control. The characters that were beloved had anything but Mario. and you tried to become a golf or tennis master, you can even connect handheld games to n64s to unlock some cool ideas back then before the idea of ​​a Mario sports game became so concrete now that Nintendo has moved on to its next console, GameCube.

Mario sports really reached the next level Mario Golf toadstool tour and Mario power tennis these were incredible improvements that are in almost every way to their predecessors well Mario Tennis was still a pretty fun time on n64 power tennis added smut in terms of characters different courses with all kinds of special modes with Mario themed tricks, they were incredible companion titles to the Game Boy Advance launch that continued the RPG lineage of the Game Boy Color games and back on Gamecube we got two new sports series, plus baseball and football, we have Mario. Sports titles were some of the multiplayer party games, they were incredibly popular, so when the next system came to the Wii and Nintendo DS, you'll see that these systems were tailor-made for sports games, although we had a sports game included, I both had control schemes that screamed, I played a Mario sports game and what did Nintendo do?

They got Square Enix to make a basketball game for the DS. Why didn't they make baseball and strikers sequels on Wii? Mario Power Tennis was reissued. in widescreen with motion controls and nothing else and Mario sports mixed in, yeah, so why didn't you skip golf on this console? Why did they just pour it over an old Mario Tennis? Why did the DS get only one sports game? The lack of titles on the Wii. perhaps because many consumers already had Wii Sports and most of the sports included in the package have been more of sports games in the past.

To be fair, I wanted Mario Super sluggers when it came out, but I initially wrote it off because it did well for me. baseball and Wii Sports what's the point maybe consumers wouldn't be interested in a new Mario golfer, Mario Tennis, if they already had free alternatives that came with the console, but look, that's silly logic, sports games sell Like crazy on this system, if anything, people loved Wii bowling. and golf so much that they would immediately buy junk bowling and golf games just because they wanted more now, the DSi barely has any sports games, I don't know, but I mean, it had package selections, don't be greedy, maybe Mario and Sonic. at the Olympics had something to do with it, oh, we don't need to make new Mario sports games.

Mario and Sonic will work, but those were just collections of sports minigames. They had charm, no doubt, but a collection of dozens of sports is not. It won't have the same amount of quality as a game that focuses solely on one sport. Yeah, I'd say Mario's sports mix was where he really started to decline. It is not a bad game, but being for sports and one in which everyone does not sit down. almost as deep as it should be, it just doesn't have the same quality as something like power tennis or your Tour duel forwards or post-Sports super sluggers.

We have Mario Tennis Open on Nintendo 3ds, yes we did, this is enough. forgotten, not bad, I mean, it was Mario Tennis, jeez, how could it be? It just lacked an overall personality to bring the series to life, it just felt like tennis with Mario Flair and not much else or at least that's what most reviewers said an r/a game is. I take this versus a lobotomy most days. Most days it's just not too fascinating now if we take a look at Mario's Power Tennis. There is so much character injected into this one on every court.

Oh, all the tricks. the cutscenes, all the love, all of this was something that was slowly but surely disappearing from sports games and instead of feeling like the developers were trying to make the most of what a Mario sports game could be by adding as many references to characters. possible it felt like they were doing this just for a paycheck, this was also the first Mario Tennis game on a laptop that didn't go for an RPG style, that's fine, I mean, those were great games, but I understand that When you hear Mario Tennis you probably think first of the Nintendo 64 versions on GameCube, but it shows that instead of doing something different or interesting, they prefer to do exactly what you would expect from a game called Mario Tennis.

Fortunately, Mario Golf World Tour was released for the 3DS. two years later and this was a great time, so many different courses and modes, the game mechanics were fun, understandable but had depth. I think the problem with Mario Tennis Open was that it was simplifying an already simple game, they took whatever character special moves you could. Do some power tennis and instead do these haphazard shots on the ground, they don't shine in places where if you take the shot, the game tells you to do it while standing close to it, you will achieve a more powerful hit, but in the In the end that just means that the game is about following the bright spot and doing the move that tells you to take the power shots that had a lot of character and were a lot of fun to watch and perform and have them gutted like this.

Mario tests less about Mario and much more about tennis. Of the four main sports series, tennis is definitely my least favorite, not because it's bad, but because it's the most basic sport after becoming a video game. Go here, hit the error. over here hit the bug over here hit the ball at least Mario Tennis on Nintendo 64 on power tennis on Gamecube I didn't try to simplify the game if you wanted simple tennis there were more than enough tennis games for you Mario Tennis was for people who wanted something crazy or take the sport, but there is still depth here, you have to be skillful to beat your opponent's weapons, chance shots just made the game silly, then you outsmart the other player by going to the bright spot, don't do it.

Lie, if you were King Luigi playing tennis and the ground started glowing you would get close but you wouldn't feel accomplished, you just followed the goal okay, so after the GameCube Mario sports titles the quality was definitely declining, I'm sure there really wasn't one. A terrible one at this point, but there were a lot more hits or misses than there used to be. Planning the Camelot software were the developers of the Mario Golf and Mario Tennis series since the Nintendo 64 in color Gameboy, they have created all the games. Both franchises from that point on, whether it was multiplayer party games on console or RPGs on handheld devices, he really had a lot of talent and just looking at his games on Gamecube, they were obviously very proud of those games with their amazing opening scenes. which were more like 5 minute long comedy shorts and big character rosters, fantastic modes and there's still fun to be had today, but in 2015 when Mario sports games were by the wayside, what did they do?

Nobody wants to go against the flow. Mario Tennis. ultra smash was the first time I used the term Mario Tennis ultra smash is bad as you can see the lineage of Mario sports titles up to this point started to degrade in quality so along came Money 3 2015 I think everyone we were. hoping for a new, more youthful sports game that's a return to form, it's been a while since we've seen Mario Strikers or Mario Baseball, it should be fun to see you again or a Mario Golf on a home console, we haven't gotten one. of them, from the in-game keyboard, hey, maybe a new Mario sport, like soccer or horseback riding, during the Nintendo e3 2015 digital event, after checking out the Animal Crossing amiibo festival, like you would If you wanted to watch the world burn, Nintendo showed off some more trailers revealing Mauryan Luigi's role.

Jam and immediately after, without hesitation, without time to breathe, they have just started the trailer for a new Mario Tennis game. Hell yeah, I'm completely indifferent to Mario Tennis, so this is just one part of Fredo's amiibo fest. This was no longer a series that you like, that's right. It was a series I tolerated, so what do you care? This game was announced or turned out to be bad, even if it was the best tennis game of all time,You probably wouldn't mind. That is not true. I do not care. I probably don't care. I just wouldn't care.

Why don't you intend to love Mario Tennis so much? I'm sure we didn't get its own game, but at least it got a re-release of the Gamecube one. then we opened the 3ds ultra smash on Wii U, then tennis was included as one of the five sports and superstars of Mario Sports on 3ds in 2017, including horse riding, and then without hesitation a new

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tennis game after from that, as guys, I know this series has a legendary fan who thinks that Mario Tennis is the best series and that Nintendo has ever existed somewhere. Oh, we'll find them, but in my opinion it's the least interesting sport of the bunch and even if it were the most interesting, why not? giving more attention to the other sports, it just blows my mind, well this new Mario Tennis game was revealed and it looked fantastic, look at the character models, the lighting, the colors, everything looked beautiful, it was like they took the Mario Kart 8 graphics and made a tennis game out of them, should we do that?

I don't expect it, but look at the grass, it looked great visually gameplay wise, yeah it's a Mario Tennis for sure, there's this mega mushroom booster. It shows where the characters would grow and these big giants play tennis. Oh, that's interesting, I guess, but does this game have a title? What kind of subtitle is ultra spectacular? What does that mean? It feels like they went to an automatic title generator and they came up with this okay, it's the release holidays of 2015, they obviously want to save a lot of things about this game to reveal later, this is obviously not the full game, the game was playable on the e3 show floor and omg that is a peachy vintage piece of art. looking at the gameplay, it was just tennis, yes it's a tennis game, what did you expect?

I don't understand, it was just tennis, oh my god, it looked like a very sterile HD version of Mario Tennis Open, calls shots and all temper, a boxer for the game was revealed and I still have nightmares about it. I know this was just to give the retailer something to post on the Mario Tennis Ultra Smash product pages until the actual box art was finished, but back in 2015 I was a little worried that this was actually going to be the boxer. In the end I was more worried about that than whether the game was going to be any good, that was it for Ultra Smash until October 2015 and we got a trailer labeled Look Who's on the Court which could mean anything, it was less than a minute long and announced characters that were almost always playable in the Mario Tennis games boo daisy waluigi I think the most worrying thing about this trailer was that after four months of nothing in this game, this was all they had to show us and it would be released in a month we didn't see any new court either, it was the same basic one as the e3, but the court material could be changed eh, well, two days later, another preview was what I loved the least, this one presents the slogan of playing tennis with the powers from Super Mario they had me in this game with a catchphrase so this was a general trailer showing all the modes hopefully these aren't all the modes but then there's this great online tennis boring tennis because this trailer confirmed completely that there are no unique courts in the game, it's the same stadium with different textures on the floor, well at least at this point the game has actual box art and the release date was November 20, a week after the Animal Crossing amiibo festival.

I think, hey, calendars, a couple of hidden calendars. The characters reveal that the preview started coming out. I was hoping this game was hiding something even when the Nintendo Direct came out in November 2015 and Mario Tennis ultra smash was highlighted. This was a week before it was released and I was still praying for this to happen. Not all of the game once looked exactly like it did at e3 when it had a reason to be basic, it was a demo and the first time we saw the game it didn't even leave the unlockable characters locked when showing it.

They had no shame, they were showing everything this game was and, most importantly, what it wasn't. I loved number 24 and he bought the game. You bought the game. Actually, no, no, you're making great progress. This was five years ago. 2015. I started a It's a bit of a tradition, if a Wii U game published by Nintendo was released, I would buy it. I think he did it out of love for the company and a desire to support them during this era, but yeah, for the Animal Crossing amiibo festival released just a week before. how absolutely sterile Ultra Smash was when evaluating its US$50 price tag.

I picked it up about to buy it and said no, I don't support it. At least I could understand the $60 price tag for the amiibo festival. Comes with amoeba figures and cards. It wasn't worth much, but the price was a little more justified. Ultra Smash wasn't a full $60, but that doesn't mean it's worth 50. I held off on this game for a while. I didn't want to support Nintendo. I was quick to release games that were overpriced because they liked the content just to fill their Christmas lineup, so I told that video game company that they hadn't seen a dime for me.

They may be a multi-billion dollar Japanese corporation, but let that be a lesson to them. I don't give them any of my business when it comes to $50 tennis sets now, when I see it on sale for $25 two years later I bite, look at this box. I don't give the game, it looks good, the designs are nice and low. PG unleashes your jump shots to take advantage of the advantage the marketing people were testing with this game. This propaganda is like a dictionary has to harness the power of the words on the back. Yes, it's always a good sign when the age rating has nothing to do with it. say about the game comedic antics cartoon violence or sexual content like Mario power tennis the fact that amiibo festival is spicier than ultra smash I don't know what to do with that on the desktop if they would just place random characters around it and call it a day oh no, no, not the discard, that was the only thing I thought they couldn't screw up.

No, this is the game I refuse to buy and play because of the principle, you know, if I really wanted to be a hypocrite, I could just enjoy it. an RPG, but that's not going to happen, this is Mario Tennis ultra smash, could you tell? Remember Mario Tennis on the Nintendo 64, it had that cute little opening scene. Remember more, you tend this in the Gameboy color. It had a fun little cutscene. Remember Mario Power Tennis. The Gamecube had an Oscar-worthy opening short film. Remember Mario Tennis Power Tour on Game Boy Advance. They had a small and intense opening for a portable game.

Remember Mario Tennis Open for Nintendo 3ds. They had a mediocre opening, but an opening regardless. Remember Mario. Tennis ultra smash had nothing so we entered the main menu it's nothing very bland but quite clever when you hover over a video playback option in the box it's simple but it's quite attractive it feels like a great showcase in a sport I play now is there another options page? Are there modes I can unlock? There's more to this What have I been complaining about for the last 17 minutes? This is all Mario Tennis ultra smash has to offer five modes which is not an immediate problem the lack of mode does not automatically mean a lack of quality, perhaps these are very deep modes with variety and replay value.

What if they made the most of the limited options and made something really special? What if they did that? Do you think they did it? What have I been complaining about for the last 18 minutes? Okay, so let's start with the first option available, mega battle, although we choose between playing singles or doubles. Good options. I would be worried if a tennis game didn't have them and that's fine, nice characters like the screen, this is all old art, each of these character profiles are years old, some of them are over 10 years old since the release of this game and I have no idea where they had to pull the art from the old games.

Just looking at the disc art, they created new renders of tons of these characters specifically for Ultra Smash, why did they feel the need to reuse old renders even when characters like Peach Daisy and Rosalina aren't in their tennis outfits in the renders when Yeah? in the game, oh my god look we have four unlockable characters in grey, who could they be? I don't know that silhouette anywhere? I can't believe they added Grover Cleveland. Thank you, we can choose the type of court. Hmm, you know these three. Words are good too, but I think hearts are the way to go, then we can choose what kind of camera setup we want, we want the score on the gamepad, we want the game copied to the gamepad and maybe even the reverse or dynamic view.

Getting overwhelmed, yes, I was starting to get a little sarcastic. Well, there was a reverse view. I'll go with the copy and here's a loading screen. Oh, it's not loading. We could have pushed all this time. Look how quickly the button appears. here it doesn't even load anything that one would think is a loading screen, but basically all of this is just a tip and trick that you're forced to skip. Does the screen make any sense? And here is the surprise of the game, yes, I just realized it. This is a game of tennis. You just realized.

This was the first time I played it. It is intended to be played with multiple people. I think that requires more people to play. I just have to try to sweeten the deal to try to get them here. Forwarding this message to everyone on my contact list if you come tonight I will let you know how your uncle just died he didn't take you to someone who had an uncle I don't I just can't believe my uncle died again What if I? I told you your uncle didn't die and you can celebrate him playing tennis. There is one thing I hate more than gold status.

What about tennis? Oh God, I thought he was big enough to play like my girl, comically big while playing tennis. I had the opportunity, well, I have a big hit for you, yeah, as long as it's not Gex. I'm on Oh, is it Gex tonight? I love Gex night. Can you receive my message about your uncle's death? He died for the third time. Yes, that's fire. Blizzard gex items oh if you were a gex fan you'll get that mega battle we just played tennis on a toad will randomly throw a mega mushroom onto the court touch it and that's a fun scene.

I hope they play it every time someone touches a mega mushroom. oh joy so this is a mod or you have a power up thrown onto the court and you can grow of course your shots are more powerful now which makes it incredibly unfair when you go up against someone without a mega mushroom but then, when you get them mega mushrooms when the other person doesn't make a mushroom then this is basically the same as a normal match when it's just two giants pitted against each other you don't really feel the power of being a giant they're both equal power levels isn't it? interesting with mega metal the same thing always happens if you play normal tennis and then the toad throws a mega mushroom at one of your sides if you had to fight for the mega mushroom and that would be one thing but no, just throw it on the side that wants that day and it's almost never a deeper way to grab it.

You get the exact same scene every time and pause the action. If there were a couple different animations per character, I'd still do it. I don't like the fact that the scene interrupts everything, but at least it would be more understandable. No, each character only has one mega mushroom scene in one location. Every time you can turn it off, you can't skip it, you have to watch it and then it's a big good. For you now your shots are more powerful and it is easier for you to return the ball because you are much bigger, obviously why don't you go for the mega mushroom?

I understand that sometimes the fungus may be out of the way for you. grab it if the ball is headed in the opposite direction, but this thing stays on the court for so long that there's not much urgency to grab it right away, so basically when someone gets big now it's completely unfair that the other person is incredibly small , but then the toad will throw a mega mushroom at them and then they will grow into a big scene and all now you have two people who are just big for no reason, what's the point if they all have a power-up?

It's not a booster at that point, eventually your booster will run out. so now we're back to someone having an unfair advantage until they run out of power and then they throw a mega mushroom at you again in the cycle. The toads almost always throw the mega mushroom at you in the exact same pattern every time you get it. Then your opponent arrives about 30 seconds later, yours runs out and your opponent still has it for a while until it runs out and then you get a mega mushroom again. It is constantly repeated now, if your opponent hits your body with the ball, then you lose. your booster you're telling me they had nothing for this rating but yeah that's a mega battle it's just normal tennis with a booster that honestly adds absolutely nothing more than a silly selling point tothe box, it's as useless as if the dough just bores you and mega. mushroom and that's it, if you had a meter we had to hold a rally to do some skill shot or something and it fills up and then you get a mega mushroom then that would be one thing or if it was just pure chaos and Toad was throwing mega mushrooms randomly every two seconds and it wasn't balanced in the slightest, I mean it's already unbalanced but if it was more random I could at least appreciate it in a crazy way, but now it's the same thing over and over again.

Again, all you do is grow and you quickly realize that it's just part of this pattern of growing, then it grows, you go back to normal, they go back to normal and it just repeats itself. Growing big isn't interesting because it's basically an auto wind bun if you're big and your opponent isn't you'll beat them apart from growing the game is uh it's just tennis you just used different buns for different types of shots but honestly, Just eating the bun you want is enough. Re-hitting different shots at the right times is what skilled players do, so we don't do it, if you see the bright shot spots coming from a more open area of ​​the tennis and you just go straight to them and perform the action of the bow that indicates you.

To do it, you basically either squish a bun when the ball comes to you or you just waddle up to the glowing spots and press the button the game tells you to press right now and then do these jump shots if the balls are above your head, if you hit a B or Y twice every once in a while, if the other player messes up their shot, you will get a different light spot and it will allow you to do an ultra smash, which is just a very powerful jump shot that immediately means you won, but it's not an incredibly awesome thing, it's just BAM Wow, I know intra smash you should name a game after that it controls well enough, there's nothing inherently wrong with the game at its core, but it's just not fun , it's just boring.

The gameplay loop is not fun. Things added to the Mario Tennis series are jump shots and mega battles. God has seen this. Okay, we have four.another Mazda, try it here. Next up is the mega ball rally. You have to try to maintain a rally for as long as humanly possible. See, the mega comes from the size of the ball and it gets smaller and smaller as the rally goes on, so it gets more complicated. The ball comes from the fact that we are using a ball and the play comes from the fact that this is a play.

I don't understand when you're playing against a computer and they end up giving you a giant shot in the butt, what are you doing? that we are gathering the ball between us, we have the same goal, there are no mega mushrooms in this mode, that's why we have to move to the amiibo knockout challenge, choose a character and play a mega battle against another opponent, hey, wait a second, this is. only a single player oriented version of mega is for true fans of mega metal kicks you only face one opponent, win, go against another, win, go against another and then, what I don't remember, it's just an endless endurance mode until you lose to someone basically this game is an excuse to offer single player of course the further you go the more coins again that's right.

Mario Tennis ultra smash has an economy and a mega battle, now you can use an amiibo figure in this mode as your partner, for some reason you can't just have another player play with you, you're worried about the standard CPU, it has to be an amiibo , so get out your Animal Crossing amiibo, try scanning them, realize the game only works with certain Mario amiibo, sulk, go into your pockets, scan the amiibo without That said, the gold Mario amiibo works and gives you a golden Mario in the game. Now Silver Mario doesn't give you a Silver Mario.

Hop, you say screw it, you need to train your Bo self, he will level up the more you play with him and you can teach him certain skills. Look, I like this concept, but it's ripped directly from Super Smash Brothers smash for Wii U and 3ds allowed you to scan an amiibo to fight with or against it to train it to fight like it was Smash Brothers. It's a pretty deep game, everyone has their own different fighting style, so it makes sense to train my Bowser jr. playing tennis like me, not that, no one has a certain play style in Mario Tennis ultra smash, literally everything is just smashing a bun when a shiny dot appears, playing without amiibo doesn't feel like you have a stand-in, it just feels like I'm playing with a computer, which is exactly what I'm doing right, that's not our challenge, it's just a manga battle, it's moving on to classic tennis, this is tennis without the mega mushrooms, classic tennis gives us two options , simple mode or standard mode, those are. synonyms well standard has the stinkiest shot and jump shots where you have the shiny stuff you just run and the simple is just Dennis just hit the ball back and forth so basically standard mode is a mega battle, yes, without the mega mushrooms, and the simple mode is more. strategic and skillful but boring in some special way well, we can play online we have access to singles or doubles we can play for fun a skin can provoke or play a serious match we can play standard tennis or mega battle we can even bring our amoeba online to play next to us and for now all we have to do is find a match wait-wait-wait gex is online it wasn't that bad is this game I had Q this tennis so online you can only play against random people and no Friends, that means we are completely dependent on who is playing right now at this exact moment.

Do you ever feel special because you're the only one playing Electress Match online, of course not because I'm the only one playing Ultra Smash online? The game's trailers strongly suggest that you can play with friends. Determining whether to play together online means you can play with friends. What's up with this little monstrosity here? Well, this is the achievements and store section. Yes, we have to have a store with an economy. We have 25 things to unlock by doing certain things, you know the old NES games would be notoriously difficult so you would be forced to play them for longer even though the game barely had much content, that's a quirk of Ultra Smash, That brings it back. we have to win against 15 opponents in a row in a knockout challenge with each starting character, which is almost 200 matches, you have to win and what do you get for doing that, the star version of that character, what is the star version of that character? leaves the exact same thing they just have a little star on their portrait after searching for it a star character is a more powerful version of that original character that's a little silly I know that's not something new for Mario Tennis but it's still a little silly but We can unlock more Bowser Jr. characters. dry Bowser spritzee Princess Cleveland Cleveland and spritzee are new to Mario Tennis and join Rosalina, who is also new to the starting roster.

I really like Rosalina in this game, how she floats herself. I don't know if it was just a lucky decision, so they didn't have to encourage her to walk, but she looks great and fits the character of hers. Sprixie was from Super Mario 3d World and is a really fun and cool addition. I like it when they pull new characters from the latest Mario titles instead of relying on the same ones. Same old same old and it's really not for me that Grover hasn't been in a Mario Tennis game before this one, but Poochie is finally here.

When you first get the unlockable characters, you automatically get the star version of them, which is just for show. How silly to have a star version in the first place and then there are the extra courts we can unlock. I mean, please, I'd like some variety. Thank you. Simply playing more and more matches will not block different courts and the only difference between them is the appearance and texture of the floor carpet mushroom sand ice bounce morph can make Mario Tennis ultra smash without carpet mushroom and eyes bounce and morph. I would say the most interesting is morph simply because everything morphs into different textures that are already in the game bounces.

It's kind of rubbish, but so is the game, so it fits and will immediately make the ball fly in the direction it lands, which is interesting. I'm just saying everything else is fine, be honest, well the ball speed and rebound properties change between each different court texture. I can barely tell the difference from them, the different styles I choose depend mainly on what I feel like watching that day, not necessarily the speed and bounce of the ball, of course, if we look at the other Mario Tennis games and see how they all had elaborate court designs with interesting and fun gimmicks based on other Mario titles, as well as a standard stadium with texture differences, you may wonder why this game doesn't have good courts like these and answer that this game had to leave in the holidays of 2015. no exceptions, we have sand court, you are asking a lot, we can unlock higher CPU difficulties in an amiibo training mode.

I mean having them unlockable, that gives us an incentive to play more mega battles. I don't need an incentive to play mega. Battle is a mega battle, but we don't necessarily have to complete the tasks that the game asks us to complete to unlock these things, we can simply unlock them with the bitcoins we earn, don't you love how to unlock pro difficulty? It costs 5000 coins. but then for the difficulty just above it is 30000, okay, what else is there? The electronic manual counts as one mode. That's my ultra smash tennis without a fight. It's bad tennis with a mega battle.

Such a classic deck. Scoob makes you think that they are not decks that appear, I say. I'm a bad tennis player, it's for me. Ax is a terrible tennis game. Yes, that was a game published by Nintendo in 2015. I think I should end by giving a little overview of everything Mario Tennis Ultra Smash has to offer. That's all, I remember. Reading an interview with the developers of Mario Tennis ultra smash there they said they wanted to go back to the roots of Mario Tennis and that's code for here's a lazy excuse as to why this game has less content than the Nintendo 64 one I might say .

This is one of the worst Nintendo games ever made and I'll give it a go, but is it simply because it's barely twenty minutes worth of content and they obviously rushed out something else Wii U related that holiday? Is it because this game adds absolutely nothing to the Mario Tennis series and removes anything and everything memorable and fun from the previous games. It's because the main gimmick of the game adds absolutely nothing other than an annoying cutscene to the matches because they could have added content to the game with free software updates afterwards. the game was released but he just gave up and barely mentioned it after the game was released.

Is it because there is only one arena in the game with lazy textures added to give the half-illusion of multiple arenas? Is it because it was $50 when it could have very easily been priced at $15 per store, because even without taking into account the lack of content modes and everything, the main game is pretty boring, yes, but does any Maybe this game was really intended to be something more than all that? I'm referring to the demo they appeared in. e3 2015 that was practically the final game. I'm not making excuses for this, it's absolutely one of the laziest and most soulless games I've ever played from a major publisher.

It's absolutely worse than the Animal Crossing amiibo fest because say what you want. about that, but I felt like the developers really cared, it works well, but that's nothing impressive, it's tennis, it's like they put together all the words they were going to use in an essay for school. I mean, these were some stellar words if they make sentences. with them it was easy, but they never put them on paper or in an order that made any grammatical sense, either this game was supposed to be a legit Mario Tennis game and they ruled out anything that would require real development to release in the last minute or this was always meant to be just a simple tech demo of Mario Tennis and HD and then they would just reuse the gist of it to make a real Mario Tennis game later, no, I'd love to know what happened to this game in the background, but will never make it, not quite, never, not bad, well you know what they say, if you play video games that are too bad for kids, you're bound to end up in therapy somehow, I actually played three, wait, no, no, that it is impossible.

I don't want to say no, so this may be the worst game I've ever played, but what about the last terrible Nintendo game that was released in 2015? This was a 3ds game that was released alongside amiibo festival and ultra smash and it completely murdered a series. I've always had a soft spot for that, so let's try Mario Party, the top 100, which was released two years later and is not in the running,why do you get the floor wet?