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 Mario Tennis Aces, the seventh game in the series, releases worldwide today, June 22nd! This thread is meant to provide information and house discussions about the game. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ About the Game (Official Nintendo Description): Unleash an arsenal of shots and strategies in all-out tennis battles with friends, family, and fan-favorite Mushroom Kingdom characters. Whether you play locally, online, or using simple motion controls, intense rallies await! In Adventure mode, experience a new favor of tennis gameplay, with a variety of missions, boss battles and more. Complete missions and boss battles in Adventure mode while mastering the controls. Test your hard-earned skills in singles or doubles with up to 4 players in local or online multiplayer, not to mention Tournament Mode, which lets you challenge the CPU. Store up energy and use it to pull off amazing feats: move so fast the world slows down around you or aim in first-person to send the ball crashing down! Your rivals may attempt to block you, but if they fail, their racket will take damage—and break after three hits. Fully charge your energy to launch the ball with enough force to KO your opponent! - Rally against other players in singles or doubles as one of 15+ Mushroom Kingdom characters - Serve up everything from basic shots to trick shots to split-second blocks - Use energy to leap after the ball, slow down time, aim in first-person, break rackets, and KO opponents! - Play locally, online or swing your Joy-Con™ controller like a real racket in Swing Mode - Take on CPU opponents in the Mushroom Cup, Flower Cup, or Star Cup in Tournament Mode - Adventure mode offers a new flavor of tennis gameplay, with a variety of missions, boss battles and more. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  Playable Characters: Mario Tennis Aces features a bunch of familiar Mario characters that we know and love. The game doesn’t feature the biggest selection of characters that we’ve seen in a Mario Tennis game (which, as of launch, sits at 16), but there is still plenty of variety in the current roster. A few new faces have shown up, too. Mario Tennis Aces features six different character types: all-round, technical, speedy, powerful, defensive, and tricky. All-Round characters: As the title suggests, these characters are adept at everything in Mario Tennis Aces, from serving and zone shots, to technical shots and blocking opponent’s shots. - Mario - Luigi - Daisy Technical characters: The technical characters are an interesting bunch. They generally have a higher success rate of trick shots, and they’re also typically better at placing charged shots like zone and special shots - Peach - Toadette Speedy characters: As the name of this category points to, these speedy characters can zip from one side of the court to the other in the blink of an eye, basically doubling up as a form of defensive character in their ability to stop any shots getting past them. - Toad - Yoshi Powerful characters: The powerful characters like Bowser and Donkey Kong focus on pure hitting power, able to send normal shots, as well as zone shots, over to the other side of the court incredibly quickly. - Wario - Bowser - Donkey Kong - Spike - Chain Chomp Defensive characters: These types of characters mainly focus on being able to repel opponent’s special and zone shots, and they also have a slight bonus for trick shots, letting them cover more ground quickly to send shots flying back. - Waluigi - Bowser Jr. Tricky characters: There’s definitely a learning curve involved with the tricky characters, but once you’ve eventually mastered them, they’re able to pull off incredibly powerful shots, and they also have an increased trick shot success rate. - Rosalina - Boo There are also five playable characters that are planned to be released post-launch. Firstly, there is the speedy character Koopa Troopa. Koopa Troopa will be obtainable by participating in the July 2018 tournament. Those who miss out will be able to grab the character any time after August 1, 2018. Similarly, the tricky character Blooper (who will be making its Mario Tennis debut) can be acquired by participating in the August 2018 tournament, after which, it will be available to everyone from September 1, 2018. Nintendo has revealed three more characters that will join the roster post-launch, but Nintendo hasn’t yet specified how we will get our hands on the characters or what types they will be. The characters are Diddy Kong, Birdo, and Paratroopa. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Review Roundup: Polygon -- "Fans of those retro handheld titles were reluctantly hopeful when Nintendo announced earlier this year that Mario Tennis Aces would include a story mode. More recent gameplay footage showed Mario traversing a large overworld, fighting bosses and increasing stats, further stoking expectations. The game looks like a sports RPG, but it helps to forget all the marketing: Mario Tennis Aces is its own thing... It sort of feels like tennis, and it sort of feels like a fighting game, but really, Mario Tennis Aces feels mostly like something entirely new, like a weird indie multiplayer game inspired by sports (think Sportsfriends) that somehow secured the budget of a full Nintendo project." -- Chris Plante [Full Review: https://www.polygon.com/2018/6/20/17476846/mario-tennis-aces-review-nintendo-switch] GamesRadar -- 4/5 "At the end of the day, Adventure Mode is only going to take you so far, and, like Mario Kart 8 Deluxe on the Switch, it's really all about multiplayer. You can opt in for online or local multiplayer, or just pass a Joy-Con to your pal for instant split-screen, which is really where the game shines brightest - and I'm not just talking graphically, although this game is an absolute stunner. This is a game built for battling against your friends, which might seem like a weird turn of phrase for a tennis game, but absolutely works for Mario Tennis Aces." -- Sam Loveridge [Full Review: https://www.gamesradar.com/mario-tennis-aces-review/] IGN -- 7.5/10 "Mario Tennis Aces is an extremely fun arcade tennis experience, colourful and dazzling to look at and smartly balanced in its back-and-forth play. With a little bit more care and depth given to the simple single-player mode and more variety added in the way of character and tournament customisation to give its multiplayer extra spice, Mario Tennis Aces could have been a true all-rounder. As it is, Mario Tennis Aces is still a lot of frantic tennis fun with friends." -- Tristan Ogilvie [Full Review: http://www.ign.com/articles/2018/06/20/mario-tennis-aces-review] Nintendo Life -- 8/10 "We're used to seeing Wii U games transfer to Switch, but for Ultra Smash to have moved across without a substantial makeover would have been disastrous. Aces, wonderfully, is anything but that--it's a superb arcade sports game that's generous with its suite of player options and only occasionally guilty of being a little cheap in its Adventure Mode. The presentation is spot on, and the core tennis action is absorbing whether you're trading simple strokes or firing off special shots. Some animations and voice overs are identical to Ultra Smash's, but everything around them has been overhauled to quite splendid heights. This is something of a Switch Port Plus, then--not quite a whole new experience, but so improved as to be near unrecognisable next to its preceding title." -- Mike Diver [Full review: http://www.nintendolife.com/reviews/nintendo-switch/mario_tennis_aces] ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ So, who's excited for the game? Leave your impressions here! I'll be picking up my copy after work today  https://twitter.com/EdbotnikThe/status/1008836698686533640 https://twitter.com/MannyFaberino/status/1008427329440235520 Jonny_Rocket fucked around with this message at 14:21 on Jun 22, 2018 |
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CascadeBeta posted:Mario Tennis Aces isn't a tennis game, it's a fighting game, and it's a drat good one. I love this aspect, personally. I've been searching online for a more detailed breakdown on each character, but I haven't found one yet.
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Jun 22, 2018 14:25
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Jade Mage posted:It's strange to me how many powerful characters there are in comparison to every single other type of character I have a feeling the DLC characters will help balance that out
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Jun 22, 2018 14:48
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CascadeBeta posted:I don't know why I'm asking for character breakdowns because Chain Chomp is the best boy.
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Jun 22, 2018 14:54
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:I was wrong. You can do normal rear end matches. Watching a couple friends play normal matches with each other, not just tie breakers. This is great news
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Jun 22, 2018 17:08
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Who else is going to get drunk/stoned and play the hell out of this tonight? I know I am
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Jun 22, 2018 17:37
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What's criminal is that we have to wait until after September for Diddy Kang
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Jun 22, 2018 20:28
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https://twitter.com/mvsonicgenerati/status/1008858930032721921
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Jun 22, 2018 21:10
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https://twitter.com/OkayCoolCA/status/1010195064553865216
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Jun 22, 2018 21:21
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jimmydalad posted:Yeah, this is really irritating. Having to listen to the game taunt you for failing every single time gets old after a while. It’s like Duck Hunt in that regard That drat snickering dog
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Jun 23, 2018 00:28
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Pollyanna posted:Wait, I thought this came out in July? Surprise! It’s out now, go get it because it’s awesome My wife and I were playing against the CPU in simple mode (standard match) and that was a ton of fun! She used Spike the whole time and I kept laughing whenever he spat out a tennis ball Also, Chain Chomp rules
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Jun 23, 2018 03:28
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https://twitter.com/firemariowii/status/1009846590704668672?s=21
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Jun 23, 2018 14:01
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Me earlier: https://imgur.com/a/anRAfW2
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Jun 23, 2018 18:17
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I must be bad at this game, I’m currently stuck on the reflective mirror mission. Am I supposed to hit all of the gears in its second form?
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Jun 23, 2018 19:23
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I’ll be honest, I haven’t even touched online multiplayer yet, as I don’t know if I’m any good at this
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Jun 23, 2018 19:28
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CharlieFoxtrot posted:Yes. Keep in mind that some of the gears move very quickly so you will have to lead your shot ahead of it when you aim a Zone Shot Wendell posted:Yeah, hit a gear with a normal shot to set up the zone shot. You can then chain them! Some gears move fast and need you to aim slightly ahead. Thank you both! I beat the level with 2 seconds left on the clock 
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Jun 24, 2018 01:49
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Jeez louise, Nintendo really needs to fix the balance issues in the online mode. I have like 70 points and was matched up against somebody with over 14,000!
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Jun 24, 2018 14:32
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Nintendo will absolutely have to address a couple issues with a patch - these are some of my nitpicks: A) In single player, there should be an option to restart a challenge immediately instead of having to go through dialogue and loading again. It's astounding that a QOL feature like that was left out B) The balancing online is outright horrible - they need to fix it so people with appropriate rankings are matched together. Some say that "points = / = skill", but I don't agree with that. Somebody with over 10,000 points has played the game enough to be better than someone who has 500 points. C) You can't play a full tennis game - the game, outside of CPU tournaments, only allows users to play a streamlined version of tennis, following the same scoring, but not the fully established game, set and match rules: http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2018/06/mario_tennis_aces_wonrt_let_you_play_a_regular_game_of_tennis_and_players_arent_happy D) Certain characters need to be balanced/nerfed, especially Bowser Jr.
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Jun 25, 2018 14:50
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Goddamn, this game is so broken, trick shots and zone shots especially. https://twitter.com/inktivate/status/1010297544977469440 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAgi95urnNI I feel like I had more fun in the demo when people didn't take advantage and abuse the game breaking mechanisms in place. It's the equivalent of a comedy movie showing all of the funny parts in the trailer Thom P. Tiers posted:I swear I'm not bad at video games... but holy poo poo I suck at this game. Keep at it, friend - you'll get better over time! I'm not that great either tbh but once you start to get a hang of the fundamentals, you'll be golden. Jonny_Rocket fucked around with this message at 16:02 on Jun 26, 2018 |
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Jun 26, 2018 15:54
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Maybe I''ll get better
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Deltron 3030 posted:Cool game but why is the tagline for this thread so terrible? Request for mods to change the title to this
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