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Trunkin on 20 November 2015
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zippy said:
Trunkin said:


This is absolutely a bad game. The mechanics are not as effective as previous Mario Tennis games. At all. It's weird that I seem to be the only one who's noticed this. No review I have read on either the 3DS or Wii U title have mentioned how they effectively stripped 80% of your control over shot placement  out of the game. That, and those damn marks telling you where yo stand and which shot to make -- it's barely even a game at all! It's insulting! I feel like I need to tell the world.

Maybe I'll make a thread. -_-


You do realise there is a standard tennis mode, that takes away the items and chance shots, which leaves you with a standard tennis simulation. A review I've read says that this is a throwback to Mario Tennis 64 glory days. The visuals are crisp, its 60fps, and has online play, there is nothing fundamentally wrong with the mechanics, the lack of single player content is what's hurt the review scores. Maybe Nintendo are adding content later, there was update data when I downloaded it last night, not to mention a free download for Mario Tennis 64.

Really? That's neat, I guess, but even then, they've stripped core mechanics from the game. Firstly, in previous Mario Tennis games, you had to double-tap your shot button to hit a powerful shot(red/blue/purple trail behind it). If you only tapped once, your character would hit a slower shot(no trail) -- BUT, if you were in a good position, with a single tap, you'd get a lot more angle on your shot, and still a good bit of pace. For characters like Boo, it also allowed you to reduce the ridiculous amount of spin he had on his shots, if you so desired. Doesn't really matter against the pathetically easy CPU's, but against other skilled players it added another level of depth and strategy to the gameplay. Gone.

What's more, in Mario Tennis Power Tour, you could control the depth of your shot by using your d-pad's diagonals. It's been too long since I played Mario Power Tennis, but I'm pretty sure you could do it there as well. This is pretty much a standard in all Tennis games I've played, going back to the SNES. For some reason Nintendo decided to remove it from Mario Tennis Open, and -- from what I've seen -- Ultra Smash as well. That, combined with the lack of single-tap shots, makes shot selection practically non existent. So damned frustrating. With Mario Tennis ruined, and Virtua tennis and Top Spin missing, there are no good Tennis games on the horizon. Bleak times indeed.