r/MarioTennis

If yall interested you can play it here: https://www.n-puzzle.com/en/nintendoku

I’m back after a break…

Throughout my 150 hours of playing this game, I can say that I find DK more annoying than Bowser despite DK getting nerfed in the Galaxy patch. DK still tends to annoy you with the craziest lobs from Lob Central (I made that term up), well at least with Bowser, you can still return shots easier as you see in this clip. But hey, I guess that’s the game summed up for you or at least one aspect. Also, let me know who your least favourite character is to play against and why (Mine is actually Koopa, I’ll explain why in another clip).

In earlier time, story mode seemed to be handheld's feature due to its raising system. But now since Switch era we've seen a couple of games that dedicates to story mode for both tutorials and unlockables. But I wonder, do fans find Mario sport stories enjoyable?

I think Mario sport stories' biggest challenge is they haven't really standed out as popular as other Mario stories from mainline or RPGs. Mario RPGs have richest story, while Mario platformer set the foundation of the franchise, which leave Mario sport stories to be the weakest link of all. Mario sport games just don't tend to have ambitious story subthemes like "Mario Golf : The Millennium Window". Tennis Aces seemed to have the ambition to write an epic story, but it didn't succeed simply due to the obviously low investment.

It's understandable that Mario sport games want to focus on the main gameplay and story is mere extra, but it could be more interesting if sport stories also get more development in order to be more unique and memorable so fans would not try to skip them.

I know the professional atheletes from earlier games are not fans' cup of tea as they don't seem as interesting as the fantasy world characters, but their biggest merit is how they bring original contents to expand the games. while recent Mario sport stories don't have the same investment to introduce new original contents in the same way Mario RPGs tend to do.

In fact, we've got a couple of original boss OCs like Snow King and King Scuttlebug, and it could had been better if the whole stories and themes totally dedicate to the OCs, and actually make OCs unlockable players as our prize for completing story mode. Could also work in the same way if they get to introduce notable villains like King K Rool or Captain Syrup, and use them as the main villains for a sport story.

I discovered that getting killed can stop the time, so I intentionally kill myself while my opponent is hitting the ball.