L2AGO #4
A pretty simple to pick up and addicting cartoon tennis game that's a lot of fun to mess around with on a weekend with friends; it's just a good time charging up shots and then destroying people with volleys, making them run back and forth across the court. I will say that I personally had a bit of trouble with overheads at times due to how much I liked volleying, but it at least kept me honest so I wasn't hogging the front 24/7. That said, when going through the Cups, there was a pretty noticeable difficulty spike between my last two opponents; I went from only dropping a game to Boo in semi-finals to spending over an hour fighting Shy Guy in grand finals because the guy somehow just didn't let shots fly past him. Those long drawn out matches also accentuate what others have mentioned as one of the main flaws via its gimmick; those matches more or less turned into waiting games of seeing who would drop their Power Shot first, and if one person fucked up their Power Shot, then the other could afford to immediately use their own to seize the point. I think Power Shots also break up the pace of the game a bit too much in that they allow players to snag shots that they really don't deserve while having lengthy animations (and they often don't matter much anyways, since good players by this time are in a position where they can immediately hit back the weaker cover Power Shot and punish them again for being out of position). Still a fun game, though I'm sure I will shudder in fear whenever I see a Shy Guy opposite to me on the big court.
A pretty simple to pick up and addicting cartoon tennis game that's a lot of fun to mess around with on a weekend with friends; it's just a good time charging up shots and then destroying people with volleys, making them run back and forth across the court. I will say that I personally had a bit of trouble with overheads at times due to how much I liked volleying, but it at least kept me honest so I wasn't hogging the front 24/7. That said, when going through the Cups, there was a pretty noticeable difficulty spike between my last two opponents; I went from only dropping a game to Boo in semi-finals to spending over an hour fighting Shy Guy in grand finals because the guy somehow just didn't let shots fly past him. Those long drawn out matches also accentuate what others have mentioned as one of the main flaws via its gimmick; those matches more or less turned into waiting games of seeing who would drop their Power Shot first, and if one person fucked up their Power Shot, then the other could afford to immediately use their own to seize the point. I think Power Shots also break up the pace of the game a bit too much in that they allow players to snag shots that they really don't deserve while having lengthy animations (and they often don't matter much anyways, since good players by this time are in a position where they can immediately hit back the weaker cover Power Shot and punish them again for being out of position). Still a fun game, though I'm sure I will shudder in fear whenever I see a Shy Guy opposite to me on the big court.