It has the foundations of something really great, but the controls are extremely fiddly considering how high-pressure it is, particularly with the perfect-timing moves. Additionally, as is common with Mario Sports games on the Switch, this one is sorely lacking in content and replayability. Particularly with the Single-Player, which I managed to finish in under a week.

I think they expected the Online mode to keep people interested, but it has the same problem that most Nintendo game online modes have, where your opponent is always either an actual child who has no idea what they're doing, or some otaku who has obsessively played this game since it came out and knows all the exploits. Neither of whom are fun to play against.

Overall it's okay, but very disappointing for what could have been the new Mario Strikers Charged.

Reviewed on Nov 15, 2022


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