Another tale of missed potential from a Nintendo sports game on Switch
There's some good changes here, returning to a style closer to the Gamecube original stripping back the gimmicks from the Wii game and adding in more depth gameplay wise with team tackles and through balls
I hate the regular tackle changes as charging them now is so inaccurate compared to the old system of headbutts and slide tackles.
Boom Boom's AI is garbage. He so easy to fool and bully and he struggles to catch or hold anything whereas Kritter in the OG game was a menace in goals and defended his box like a king.
Not keen on mixing characters up for teams over the old system of Captains and Sidekicks. It means teams lose their identities and the single player cup battles are just against random lineups. It also means there's no league format because there's no Wario team or Peach team etc so the cup battles are all knockout focused so they feel shallow and are much lighter in content than previous games.
Speaking of content, sure it's nice we're getting more in the future but this is struggling to hit the bare minimum. 5 stadiums, 10 characters, less items than ever before...... It's enough for me to make something out of but it's less than the original GameCube game in every department which is disappointing.
I personally do not care for the gear system at all. I prefer my characters to have set stats and it makes online frustrating because it comes down to who has the better gear set up instead of battling it out based on skill
Ultimately, I prefer it over the Wii game but it falls short of my love for the Gamecube game. There's enough quality in the core mechanics for me to have fun making my own leagues offline with friends and self imposed rulesets but it falls short of the potential of the Strikers series and is another frustrating example of Nintendo dropping a sports game content light and thinking adding a few characters later is enough to make up for it when most people will have lost interest by then
There's some good changes here, returning to a style closer to the Gamecube original stripping back the gimmicks from the Wii game and adding in more depth gameplay wise with team tackles and through balls
I hate the regular tackle changes as charging them now is so inaccurate compared to the old system of headbutts and slide tackles.
Boom Boom's AI is garbage. He so easy to fool and bully and he struggles to catch or hold anything whereas Kritter in the OG game was a menace in goals and defended his box like a king.
Not keen on mixing characters up for teams over the old system of Captains and Sidekicks. It means teams lose their identities and the single player cup battles are just against random lineups. It also means there's no league format because there's no Wario team or Peach team etc so the cup battles are all knockout focused so they feel shallow and are much lighter in content than previous games.
Speaking of content, sure it's nice we're getting more in the future but this is struggling to hit the bare minimum. 5 stadiums, 10 characters, less items than ever before...... It's enough for me to make something out of but it's less than the original GameCube game in every department which is disappointing.
I personally do not care for the gear system at all. I prefer my characters to have set stats and it makes online frustrating because it comes down to who has the better gear set up instead of battling it out based on skill
Ultimately, I prefer it over the Wii game but it falls short of my love for the Gamecube game. There's enough quality in the core mechanics for me to have fun making my own leagues offline with friends and self imposed rulesets but it falls short of the potential of the Strikers series and is another frustrating example of Nintendo dropping a sports game content light and thinking adding a few characters later is enough to make up for it when most people will have lost interest by then