Mario Sports Mix
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It's good, but stupid that you have to unlock everything for each individual sport.
Dorayaki
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Do you mean some people almost forgot Toadette and Birdo weren't in too?Doomie said:
In this topic the biggest critiscism is for Birdo and Dixie who were tossed from Hoops 3-on-3.
The other concern is that if a home console could have a roster smaller than a handheld one. The number of roster is also littler than many other Mario sport spinoffs while it isn't really a complex game.NSY said:
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The gameplay of this game is far superb. Everything moves smoothly and where you want it. All characters also have their own quirks when performing the same attacks. I really like that. It shows that Square really does care about the game and that they're not rushing through it. I find Speedy characters a bit broken in Hockey, though. But, I found fun with all sports, and the Party games are very fun too. For a game that features multiple sports in one, Square did this job right. All the sports have much depth into it, which is hard to find in games with multiple sports/stuff in it.
What I didn't like was the poor character roster. Sure, it's a sports game, but the roster is even weaker than Mario Hoops 3-on-3, which is very baffling. Fly Guy, Dixie Kong, Paratroopa, Boo, and Birdo are all scrapped and Mii, Toad, and Slime were the only ones that got added. Toad is the only new Mario character, which does not even barely compensate for the major cuts. That's bad; you started out with even less than your precedent. What I especially didn't like was that all unlockable characters were Final Fantasty characters, and no where in the game box except for hints of Square Enix in the box assumes that Final Fantasy characters are about a 1/3 of the roster. They were pretty fine in Mario Hoops 3-on-3 as a surplus addition, but with a roster that has many cuts on the Mario portion rather than additions, in a game called Mario Sports Mix, is unforgivable.
The bad character roster really shows when you're trying to select a team. Most of us use a team of 3 characters. Sometimes, we are pretty dynamic and we want to choose other characters we like in the game. Except that you can't. You can't really change your team unless you really love all characters, which most often isn't the case. The roster could use more potential, especially since every character is actually unique, thanks to the differing animations and movements.
In other cases, we do get nice things such as outfit changes or awesome recolors, but it applies to only certain characters and we can't even choose many of them for the same team. While it's an inconvenience at best, the game is perfectly capable of doing this since you encounter teams of Toads in tournament mode, which makes it no excuse to not have an option at that.
What I didn't like was the poor character roster. Sure, it's a sports game, but the roster is even weaker than Mario Hoops 3-on-3, which is very baffling. Fly Guy, Dixie Kong, Paratroopa, Boo, and Birdo are all scrapped and Mii, Toad, and Slime were the only ones that got added. Toad is the only new Mario character, which does not even barely compensate for the major cuts. That's bad; you started out with even less than your precedent. What I especially didn't like was that all unlockable characters were Final Fantasty characters, and no where in the game box except for hints of Square Enix in the box assumes that Final Fantasy characters are about a 1/3 of the roster. They were pretty fine in Mario Hoops 3-on-3 as a surplus addition, but with a roster that has many cuts on the Mario portion rather than additions, in a game called Mario Sports Mix, is unforgivable.
The bad character roster really shows when you're trying to select a team. Most of us use a team of 3 characters. Sometimes, we are pretty dynamic and we want to choose other characters we like in the game. Except that you can't. You can't really change your team unless you really love all characters, which most often isn't the case. The roster could use more potential, especially since every character is actually unique, thanks to the differing animations and movements.
In other cases, we do get nice things such as outfit changes or awesome recolors, but it applies to only certain characters and we can't even choose many of them for the same team. While it's an inconvenience at best, the game is perfectly capable of doing this since you encounter teams of Toads in tournament mode, which makes it no excuse to not have an option at that.
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The point is that Toadette and Birdo are never "standard" characters. They're usually on and off while Waluigi has been there since Mario Tennis 64 and has been in almost, if not every, Mario spin-off while the other haven't. Suddenly, they drop Waluigi for what: a Mario recolor and a minor character that literally appears for like 3 minutes in both Galaxy games.Dorayaki said:
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