Mario Tennis Aces

https://nintendoeverything.com/june-2018-npd-top-20-best-selling-games-in-the-u-s-mario-tennis-aces-is-1/ Number one best selling here in the United States!
 
Happy to know that's successful. I'm just worried that it'll be an okay for Camelot to release half-baked games just to patch them later.
 
Mario Tennis surpassed God of War...

Ok what the actual fuck?
 
I don't think Mario passing God of War is that surprising tbh. It's a family game that appeals to the general audience.
 
I'm just surprised that a Mario Tennis game sold pretty well. I don't think Mario Tennis when I think a good-selling Mario game.

But, anyway, hi GTA V.
 
I have checked the leaderboards for this month's tournaments, and to my pleasant surprise, Bowser Jr. is not anywhere in the Top 100 (he appears in only 1 spot in Simple). Either there is a stigma against Bowser Jr.'s unfair advantage that he ended up being underused, or the nerfs he received drastically affected his performance. On the other hand, Peach appears to be the dominant character with multiple achieve the Top 100 more than any other character in Simple. Waluigi appears to be quite dominant in Standard, though not overwhelming so that he's seen in many spots, since we have quite a variety of characters, thankfully. Makes me think that Peach is next on the balancing slate.

Anyway, the Kamek challenge FINALLY became easier, because this was the only Challenge that I didn't clear, and when the level becomes easier, I was able to clear it.

MarioFan632 said:
winstein said:
For me, I wonder why the developers decided to randomise CPU partners, which is I feel not optimal since this game already have a Random character option so if I want to randomise a partner I can just choose that option. Hopefully it won't be long before the developers make partner select selectable.
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You actually can choose your CPU partner in doubles. When you go to change the rules, there's a setting that says "Doubles Partners". Set it to "P1 and P2", and you will be paired with the first CPU character.
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Thanks for pointing out. I read this and thought that the developers don't have the option when I read a prior post:
Princess Mario said:
The CPUs in single player doubles free play are determined by complete random so you can't have a doubles partner and you can't choose whom to face.
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Glad to know I thought wrong when I was able to do it.

NOTE: The posts later the one above also disproved the post I quoted, it's just that I didn't read them so I didn't know that it wasn't the case.

Thank you for reading.
 
OK, hold the phone. I don't have this game, but is it true that the score isn't kept like normal tennis (1, 2, etc. instead of 15, 30, and so on) AND you can't choose multiple sets?! What the actual &%$%!!?!

I'm not sure this is something to buy anymore...
 
Moldomré said:
OK, hold the phone. I don't have this game, but is it true that the score isn't kept like normal tennis (1, 2, etc. instead of 15, 30, and so on) AND you can't choose multiple sets?! What the actual &%$%!!?!

I'm not sure this is something to buy anymore...
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The score is like normal tennis, that is if you win a Game, you go through the standard 15, 30, 40, Deuce if the score is 40-40 (2 point lead is required), and then Game. It's just that in regular options, you can only choose to win Tiebreaker, 2 games and now 6 games. That is to say, the game doesn't have the ability to choose the number of Sets, which I am guessing will be a future addition since in-game, there are certain games (Tournament mode and some Adventure matches) where the player need to win 2 sets instead of 1.

Thank you for reading.
 
There's either 1 set, 2 games, or 1 set 6 games.

Serious.

Literally every other tennis game, even the derided Ultra Smash, has the ability to choose multiple sets.
 
Princess Mario said:
Literally every other tennis game, even the derided Ultra Smash, has the ability to choose multiple sets.
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I guess Ultra Smash is "derided" now...

Anyway, Aces' exhibition mode is clearly unfinished. I'm glad they're taking time to work on it post-launch, but why couldn't a few extra buttons be added pre-launch?

Unpopular opinion here, but I actually think Ultra Smash is better than Aces. For Ultra Smash, I was sold on the gameplay. Even after the reviews came in, I was still sold on it. When I got the game, I enjoyed it. It had fantastic gameplay, and an exhibition mode to actually make use of it. That was really all I needed.

However, Aces is a different story. I saw the gameplay, and I was sold on it. I was almost going to preorder, even after playing the demo and mourning the loss of Jump Shots. But when I heard that Aces lacks a proper exhibition mode, I immediately took back any plans to preorder. After all, why have solid gameplay if you can't make use of it at will? I really don't care much about single-player campaigns. I want to play Mario Tennis Aces, but the game simply doesn't let me.

Yes, Ultra Smash was lazy. But Aces is equally lazy.