{"id":593,"date":"2012-06-16T11:32:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-16T17:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconstripempire.wordpress.com\/?p=593"},"modified":"2013-07-17T08:19:06","modified_gmt":"2013-07-17T14:19:06","slug":"phantastic-game-reviews-mario-tennis-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/phantastic-game-reviews-mario-tennis-open\/","title":{"rendered":"[Ph!GR] Mario Tennis Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I would ask you what is happening, but I really don\u2019t care. So today, I\u2019m making myself write another review, and stooff. So, it\u2019s a Mario game, but which one? I dunno, Mario makes some sports games so there are plenty options in that district. One came out over a week ago, so I\u2019ll probably do that. It\u2019s Mario Tennis Open, yeah\u2026 that one.<\/p>\n

Ok, let\u2019s get this crap started. So, it\u2019s a 3DS game, I have one of those, and what happens is you play as Mario and all his friends, and some of his non-friends (Luigi) and you try to get all the cup, that\u2019s about it for the story mode. Basically once you get every cup with a single person for the first time you unlock a new tennis court, Yeah! Rewards! Ok, it\u2019s not that great of a reward but you can shut up. There\u2019s plenty of other stuff, like mini games that you can use to unlock new characters, like Baby Mario, Baby Peach, a regular every day baby and a little known Mario character, Tim, I lied about Tim, he\u2019s not in this game, which is a shame because when you meet him in Paper Mario he\u2019s pretty spectacular (I wonder who\u2019s going to check that out.)<\/p>\n

Probably the \u201ccoolest\u201d feature is your ability to play as your Mii, that doesn\u2019t sound really cool, but they make hilarious tennis grunts, and you can actually forge them into your own type of playing style by unlocking new pants, rackets, shoes, and wristbands, cause they\u2019re cool like that. It\u2019s pretty cool that you can make them however you want, you could get a character that runs around really fast and hits the ball as hard as Bowser. Which brings me to my next point. Every character has a certain playing style, like All-Around, Technique, Power, Speed, and Tricky (Ooooh that Tricky, he really turns my toilet) each character falls into one of these categories, you can play around with them to see what you like, I enjoy Tricky characters because they freegin\u2019 hit the ball freegin\u2019 every freegin\u2019 where.<\/p>\n

This game institutes a gyro-control method, the purpose I assume it\u2019s designed for is playing the game, but I hate that crap, I\u2019m used to standardized tennis action, I play Mario games because I don\u2019t want to be down on that court hitting balls. But what happens is, you tilt your 3DS up and the view goes over the shoulder, and your character moves to wherever the ball is coming, then it\u2019s your job to turn the 3DS to where you want to hit the ball and press a button. That\u2019s so lame, plus there are button combinations you need to get certain types of shots but instead you can just tap the combination on the bottom screen, Americans\u2026 Too lazy to play a game right, Wuzzat? Nintendo is Japanese? But Mario speaks perfect English. And how about that \u201ccharacter moves to the ball\u201d function, that\u2019s gotta make matches one sided. I don\u2019t use the gyro-controls in any game every because I feel like a tool tilting my DS this way and that, I just want a freegin\u2019 second analog stick. Is that too much to ask? Yes? Fine, I\u2019ll shut up then. There, that\u2019s my rant, drink your milk.<\/p>\n

Mario Power Tennis for the GameCube had these things called \u201cPower shots\u201d what happened was your character\u2019s racket lit up and you pressed a button to hit that crap into hyperspace, or get a ball that was too far away for your puny arms to reach. In this game, they do away with power shots for special shots which are activated by running over a glowing portion of the court and pressing the button that corresponds with the colour, then you get a hyped up version of the standard shot, for example, the blue colour is your standard \u201cslice\u201d (whatever that means) which basically curves the ball a little, but when you stand on one of the blue special shot circles and do a slice you curve that crap around the world. Or around the court. My guess is that Nintendo thought the power shots gave people too much of an advantage, and they didn\u2019t want people to rely solely on skill to win so they needed some kind of gimmick to let people feel awesome without really doing anything. I have no problem with the special shots, if they\u2019re in my favour. But aside from that they almost seem cheaper than power shots and they can really make or break a match. I think that while they\u2019re nice and Mario is known for its sports gimmicks they shouldn\u2019t have been so frequent. There, that\u2019s my rant, stay in school.<\/p>\n

Let me wrap this up here, Tennis, Mario, 3D, need I say anything more? Ok, so the power shots have the potential to ruin any multiplayer experience, and there have been reports of people using the gyro controls to cheat so I have no intentions of playing online in this game, maybe local download play but not with some tool face in Sweden that can\u2019t actually play some GAWSH DANG FREAKING MARIO TENNIS!!!!<\/p>\n

On a scale from you to me, Mario Tennis Open gets a 3D thumbs up!<\/p>\n

There, that\u2019s my rant, don\u2019t do drugs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,5],"tags":[523,522,524],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reimer.haus\/bse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}