Mario Tennis Aces

User Rating
7.4/10 (359 ratings)
Release Date
22nd Jun 2018
No. of Players
4
Genre
Sports
Publisher
Nintendo
Developer
Camelot
Content Rating
ESRB/Everyone, PEGI/3
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A brand new Mario Tennis game is bringing a new level of skill and competition to Nintendo Switch: Mario Tennis Aces!

Mario steps onto the court in classy tennis garb for intense rallies against a variety of characters in full-blown tennis battles. There are more than 15 playable characters, each with their own distinct characteristics!

New wrinkles in tennis gameplay will challenge your ability to read an opponent’s position and stroke to determine which shot will give you the advantage. The game offers a refined approach to tennis gameplay, focusing on deep strategic payoffs, and non-stop, split-second strategies.

And this time the game adds the first story mode since the Mario Tennis: Power Tour game on Game Boy Advance, offering a new flavour of tennis gameplay, with a variety of missions, boss battles and more.

The varied play styles of the Nintendo Switch system allow up to four players* to step onto the court together – anytime, anywhere!

Once you connect online**, you can play a match with your friends or other players. Events and online tournaments will be held frequently, allowing you to compete against other players.

There’s also Swing mode, which allows you to use your Joy-Con like a tennis racket. This mode is perfect when you want to play the game casually with your friends and family, or just to get your body moving.

Reviews 1

Nintendo Life said:

We’re used to seeing Wii U games transfer to Switch, but for Ultra Smash to have moved across without a substantial makeover would have been disastrous. Aces, wonderfully, is anything but that – it’s a superb arcade sports game that’s generous with its suite of player options and only occasionally guilty of being a little cheap in its Adventure Mode. The presentation is spot on, and the core tennis action is absorbing whether you’re trading simple strokes or firing off special shots. Some animations and voice overs are identical to Ultra Smash’s, but everything around them has been overhauled to quite splendid heights. This is something of a Switch Port Plus, then – not quite a whole new experience, but so improved as to be near unrecognisable next to its preceding title.

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8/10

User Reviews 1

JJtheTexan said:

I really wanted to like Mario Tennis Aces. I have enjoyed the other Mario Tennis games I've played, especially Mario Tennis Open on the Nintendo 3DS. Unfortunately, for reasons I can't quite describe, MTA didn't click with me.

Most of my gripes relate to the Adventure Mode, as I don't really have anyone else to play with and I tend to enjoy single-player campaigns anyway. I just found it to be tedious and overly-difficult early on, and I gave up pretty quickly.

The actual tennis is fine, I guess? I just miss the previous title's easier, back-to-basics approach to video game tennis. I've heard others describe MTA as more like a fighting game than a tennis game, though I don't see it.

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