Tomorrow's Mario Tennis Aces Update Aims To Fix Bowser Jr.'s Unfair Advantage

Okay, Nintendo is considering a Patch and Fixes.
So, can we at least get an Option to set how many games / sets we want to play, Court selection, etc ?

Why not change the single player options while you’re at it and let us play local matches at proper length?

At last nintendo even looks at the game.

I've still never even come across a player using Bowser Jr. Mostly Waluigi is what I run into. I like using Boo, he cracks me up. Glad to see the serving body shot is getting fixed!

God, there is so much to patch in this game that if they are going to do that ONE BY ONE... Yeah the game will be OK in 2025 ! :/

Bowser Jr is not the only one that needs a patch.
Chomp too.
Toad etc...
The length of the match.
The court selection.
Is it possible to have a rebalanced overall too ?
A real story mode ?
Real unlockable too ? Because you know Ninty, 5 gadget courts with nothing really great about'em, hum hum, that's crappy...

With its ridiculous content, even Mario tennis Ultra Smash is greater to play than Aces from my perspective...

@Cobalt The new trick shot nerfs should hit Chomp harder than most. Plus, though NL didn't mention it, this is a minor patch, and a major rebalance patch is due before August

@Cobalt 'Is it possible to have a rebalanced overall too?' Did you just seriously asked that.

Nintendo needs to patch out the talking Toads, they comment on the same thing over and over during the match... go make them search for treasure or something.

@Nincompoop you can turn that off in the settings you know.
@Saego hes just whining for the sake of whining at this point. just ignore him.

Well its good they're taking notice. I figured they'd do it after every monthly season, but this is a nice step in the right direction. Every high level match devolved into "return every shot with mash down on the right stick then use a special move to send them far outside the court followed by a return drop shot and either burn their meter or get the point."

Kinda hard to balance such things when the ball always went within range of a trick shot. Seeing the range reduced is a step in the right direction.

The game is "trash" because the release version isn't perfectly balanced?

Someone doesn't get it.

I'd rather they nerf boo and Roselina...theses 2 and literally the only characters that people use online

With online games like this I usually wait until a few issues have been ironed out before I buy them. Should have this game by the end of the year.

I hope that a retry option becomes available if you fail a challenge in the story mode. Seeing the same cutscenes over and over is so frustrating.

Huh that's funny. I suck at this game no matter what character I use.

Only person I've managed to beat is my 4 year old during a swing mode match. However, he had won the prior 5 matches....

It was fun while it lasted.

That's good. I did still win my fair share of games against Bowser Jr., but he is a monster lol.

Rosalina is the best though. She's the best character of the Mario universe (not gameplay-wise in Aces before anyone gets the wrong idea).

I have to really try now

@Anti-Matter
I couldn't agree more. This is infuriating.

Hopefully we'll get a version 2.0 soon enough that will look less like a beta.

@Switchitup Personally I rarely come across either of those 2. I used to see Boo a lot for the first couple of weeks but not anymore. I used to find Boo tricky when in the hands of a good player but I've learned to adapt to the swerve shot. Bowser Jr or Chain Chomp in the hands of a good player I find basically impossible to defeat unless I'm also that character. Fortunately I don't come across Chain Chomp much. Bowser Jr however......

Rosalina I've never really come across too often, not anymore than other characters like Yoshi and Mario. I've played 30+ hours so far.

@wazlon
I suggest you wait until they add a little more options.
The adventure mode is just plain bad, multi and single player matches are ridiculously short (1 set of 2 games) and you can't change it.

We were all fooled by NL who told us the game was great without mentioning any issues. Don't make the same mistake and wait for a major update.

Good news, but I still want:

-Season mode, at least 4 cups with ATP-like scoring system and a champion after that, just Mario Kart-ing the game a little, which has already been sold as "The Mario Kart of racket".

-Tournament mode for local multiplayer (perfectly feasible)

-Amiibo suport (even it it's just alternate color or suit only)

@Cobalt I wouldn't go THAT far,Ultra Smash was complet trash

I had read that some players were upset that they couldn't do regular tennis matches. No update for that in this update, I guess.

@Isaix

I don't think so.

If I wanna play with friends the way I want (without stuffs everywhere) I CAN !

With Aces, I CAN'T ! :/

Or just bin it off give people their money back and nake mario golf instead

I'm mostly holding hope that they allow more than one course in tournament mode (or a different tournament mode that does.)

Boo is more broken than Bowser Jr.

Its a brilliant game. We are having hours of fun with it in our house. The courts arent as great as they were in 3ds mario tennis open..but they are still great. I love it!

@Nincompoop You can switch rhem off in the options. First thing I did!

There might be hope for me to invest some time in this yet. I'll let Nintendo get this game patched up before I dive back into it.

What about spike isn't he op. I bet when we get bowser jr nerfed everyone is going either spike or boo lol.

@Cobalt But the core gameplay of Ultra Smash was flawed,the game was so boring to play with or without the mega mushrooms.Ace has has problems too sure,it's not well balanced at all and there's a lack of options,but the core gameplay is still fun and the problems could easily be patch(...well hopefully Nintendo will continue to patch the game)

It seems like Switch games have more bugs than all the other Nintendo-console games combined.
Dumping the quality to rush them for a deadline made my extremely cautious and picky.

@SKTTR

How can you have 315 Wii U games ?
The fullset is about 309 games...

@Isaix

I understand what you mean but at the time, Ultra Smash is more fun for me to play than Aces.

But Whatever, the best tennis game EVER is FINAL MATCH TENNIS on the almighty PCengine.

@Cobalt

33 retail games + 226 download games (some of them also available on retail) + 56 Virtual Console games.

@SKTTR

Ow Ok , I understand better ^^

I must have around 150 retail Wii U games (PAL).

I personally think Boo is the most overpowered character, with his insane curve shot (I forget what that move is called--the one with the blue tail behind the ball). I've played opponents that just spam that move, and every time I fail to return it. But more importantly, we need the changes @Anti-Matter mentioned. Longer matches is a must for me.

Yay! Updates!

@Nincompoop
You can turn the Toad commentary off in the options you nin com poop.

@Rhaoulos Thanks, I'll wait until the major update then to avoid disappointment. Hopefully Nintendo will listen to fans.

this took them WAY too long but at least it might be fun again now

@Not_Soos He's really not that hard to counter, once you figure out his slice. Just play a little closer to the net and it gives the ball less room to curve away. It helps that Boo doesn't hit particularly hard, or fast, and he has a crappy reach.

@Regpuppy I'll keep that in mind, thanks. I felt bad as I rage-quit a match against one particular player who was using the Boo, but he was literally only using the splice and nothing else. He was able to ace me with it every time he was serving, since you can't get close to the net to return a serve. Even if I did manage to return the serve, he just kept using the splice only, which made for a very infuriating match and required no skill on that person's behalf. Maybe I'm just inexperienced at dealing with Boo, but I really hope they nerf his splice, even if that means buffing his reach and other attributes. He's a ghost after all, so it would make sense if he could fly or just teleport pretty far across the court to return the ball.

@Not_Soos I will admit that his slice can be rough for new players. But the main strength of Boo's slice is the surprise factor. Once you learn to expect the curve, when you see that blue trail, the quicker you know how to position yourself.

Personally, I pick Boo in every Mario game that gives me the option, because I just like the character. But I find myself using Boo less often as time goes on in this game. I mostly use his as a counter to certain characters now, rather than my main. People in the higher skill tiers laugh at his curve, and I'm better off mostly using a mix of flats(purple), top-spin(red), and lobs to wear them down.

Now I mostly play Chain Chomp, who needs to be playable in MORE games, and Koopa. Waiting for Blooper now too.

@Not_Soos if you're talking about the blue one, thats only ever going to go to boo's left (your right). if hes serving on your right then just hang right. if hes on your left then just stand still.

Purple has no ball rotation.
Blue has left ball rotation.
Red has right ball rotation.

Characters with the tricky trait are generally not that great because their curve shots always have the same path and are very, very easy to send back.

edit: ok so just did a little lab with him and what I said is completely true for his serves but his returns can go either way. Its still not hard because if its gonna go to your right its gonna go straight down the middle first then veer off to the right while if its coming to your left, it'll do the arc first then go straight.

If the comments are any suggestion, no one likes this game.

Bowser Jr and Boo come up over and over again. I'm in the 'can't handle boo' camp. Slice shot does me every time. That's even though I know it will curve in the opposite direction, I just can't react in time. I've usually already set off in the wrong direction! Don't mind Bowser Jr though. Love a good long rally! Spike for the victory!