Nintendo Reveals Opening Cinematic For Mario Strikers: Battle League

Where's Daisy?

I like it, but it feels a little slow and not as intense as I feel it should be for this series

The gimped character roster is kind of putting me off (Hi I'm Daisy??). I really hope there are unlockables since this isn't Camelot.

The smaller roster isn't as big of a problem for me as it is for others. I mostly just care about the gameplay and each character feeling somewhat unique. With that being said, I think it would be super cool if this game has unlockable characters. Free updates are ok I guess, but not ideal.

Oddly sluggish.

I need not the first week reviews (normally better scores, for advertising purposes). I need so many late reviews..and late reader reviews. There are so many paid people making reviews. And its obvious. So...I need reliable info before buy (or not) another nintendo sport game. This generation I haven't bought any nintendo sport game yet. And I probably won't.

I really hope there are unlockable characters or future DLC, not a fan of the small roster, especially when they don't include a fan favorite from the get-go (where is Daisy?). Other than that, if it's as fun as previous entries, this is a day one for me.

Dang so daisy just really isn’t in this game? Which sucks because this type of thing is her jam! (Probably will be sold off as dlc lol) Still hyped, just sucks.

So I guess the stadiums you get to play on depend on who are the captains.

Maybe it's me, but it seems the aggressiveness has been nerfed a bit, too. I mean, unlike past Mario Strikers, I don't think I've seen skulls when players are sent to the electric fence.

When it comes to the roster, all I'm really asking is to be able to play as the sidekicks from Charged. I want my team of Mario, Dry Bones, Hammer Bro. and Boo/Shy Guy again.

I was far too slow to realize the clear hockey influences in this game (extensive body-checking, including that sequence of Luigi being sent into the electrified "boards", the faster-than-football speed, and more). Were the earlier games similarly aggressive?

An excellent illustration of the dangers inherent in acquiring a Canadian studio.

The roster list hasn’t been confirmed as released yet. They’ve only shown a limited gameplay video and the intro video. Let’s not make assumptions (there’s a small roster, only new characters via DLC, a small roster wouldn’t be good, etc) until we have more information?

I’m sure we’ll get more gameplay videos super soon. They’re still just coming off of Switch Sports.

@CANOEberry yes, both of the earlier games were just this aggressive.

Geez, everyone keeps asking for Daisy to be in the game. And yeah, I’m one of them. I hope she does make it in.

It would be dumb not to have Daisy in the base game. (To my knowledge)She's been in every sport/side mini game since MP3

This was bland.

@sisodinr I read about 4 hours ago the official final roster... and its small... but I don't care.

Reading through the comments, I have to ask...has the full roster already been shown somewhere, and I missed it? I haven't seen the roster of characters in the game actually shown anywhere. Are people just assuming the roster is only what has been shown in the trailers so far, or has it been shown somewhere before for it to be "small"?

Hummm

I REALLY don't like the on-field outfits or astatic. I like the panel work a lot, but everyone is so TRON'ed up everyone who isn't huge looks almost identical, and I guess they rented out the "rocket league" arena because they didn't have one in the mushroom kingdom or something.

Man, I'm old, but this might be the first time EVER I don't get a game I was pretty much sure I was going to buy because of how it looks.

@Highlar @sisodinr https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/mario-strikers-battle-league-nintendo-switch-lite-oled-roster-revealed/

And everyone's right... this intro is TAME compared to the Mario Strikers Charged intro.

https://youtu.be/XBinxNwAN5s

Starting by the soundtrack choice

@YoshiF2 Thanks for that link! Yeah, if that is the final starting roster, that seems pretty small for what they seemed to be proposing with the Direct reveal. By which I mean all the online teams, etc. It would mean that team rosters wouldn't be all that much different one to the next, which I think would be a shame. For something like this, if they are hoping for a robust online community, I'd think they would need more variety in the different characters (ala Smash Bros, if not THAT big). Guess my expectations are now tempered from what they were, which feels like a shame, too.

I love Yoshi in this. The cinematic itself is a bit lower energy than the previous entries though but I don't mind that.

Space Jam 3 looks wicked

@RubyCarbuncle thats on Switch though not xbox. You will be able to play it without online connection

@RubyCarbuncle Wrong site and wrong expectation. PCs also have DRM Often even worse than on the XBOX.

@jmads why do people keep asking this? Obviously not there, at least at launch.

cool but oddly tame looking cutscene. even stuff like luigi being electrocuted lacks that punch lol

So looking forward to this. Loved the 1st one on Cube that satisfied my Speedball 2 itch.

Looking forward to 2 player with my son.

It's really weird that outside Japan there's been nothing for Mario Strikers since February.

@RubyCarbuncle It does feel like Microsoft has been gradually heading back to Don Mattrick's original XB1 vision but without Sony and Geoff Keighley making it blatantly clear to everyone this is bad. I'm hoping the backlash to the outage means the console update within the next few days changes things to more like 360.

too bad the whole game at launch will be this opening cut scene, 10 characters, 4 stadiums, online and that's it

@YoshiF2 That link isn't definitive. It doesn't say that Nintendo confirmed these are the only 10 characters.
"Mario Strikers: Battle League is set to release next month, and Nintendo has now revealed a list of the 10 playable characters that will appear...At this time, it's unclear if there will be more players unlocked over time, or if we'll see more additions through post-launch content."

Too many characters touching the ball with their hands for me as a European to feel comfortable with this. :S

Absolute first day for me. So happy this game hasn't been forgotten

Personally, i think this looks great. Super excited for release!

Hopefully this will be somewhat finished compared to the "other" sports titles that we don't speak of.

@KBuckley27 There are at least 5 stadiums with 4 upgrades each (in addition to customizable elements like goals, turf patterns, etc.), and since they're all character themed, it's likely there are another 5 for the other half of the launch roster, which is comparable in size to the first game (it had 9 characters, though they did act as team captains, with some other characters filling different roles in a team)

It still bugs me that Daisy isn't in this even she one of really mains now seriously thats so annoying.

@Gamergirl94
Bowser is seen wearing Daisy's team colors. Don't lose hope.
Also, this game comes out on my birthday!