Mario Strikers: Battle League Version 1.3.0 Is Now Live, Here Are The Full Patch Notes

So... is it still honestly a 9/10 for you guys? What a dismal game.

Played it over the weekend it came out, had some fun with it, didn’t play it again until a friend came over and he couldn’t be bothered to go through all the tutorials and there was too much to learn on the fly so we just stopped playing and I traded it in shortly after.

What a massive shame. It’s absolutely gorgeous and it is fun but just so light on content. There should have been tons of characters and stadiums etc. to unlock through a robust single player campaign on day one but this “release it now and fill it out later” thing Nintendo has going on with its Mario sports games really let it down.

I picked this up on launch, probably put 3 hours in and dropped it. I think most players did the same. I'm planning to revisit it but will have to relearn it all. It's a mystery to me why this game doesn't have Splatoon style 4v4.

@larryisaman Don't patch in more characters and stadiums, people unhappy.

Patch FOR FREE more characters and stadiums, people unhappy.

Great local co-op party game with friends. Solo and online however were lack-luster and don't, imo, have a fun repayable gameplay loop. I'll jump back on as Bowser Jr. Is my fave, but this should have genuinely been the launch/base game, the updates were genuinely just back-filling what would have been core content.

@sixrings except it's nowhere near a fine 9/10 game. Splatoon 3 is a great 9/10 game and was appropriately scored that. Splatoon has multiple modes, replayability, online play that doesn't completely suck (for the most part) and doesn't lie to it's consumers. Strikers released with only 12 playable characters, 5 stadiums and 1 mode, then drip fed us content that should have been there from the start. They sold us short with club mode claiming that 20 people can join clubs, yet failed to inform that only 4 switches can connect online at a time. That is inexcusable, especially when previous Strikers games released with so much more content. Call me a loser/toxic/whatever, I don't care.
Just like NintendoLife, I play and review games for my community. It's literally my job. I have an audience that appreciates honesty and calling out shoddy practices for gaming. Nintendo did a bad job with Strikers and honestly, NintendoLife could have done better in conveying that too.

It's a good game.

@Olmectron That's kind of a massive over simplification of the issue. It's really not "free" additional content, it's just the rest of the game being added in at a later date. This stuff was datamined a long time ago. On top of that, the game has WAY less content then the last entry from 2007. $60 for what's on offer here, even with the updates, really is ridiculous in my opinion.

...Was really excited to play this when it was first announced, too...but apparently it's all multiplayer focused. Go figure...a story mode would've been nice at least, or something.

@larryisaman this is not just their sports games. animal crossing too. anything they might deem 'casual'.

It’s not like any of the characters added so far were on the GameCube and Wii versions………
Right?

@Liam_Doolan: According to Nintendo UK this third free update is the last one. Assuming its not a typo, maybe it should be noted in this article.
https://twitter.com/NintendoUK/status/1602287685137203200

And that's it, the game is finished.

Well, according to Nintendo, anyway. I wouldn't be able to call it such.

3 updates in 6 months is abysmal, i think even nintendo realizes this game is doing poor. worst of all this game was still doomed even if this stuff was available at launch

the issue wasnt the lack of characters, gear, or course reskins. this game honest to god needed more modes than just grand prix, quickplay, and online quickplay

Everyone wants other modes telling how the other two games have more when in reality the first one had the same as this but without the online and the Wii one only had a mission mode.
I'm the first one who wants more modes, but the other installments had the same amount. Chargers was better exactly because had more characters and stadiums (with hazards).

Any game that removes characters from previous series and then adds them in an update and pretends they're doing something good, is a bad game. Any sequel should contain 2x more of everything than the previous one, and not remove them. I never understand why they don't use the full selection of Mario characters that they have, it's not like there isn't a lot of them.

@sixrings
Nintendo didn't make this game. I agree that it's a very good game and these free updates just make it better

@Olmectron

He is not complaining about the lag of characters but the lag of content like a singleplayer campaign with unlockables. And I feel the same way. Paying full price for a multiplayer only game on Switch and a Nintendo 1party game is just lame imo. But hey it's fine if you like it. I only played my game once and never returned and never will.

@SilverM i think what this game needed was evolution. i dont think it does anything better from previous games to warrant less characters, items, stage gimmicks, ect.

even the hyper shots seem tacked on, for a game thats trying to have a competitive edge its weird to have your super move be an item you chase on stage like a smash ball

@boxyguy well yeah, I agree on that. Tackels, gears, fused stadiums are something that make the game different from the previous ones, but not necessarily better. I Iike them yes, as the animations, rhe game is still a lot of fun, but they could have made something more.

@Old_Man_Nintendo Nintendo owns next level games. So they did in fact make this game.

@sixrings
So Microsoft made Deathloop?

@MrA-Game Maybe the reviewers honestly thought it was 9/10 and had good reasons for doing so You can’t expect everyone to have the same opinion as you. And I don’t think you should worry if a couple sites gave it that score. if every site had given it a high score, I might be able to empathize with your grievances, but most sites didn’t.

As someone who enjoyed my time with this game, I still agree it was underwhelming and super light of content. What a shame, too. If the online was done better, there were a couple more things to do in single-player, and there were as many characters/stages as there were in Charged for the Wii this would have been a huge success.

Instead we got what is basically shallow recreation of the GameCube version with this awful content drip feed.

Not a good run for the nintendo sports titles, strikers got boring on the first day, Mario Tennis had some weeks of fun online play, and golf well its golf.

@Old_Man_Nintendo they own it then as far as I am concerned they made it.

I legitimately forgot this game existed

This game is a BIG LIE

THE NAME: "Mario Strikers: Battle League"

But this game does not have any LEAGUE. NO LEAGUE. WTF? Only isolated 4 matches and finished. The FULL game seems like a small DEMO.

Shame Nintendo

A lot of marketing for EMOTIONAL SALES. Nintendo games now i wait for true reviewers.... not game sellers disguised as reviewers

Wait wait wait. Don´t get my money, Nintendo

I do enjoy Mario Strikers somewhat as the core gameplay is pretty tight, but I definitely agree with many sentiments that it is very light on content. Especially moreso if you want more offline, single player content- without online the game is pretty much tragic as there’s not much variety or things to do/unlock/achieve. I mean even the slim stadium upgrades are locked to the online battle league silver coin payments and use which is silly. And you have to rebuy what you unlocked again if you switch to something else... such an archaic, puzzling, frustrating pseudo-unlockables system. Hopefully they add more modes, characters, stages, cosmetics, match customization options etc. very soon and not drip-feed content long-term.

Online matches being the main portion of the game can get pretty grueling as there are a lot of hardcore advanced players on there as I feel many casual players have dropped the game by now or don't participate nearly as much. Also, we need Pom Pom or the Kremling Kritter back as a goalie option cuz Boom Boom be letting me down constantly smh. Either that or an option to play/switch to a manual goalie as well. That could also go well for a penalty kick mode too.

Still waiting and hopeful for a new Mario 3-On-3 Hoops, Mario Superstar Sluggers & Mario Sports Mix on Switch that are more expansive & comprehensive than the previous Mario Sports offerings this far.

… Wun can only hope.