Mario Tennis On Switch 2 Has 38 Playable Characters – "The Most In Series History"

This was already announced last year, I believe. sad they think that 38 is massive for a roster, for a game like this it really isn’t. Mario Kart World had 50, which also didn’t feel particularly large.

The story mode does look interesting, sad they have the bad redesign of DK still.

Is the game fun and does it have more than 10 hours lasting appeal? That is the big things im looking to be answered with the latest mario sports games.

It would be funny if Pauline is in the story mode, but instead of being turned into a baby like the others, she's not affected by the spell as much and goes back to being a kid again instead. Maybe Kid Pauline could be playable?

Other than her, I'm not sure who else might make it. Prince Florian is already a referee.

19 normal characters 19 babies

Day 1. Put in over 200 hours in aces online. Met great players and friends. Hard to get a game online these days unless it’s a friend joining.

I wish Camelot would make RPGs again. I can't bring myself to care about Mario Sports unfortunately.

@PikminMarioKirby question, what is a large roster for you? i've barely ever seen many racers with numbers close to mkw.

@EarthboundBenjy I mean, I suppose it's been long enough that people forgot about the mess that was Dark Dawn, but I doubt anyone there still remembers how to make RPGs. Maybe they should just leave it to Intelligent Systems and Monolithsoft.

Peach
Daisy
Baby Peach
Baby Daisy
Cat Peach
Bubble Daisy
Tanooki Peach
Drill Daisy
Fire Peach
Fire Daisy
Elephant Peach
Elephant Daisy
Pink Gold Peach
Sterling Silver Daisy
Okay, this unfunny joke has run its course.

Give me cow or don’t even bother

I still prefer using Mii with customizable looking and outfits.
Not a fan of random minor characters from other Mario games that doesn't even look fit to do tennis.

38 is a pretty big roster, even if you want to discount all the babies, like Baby Waluigi’s debut. Can’t wait to see more of this game

@PikminMarioKirby 38 is a great number. Especially compared to what the other Mario Tennis games have had before. And fifty in MKW is amazing! So, how many would make you happy?

Name the games that have more.

I still think them charging $70 for this is absolutely nutty. I felt ripped off at $60 for Aces so I’m not exactly optimistic about this one

If this game has at least a revision with all content on the physical cartridge, I might actually pick up this game many years in the future. It looks entertaining enough.

The only Mario Tennis game I liked was the Game Boy Color game.

@batmanbud2 I find Dark Dawn is mixed reception wise: Some people like DD, others do not.

I'm also not very familiar how RPGs are made nowadays, but can you explain a little why you think that?

@EarthboundBenjy Can you or someone explain to me how much of the Mario Tennis and Golf games are RPGs? I've never played them before, and am curious because I like Camelot and want to better figure them out why they don't return to Golden Sun.

Camelot looks out of the question now when it comes to them making a new entry of GS. And according to that rumor from Emily Rogers, if it's anything to go by, she states that Nintendo really wants to bring back the IP, but are unable to find the right studio to have them make a new entry, because Camelot already has their hands full with Mario Tennis and Golf. I'm just curious asking this question, but do you think it has to do with most developers wanting to make RPGs these day for an older audience, and maybe Nintendo wants to keep GS' intended young-age range, like their other IPs? Again, just a question. I don't know everything about how these studios think, and would appreciate anyone enlightening me here.

@PikminMarioKirby MKWorlds roster felt small due to the costumes, and NPC characters feeling somewhat insignificant — hopefully that not the case here! Also, really? The "bad redesign of DK?" C'mon, y'all cannot possibly still be up-in-arms about that.

Useless thing to brag about if it doesn’t have meaningful content.

@FawfulsFury Essentially clones but smaller lol

@nessisonett I totally think Cow will be in this. They'll probably pull some of the other characters from MKW, too.

Yeah, I'm waiting for reviews on this. And even if this does score well, I think I'll still wait a while. These sports games are all over the place in terms of quality with Aces and that golf game being pretty solid with Battle League being basically nothing.

I’d imagine this game would get a beta prior to launch considering that’s what happened with the sports games on Switch (Mario Tennis, Mario Golf, Mario Strikers, Switch Sports).

@PikminMarioKirby it was announced last year, the article is reporting on Nintendo reminding us of that a few hours ago.

I'd love to try this, but the 1st party pricing is just too high. Plus, recent Nintendo IP games have been inferior to a bunch of 3rd party offerings on Switch 2, which retail for ~1/2 the price.

I loved Mario Tennis on N64 back in the day.

Since they're including baby Waluigi they better also include baby Yoshi. You know, the ORIGINAL baby introduced before even baby Mario. Can't believe they keep forgetting this one in spin offs, you never see baby Yoshi even though it makes the most sense out of all the babies. And if they can make a Chain Chomp playable, they sure as heck can make a baby dinosaur playable.

@Bobb Not saying don't be excited, but what makes you excited for this compared to Tennis Aces or Golf: Super Rush?

Seems like a prettier version of Mario Tennis with nothing else that excites me.

As long Waluigi is playable this will be a hit 🎯

This will probably be my next purchase.

Such a shame we are not getting 379 players though!

Hope you can do full sets with classic gameplay

Really hope you can actually do a full match this time around, though either way I'll likely pick it up since I never got the last one.

That said the character count thing isn't new info, they announced the total way back with the game itself.

The Fever racquets that we saw in the Nintendo Direct last year look interesting. I'm looking forward to the game. The main problem with Aces was the new mechanics (trick shots, zone plays, special shots and gauge management) made it difficult for casual players to pick up. We would play on simple rules, as a consequence. Otherwise, I personally loved Aces. If the new Fever skills are easy to learn and they provide an addictive new quality to Mario Tennis, the game should be excellent.

I felt burned buying the Mario Sports titles on Switch 1 at launch (Golf, Soccer, Tennis) because they felt incomplete and added characters and additional content as time went on.

So I'll wait and probably pick this up later on towards the end of the year around the holidays.

They went out of their way to finally make a decent Story mode again (at least apparently) and they butchered everything by forcing you to play as the worst characters in the franchise history, that alone killed any interest for it.

@batmanbud2 the director literally said that making RPG was tiring in a interview about Dark Dawn.

The man have been making the same Mario Sport game for 20 years and forgot that's usually you can't just recicle everything, add a couple of new modes/characters and be done with it.

It’s nice they are making a new Mario Tennis game but personally I’d much rather have a new Mario Golf game, one that was more like the GameCube version but with at least a dozen new courses

@Joe11 which 3rd party games are superior and cheaper compared to Nintendo's recent games? And please don't come with Sonic Crossworlds again (it's good, not better and lacks all the charm).

I'll pick it up, generally like tennis games and never got around playing Aces. Also, I know most people dislike it but I think the core gameplay of Mario Strikers Battle League was absolutely great. I guess there is little love for arcade sports game, because if the gameplay is that good I personally don't need a story mode (as a requirement for a sport game, really?) and all that extra stuff to enjoy it. It's like complaining that NBA Jam doesn't have a story mode. Cool that they included one in here, but definitely not the main draw of the game for me.

Wonder if we'll see King K. Rool in the roster. Would be a nice way to reaffirm that he's here to stay after Bananza.

That's a lot of babies and armless goobers

@GoldenSunRM It just seems that sports games are not for you. If you like the gameplay they are basically playable till forever, especially in multiplayer. They don't need a fleshed out 60h story or a full redesign every release. Tennis is still tennis after all.

@Itsashame I've been playing Mario Tennis since the N64 and GBC. Only one missed was Ultra Smash (pretty much the same for Mario Golf but for Super Rush).
I probably have multiple thousands of hours on the whole series.

This franchise has been pretty much stale since the GameCube/GBA games (tough Aces base gameplay was good, but the mechanics to be able to counter the balls from anywhere killed my enjoyment).

Tentatively looking forward to this.

I think Mario Tennis (and Golf) hit its peak during the Cube era and I regularly fire up that version for a quick tournament.

Im hoping for a feature rich single player experience. Online is a bonus with this one for me.

@nessisonett thats udderly possible 🙃 🐄

@GoldenSunRM Fair enough. But you have been enjoying (that's another assumption on my part lol) 1000s of hours on these games, and apparently are still not happy with them?

I just think it's such a pity that everyone keeps saying how these games are so bare-bones and not worth it. I can understand that if you don't like sports game adding the Mario theme to it will not make it great experience. But as far as arcade sports games go, these are pretty great with polished gameplay and probably the last fun and big releases that are left within the genre. For that alone I hope they continue making them.

@PikminMarioKirby "The bad redesign of DK still"

Dude, the redesign is here to stay. No use whining about it. You'll just have to try and live with it.

I hope the single player contents decent, I found it lacking in a lot of Nintendos sports games in Switch. Mario Strikers was a huge disappointment in that regard, but could have been amazing

The story mode for this one sounds like it will be a lot of fun. I can't wait to see the first reviews!

@Itsashame I agree with you on the franchise quality. It's kind of been a meme to criticize them without even playing them, but except for a couple of entries (Tennis Open was a bit barebones and Ultra Smash was pretty much a demo for what I've seen online) the series has always been high quality.

Anyway, back on my original post, it's exactly because I already spent so long playing this games, that I wish they would change things up.
The story mode hyped me at the beginning (now this is probably going to sound like a silly complaint) but I can't stress enough how much I dislike the idea of playing as a toddler.
It just put me off.

Nice number of characters, hopefully the content will be just as good.

I'd be happy but I feel like it's gonna be throw away NPCs enemy type characters. Not cool ones like cappy tiara the sprixies lubba king boo Helen gravely madam grape Petey phirana honey queen. Just generic enemy species and baby clones

I'm not particularly hyped yet, to be honest. I liked Aces, I thought it was a fine Tennis game, although I'd expect more from this one.
They have to bring us a (general) Direct before this game is out, to warm us up with a great trailer.

I played the "full NSO" demo of Aces and the motion controls could only be used for one specific game mode (that had no other incentive). I really hope they'd correct this with Fever to make it compatible with all game modes. Should that be the case I'd definitely consider getting it. I don't know of any other tennis games that uses motion controls and I would certainly have fun with that.

In regards to the character roaster I guess that's more than enough, but there's always the risk that everybody's favourite one is missing unless they are all here.

I really hope this releases complete at launch, though I'm not optimistic.

I was so sick of every damned sports game on Switch launching incomplete. This is Mario, not an annual real-world sporting franchise. There's no excuse for these games launching incomplete.

@GoldenSunRM I interpreted your original comment as writing of the whole game because of the baby characters in the story mode, not just as a complaint about the story mode itself.

I agree that the baby's are the least exciting characters from the Mario franchise. I'll still check out the story mode, and I really like the idea of the 30 different Fever rackets in the game. I'm confident it will be a great game.

I don’t know why, but I keep forgetting about this one

Any good will raised for the Mario sports titles I've gained from playing them on NSO is severely hampered by the seeming focus on Baby characters.
I (irrationally?) despise them. Their inclusion in the spinoff games cheapens the Mario series in my eyes because they all seem so uninspired design wise and make no sense.
I know it's stupid that I can accept dolphins driving motorbikes but get frustrated by the addition of Baby Rosalina out of nowhere but that's a hill I'll die on apparently.
So no, not excited XD

I’m gambling and decided to preorder Tennis Fever because of the big roster and single-player mode.
I swear, though - for $70, this game had best feel content-complete at launch, or it will be the last Mario sports game I buy at full price. If I pop in the cartridge and it seems like a hollow online trial I need of a year’s worth of patches and DLC,, like so many of the Switch-generation sports games, I’m out.

Yes, I’m grumpy this morning! 😤

I really did love Mario Tennis Aces on Switch!!! the online play was awesome..had many happy hours with that one. Can't afford a Switch 2 console just yet though...so I'll have to keep practising

Hope they fix the CPU difficulty... playing doubles with another player against CPUs was a joke. Compare that to Mario Power Tennis, where CPUs on the highest difficulty were nearly impossible to beat...

Also, get rid of that forced split-screen in multiplayer. Who thought that was a good idea?!

I'm lukewarm on this

I loved the gameplay in aces, but the single player content was mediocre and the online was too inactive.

I hope this one at least has an active online playerbase since this is the type of game I'd play in short bursts

I’ll stick to Aces, but hopefully Fever is better than the last attempt at a Mario sports game…

(I like Battle League but damn its so disappointing, same with Bayonetta 3 but to a lesser extent)

Aces didn't have the Babies, so for all we know it's just the Aces cast plus 2 baby forms yet to be revealed. Most likely Baby Bowser and Baby Yoshi

@Itsashame my recent Nintendo IP purchases were Metroid Prime 4 and Age of Imprisonment. I had a lot of fun with both, but they were good, not great. I thought Hades 2, Silksong, and Art of Vengeance were far better and much cheaper. I also have my eye on Yakuza 0, Cyberpunk, and FF7, all of which are meaningfully cheaper than 1st party games following sales that Nintendo games never seem to have.

I bought Drag x Drive and had a good time with it and don't regret it at all due to the low price. Bananza absolutely was worth $70. My worry about Mario Tennis is that I would move on fairly quickly (as with Mario Kart World) and that I'd get a lot more bang for my buck with 3rd party titles.

"Including Daisy-"

Sold. Say no more, that is enough right there.

This is great news to me. With this and a full RPG mode, it looks like Camelot really came to play (hehe) with this game.

@1UP_MARIO Agreed, this is also fixing the defensive side of Aces which imo was too strong.

@Joe11 Well, you have a great taste in games. I also enjoy indie games but they are not a direct replacement or comparable for me. Cyberpunk and Yakuza 0 are both great games tho, can't go wrong with either of them. I do think Nintendo first party games have been very good to great (Mario Kart, Donkey Kong and Kirby) and don't really have a better alternative for the exact same type of game. (I haven't played Metroid yet and the Warrior games I don't really enjoy myself)

@Dev-N Oh god no, can't stand Kid Pauline

24 characters is a good amount foe me

@1UP_MARIO Day 1 for me too- hoping the online is a bit more robust, like Kirby, to make it easier to play matches.

Not a fan of the large rosters filled with nonsensical characters, like all the baby versions. Seems like quantity matters most than quality these days.

Tennis games are OK for a 10 minute burst but thats it and I have Super Tennis for that. Golf games on the other hand.....

"Mario Tennis on Switch 2?" Pretty sure it has a name...