Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Mario Tennis Fever?

I’m glad to hear it’s pretty good, but I’m really hesitant to try another sports title after the Drip Feed + Barebones Single Player experiences on offer on the Switch 1. If this turns out to be a pretty good game and the reviews reflect that, maybe this is the start of a Mario Sports comeback (please just give another Sluggers and a mechanical sequel to Charged).

While I would personally give it an 8, my personal ranking system is different compared to this site so I'll give it a 7 instead.

For me an 8 = Good and a 7 = Okay.

Probably the best Mario Tennis game I’ve played in years. The gameplay is addicting and I’m loving Adventure and all the different modes. The roster is top-tier too and I’m glad there’s so much to unlock.

An 8 so far. Im quite happy with a basic tournament offering that I can pick up and play. Enjoying 1 on 1 local co op with my son. He's got the quicker reactions but I've got 30 years of Mario Tennis behind me. 👍🎾

I went with an 8 but easily could have gone with a 9. Having a fantastic time with it, mainly with the online ranked matches. The competition level there is pretty strong, I was overwhelmed at first, but it got me to really learn quickly and fight my way back up the rankings, really pushed me to improve. Having such a good time there, maining with Birdo.

Impressed with how different all the characters feel. Beyond the base stats, most have certain shots or abilities that they specialise in as well. I struggle with certain characters, but match up with others who play exceptionally well with everyone from Chain Chomp to Daisy to Goomba to Baby Luigi and beyond. They not only all feel different but it's more than possible to win with any of them (even if there are some favourites clearly emerging in the online usage).

As for the single player modes, I've had fun in the adventure part, about half way through that. Yes, the initial tennis school bit has it's naff moments, but some of the mini games in there on the third difficulty level took a few attempts in some cases and were pretty fun once you got past the simple first level. The trial towers is great chaotic fun, and there's a decent challenge in the top difficulty levels of the CPU in the tournament modes.

One of my favourite aspects is that there's plenty to unlock. I'm not a fan of these games when the majority of the content and characters are just there from the start, I like having goals to aim for, with the reward of a new character or racket for doing so, and there's a good amount here, and mainly to be done through playing the single player modes.

I don't love the fever rackets for the majority of my time playing, but they are a manic good time in multiplayer, kind of Mario Party style where there's going to be plenty luck in who wins as much as skill sometimes. But most of all, it's definitely the online ranked options, with singles and double, either with or without fever rackets, that will get most of my time and is a blast to take part in. That alone is going to have me playing this a ton. I play these games (Mario Golf, Mario Kart etc.) mostly for either online or for playing with friends, more so than for single player content, and this game is great fun in which to do that.

The "school" part is way way too long, I havent played enough to give it a score but can we just remove 1 for the scoring scale. 1s are for completely broken games

Or put an option for haven't played

8, just like NL. I haven’t played online or the trial towers yet, but Fever is much better than Aces to me. The gameplay is better than Aces by not being TOO chaotic. The Fever Rackets are a better gimmick than expected. While they’re simple, they add a bunch of variety, and the back-and-forth volley with a Fever Shot is surprisingly intense! The game is highly polished, content-rich considering previous Mario sports games, and the game runs very quickly with little to seemingly no loading at times (playing this on a digital copy on internal storage). Characters have a lot of personality, especially Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong.

The Adventure Mode is just a glorified tutorial, it doesn’t get interesting until you leave the academy (which is 80% of the story) and I would’ve loved it if more characters played a part in the story, but I liked it well enough and didn’t want it to end so soon. I always knew the matches are where it’s at.

8 here. I really like it!

I know we all wanted a true adventure mode but at this point we just gotta accept that the recent tennis games have been excellent multiplayer focused titles and not much more. Which is totally fine by me! I love that you have to unlock so much content — miss the days when that was the norm. Though I do wish they tracked more gameplay stats, and I can’t help but say that after playing Air Riders, the UI and design just doesn’t hold up that great. Small bone to pick when the game is this fun tho

Glad it turned out well and most people seem to enjoy it. I’m unfortunately just at a much different point in my life to justify spending $70 on something that isn’t a huge title for me. But yes, it does look good and maybe down the road I’ll pick it up.

The abysmal guy strikes again 😂 it might not be to everyone’s taste but I seriously doubt it’s abysmal

A 5 for what it offers at that price

Most Mario sports games can never really score higher than a 7/10 for me. The game has to be exceptionally wacky to score higher (Strikers GC & Wii).

Too early to say, but I haven't had this much fun with a Mario Tennis game since Power on the GC/GBA. I've been playing a lot of online ranked, the physics and the fever mechanics are really clicking with me, loading times are near-instant and there's very little lag compared to Aces.

I wish I’ve had more time with it to be sure. I think I prefer Aces more at this point, but my friend was not interested in playing Aces, where he’s hooked with this game. But I do like how this game does walk a fine line between being competitive and frenzied.

I'll pick up my copy tomorrow and will see. I have some good hopes.

Probably like a 7. It plays well but I wish there were a middle ground on the AI between, "Completely ineffectual," and, "Aggressive rubber-banding," and it does feel pretty scant on content.

Also I have no clue why these games nowadays won't actually let you play a full length game of tennis.

As good as this looks (7-8/10), I cannot justify spending $70 on a Mario sports game. It's way too much. How is this worth as much as DK Bananza? Mario sports games shouldn't cost more than $50, especially with the lack of single-player content. This feels like a swing and a miss (all puns intended).