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I've never been interested in the Mario Sports games, but this is looking pretty good to me. I just hope that Rosalina & Dry Bones are playable characters. I'm still really bummed that Dry Bones didn't make it into Mario Kart 7. It'd be even better if they had more obscure characters like Professor E. Gadd & Fawful.
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How to write a mediocre preview that screams of paid sponsorship, whether or not it actually was.
How to write a mediocre preview that screams of paid sponsorship, whether or not it actually was.
Im startin to get interested in this title, for some reason i keep neglecting the tennis titles yet spent lotta time playing Mario tennis 64. also im all for e gadd n fawful.
I loved playing it at PAX East as well! I enjoyed Mario Tennis and Mario Power Tennis after it. It plays similarly but online multiplayer makes this an easy buy for me.
@Rockefellow: Yeah, this was extremely substandard. Something I'd expect to see on IGN, not Destructoid.
If this had the story mode of Mario Tennis: Power Tour I would be allllll over it. But alas, it appears that it will not be an option.
It seems like Camelot decided to take away all of the RPG elements present in earlier portable iterations of the Mario Tennis or Mario Golf series.
That makes me a very very sad Luis :(
That makes me a very very sad Luis :(
I had Tennis on Virtua Boy back in the day, and it was pretty awesome. Mario Tennis has always been great as well, so combining the two seems like a win to me.
The best is still easily the GBA one, because it's a full blown sports JRPG with tons of content. If you can find it, it's still amazing. Trust me.
The best is still easily the GBA one, because it's a full blown sports JRPG with tons of content. If you can find it, it's still amazing. Trust me.
Honestly I didn't like the Mario Tennis GBA game and I felt that the fact that it was in 2D and the rpg elements felt out of place compared to the golf game. This looks like a return to form for the series. That said, they better make a new Mario Golf rpg.
I have a valid perspective that's not based upon unsubstantial trolling, so I'm a douchebag. How well-versed the opposing opinion is!
It reads like a preview someone wrote after looking at the box for the game.
Also, no Rosalina no buy.
Also, no Rosalina no buy.
I enjoyed the first two portable Tennis games (and the portable Golf games), and this looks bland without a story mode. That was what kept me in Power Tour, which, even on the highest difficulty, was dead easy.
I can see where you guys are coming from, but I assure you, I did play the game. And enjoyed it! My job here is to inform you of the features and how I felt about them. If you genuinely feel my writing is inadequate, you could do me a favor by being more specific. So far it seems like you're just perturbed that I had nothing to complain about.
Holly, there is nothing insufficient about your writing at all; it's just the general vibe that is construed by this article. You're correct in assuming that some distraction is created by citing nothing but praise for the game, but that's not because it's unfairly presumed to have something wrong with it. More directly, it's just unnatural to see such praise for a game with similar constraints. I'll chalk it up as genuine excitement for a title that others, like myself, might hold up with some skepticism.
Also, I've had a fifth of Sailor Jerry's tonight. Feel free to slap me over the internet for being a cunty pig.
Also, I've had a fifth of Sailor Jerry's tonight. Feel free to slap me over the internet for being a cunty pig.
No worries, Rockefellow. I can understand how unbridled enthusiasm can be a turn off. You would be correct to chalk it up as genuine excitement for a game that would otherwise cause skepticism: I walked into that scheduled walkthrough with full expectation that I would not like the game at all. Shoe horning Mario into what almost amounts to a bunch of cameos always struck a sour note with me. That I liked it anyway really surprised me. I could do a better job of getting that across.
"I walked into that scheduled walkthrough with full expectation that I would not like the game at all. Shoe horning Mario into what almost amounts to a bunch of cameos always struck a sour note with me. That I liked it anyway really surprised me."
Now, with a slight bit of editing, that sounds like a perfect introduction!
Now, with a slight bit of editing, that sounds like a perfect introduction!
Guys like rockefellow can't conceive the possibility that other human beings can be 100% positive about something.
Always gotta have your "reservations", eh? Good for you. You're really living it up not allowing yourself to be FULLY enthusastic about someone else creative endeavor.
Always gotta have your "reservations", eh? Good for you. You're really living it up not allowing yourself to be FULLY enthusastic about someone else creative endeavor.
@BrainWasherAttendent
Now that was just uncalled for, he's already proven he's not a troll but just skeptical about the game.
While Rockefellow cried "paid sponsorship" before even backing up his opinion did leave a sour note to the most of us, when he wasn't bashed by idiotic remarks which were no better than what he did, but thankfully Holly was mature enough to see what he had to say without belittling Rockefellow.
Perhaps it would be fair to say that BrainWasherAttendent can't conceive the possibility that human beings are different in most aspects.
Boy I do sound like an ass eh BrainwasherAttendent?
Now that was just uncalled for, he's already proven he's not a troll but just skeptical about the game.
While Rockefellow cried "paid sponsorship" before even backing up his opinion did leave a sour note to the most of us, when he wasn't bashed by idiotic remarks which were no better than what he did, but thankfully Holly was mature enough to see what he had to say without belittling Rockefellow.
Perhaps it would be fair to say that BrainWasherAttendent can't conceive the possibility that human beings are different in most aspects.
Boy I do sound like an ass eh BrainwasherAttendent?
Fuck the 3DS and its exciting game lineup, I'm off to play my higher spec'd Vita with it's overwhelming selection of quality first party games.
Oh wait, its covered in fucking dust.
Oh wait, its covered in fucking dust.
@Rockefellow
What I originally wrote was more along those lines, but by the time I got home and was finishing my drafts, I was so tired that it almost seemed simplicity was the route to go, instead of wasting time trying to edit the phrase perfectly and risk putting the article out way too late. But hey, at least I got the chance to clear that up in the comments. I have way more loyalty to you guys than I do Nintendo and would rather you get the most accurate picture possible.
What I originally wrote was more along those lines, but by the time I got home and was finishing my drafts, I was so tired that it almost seemed simplicity was the route to go, instead of wasting time trying to edit the phrase perfectly and risk putting the article out way too late. But hey, at least I got the chance to clear that up in the comments. I have way more loyalty to you guys than I do Nintendo and would rather you get the most accurate picture possible.
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