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new Mario Tennis Open screens + features revealed
- Thread starter Oni Link 666
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Jaded Alyx
Member
Galaxy music is still so damn amazing.
storafötter
Member
Looks great, I will be playing this definitely.
Jaded Alyx
Member
I really hope for a demo.
Allan Holdsworth
Member
Will get when <$20 due to no RPG mode.
It'd be the opposite for me. RPG and no online would make it a sub $20 dollar purchase.
TheLastCandle
Member
There is no possible way I can say no to this with that Galaxy level staring me down.
Chet Rippo
Member
No, not really.
baby peach > rosalina
Pre-ordered this months ago, but the lack of an RPG-lite mode is depressing. I love the gameplay in almost all Mario Tennis titles (not the Wii edition though, could've been so amazing :/), and I was hoping for a Camelot inspired return to the GBC masterpiece. Alas, I'm more than excited to have some great online matches and other quirky match types.
Where's baby Waluigi?
Hours Left
Member
Unlocking characters through QR codes is kinda cool. I really hope Toadette is in this one, she's been getting benched too much lately.
*shudders*
Diddy Kong
Banned
Can't wait for this game! Day one!
Chet Rippo
Member
I'm not a pedophile, sorry.
RPG mode was essential at a time when there was no online. Now it would mostly be a nice bonus / nostalgia pleasure.
The core element to the 3DS game is to win new attributes, find your play style and be the best player online.
I like this focus, I just wish online will be as smooth as in Mario Kart.
MarshMellow96
Member
So... forced power shots?
wut?
not powershots per se, but sometimes you'll get the chance to answer with one of those curveballs if you hit it with the right type of shot standing in the circle.
hate powershots but this looks great
HyperBitHero
Member
Yep, that's tennis.
Seven Force
Banned
Love the idea of QR code character unlocks. I could do without the goddamned babies (Mario aside), though.
Fuck those guys so much.
nckillthegrimace
Member
The RPG mode in the handheld games has always been boring garbage. Camelot should steal the progression system from the Hot Shots games in favor of a bloated and slow RPG mode. Camelot isn't even good at making actual RPGs, so I don't know why people are clamoring for it to ruin a sports game with some half-assed crap mode.
This right here.
MTO will be awesome since it wont have RPG mode to slow the action down.
I had no interest in a 3DS until this game was announced. Well that and the sexy Purple 3DS.
Oni Link 666
Member
That and I never thought Camelot's little human characters had any business in a Mario game. Miis are stretching it, but at least they're Nintendo's and I get to make them.
chickdigger802
Banned
what happens in hot shots games?
The rackets you play with get better, and you earn more things throughout. For example flat serve, air shots etc. Also a huge part of it is customizing your character in whatever you want, pretty nice time waster actually
The Hot Shots system is nothing special IMO. What is special is the actual tennis you can play however. It's amazing. It puts pretty much all other tennis games to shame that aren't trying to be actual simulators. Hot Shots Tennis on the hardest levels produces craaazy results. The shots you see, the detail they put on the characters in the way they hits certain balls it's just so thought out. I personally believe this Mario Tennis won't hold a candle against the PSP HST but I hope they took some notes from it at the very least
edit, I'll even go so far to say that the accuracy in HST is so good that real life tennis players on high levels can actually play against the CPU to train for themselves. Hell, pro players probably could
Golden Sun games are great. Some of the best handheld RPGs in existence.
nckillthegrimace
Member
The more you use a specific character, the better they get. You can also buy new equipment and outfits with better stats. Very simple. It sounds like there's maybe something like that with the Miis in this game, so that's good.
I was thinking of the first Golden Sun game specifically. The characters just never stop talking and the combat system is the antithesis of fun. I'm surprised that you said that you've never played anything like them before because they're super generic.
Really? The Djinn system and the way the dungeons' puzzles incorporate ability usage to manipulate the environment always seemed really unique to me. I don't think I've ever played another RPG with such well-designed puzzles, but my pre-teen memory of it isn't exactly fresh.
Ollie Pooch
In a perfect world, we'd all be homersexual
Why does it say 'online mode' then only mention local play?
chickdigger802
Banned
tennis... oh is this the psp game with the exploits? Think it's back on psn... might give it a ... shot.