Nintendo Mario Strikers: Battle League [June 10, 2022]

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Lace up your cleats & prepare to bring the heat in Mario Strikers: Battle League!

 

Fierce special shots, items, & tackles means there’s no rules except to rule the field! Play with up to 8 players locally & online, and even create your own club when Mario Strikers: Battle League launches on Nintendo Switch June 10th.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

[stepee]

I want this but I don’t really need to see anything just give me a demo to tide me over thx.

[Zaku3]

Hype for mario strikers.

[Biggie]

This looks fun as hell

[gamer.tv]

I wonder how long term this will be. It looks fun to play with friends (for a while) and online (for a while) - but is there more than that? 

[Keyser_Soze]

18 minutes ago, gamer.tv said:

I wonder how long term this will be. It looks fun to play with friends (for a while) and online (for a while) - but is there more than that? 

 

Anything more than having fun? Well you could buy it and not have fun!

[gamer.tv]

4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

Anything more than having fun? Well you could buy it and not have fun!

Inference there was if there will be any decent, single player content. 

[stepee]

5 minutes ago, gamer.tv said:

Inference there was if there will be any decent, single player content. 

 

Yeah I want to know this as well, since Tennis and Golf (especially Golf imo) were very disappointing with this.

 

Originally I wanted these games to have a fun story mode, but they keep making those terrible and then took away a regular tournament mode in Golf. So at this point Im just hoping there is a proper single player tiered tournament mode where I get to play as Mario characters and not a fucking Mii.

[stepee]

i would fucking kill for mario sports games to just have the exact same single player as virtua tennis on vita. As time goes by I more and more appreciate that game as a GOAT.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

 

[stepee]

Demo today! @Biggie

[Biggie]

35 minutes ago, stepee said:

Demo today! @Biggie

Wait…..what?  For real?

[stepee]

1 minute ago, Biggie said:

Wait…..what?  For real?

 

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

So the "demo" is the tutorial?

[stepee]

Tutorial + multiplayer beta in a couple days

[Biggie]

Demo can only be played June 3-5 and at certain online times @stepee

 

Lame af

[stepee]

Just now, Biggie said:

Demo can only be played June 3-5 and at certain online times @stepee

 

Lame af

 

You can do the tutorial now though right? I was hoping it would have a practice match or smtn.

[Biggie]

Just now, stepee said:

 

You can do the tutorial now though right? I was hoping it would have a practice match or smtn.

Hhmmmmm don’t know. 

[thedarkstark]

5 hours ago, Biggie said:

Demo can only be played June 3-5 and at certain online times @stepee

 

Lame af

Makes me not want to buy the game out of spite honestly, Nintendo is such a shit company.

[GameDadGrant]

I’ll check the demo out. May as well. *shrugs*

[HardAct]

Man you guys give me so much crap when I don't see a topic on the first page and make a thread of my own about a game or anything really! I literally have a Mario Strikers thread just a little down from this one, talking about all the same shit, same game, who's buying, single player, etc. I feel better now. I will continue to reply on the all mighty @Keyser_Soze thread in fear of eternal damnation, peace brother!! lol

[HardAct]

On 5/23/2022 at 10:40 AM, stepee said:

i would fucking kill for mario sports games to just have the exact same single player as virtua tennis on vita. As time goes by I more and more appreciate that game as a GOAT.

I'm pretty sure that sure that Virtual Tennis was a Dreamcast game with a PSP port. I really liked that game on Dreamcast, Would like to buy a vita version if there is one..

[stepee]

26 minutes ago, HardAct said:

I'm pretty sure that sure that Virtual Tennis was a Dreamcast game with a PSP port. I really liked that game on Dreamcast, Would like to buy a vita version if there is one..

 

 

The GOAT: 

 

Amazon.com

WWW.AMAZON.COM

 

 

[Keyser_Soze]

3 hours ago, HardAct said:

Man you guys give me so much crap when I don't see a topic on the first page and make a thread of my own about a game or anything really! I literally have a Mario Strikers thread just a little down from this one, talking about all the same shit, same game, who's buying, single player, etc. I feel better now. I will continue to reply on the all mighty @Keyser_Soze thread in fear of eternal damnation, peace brother!! lol

 

After @ManUtdRedDevils made some comments I don't berate people for making double topics. I just leave it in the hands of the mods. Have a wonderful weekend!

[HardAct]

19 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said:

 

After @ManUtdRedDevils made some comments I don't berate people for making double topics. I just leave it in the hands of the mods. Have a wonderful weekend!

Thanks, you too!!

[HardAct]

22 hours ago, stepee said:

 

 

The GOAT: 

 

Amazon.com

WWW.AMAZON.COM

 

 

That's not the game I meant, I didn't realize there were that many versions. This is the only one I have played and it was really good 

Virtua Tennis - Dreamcast Game - Retro vGames

RETROVGAMES.COM

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Virtua Tennis Dreamcast Game PRODUCT DETAILSUPC:010086510546Condition:UsedGenre:SportsPlatform:Sega DreamcastRegion:NTSC (N. America)

 

[stepee]

2 minutes ago, HardAct said:

That's not the game I meant, I didn't realize there were that many versions. This is the only one I have played and it was really good 

Virtua Tennis - Dreamcast Game - Retro vGames

RETROVGAMES.COM

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Virtua Tennis Dreamcast Game PRODUCT DETAILSUPC:010086510546Condition:UsedGenre:SportsPlatform:Sega DreamcastRegion:NTSC (N. America)

 

 

Yeah I played that as well and it was amazing at the time but the vita version (4 World Tour) is so good because it has a deep and fun/addictive single player mode (the world tour mentioned in the title). Highly recommend it if you liked the original dreamcast version.

[Biggie]

The controls and overall gameplay is very satisfying. Can’t wait to play online. 

[stepee]

6 hours ago, Biggie said:

The controls and overall gameplay is very satisfying. Can’t wait to play online. 

 

Yeah the training lets you get a decent feel for it with the practice matches and it definitely has that good arcade sports action that there isn’t much of anymore. Can we just do Super Mario Blitz next?

 

Cant really get a full feel of the flow of an actual game so def gonna wanna try the online friday.

[stepee]

Oh yeah and the power shots look sweet on the oled.

[stepee]

Reminder today-sun is the beta test!

[Brian]

@stepee

[stepee]

43 minutes ago, ManUtdRedDevils said:

@stepee

 

I’ll need to read later, hope it’s not so low because of lack of sp content  Same score as Aces.

[Keyser_Soze]

Game Information

Game Title: Mario Strikers: Battle League

Platforms:

• Nintendo Switch (Jun 10, 2022)
  

Trailer:

Publisher: Nintendo

    Review Aggregator:

OpenCritic - 76 average - 54% recommended

Critic Reviews

AusGamers - Kosta Andreadis - 7 / 10

It remains to be seen how exactly the online create-a-club stuff pans out in terms of competition, but as a same-room couch jam Mario Strikers: Battle League Football gets better and better the more you play. A surprisingly deep, chaotic bit of Mario Sports action.

COGconnected - James Paley - 75 / 100

Once I got past those first matches, Battle League was a lot more fun. Every match is tense, fast-paced, and packed with action. You’ve got a layer of strategy with the gear, and every character plays differently. If you’re looking for some Mario-style soccer, this game delivers. On the other hand, it’s a thin offering for solo players. Online matches will greatly extend the life of this game, if you’re looking for more challenges. I wish the teammate switching system wasn’t so clunky. I’d also love a larger roster to choose from. But if you’ve got enough opponents, Mario Strikers: Battle League is a pretty great time.

Cerealkillerz - Steve Brieller - German - 7.6 / 10

Mario Strikers - Battle League Football has entertaining core gameplay with less chaos than its predecessors, focusing more on skill than sheer luck. Sadly it severely lacks in content. Especially the single player has too few unlocks and customization options to keep players busy in the long run. The presentation is solid but after a while noticeably lacks in variety. Nevertheless, we can recommend the game for intense offline multiplayer sessions for up top eight (4on4) players at once.

Checkpoint Gaming - Luke Mitchell - 7 / 10

The core gameplay of Mario Strikers: Battle League is fast and frenetic, keeping your palms sweaty as you battle with your Nintendo favourites in an intense game of soccer. It’s flashy and well animated in all the best ways, with that trademark personality and charm carrying it a long way. It’s also a wonderful example of “easy to learn, difficult to master”, that starts simple but has some reasonable depth, even within the confines of its short matches. It’s a shame then that there just isn’t much more meat on the bone; with offline modes extremely limited with only quick play and tournaments, you’re going to have to truly love the mechanics to justify spending a lot of your time in competitive multiplayer. For those with a lot of mates to kick around with, that might be enough, but for everybody else, it’s a yellow card.

Console Creatures - Bobby Pashalidis - Recommended

Mario Strikers: Battle League is full of style but little substance. The core gameplay is exciting and challenging but the content itself leaves more to be desired.

Daily Star - Tom Hutchison - 5 / 5

Either way, this is a wonderful addition to the Switch catalogue and well worth the £50 fee. It’ll last you all summer and beyond.

Destructoid - Chris Carter - 8 / 10

I was shocked that Battle League had this much going on under the surface, and the gameplay itself is enough to carry me through for quite some time.

Dexerto - Daniel Megarry - 8 / 10

If you're looking for a football game that doesn't take itself too seriously, with more than enough of that zany Nintendo charm to delight, you really can't go wrong with Mario Strikers Battle League.

It's an excellent multiplayer game if you can forgive the lack of content to keep you invested, but it's sure to be a summer hit for footie fans.

Digital Trends - Giovanni Colantonio - 3 / 5

Mario Strikers: Battle League delivers the deepest Mario sports experience yet, with surprisingly nuanced soccer gameplay. There's just not much to do once you've mastered those skills.

Enternity.gr - Nikitas Kavouklis - Greek - Unscored

Mario Strikers: Battle League has an interesting offline section and it will definitely make you play for hours.

Eurogamer - Tom Phillips - No Recommendation

Mario Strikers returns with a stripped back entry for Switch that's ultimately less fun to tackle.

Game Informer - Alex Stadnik - 7.5 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League may not be the ultimate version of the world's most popular sport, but its strategic matches, fun online modes, and energetic animations make for an enjoyable experience.

GameSpot - Steve Watts - 7 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League has all the makings of a great sports game, but there's not much there right now.

GameXplain - Andre Segers - Mixed

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Gameblog - Tiny_Ellie - French - 7 / 10

With a fiendishly fun formula, a production with the greatest of care, and more technical matches, Mario Strikers Battle League is the perfect game for intense parties with friends. Fun times, and mocking around between friends are guaranteed.

GamesRadar+ - Joel Franey - 2.5 / 5

Though occasionally likable and basically inoffensive, Mario Strikers: Battle League struggles to build on its ideas and ends up feeling pretty undercooked as an experience.

Geek Culture - Jake Su - 6.8 / 10

While the core gameplay is solid and the game looks awesome, everything else surrounding it seems to need more work. Whether Nintendo and Next Level Games will do so remains a burning question, and it would be a waste to see the potential of Strikers Club be, well, wasted.

For now, even with the excellence shown on the field and that lovable Nintendo charm, it is hard to see Mario Strikers: Battle League as anything more than a game that just doesn’t have legs. In this case, the game was lost even before a ball was kicked, and that is a massive disappointment to eager fans around the world.

God is a Geek - Chris White - 8 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League Football is great with others and offers plenty of opportunities to shoot, pass, and play the beautiful game despite there being few modes to choose from.

Hobby Consolas - Javier Escribano - Spanish - 87 / 100

The best Mario sports game, despite Daisy's absence. It has one of the most fun multiplayer experiences that you can have on Nintendo Switch, both locally and online, that will deliver lots of healthy competition, despite losing some of the charm of the originals and having very few characters, stadiums and single player game modes.

IGN - Travis Northup - 8 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League is an over-the-top soccer game that's wildly fun, even though it does very little new.

Metro GameCentral - Adam Starkey - 7 / 10

The best and most balanced Mario Strikers title yet, undercut by limited modes and a lacklustre sense of progression.

Nintendo Life - Alex Olney - 9 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League is a masterclass in competitive game design. What it lacks in options is more than made up by just how much fun the game is, and it's absolutely gorgeous to boot. As it stands it already feels like a complete product, but the promise of future updates down the line gives us even more to get excited about. If arcade sport action isn't your bag, it'll likely do nothing to sway your opinion, but if you have even a passing interest in this kind of caper, Mario Strikers: Battle League is the best sports game on Switch right now.

PCMag - Jordan Minor - 4 / 5

Mario Strikers: Battle League makes its long-awaited return as a deliriously fun and accessible soccer game that's packed with character customization and online modes.

Polygon - Ana Diaz - Unscored

The chaotic game breathes new life into franchise characters

Press Start - Shannon Grixti - 7.5 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League is a fun time that is easy enough for anybody to pickup and play but still without depth to mean it should keep an audience engaged for a long period of time. It's a little lacking in the single player department, but it's doing some interesting things in the online space to make up for it.

SECTOR.sk - Matúš Štrba - Slovak - 8 / 10

After a long wait, we got a new Mario Strikers game and it's a lot of fun. Action gameplay and variable character abilities will keep you entertained, local multiplayer for up to 8 players is really great. But the game critically lacks content.

Screen Rant - Cody Gravelle - 3.5 / 5

Mario Strikers: Battle League is a fun and colorful game that lacks some of the depth players might expect, and strays pretty far from soccer.

Shacknews - Ozzie Mejia - 7 / 10

As it is, Mario Strikers: Battle League isn't the World Cup of Nintendo soccer that fans were probably hoping for. Instead, it's merely an average Sunday game that's playing on Univision: good for a few hours of entertainment and little more than that.

Spaziogames - Valentino Cinefra - Italian - 8 / 10

With such solid and explosive gameplay, Mario Strikers: Battle League Football represents a decisive step forward for the franchise.

Stevivor - Ben Salter - 7.5 / 10

Mario Strikers Battle League is a lot of fun, but unless you commit to online play, it’s here for a good — but brief — time.

The Games Machine - Daniele Cucchiarelli - Italian - 8.9 / 10

Mario Strikers is back. Like Smash Bros. Ultimate this is an "easy to play, hard to master" game in which you'll find different levels of engagement and entertainment: from fast and furious rapid matches to seasonal multiplayer challenges... and that's only the tip of the iceberg of things to come.

The Independent - 7 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League Football is another competitive sporting spin-off for the moustachioed plumber that’s mechanical nuance is only marred by its lack of truly compelling content.

TheSixthAxis - Steve C - Unscored

Mario Strikers Battle League is a worthy entry in an excellent series that takes the best aspects of the previous games and hones them to multiplayer perfection. It is more difficult to recommend for solo players – although the core game is still fun – but hopefully the online mode will enable everyone to play the game at its best. Check back soon for the definitive verdict once we've had a chance to give it a try

TrustedReviews - Ryan Jones - 3.5 / 5

Mario Strikers: Battle League Football is a thrilling take on the football genre, with more end-to-end thrills than FIFA could ever hope for, as well as the chaotic energy that the classic Super Mario items provide. But a stingy offering of single-player modes mean that this is only really worthwhile for those wanting to dive into online multiplayer.

Twinfinite - Omar Banat - 3.5 / 5

Overall, Mario: Strikers Battle League is a good game that needs more to do. It may be a much better game a year from now, but right now, it is noticeably lacking content.

VG247 - Alex Donaldson - 4 / 5

Put simply, I love it all. It’s a worthy successor to the GameCube game in particular, which I still rate as a real classic.

Video Chums - A.J. Maciejewski - 7.9 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League strikes an excellent gameplay balance to make every match exciting and action-packed. It may not take many risks when it comes to supplementary content but what's here is one solid soccer game nonetheless.

Wccftech - Nathan Birch - 7 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League delivers the frantic fun the franchise is known for, but it feels like it's only fielding half a team.

WellPlayed - Kieron Verbrugge - 7 / 10

Mario Strikers: Battle League Football excels on the field, but it struggles to make a compelling offer for solo players or anyone not willing to invest time in forming and maintaining a Strikers Club. It's just pick-up-and-play enough to work as a party game with mates and it's compelling to watch in action, but the lack of embellishments is sure to hurt its long-term appeal.