Mario Sports Superstars
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Mario Sports Superstars is a 2017 sports game released for the Nintendo 3DS. It was developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Camelot Software Planning.
Bad Qualities
- This game was released only a few weeks after the Nintendo Switch launched. By then, the 3DS was made irrelevant.
- The game was possibly rushed because there is a noticeable lack of content.
- Mediocre character roster. Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach return in this game yet again as reskins.
- Each sport has the lack of the charm of the Mario series.
- Soccer is poorly programmed and very unbalanced. The other team is highly aggressive and will do anything to get the ball in the goal. It is nearly impossible to get the ball in the enemies goal because their goalie rarely ever misses while yours misses all the time. If you kick a player from the other team, Lakitu calls foul, but if the other team kicks you, Lakitu DOESN'T CALL FOUL. It also lacks any of the cool mechanics from the Mario Strikers series.
- Baseball is downright broken. Whenever you try to swing, the ball almost always goes through bat as if the bat is a ghost. The computer has no issue hitting the ball however. Pitching requires you to do this very unnecessary timing minigame where you have to make the line stop in the colored area to get a good throw. You didn't have to do this in the Mario Baseball games.
- Tennis is just as dull and boring as it was in Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash.
- Golf just reuses assets from Mario Golf: World Tour.
- Horse Racing is the only new sport in the game. It plays like Mario Kart but without the items and chaotic fun that series is known for. The computer rubberbands frequently and no matter how much you boost on your horse, the computers will still catch up.
- The online multiplayer is extremely barren and very inactive. It's just like the online in Mario Tennis: Ultra Smash.
- Most of the Amiibo character cards lazily reuse character artwork from various Mario games, and they are mostly badly photoshopped. The worst offender has to be Bowser's soccer Amiibo card.
- There are over 100 character cards. You could be wasting hundreds of dollars on these cards because duplicates are very common. Scott The Woz did a character card unboxing and he got over 30 duplicates.
- Road to Superstar is just a crappy Breakout clone.
- The game costed $60 at launch when there is nothing worth the $60 in this game.
- While it is passable, the music is rather generic for Mario standards and feels more like typical sports music rather than the cartoon yet relaxing soundtracks from previous Mario Sports games that fitted the Mario franchise perfectly and were very catchy and memorable.
- The graphics are rather sub-par for a late 3DS game, as it looks akin to an early PSP game rather than a title released on the 3DS itself.
- Poor gameplay control from each sport, mainly both Soccer and Horse Racing where moving can be an absolute chore to do due to the 3DS's circle pad tending to not respond with the game properly and causing some mishaps to happen.
- It isn't a very good comeback for Namco (or Bandai Namco as it is known nowadays) to develop a Mario Sports game after nine years since 2008 with Mario Super Sluggers, since the game has poor quality and doesn't have the charm of previous Mario Sports games especially the ones that the studio developed which were the Baseball games. This could be seen as a missed opportunity since the company does a great job at handling many of Nintendo's IPs very well and have some of that Namco charm to them especially with both the arcade Mario Kart games and Pokkén Tournament, so seeing that they would develop this game is just disappointing especially after making the amazing Mario Baseball duology.
Good Qualities
- The music is passable, despite being generic.
- Horse Racing is a bit fun.
- You can raise and breed your own horse in this game.
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