Board 8 > Mario Strikers Battle League Review Zone

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oh jeeze been like 2 months since I did a review zone due to no new releases

https://opencritic.com/game/12903/mario-strikers-battle-league
https://www.metacritic.com/game/switch/mario-strikers-battle-league?ref=hp

Mid 70s average so far through 33 reviews. Sounds pretty similar to the other Mario sports games on Switch where the core gameplay is excellent, but there's a massive lack of modes or progression. You're there to play the sport game and that's about it. However I'm sure like the others it will also get more free content over time and could be a worthwhile purchase at that time.

Nintendo Life - 9/10
Battle League is a masterclass in competitive game design. What it lacks in options is more than made up for by just how much fun the game is, and its 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 isnt your bag, itll 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.

IGN - 8/10
Mario Strikers: Battle League is an over-the-top soccer game thats wildly fun, even though it does very little new.

Game Informer - 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. While the single-player crowd may find the game a bit lacking, Nintendo's return to the pitch is bound to create the same triumphant highs, and friendship-ending lows the company's suite of other party titles is known for.

Gamespot - 7/10
Mario Strikers: Battle League is a thin package, without very much variety in terms of game modes and options. But it is a more technically complex game than many of the Mario sports titles, which may give it legs for dedicated players. Sports are all about proving your skill in head-to-head match-ups, and that will have to be enough, because there isn't much else to it.

WellPlayed - 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.

Twinfinite - 7/10
There's no doubt that fans of the franchise will enjoy jumping back in. The promise of a gradual release of new content will likely keep diehards of the series drawn in with each new announcement. 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.

Eurogamer - No Score
Battle League is, arguably, a more focused game - and ultimately likely the better representation of small-team football. Aside from the occaisonal frame-rate wobble, it is also slicker in presentation, and certainly hosts the most visual customisation seen in the series to date. But I don't really play Mario Strikers for football, in the same way I don't really play Rocket League for football either. I play Strikers - or I did, back on Wii - because it was a weird and very Mario version of football. To Battle League's detriment, it feels like there's less of that this time around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kbua-JuvuKI

Yep that sounds like a Mario sports game on the switch.

I want it but I'm sure it's not worth $60.....hmmmm.....

I just use the logic that Nintendo games rarely drop in price anyway so just get it whenever you want

Apparently its great and has no content, which is extremely disappointing.

Ill probably wait till Daisy is in it at the very least.

ninkendo posted...

I just use the logic that Nintendo games rarely drop in price anyway so just get it whenever you want

Tennis and Golf have both been on sale before

I miss the days when Nintendo sports games were good

masterplum posted...

Apparently its great and has no content, which is extremely disappointing.

This feels par for the course for all the recent Mario sports games, pun semi-intended.

LeonhartFour posted...

I miss the days when Nintendo sports games were good

new Mario Golf was (eventually) good, seems like even Nintendo is settling into patching their games after release so I'll probably just wait a while and keep an eye out for sales

Did Strikers ever really have much single player content to begin with? I really only remember the cups in Charged, which I think this has?

LeonhartFour posted...

I miss the days when Nintendo sports games were good

They're still good...a year after release.

HashtagSEP posted...

Did Strikers ever really have much single player content to begin with? I really only remember the cups in Charged, which I think this has?

Came in to ask the same, that would be enough for me.

I came in expecting most to be 7/10.

Yep, sounds right.

I can always excuse the Nintendo sports games for being light on content because I just play them online with friends and don't touch the solo stuff at all. I still play Mario Golf almost weekly.

Anyway, my friends and I all got this ready to play the online club thing, only to find that, in a 4 on 4 game, you can only play 2 v 2 online with each person controlling 2 characters. Quite possibly the stupidest design decision I've ever seen, and it's immediately killed all of our interest in the game considering we are a group of 4.

based on what happened with the last few Mario sports games, I think Im going to hold off on this one for a while.

They release a bunch of characters and stuff as free updates, but I never actually see any of it because Im already moved on from the game by the time the stuff comes out.

so no Strikers for me until they bring Diddy Kong back

MoogleKupo141 posted...

based on what happened with the last few Mario sports games, I think Im going to hold off on this one for a while.

They release a bunch of characters and stuff as free updates, but I never actually see any of it because Im already moved on from the game by the time the stuff comes out.

so no Strikers for me until they bring Diddy Kong back

Yeah, someone ping me when daisy is in the game