(Super Mario Stadium Miracle Baseball to give it it's full awkward name)
Game works and saves fine with freeloader (a relief from Namco given the Konga issues), and starts off impressing with a meaty intro sequence and a plentiful menu; an exhibition mode, a decent training mode, a separate minigame section with 5 games (plus 2 unlockable) on 4 difficulties, and a dictionary - not much use to me.
The meat of it is the challenge mode where you pick a team and wander around a world map between different stadia, playing minigames and buying stuff. You'll face certain challenges in each game (stop someone getting a single hit etc) to unlock other characters to be selectable for your team.
The game mechanics work pretty well, pitching and batting have a good 'feel' to them and are good fun, fielding and base running less so. Unfortunately the stop-start nature of baseball isn't really softened here and this can get pretty frustrating - annoying even.
A good range of selectable players from the mario universe, with 12 main players with their own teams, comprising of many others. Unfortunately Nintendo may have shot themselves in the foot by banging on about over 50 characters as there're only actually 32 (6 unlockable) but they were including colour variations...
Overall, still feeling a bit undecided over this, verging on meh. Having a lot more fun with mario DDR to be honest
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bbw
Game works and saves fine with freeloader (a relief from Namco given the Konga issues), and starts off impressing with a meaty intro sequence and a plentiful menu; an exhibition mode, a decent training mode, a separate minigame section with 5 games (plus 2 unlockable) on 4 difficulties, and a dictionary - not much use to me.
The meat of it is the challenge mode where you pick a team and wander around a world map between different stadia, playing minigames and buying stuff. You'll face certain challenges in each game (stop someone getting a single hit etc) to unlock other characters to be selectable for your team.
The game mechanics work pretty well, pitching and batting have a good 'feel' to them and are good fun, fielding and base running less so. Unfortunately the stop-start nature of baseball isn't really softened here and this can get pretty frustrating - annoying even.
A good range of selectable players from the mario universe, with 12 main players with their own teams, comprising of many others. Unfortunately Nintendo may have shot themselves in the foot by banging on about over 50 characters as there're only actually 32 (6 unlockable) but they were including colour variations...
Overall, still feeling a bit undecided over this, verging on meh. Having a lot more fun with mario DDR to be honest
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bbw
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