Post by Slime on Sept 3, 2008 0:06:04 GMT -5
Alright I picked this up because for some reason, I've built up some interest in baseball which I didn't have before probably due to just constantly watching it on TV nowadays. Was and still a pro football guy, started to expand my interest into college football. Then came in my NBA interest and now expanding to Baseball. The only downfall? Maybe with the exception of the Golden State Warriors, all the other teams in my area are garbage.
Anyways... IGN and GameSpot ripped this game for being less than or the same as Mario Superstar Baseball for the GameCube, but I didn't owned a GameCube so I'm starting this clean.
It's a fun little game with it's quirks like any other Mario sports game while also
ntaining the basic fundamentals of the game. Quirks include special pitches, items, chemistry and others. Each pitch, hit, or fielding will fill up a small gauge and once it fills up to a level your captain of the team can do a special pitch, the bar must fill up to 2 levels for anyone else. Some players will have better chemistry and if two characters have great chemistry, you can do some special plays such as using items to attack the fielders, interrupting their timing or hop on one another to rob a homerun. Different stadiums also have different quirks built in such as getting frozen in Peach's stadium or rolling barrels on DK's stadium.
Even with the quirks, the thing that is holding the game back is because of the substance or lack of substance. Sluggers even lacked what Wii Sports had and it is the speed of your pitches depending how hard or how fast you flick your Wii Remote. Sluggers really only contain two pitches, a fastball and a curveball that Nintendo likes to call a changeup, but the game will tell you it has three pitches. One pitch you would throw like a fastball, but you could move it left or right turning it into a slider which the game would call a curveball. Game also lacks a real baseball mode other than exhibition, something like a season mode or something would've been nice I guess. Sluggers has a challenge mode where you start out as Mario and you complete missions to build up your team, unlock characters to defeat Bowser in a baseball game, basic Mario stuff. Problem here? The missions are repetitive, where there are some duplicate missions I haven't gone through the entire challenge mode yet, so I'm not sure if there are different missions to go through.
There's also a toy field and minigames for you to play, I haven't unlocked all the minigames, but the minigames I unlocked so far has been decent at best.
It's not all bad. Regular baseball is still fun, and there is a large amount of characters to select from. Another problem here, not a big one but they could've added a different characters instead of the baby versions of other characters such as baby Mario, Luigi, Peach etc. For some reason, I'm annoyed that they keep adding baby Mario, baby Luigi, but I'm not annoyed with someone like Boo and King Boo or a Goomba and a ParaGoomba or a Toad, Toadette, and a Toadsworth. Could've used up one slot for Mario and baby Mario etc like how they used Yoshi, Toad etc where there are like 5 different colors of Yoshi, but they only take up one slot and you can change the color of the Yoshi by pressing a button. Should've added someone like bomb-omb and blow up when it strikes out.
Buy or Rent this game? Theres isn't wifi so if you don't have a lot of parties at your place or something, you're pretty much out of luck with multiplayer. I'm somewhat of a solo guy so I don't have much problem here. Fun game if you're just looking for baseball and maybe some mini games to break from the regular game once in a while. If you're considering the game, but not sure about, I'd suggest renting it or buy it when it's cheaper.
Anyways... IGN and GameSpot ripped this game for being less than or the same as Mario Superstar Baseball for the GameCube, but I didn't owned a GameCube so I'm starting this clean.
It's a fun little game with it's quirks like any other Mario sports game while also
ntaining the basic fundamentals of the game. Quirks include special pitches, items, chemistry and others. Each pitch, hit, or fielding will fill up a small gauge and once it fills up to a level your captain of the team can do a special pitch, the bar must fill up to 2 levels for anyone else. Some players will have better chemistry and if two characters have great chemistry, you can do some special plays such as using items to attack the fielders, interrupting their timing or hop on one another to rob a homerun. Different stadiums also have different quirks built in such as getting frozen in Peach's stadium or rolling barrels on DK's stadium.Even with the quirks, the thing that is holding the game back is because of the substance or lack of substance. Sluggers even lacked what Wii Sports had and it is the speed of your pitches depending how hard or how fast you flick your Wii Remote. Sluggers really only contain two pitches, a fastball and a curveball that Nintendo likes to call a changeup, but the game will tell you it has three pitches. One pitch you would throw like a fastball, but you could move it left or right turning it into a slider which the game would call a curveball. Game also lacks a real baseball mode other than exhibition, something like a season mode or something would've been nice I guess. Sluggers has a challenge mode where you start out as Mario and you complete missions to build up your team, unlock characters to defeat Bowser in a baseball game, basic Mario stuff. Problem here? The missions are repetitive, where there are some duplicate missions I haven't gone through the entire challenge mode yet, so I'm not sure if there are different missions to go through.
There's also a toy field and minigames for you to play, I haven't unlocked all the minigames, but the minigames I unlocked so far has been decent at best.
It's not all bad. Regular baseball is still fun, and there is a large amount of characters to select from. Another problem here, not a big one but they could've added a different characters instead of the baby versions of other characters such as baby Mario, Luigi, Peach etc. For some reason, I'm annoyed that they keep adding baby Mario, baby Luigi, but I'm not annoyed with someone like Boo and King Boo or a Goomba and a ParaGoomba or a Toad, Toadette, and a Toadsworth. Could've used up one slot for Mario and baby Mario etc like how they used Yoshi, Toad etc where there are like 5 different colors of Yoshi, but they only take up one slot and you can change the color of the Yoshi by pressing a button. Should've added someone like bomb-omb and blow up when it strikes out.
Buy or Rent this game? Theres isn't wifi so if you don't have a lot of parties at your place or something, you're pretty much out of luck with multiplayer. I'm somewhat of a solo guy so I don't have much problem here. Fun game if you're just looking for baseball and maybe some mini games to break from the regular game once in a while. If you're considering the game, but not sure about, I'd suggest renting it or buy it when it's cheaper.
She's a whole lot more interesting to me then Toadstool/Peach ever was.
