Overall 9 Graphics 7.6 Sound 8.1 Addictive 8.9 Story 6 Depth 7.3 Difficulty 5.9
8.5
This game is ACE! RedHotToddy
I wasn't always the kind of guy to play tennis, I mean back then I was more of a basketball kind of guy, But after playing Mario tennis for the N64, I had had the biggest tennis addiction, I play it at the contra Costa college, I play it with friends, and so on. So what was my opinion on this amazing tennis game for the N64? You are about to find out, because this is Mario tennis for the N64!
Story-N/A
There is no real story here, but here is one I just made up out of enjoyment! The mushroom is holding up a big tennis tournament, And Mario and all of his friends are invited! Who will take home the trophy! That's for you to find out!
Gameplay-8/10
Mario tennis is well, a tennis game, and there are a bunch of modes for you to play in! I will break down the modes one by one, First is the single player mode where you can the game just by yourself, The modes here are pretty simple, you can play an exhibition match with a computer player, or better you can play doubles mode where you and another partner take down the opposing team! There is a tournament mode where you can play through a series of matches in order to win the tournament, and well that is all I can explain for the single player! As for the multiplayer, you can play everything from the single player with friends! Exhibition, special games, etc. The controls are pretty simple for a tennis game, You control your character's movements by tilting the control stick, you press A to hit the ball when it is near you, and you can press all these other face buttons to do special stuff like lobbing, drop shots, etc. special serves, etc. There are a bunch of characters from the Mario universe to unlock and some are there from the outset, these guys include Mario, Luigi, peach, yoshi, bowser, Donkey Kong junior, and so on. Anyways, that is pretty much it for the gameplay.
Graphics-8/10
This game was released quite later in the N64's life span, 2000 that is, and at the time, this game look pretty good to say the least! All the courts and such are very wacky and have alot going on which makes them an absolute blast to play on, now as for the characters, they look pretty good as well! Mario looks nice, Luigi looks good,and so on...heck the game even has some underrated characters like Donkey Kong Junior! The HUD in each match is pretty self explanatory to say the least, when the match is over that is, And once it is, It shows you how much games you won, some other stuff, and your overall score for the match. This is probably the best looking tennis game that I have played in a while!
Sound-7/10
There is not a whole lot to the sound, but for what it is worth, It is OK! All the songs in each of the courts really fit the levels real well, But one thing though is that there are 5 or so different songs depending on where the match is currently boiled down to, For example, there is a tiebreak song, there is a match point song, and so on. As for the sound effects, they are your standard fare, One of the sounds you will be hearing the most is the sound of your characters slamming their tennis rackets, Oh yeah, each court in the game also has a song for when you win and for when you lo-OH Wait! That is not proved until Mario power tennis, I forgot!
Addictiveness-8/10
This game can actually grow on you after a while! And here are some reasons why, First off is the multplayer, and boy is it a blast! I enjoyed having my friends over at my place on the weekends playing some old fashioned tennis, Mario tennis, and second is the game in general! It has a very appealing feel to it that you don't get in other tennis games, which is quite awesome! Other tennis games I know are just, well, tennis!
Depth-9/10
Oh man does this game offer alot of stuff to do! I mean first off, the game does have alot of game modes besides the multiplayer! First off, the game has a transfer thingy where if you Mario tennis for Game boy color, then you can connect to this one to get exclusive characters from the original! And second, yeah, the multiplayer has a tons of stuff for you and your friends to do, exhibition matches, special games, etc. Yeah, this is quite big for a tennis game! Don't you guys agree?
Difficulty-5/10
The game isn't really that hard, except some of those matches in the tournaments can be extremely hard! Dang you star cup! And when playing exhibiton you can adjust the difficulty of your opponents from novice to max, max being the hardest!
Overall-8.5/10
If you want an excellent tennis game, then look no forward then this one! I mean seriously! What is not to like about this game? It has fun, charm, challenge, and a bunch of other things to do! So that is why I gave the game an 8.5! This has been my 97th review, and I will be back later with my 98th!
Graphics 8 Sound 7 Addictive 8 Depth 9 Difficulty 5
Review Rating: 5/5
Submitted: 08-14-13
Review Replies: 2
9.5
Mario Federer versus Koopa Nadal EX Palen
I'm sure I'm not the only one who discovered this game because of its Gamecube sequel, Mario Power Tennis. I didn't get to play any N64 games in real life, but the ones I've played have hardly disappointed me. For example, this one.
Overall, I have to say I'm impressed with this game, because it has some better things than its sequel, although it also has its flaws that the sequel managed to dispel. But let's stop comparing older generations to newer generations.
Graphics: The graphics are good. The characters may look as Porygons, as in any other Mario game for this console, but still look somewhat stylized compared to what I remember from the PSX I used to own. The courts design is fairly good, specially the grass, hard and clay courts that can perfectly pass as being the central court of a real life Grand Slam. I give graphics a 9 for this.
Sound: Well, what to expect from the ones that created the background songs for F-Zero, The Legend of Zelda and the first Mario Bros games. It won't be remembered as epic, but still not disappointing. About the in-game sounds, nothing much to say either, save for the worse flaw I see in this game. The sound a character emits when the point is already lost (for example, if you fail to smash a lob), but the ball is still bouncing (so technically the point is not over yet), could perfectly be omitted and nobody would have ever complained about it. For this flaw, sound misses the 10 and instead gets a 9.
Addictiveness: One of the most addictive games my brain remembers. Even when you have completed all tournaments, and they're not few, you still have way to go. The main thing is the face-to-face records, this means, playing against all other players in all game modes. Completing that score table can take even more than completing the tournaments, depending on the settings (and I would choose five-sets six-games, as a Grand Slam). For everything this game has to offer to keep you playing it, addictiveness gets a well deserved 10.
Story: Nothing to say in here. The main goal of the game is to just win all tournaments with all characters, with no purpose whatsoever.
Depth: Here is when the fun begins. Allow me to include some math in here so you can get a glimpse of how deep this game is. First of all, 14 characters, 2 more unlockable, 12 cups to beat (6 in singles and 6 in doubles). Adding the fact that each cup holds 3 matches, completing all cups with all players needs... 576 matches! Just to let you know, as of 6 September 2013, the current world number one, Novak Djokovic, has yet to win that many matches in his career (still more than 50 to go). If we keep adding, the score table mentioned above, playing in normal mode, gives you 240 more matches, elevating to 816 the number of wins needed (if you don't lose any match, because then the number can increase a lot more). Another real life fact: Pete Sampras, one of the best players in all history, in all his career, didn't achieve 800 victories. No wonder now why depth has earned a 10.
Difficulty: Difficulty is the weakest part, aside from story, which this game has none behind it. The controls are easy to master: five types of shot that are performed with different combinations of two buttons. Maybe, if you come from Mario Power Tennis as I do, you will have trouble with 3 things. The first is that you have to be much closer to the ball in order to hit it, the second is that shots or serves can easily go out or to the net due to excessive direction or lack of power, and the third one is that taming the serve to serve in the highest speed the character can achieve is harder. Also, when charging a shot, the character doesn't move as much, meaning this game is more dynamic and realistic than its sequel. It also lacks the superpowers, which makes points much shorter due to the inability to save impossible balls. We could say is somehow hard to play, but it's not hard to learn nor the controls are irritating, so a low rating of 6 for difficulty.
Summarizing, an addictive game that can take long to fully complete. Maybe I should change those words, because they can summarize almost any Mario game released so far!
Graphics 9 Sound 9 Addictive 10 Depth 10 Difficulty 6
Review Rating: 4.8/5
Submitted: 09-05-13
Updated: 02-07-14
Review Replies: 3
8.9
Mario tennis review for n64 SuperCrash64
Well you know in the early days. The Mario series or Mario bros series originally started out as a 1983 arcade game which was on e of those main games. we,re you would play as someone avoid and kill enemies until your character dies in a game over and you get the highest score as possible. Then the mario series started having a point during the classic nes days. we,re it had Mario bros 1 2 and 3. I guess Nintendo decided to make mario go through , some other stuff that really didnt invovle the mario series that much such as tennis driving golf and alot of other stuff that Nintendo would try out with The mario series. but those were the main ones that were sucessful
As some of you may know. Mario tennis didnt have a good start off for 3 reasons. reason 1 it was on the horrible unfinshed virtual boy which was just suckish. reason 2 the game s hit decetetion was really awful most of the time, you could just barely get any points . reason 3 being it brought nothing new. infact it was just mainly tennis with mario characters no new gameplay or exciting features that, the newer mario tennis games seemed to offer. After that horrible experenice on Virtual boy Nintendo tried to remake this game on The Game boy color. which was in terms a more pleasent experince . Then Nintendo would remake their sucessful game boy color version of Mario tennis .on the Nintendo 64,
Plot well there is a intro with mario characters . and showing off some neat gameplay footage and mario and luigi going against each other in the finals. until Wario and waluigi show up and start causing trouble. But unlike before bowser is not gonna take over the mushroom kingdom this time . Bowser is just gonna team up with boo for a freindly tennis game .
The Graphics of Mario tennis for N64. the graphics are really great alot of stages rather have the resembleance of the original game boy color. Every mario character should be recongizeable and look really good. some people might say it looks a little bad. but its understandable sense this is a old game. and 3d didnt really get all that excellent during .the time n64 and ps1 was released
My rating for graphics . 9 the 3d effects are very common and look great for a old title even to this day
Sound the main Soundtrack is an upgrade of the Game boy color version of mario tennis which is a nice feature I am really glad Nntendo decided to upgrade the soundtrack . There are a plenty variety of sound effects. but most of them happen when you make a score or dont make a score. Sound gets 10 rating from me
Addictiveness I enjoyed the heck out of this game. I played all the time back then when using the Pj64 emulator. All actions just really make the game feel alive and great. Addictiveness gets a 10 really addicting game
Story while i did mention a plot intro eariler . i really dont see an actual storyline of this game. because you mainly just pick a character go through a tournament. and win a trophy. So that being said im gonna leave story rankings blank
Depth there are about 5.features of this game if i can recall correctly. 1 would be match mode ,2 would be tournament doubles or singles., 3 would be Phriana challenge where you get a lot of points. depending on how many balls you get in. and how many the phriana shoots. 4 ring challenge you basically team up with a tennis character and break their record and move on. 5 Bowser stage. this is not a normal bowser stage . this happened to be my favorite feature. Its kind of like a mario kart and mario tennis mix up. in a crazy element. So whenever i played the game i would always choose bowsers stage do to that reason. Depth gets a 7 pretty long game with neat features to check out.
Difficulty its dependant on which mode you play as so ill keep this ai based. As fair as the Ai its self its a bit too easy for me.
i always ended up getting a upper hand without even trying . so the ai is pretty easy. Difficulty gets a 2
Overall ratings ,8.9 its a good title and one of the better ones i have played
Graphics 9 Sound 10 Addictive 10 Depth 7 Difficulty 2
Review Rating: 4.7/5
Submitted: 03-07-13
Updated: 03-07-13
Review Replies: 2