Summer is in full swing and Nintendo and Camelot Software are serving up their next instalment in the Mario Tennis series for all to enjoy, even enlisting some famous faces to help with the advertising campaign.

It was early in my time with Mario Tennis Aces that I realized a major flaw. I was just a couple missions deep in the story based Adventure mode when I knew: The game is boring. It lacks the charm of Super Mario Odyssey or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and got very repetitive very quickly.

Tennis mechanics are fun; Large character roster

Little variety; Broken online

Sick fun and good game, best Mario Tennis late Nintendo 64. Good depth of game as well as cool single mode and also likes Online Tournament mode best! What's missing is good to unlock more in Multiplayer mode, such as new racks and the like.

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Aces' new special moves turn the casual back-and-forth into a frantic high-speed chess match, while the story mode offers an ample number of charmingly wacky challenges that help to hone your skills in the process and get you match fit for online competitions. But here’s the problem: you’re only given the option of one-off matches against friends and strangers for online. At launch there are no tournaments, no leaderboards and not even any sort of ranking system, so it’s going to be difficult to find someone on you skill level. Sure, there will be timed events that will see online tournaments become available for select days, but that’s still very inconvenient for the average player. But if you’re happy to just play through the short adventure and reserve competitive matches for your friends, then Aces is undoubtedly one of the best multiplayers on the Switch right now.

The new tennis features give matches frantic fun ; The Adventure Mode is a terrific teacher; Creative boss battles are bursting with originality;

Shallow online features; A couple of of level designs are infuriating in Adventure Mode;

The new tennis features give matches frantic fun ; The Adventure Mode is a terrific teacher; Creative boss battles are bursting with originality;

Shallow online features; A couple of of level designs are infuriating in Adventure Mode;

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