Mario Tennis Open game quickie

                                  

Hello everyone and welcome back to my blog and today's game quickie is Mario Tennis Open for the 3DS.

To anyone who has played any Mario Tennis game will feel right at home, and for any newcomers, the game is very easy to pick up and quite addicting. Now there really Isn't a story mode here per say, but there are a total of 5 modes to play from but two of them are from multiplayer. The modes include: Tournament, exhibition, special games, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer.

Gyro view

Tournament and exhibition modes are practically the same. All it is, is you against the computer except in tournament mode, the CPU gets a bit harder as you progress while in exhibition, you can set the difficulty. Nothing really special here but it does teach you about the Gyro sensors and tells you how to utilize it or disable it. I personally disabled it because it wasn't that great, plus I like the overview or bird eye better :) 

Ring Shot

Super Mario Tennis

Galaxy Rally

The Special games is where it gets interesting and fun! There are 4 (I guess you can call them) mini-games which are: Ring Shot, Super Mario Tennis, Galaxy Rally, and Ink Showdown. In each of these games, they give you a certain task and as you complete each one, it'll get only a little bit harder. This is where you earn coins to spend in the shop but I'll explain that later. My personal favorite is the Galaxy Rally only because it's the easiest and fastest way of
earning more coins. 

Ink Showdown

Ok so the single player is great, but how's multiplayer?



It is AMAZING!!! I'm talking about online multiplayer here because I don't know anyone else that has Mario Tennis Open :'( but from what I've read and seen, it's pretty much like exhibition mode where you customize the game to your liking. Now getting back to the online multiplayer, You can either choose one of the characters from the game or use your Mii. When you use your Mii, you can customize him/her with the items that the Toads sell in the shop. This is where you spend those coins I was talking about.

Japanese version (couldn't find English version. sorry!!)

You can customize your Mii to your liking with experimenting with the items. Are you a tricky kind of person? or are you more into power? You can buy the items that you want to get your Mii to where you want it.

When you play online you can choose from either quick, extended, or either. The quick one is the first person to get to 7 points wins (8 if you are tied with your opponent at 6-6 because you need to win by 2 points) and the extended is a "best of three one-set match." Either.....well its either a quick game or extended :)

When you beat your opponent in an online game, you get a medal of the opponents Mii. This allows you to see who you have beaten and vice versa. Also you can unlock characters and costumes to use on you Mii through playing the game both online and offline.

Overall the game is really fun and is worth looking into. If you liked the other Mario Tennis games, then you'll most likely enjoy this one and is worth getting but, if you haven't played any Mario Tennis game (or any type of tennis game for that matter) then maybe look at some gameplay <---(click it to see a review on it) if you're not too sure about it.

I give this game 7/10 because.......well because it's tennis LOL but seriously its a good game and the multiplayer will have you hooked for a couple of days. Thank you for taking your time to read my game quickie and have an awesome day!!!   :)