You can also earn additional rewards through in-season achievements like using Hyper Strike shots a certain amount of times or winning a set number of matches. Based on how you do in the match, you earn coins and club points. From there, any four players from an established club can hop online and compete against another Strikers Club. This online mode allows you to create or join a club with up to 20 people. The big addition for this entry is Strikers Club. Those coins can be traded in for gear with which you can customize the characters of Mario Strikers: Battle: League (more on that later).
Cup Battles serve as the game's tournament mode and appear to operate much like Mario Kart's cup series, with you unlocking more cups as you play and earning coins and other in-game rewards. Quick Battle is exactly what it sounds like: a one-off match between two teams. Players can take the field through three modes of play: Quick Battle, Cup Battles, and Strikers Club. If the Hyper Strike goes into the net, it counts for two points, giving these cinematic shots extra significance. For instance, Yoshi unleashes a massive egg that bounces around the field, squashing anyone it lands on before firing the ball towards the goal, while Bowser picks up the ball, breathes fire on it, then throws it at the net.
These Hyper Strikes play out in character-specific cutscenes, with each character possessing a distinct Hyper Strike. These shots require you to charge up, then correctly time a meter to get the shot off in its best form if you get the timing just right, the shot is unblockable, while if you mistime the meter portion of the shot, the opposing team can do a button-mashing minigame to have their goalie block it. If you manage to grab a Strike Orb, your entire team glows for a brief window, granting you the ability to perform a Hyper Strike shot. While items like Bob-ombs, Red Shells, Green Shells, Banana Peels, and Super Mushrooms litter the field over the course of a given match, the most exciting and effective pickup is the Strike Orb. However, the objective is the same at the end of the day: blast the ball past the opposing goalie more times than your opponent can before time runs out. The game featured in Mario Strikers: Battle League may look like soccer on the surface, but if anything, this is a no-holds-barred version of the most popular sport on the planet. These strike matches consist of five-on-five action – four players on the field for each team (who can be controlled by human players), with one goalie (who cannot be controlled by players) – with basically no rules to govern the Nintendo athletes players can tackle each other with no regard for safety, use items to temporarily incapacitate opponents, push each other into the electric fence that surrounds the field, and even pick up the ball with their hands. Players once again step onto a fantastical field of play to compete in a soccer-like sport called strike. While it has certainly been a long wait for fans of the GameCube and Wii entries, the more than 30 minutes of live gameplay I saw indicates that Mario Strikers: Battle League is worth the wait.Īs you might expect, Mario Strikers: Battle League carries forward many of the franchise's conventions. Just two years after the launch of that first game, Mario Strikers Charged launched on Wii, but that's the last we heard of the Mario Strikers franchise until earlier this year when Nintendo announced a new title for Switch, Mario Strikers: Battle League.
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However, in the time since that original launch, the series has only seen one additional title hit store shelves. First debuting in 2005 on Nintendo's GameCube, the Mario Strikers series has developed a cult fan base over the last 17 years.
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