If I was still a kid with a neighbor who'd come over all the time to play Mario sports games, I think this one would rock. But I'm not really able to have experiences like that anymore, so this is just a $60 regret to me.

I think this game is a good argument for Nintendo to include a Game Pass-like subscription service in their online program. It's a very good game; I can't ask my friends to drop $60 on a Mario sports game, but it would be fun to play online with them once in awhile. It'd be like having those days as a kid back again, going over to my neighbor's house to play Mario Baseball.

An incredibly fun game at its core that, at this point, has a fine number of features and options. But boy, does this game's menus make it difficult to find those options.

The main menu is bloated and confusing - Ring Shot has its own mode, but playing any of the other minigames requires hopping into Adventure mode and enduring a sluggish load time, or clicking into Co-op Challenge and selecting how many players before even knowing what game is currently on offer. Meanwhile, Swing Mode seems downright non-functional, despite other Switch games handling motion controls well.

Ultimately though, this is the best Mario Tennis has ever felt, close matches are exhilarating, and the online tournaments are still reasonably active.

As a fan of realistic simulation tennis games, I've steered clear of the Mario Tennis series' arcadey take for years, until now. To my surprise, the core gameplay here is very enjoyable in the normal, gimmick-free matches. The power-ups are neat additions to the regulation rules of the sport, and make for a unique and fun experience that I didn't expect to like so much. This is still very much tennis, just Nintendofied. There were a lot of complaints about the lack of content with Aces, but when the core gameplay is so fun, and the online multiplayer is functioning and alive even almost three years later, I don't think any more than what's here would have been necessary, if it was all good.

That being said, all of the novelty modes are trash. Adventure Mode's gimmicky levels, courts, and especially bosses were all a slog to play through, even if it only lasted four hours. Swing Mode, where you use the joy-cons motion controls to control your racket, is terrible and never correctly registered my movements. Ring Shot is a mode where you rally with, or against, an an AI or friend to hit the ball through rings in the middle of the court, and it's just not that engaging past your first round. Co-op Challenge is a selection of minigames only playable in Swing Mode, and considering what I said about Swing Mode earlier, you can imagine how good the minigames are.

In the end, the core gameplay is all Mario Tennis Aces has going for it, and honestly, that's all I'm really looking for here since it's so fun. Sports games are my comfort games. I can always rely on them when I'm listening to a podcast, watching a stream, or I just want to kill time. Aces will make for a fine addition to those comfort games, I just wish its options for variety were a bit more compelling.

Demasiado tenis para un contenedor tan pequeño.

Pros:
- El modo aventura es desafiante y su duración sería adecuada de no ser porque es el "único" modo de juego para un jugador.
- Es completísimo en su gameplay. Jamás pensaría que un partido de tenis pudiera dar para tanto.
- Es casi la única posibilidad de jugar un partido de tenis decente en videojuegos a día de hoy.

Contras:
- Más allá del modo aventura es un yermo.
- Las pruebas del modo aventura siguen una estructura demasiado repetitiva.
- Más diferencias entre cada personaje, añadiendo habilidades propias por ejemplo, le habría dado un plus de originalidad.