The core tennis gameplay is the best it's ever been here, it does get a little confusing to follow sometimes but that's just me not bothering to put more time into learning it.

This game suffers from a lack of content past the story mode and core base game, the nature of these kind of games just leads to them getting stale after a while.

The story mode has it's moments and it's cool having boss fights and a world map. Some of the challenges even asks a bit more of the player with some puzzles which was sometimes pretty cool, other times frustrating. As a Golden Sun fan this stuff just has me imagining how a current gen revival of that series would look
It does however have an abysmal difficulty curve with some of the opponents and challenges having downright broken AI.

Reviewed on Mar 15, 2024


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2 months ago

Would you say it's better than Mario Power Tennis on Wii?
I remember playing that game back then with the racket wii controller and it was hella fun (but damn it was exhausting swinging your arm around for hours 😅)
@armakeen
I like the core fundamental Aces gameplay alot more since the extra mechanics it adds does make the game feel a lot more strategic and fierce. The adventure mode like I said is cool but it's let down by a lot of BS, repetitiveness and unfair AI the more you progress.

However Mario Power Tennis had more variety with its modes and much better and unique courts which spruce up variety more for matches.

I guess it depends on what's more important for you