Mario Super Sluggers - the surprise hit of the Summer?
WiiFolder has the first video footage of the Japanese version of Mario Super Sluggers - coming out under the moniker of Super Mario Stadium: Family Baseball in the East in two weeks, and due to hit the US sometime this summer.
And, considering I wasn’t a big fan of Mario Superstar Baseball on the GameCube, I’m somewhat surprised to say that it looks pretty damn good. Rather than the boring Pianta teams of that game, it looks like there’s a whole host of Mushroom Kingdom characters to pick from, with the remote-based control scheme likely to make it play like (wait for it) a whole new ball game.
It looks nice too - with more than a hint of Mario Super Strikers about the visual treatment. And there’s a challenge mode which features a set of minigames to bolster the main rounders-lite action. And the power-ups look interesting, too - here’s hoping they don’t appear too frequently so as to unbalance the central mechanics.
No word on a UK release yet. I’ll fire a quick e-mither to Nintendo UK. My guess for the reply: “We’ve not announced anything as yet”. Tune in later to see if I’m right, readers.
UPDATE: I was wrong. “No plans at the moment”, apparently. So there you go.
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