Nayu's Gaming Time #20 Mario Tennis Aces review

This is the first game I got with my game rental subscription through Boomerang: this isn't a sponsored post, just a game review. I feel blessed to have come across this rental service because it is helping me try games I want to try, without wasting money if I don't like them. 

I really wanted to like Mario Tennis Aces. I absolutely adore how cute Peach, Toadette and Rosaline are. They are characters made for me: cute, flying, pink (Rosline's colour suits her) and pretty. They make me smile whenever I played with them, and I didn't want to stop. 

Peach is a pro, except for when I play as her (pic found online)

I even liked the concept of the game: I liked how the different levels varied in how you needed to hit the ball. That's where my joy ended. Mario certainly made me hate him even more when he pretty much told Daisy and Peach that they couldn't go with him because they were more diplomatic than fighters. Seriously? He seriously said that in this day and age of girl power? Grrr! There were other ways to make it only Mario and Toad as the initial players (which I didn't like). 

This is the screen when I lost. I couldn't be mad because I made my opponant Toadette!

I sucked at the game big time. It didn't matter in the non adventure mode, where I could game and focus on just hitting the ball. But the story mode is such an integral aspect of the game. It wants you to do all the special tricks, which you aren't drip fed but told all of them in a row, and my fatigue fuddled brain couldn't take in all of the differences between the balls. Even when I improved a smidge I still wasn't happy. I couldn't face spending hours trying to hit the ball the right way. It's not like Mario Kart where it doesn't matter if you go a bit wrong, you simply keep racing on the track. Hitting a tiny object every single time it appears is harder than it sounds. It simply wasn't enjoyable. 

I fell in love with Rosalina for flying, and her star friends which get used in her special shots (pic found online)

So if I ever won a copy, I would keep it for the fun of playing as my 3 favourite girls. I would buy a copy if it got super cheap (like that'll ever happen, this is a Nintendo game which are notorious for not having price drops that often), otherwise I'll pass. 

This is exactly why I'm enjoying my Boomerang subscription (the link isn't sponsored): I'm able to try games I like the sound of but am not too sure on, that way I don't have to waste a load of money on something I don't like. I wasn't alone with finding Mario Tennis Aces tricky - found someone on Twitter who had similar issues. I am going to try all the other Mario sports games, to see if I like them. I love the girls, and want to play as them (they don't always wear their dresses in Mario Kart, which I do have), just in a game I enjoy all of it. 

I'm sorry I'm not continuing just yet with your awesomeness Toadette! (Pic found online)