YMMV / Mario Sports Superstars

• Awesome Music: The game has some nice music in the Baseball/Tennis/Golf modes, courtesy of Motoi Sakuraba, the composer of the Mario Tennis/Golf games (and Golden Sun, Tales, Star Ocean, Dark Souls, among others).
• Broken Base: This game is one of the most controversial Mario sports games among fans for a variety of reasons that some do mind while others do not; namely, its simplification of four different Mario spinoffs' gameplay, its smaller character roster (i.e. Metal Mario and Pink Gold Peach being the only unlockable characters), and the rather blatant reuse of artwork from previous titles on the amiibo trading cards included with the game.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: Probably the main complaint against this game, it is a 5-in-1 compilation of Mario Sports games (with horse racing making its series debut and with the soccer mode featured in the game being based on the real life version, making its series debut as well, instead of the Darker and Edgier Mario Strikers version), but the game modes are bare-bones instead of fully featured like the standalone games (Fake Longevity aside). That being said, the game did introduce some features in the Tennis and Golf modes that the standalone Mario Tennis Open (Rosalina, the Classic Tennis mode without Chance Shots, and the addition of the nuanced Jump Shot and Ultra Smash mechanics to the Standard mode) and Mario Golf: World Tour (online match/stroke play instead of only tournaments) lacked.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Some players mainly played for the horse racing, as it's a new event not cribbed from another spinoff (though it's loosely based off the Equestrian events in Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games).
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus. It's certainly not bad and it can be fun, but it is very short, simplistic, and without the elements and presentation that made the standalone spin-off games memorable.

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