Mario Sports Superstars

Mario Sports Superstars is a sports video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS handheld video game console. The game contains five sports minigames, football, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing, and was released worldwide in March 2017.[2][3]

Mario Sports Superstars[1]
International cover art, featuring the game's playable sports and some of the playable characters.
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Director(s)
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Designer(s)
Programmer(s)
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Composer(s)
SeriesMario sports
Platform(s)Nintendo 3DS
Release
  • EU: March 10, 2017
  • AU: March 11, 2017
  • NA: March 24, 2017
  • JP: March 30, 2017
Genre(s)Sports
Mode(s)Single-player, multiplayer

Gameplay

The game consists of five sports – football, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing.[4] Despite the number of sports contained, they are not mini-games, but rather, full-scale recreations of each sport.[5] For example, the soccer part of the game contains eleven versus eleven gameplay, the same as is standard in the sport.[6] Each individual sport contains single player tournaments, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer game modes.[6]

Development

The game was first announced during a Nintendo Direct on September 1, 2016.[7] Despite Nintendo's ownership of the Mario franchise, the title was co-developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Camelot Software Planning, with the latter having developed games in the Mario Golf and Mario Tennis series.[8][9] While Nintendo's Mario Sports line has featured stand-alone entries in soccer (Mario Strikers), baseball (Mario Super Sluggers), tennis (Mario Tennis) and golf (Mario Golf), they had never featured horse racing, or compiled all these sports into one compilation.[10] Additionally, all of the sports except tennis had previously been featured in minigames in the Mario Party series. The game was released worldwide in March 2017.[2] As with Camelot's previous Mario sports titles, the soundtrack was written and arranged by Motoi Sakuraba.[11]

Reception

Mario Sports Superstars received mixed reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.[12] Destructoid called it a "lazy experience, one developed solely for the purpose of selling what are basically Mario-branded Topps cards."[13] Nintendo Life stated though that as a single player experience, it was "totally functional yet painfully lifeless".[14] By May 2017, the game had sold over 92,829 copies in Japan.[15]

References
  1. Bandai Namco Studios, Camelot Software Planning, Nintendo Entertainment Planning & Development (March 10, 2017). Mario Sports Superstars. Nintendo. Scene: Staff Credits. Bandai Namco / General Director: Naohiro Hayashi [...] Programming Director: Sangbae Nam / Art Director: Takanori Ikezawa [...] Producer: Fumihiro Suzuki [...] Camelot / Game Design Lead: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Shugo Takahashi / Director: Shugo Takahashi / Art Director: Satoshi Tamai [...] Game Design: Norisumi Osawa, Syota Iwadate / Programming Lead: Haruki Kodera, Yutaka Yamamoto / Producers: Hiroyuki Takahashi, Shugo Takahashi [...] Music: Motoi Sakuraba / Nintendo [...] Producers: Toshiharu Izuno, Shinya Saito, Keisuke Terasaki, Toyokazu NonakaCS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  2. Romano, Sal. "Mario Sports Superstars launches March 24 in North America". Gematsu. Retrieved 24 January 2017.
  3. Jason, Ganos. "Mario Sports Superstars launches in Japan on March 30th". Nintendo Wire. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  4. Makuch, Eddie (2016-09-01). "New 3DS Mario Sports Game Announced, Looks Pretty Fun". GameSpot. GameSpot. Archived from the original on 2016-09-04. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  5. Crecente, Brian (2016-09-01). "Mario Sports Superstars coming to 3DS next spring". Polygon. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  6. Marchiafava, Jeff (2016-09-01). "Mario Sports Superstars Combines Five Sports In One Handheld Package - News". GameInformer.com. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  7. Goldfarb, Andrew (2016-09-01). "Mario Sports Superstars Announced for 3DS". IGN. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  8. McFerran, Damien (2016-09-05). "Mario Sports Superstars Is A Collaboration Between Camelot And Bandai Namco". Nintendo Life. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  9. von Benjamin Jakobs Ver (2016-09-05). "Mario Sports Superstars: Camelot und Bandai Namco arbeiten daran •". Eurogamer.de. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  10. Fahey, Mike (2016-09-01). "Mario Sports Superstars Is All The Mario Sports". Kotaku.com. Archived from the original on 2016-09-02. Retrieved 2017-01-05.
  11. Greening, Chris. "Motoi Sakuraba scores Mario Sports Superstars". Video Game Music Online. Retrieved 12 March 2017.
  12. "Mario Sports Superstars Metacritic Listing". Metacritic. March 24, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  13. Andriessen, CJ (March 31, 2017). "Review: Mario Sports Superstars". Destructoid. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  14. McMahon, Conor (March 8, 2017). "Review: Mario Sports Superstars". Nintendo Life. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
  15. Romano, Sal (May 24, 2017). "Media Create Sales: 5/15/17 – 5/21/17". Gematsu. Retrieved May 25, 2017.
Notes
  1. Part of the Bandai Namco Studios team.
  2. Part of the Camelot Software Planning team.
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