Mario Sports Superstars | |
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![]() Promotional art, showcasing some of the game's playable sports and characters | |
Developer(s) | |
Publisher(s) | Nintendo |
Composer(s) | Motoi Sakuraba |
Series | Mario Sports |
Platform(s) | Nintendo 3DS |
Release | |
Genre(s) | Sports |
Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
Mario Sports Superstars is a 2017 sports video game developed by Bandai Namco Studios and Camelot Software Planning and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS. The game contains five different sports: association football (soccer), baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing.
The game consists of five sports – association football (soccer), baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing. [1] Despite the number of sports contained, they are not mini-games, but rather, full-scale recreations of each sport. [2] For example, the soccer part of the game contains eleven versus eleven gameplay, the same as is standard in the sport. [3] Each individual sport contains single player tournaments, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer game modes. [3]
The game was first announced during a Nintendo Direct on September 1, 2016. [4] 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. [5] [6] tri-Crescendo assisted on design. [7] 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. [8] The game was released in PAL regions on March 10, 2017, in North America on March 24, 2017, and in Japan on March 30, 2017. [9] As with Camelot's previous Mario sports games, the soundtrack was written by Motoi Sakuraba. [10]
Aggregator | Score |
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Metacritic | 62/100 [11] |
Publication | Score |
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Destructoid | 5/10 [12] |
Game Informer | 6.5/10 [13] |
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Nintendo World Report | 5.5/10 [15] |
Mario Sports Superstars received mixed reviews. According to review aggregator Metacritic, the game had an average score of 62/100, based on 45 critic reviews. [16] Destructoid called it a "lazy experience, one developed solely for the purpose of selling what are basically Mario-branded Topps cards." [17] Nintendo Life stated that while the game offered five games in one it failed to offer a definitive version of anything adding that "as a multiplayer title it could be fun to climb the ranks online, but as a single player experience it's totally functional yet painfully lifeless." concluding that "Sports Superstars laid out the groundwork, but just needed to take a few more risks". [18]
By May 2017, the game had sold over 92,829 copies in Japan. [19]