be the best of friends. But when Square Enix tried to split their games between the PS one and N64, Nintendo was too jealous to share and they ended up falling o...
be the best of friends. But when Square Enix tried to split their games between the PS one and N64, Nintendo was too jealous to share and they ended up falling o...
be the best of friends. But when Square Enix tried to split their games between the PS one and N64, Nintendo was too jealous to share and they ended up falling out - a friendship only renewed in the last few years. There can be few that imagined that one of the first new games to evolve out of the partnership would be a basketball sim featuring both the usual Mushroom Kingdom suspects and Final Fantasy characters (White Mage, Black Mage, Ninja, Cactuar and Moogle). The result is even more bizarre than most Mario sports games, but only slightly less entertaining. To its credit, the game makes more use of the touch screen than most on the DS, with all the actions bar movement achieved using the stylus (although the basics can be replicated using the face buttons if you want to be boring). Your character dribbles the ball automatically but you can speed them up by tapping the screen and throws are managed simply by drawing the stylus in a straight line. A surprisingly subtle amount of control can be achieved, including several kinds of trick shots and even swapping hands when playing defense. A variety of special courts also complicate things with coins collected along the way adding to your score when shooting. Indeed the whole game works so well that the only real problem is the mechanical enemy artificial intelligence. It's therefore a real shame that playing multiplayer requires both people to own a cartridge each, although that's undoubtedly a result of the game's superb graphics which go well above the call of duty for a simple sports game. HARRISON DENT
be the best of friends. But when Square Enix tried to split their games between the PS one and N64, Nintendo was too jealous to share and they ended up falling out - a friendship only renewed in the last few years. There can be few that imagined that one of the first new games to evolve out of the partnership would be a basketball sim featuring both the usual Mushroom Kingdom suspects and Final Fantasy characters (White Mage, Black Mage, Ninja, Cactuar and Moogle). The result is even more bizarre than most Mario sports games, but only slightly less entertaining. To its credit, the game makes more use of the touch screen than most on the DS, with all the actions bar movement achieved using the stylus (although the basics can be replicated using the face buttons if you want to be boring). Your character dribbles the ball automatically but you can speed them up by tapping the screen and throws are managed simply by drawing the stylus in a straight line. A surprisingly subtle amount of control can be achieved, including several kinds of trick shots and even swapping hands when playing defense. A variety of special courts also complicate things with coins collected along the way adding to your score when shooting. Indeed the whole game works so well that the only real problem is the mechanical enemy artificial intelligence. It's therefore a real shame that playing multiplayer requires both people to own a cartridge each, although that's undoubtedly a result of the game's superb graphics which go well above the call of duty for a simple sports game. HARRISON DENT
Advantages: Innovative, long lasting, alot to unlock, great graphics Disadvantages: Lacks online playability. Annoying theme song
...nintendo was just abusing the mario franchise and that this game could never be any good, how wrong i was. This game is actually great fun and the way it is played is innovative and ingenious and i feel it is games like this that make the Nintendo DS great. The gameplay is 3 on 3 basketball with nintendo characters, such as Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong. The ingenious part of this game is the way that it is played, the game is ... ...rules, 3 on 3 with mario basketball rules or play in the tournaments. When playing through the tournaments you will be awarded a gold, silver or bronze trophy depending on how much you win by, by winning certain trophies you can unlock more courts and new players as well as new balls, the game also has a very good multiplayer mode where you can play against friends.
The only negatives of this game are the lack of an online mode, this would make ...
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