It's been a good two months since both NES and SNES Online for the Switch have been updated, and as I write this, each service just had two games added to their respective libraries. I decided to take a look at one of the Super Nintendo titles first for now, so expect the blog entry on the NES Online update a little bit later. BACKGROUND:
I've never heard of Smash Tennis in my life. The only thing I could say when this was revealed to be coming to SNES Online was "what's the point of this game when we already have Super Tennis?" SUMMARY: Don't let the fun-sounding name fool you: this is just a typical tennis game. In fact, there's very little that's different with it gameplay-wise to Super Tennis that I'm just gonna link my blog entry on that game and save myself some time. The only notable differences that make Smash Tennis stand out from Super Tennis are the slightly expanded player options (which adds the ability to spectate CPU vs. CPU matches, four-player doubles, and almost every other permutation of player-CPU matchups), a different, more cartoony pixel art, a wider selection of courts to play on (which don't really change the game, but look very nice), and some extra effort on sound design (many of the courts have ambient sounds matching the location as opposed to Super Tennis's deafening silence). Other than that, it's pretty much the same. I will say that I found this easier to play than Super Tennis, so there's that. VERDICT: Smash Tennis is a decent tennis game in its own right, managing to differentiate itself from the more grounded Super Tennis with its more stylized sprite work and more fun and varied courts, but at the end of the day, it's just another tennis game. I personally like it more than Super Tennis, but much like that game, I likely won't be playing this all too often (if at all). If you're into sports games, it's worth checking out, but for me, the few matches I played on it are enough. I'm kinda bummed out that, out of the many amazing games the Super Nintendo is known for that aren't already on the emulator, this managed to make it into SNES Online first instead. The game itself is perfectly fine when evaluated in a vacuum, but as one of two new additions to a service that gets a drip feed of new content, it's rather disappointing that this is what we get this month. It's obviously not the end of the world, or anything worth erupting into a fiery rage over, but I can't help but wish that Nintendo would handle the rollout of games on their emulator services better (especially since they've been doing this for over a year at this point). Anyway, that's enough of that. This is just one of a few games added with the update, after all. Best to look forward to those instead of getting hung up on fucking tennis. - end -
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