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Episode Date: February 10, 2026

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We've teamed up with StarSand Island to share this cozy tropical adventure with you. It launches in early access on February 11th, so click the link in the description or go to kindofunny.com slash star sand to start building your dream island. Head to factor meals.com slash kind of funny 50 off and use code kind of funny 50 off to get 50% off and free breakfast for a year. If you want to get our shows ad free and our exclusive shows, go to patreon.com slash kind of funny. What's up, everybody, and welcome back to another Kind of Funny Games cast for Tuesday, February 10th, 2026. I'm one of your show host, Snowbike.

What the fuck is going on with your hair? I am joined by an incredible panel. You know, Greg, when you're working up a sweat and you're getting focused on the lines and the ball and the rackets and the breath, you know, you just don't worry about your hair. You did not have another eye. Like, I went to an example. I went to any example.

You're focused on the game, Greg. Clay of Rolling Geras. You don't care about your looks. Thank you. It's a big day. We have the Nintendo Red On, which means something special is going on. And I have an incredible threesome here to talk about Mario Tennis

fever, which I'm very excited to talk about. But before that, Barry, you're on the set today. What's the big deal? Love the T. How are you feeling today? Mike, I'm feeling great. Thank you for the fog for my shirt. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

feeling great Mike excited to talk about Mario tennis also shout out day two for the UESF strike that's happening shout out to all of my San Francisco educators out there oh all the teachers on the way there good I and the guy in front of me totally thought that I was like being a bitch yesterday yeah yeah he was looking to me like giving these like it was really hard warm to see yeah like a lot of not just educators but families and students show up for uh the strike for day one see my high school, like, really show up as well, especially when they all gathered near City Hall, the ROTC drumline show. Oh, wow.

They killed it as they always do. That's great. Andy, we're talking about tennis. You know, when you play tennis, you play doubles. And sometimes you need a partner. Sometimes you need that partner. Can I be your doubles partner? Can I be your doubles partner?

That's a tough decision. That's a tough choice. I wouldn't, I wouldn't mind you being maybe the coach, you know, like sometimes, whenever there's a coach in the stands. Yes, yes. And they always, like, cut to the coach in the stands at, like, the U.S. Open at Wimbledon or whatever. I could be that. I would make for a great Olympics coach.

How much do I really have to put into this? Not much. They're already an Olympian. I'm just here. Right. Just hype a month. I'll hold the roads in. Exactly.

I'll carry your jacket. What do I really do? I like the idea, though, this challengers, this challengers fancasting where a year's in day or whatever, Mike. They're competing for your heart, you know what I mean? I love that. Greg Miller, how are you? I'm great, Mike. How are you?

We're talking about a Mario sports game. Are you excited? You know I'm excited to be here. I love that, guys. Because today, this is your Kind of Funny Games cast. We're talking to all things. Mario Tennis Fever. Of course, if you were watching live on YouTube and on Twitch,

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Tats, Tats, Tos, Tos, Tos, Tos. Today, your topic of the show is Mario Tennis Fever Review with Andy Barrett and Greg. Get this, Nintendo sent more than one code. We have a couple of Jibronis talking about this video game. I want to give me some quick stats for you. By my research, this is the eighth. Mario tennis in the franchise by my account. Mario tennis mainline game.

Don't get at me with the party pack games, okay? Don't get at them. Mario tennis, Aces, had a 75 on Meta Critic, 75 on Open Critic. Mario Tennis Fever, moments before we went live, 77 on Metacritic, 75 on Open Critics. So kind of following the trend here. Greg, before we begin, I always like to ask a fun icebreaker. I love an icebreaker. Stole that from somebody's show.

What's your favorite Mario sports game? Wow, Mike, great question. A question. Genre of Mario Golf. I would go to Toadstool Tour of the GameCube One because we just played the wheels off that back in the day in the Antler House. Nice. Where it was like you'd come home and somebody would be playing,

you'd hop on, you'd all go. You had the ghosts to chase. It was how close you'd the pin, all that jazz. I will give, in terms of a better game, Mario Golf World Tour, 3DS version that like, maybe it's just DS. I can never keep it straight, but dominated IGN, where we started coming to work early to do tea time,

where we would play for an hour or whatever before we actually got going. You're a big Mario Golf guy. I am. Mario Golf, in my mind, has always been the three-button select the start. Stop through it again. Have they ever done the stick like Tiger Woods?

I don't think so, right? I don't think they've ever done the stick, right? I don't think so. I don't know if you know this. The sports games from Nintendo, don't really innovate and experiment. Bear Corny, what's your favorite Mario sports game? It's a great question.

It's a daunting question. I feel like. A lot of games out there. A lot of games and not a lot of great ones, I'll say, you know, just as a hot take. Not a lot of ones that like really stick with you for years and years on end. I would say shout out just because I'm a baseball head. Mario Sluggers.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was one that when I borrowed a friend's Wii. That was one that I played a lot was Mario Sluggers. But probably thinking about it in theme with this episode, OG Mario Dennis. Oh, wow. I really loved. and 64 Mario Tennis, yeah.

Andy Cortez, you get to round us out. What is your favorite Mario sports game? It's a tie between Mario Tennis and Mario Golf on the Game Boy Color. Those are the ones that I feel like they have not been able to ever reach those highs. And I know, like, again, nostalgia, it's a hell of a drug. But I always loved the RPG aspects of those games where each golf course or each tennis club had their own. bosses and you would fight the little mini boss you would

fist fight them no you would like you would play against them and then play the boss of that thing and they'd be like man dude you're really overtaking this and the NPCs you're like oh shit you're the dude who beat Donkey Kong that's crazy and then you would like work your way up the ranks I just love the RPG aspect of that and I just want that back real badly I like that well guys

let's get in there's leveling in this one oh okay little tease now you're level 42 what does that mean don't get out of yourself I want to hear all about I see in chat people argue I would not personally consider cart a like Mario sports. No, no, no. You know exactly what we're talking about. Don't be weird

chat. Let's jump in to our Mario Tennis Fever review. I'm going to go down the line. I want to know what system you played it on. How long you played it? Audio listeners, he winked at the camera. Quick thoughts and your review score. Barretich are closest

to me. I'll start with you. And because I'm closest to you and Andy's closest to me, I'm going to skip over to Andy. You and I are going to be a bit more similar in like our hour count here and all this stuff. I have zero. Oh, you have zero. You said that to play out there.

I got to play a couple games. Okay, okay. I'm a little bit more than you, but I don't feel like I've only played about, I would say, four-ish hours. Then let me reset. Let's go to our Mario Tennis Pro. The guy who took over the Mario Tennis Aces online scene, Greg Miller. Now, I know you give me the look, but he did take over last time.

Andy Cortez. Oh. What system did you play it on? How many hours did you play? And what are your quick thoughts and review score? Great questions, Mike. I played on the Nintendo Switch 2. The Deuce.

Is this available on Nintendo Switch 1? No. Pop quiz. Okay. No. Twitch 2 exclusive. Right, right? I didn't really check that.

Okay. That seems like something they would have asked when they asked for codes or whatever. But no, I'm pretty sure it's Switch 2 exclusive. $70. I know that part. I play this on Switch 2. I've played for about six to seven hours, I would say. Okay.

Maybe. Yeah, around there. Um, and my overall thoughts on Mario tennis fever. I got a fever. And the only prescription is a good game. And I don't have that here. Oh, this is, this is going to be a review of two different games. Thank you.

This is a tale of two video games here. The tape. I love playing versus mode. I love having fun with friends. I love the diversity and dynamic nature of these random specials. fever racket to that add it's kind of like you know you play

counterstrike Mike and you're used to playing counter strike perfect analogs your counterstrike and Mario tennis and then you play and then you hop into Valor it and it's like holy shit there's a bunch of like abilities in my face what's happened all these flashbangs all these weird ultimates

and the versus mode reminds me of like playing a normal tennis video game with all of those weird funky crazy abilities. They're fun as hell. They can annoy you, but you can also use them to be annoying. And to use them to your advantage is really fun. I enjoy playing just the tournament mode or the versus mode. I love just playing the matches. And I know we don't really do this, but like for that stuff, I would say that Mario Tennis fever is an 8 out of 10. If we're just talking about

just the playing of the video game, I love that mode of. of just playing against another player or doubles or whatever the hell. The adventure mode I don't, I mean, I'm looking at like a three or four. The adventure mode in this game, which is their story mode. Yeah.

I think it's awful. I think it's boring. It is tedious. It is primarily the main way to unlock a bunch of fun stuff in the video game. And it's just never at any point did anything fun or cool or creative. It is busy work.

And I, at every moment I'm playing it, I am thinking of Snowback Mike when we were playing Smash Bros. And you're like, Nintendo, just let me give you 20 bucks to give me the, I'm at that point where it's like, first off, this game, $70 rough. That is a crazy cost. I think this should be a $30 or $40 title anywhere else. I think it's $49.99. $49, oh, I don't know, man.

I, because I'm thinking of just the versus aspect. And if it had a story mode or an adventure mode that was worth a damn, then I'd say absolutely. I could see it being worth that cost. But the method of unlocking things is just, you know, everything in the adventure mode I feel like is the most extended tutorial possible. And it is just weird as hell and not very good or entertaining or compelling. You tag me in real quick.

There you go, Greg. Well, I'm going to come right to you. I want, oh, yeah, it can throw it to me, fine. Before I answer your questions, I want to jump off of this one. Okay. Because I'm right there with Andy, and I'll explain all of that. But Calpi in the chat says, people go to tennis game for an adventure mode, question mark. Ah, Calpi, I love this.

I'm very excited to dive into this review. I have a question on my review that says, what are you looking for from a good Mario sports game? And there's many things on that. Let's jump into what Andy's saying here. I would go one step further on versus mode slash playing. Mario tennis. And I mean, playing the act of a tennis game

in Mario tennis, whether we're using fever rackets, whether we're playing singles, whether we're playing doubles, whether we're playing vanilla, just rackets, nothing crazy, no obstructions, right?

I think the gameplay of Mario tennis is a nine. I loved it that much. I have that much fun. This review will be peppered with stories of us out there. Tim Getties is gone. We're finally living his dream

of playing Switch multiplayer all day long on the TV. Someone would say he was holding us back. I would, you know, blessing. was upset because he's on everything today and wanted to be on this to talk more about Mario tennis. But if I hadn't already put the switch in every morning, he'd come to be like, what's up with that switch? Nobody fiend and more when we're, we're leaving the office yesterday.

Blessing has his backpack on, ready to leave for the day. And he goes, oh, can I get anyone? Yeah. And it's just like, I got one in me. We went two and two. We split, we made him split him two and two. And then he's he's like, I got to go. But you know he didn't want to go. Right. Right. Right. Like, that is how good playing Mario tennis is. Period. Point blank. everything talk about that no we did we didn't need to it pairs a direct quote from Paris then though from adventure mode

slash mix it up slash unlocking Mario tennis fever is so close so close to being even though Mike doesn't like it what I do like about smash you want to unlock everybody just fucking play play

it's like and I'm gonna get it wrong because I've already unlocked them all but the characters is like 25 50 matches 50 matches, whatever, you're unlocking characters, in between those, you're unlocking rackets as you go, it's like, wow, this is so much fun. And then to the question of, people play this for Adventure Mode, no,

I do think they play it to unlock everything though. Yes. And so for this game to hold you hostage, which with some of the most monotonous, boring gameplay I've experienced. Kevin, I know you're running the trailer right here, you're killing it. Could you throw up the clip I put into Slack of like,

this is me yesterday? How long have I've played on the Switch to? how long have I played? You know, the game clock from it says more than 20 hours. I don't know. That's us playing out there. That's me playing at home. I have one of the two codes. To be in and be like, all right, cool,

I want to unlock more people. There's three tiers of this mini game I got to go play. Here's the middle tier of me having to return 25 balls without the shine sending them back. It is so slow. It is so boring. And this will sound like I'm nitpicking. But imagine this mini game. multiplied into other mini games.

40 times. And spread throughout adventure mode, spread throughout the trial towers, spread throughout mix it up. Like, they have a whole bunch of boring ass, monotonous mini games where I really feel like the developers just struggle to understand

what is fun about their game. And sitting here, returning a ball 25 times. And then, of course, when you have to do it in advanced, I think that's 35 times. Like, this ain't it, chief. Like, I don't want to do this.

And I, unlock everything. So to Andy's point, into the point over here of like, you play it for adventure mode, not necessarily, but if you don't want that grade out character the entire time,

if you want every rack, not every racket, but you know, I'm playing fast and loose with unlockables because you're unlocking rackets, courses, characters, right?

And then color ways for everybody. It's not for everybody. Not for everybody. But for a shy guy. You do have to do this. And that's when I, I honestly sit there and I was playing. It's like,

it brings down the score of the game, period. End of statement. Like, again, adventure mode, I am right there with Andy. It is a three. It is bad. Like, adventure mode is bad.

It's ridiculous that you haven't figured this out. I play Mario Tennis to play Mario tennis. So don't put me into this adventure mode. I'm baby Mario. I have all these attributes that I'm leveling up or whatever, but it's just happening. Like, it's not like I'm like, oh, man, I need it for the next thing. Go play more stuff.

I'm just doing the story and it's happening. And you are redoing this. the tutorial you've already done. You can read the tut of, okay, here's a lob, here's a slice, awesome, got it. And then you go in here and it's like, all right, you're ready to learn about a lob? Yeah, sure. Okay, well, okay, before you do that, I've made up a mini game that you have to run to on the map to go play, which is as brain dead is the thing you just, you saw right there.

You do that, you run back. Now do the lob to me three times. Now go do, tut, tut, tut, tot, tot. You know, it's like, oh my God. And it's like, I was like, this is so bad. an hour or 20 minutes in, I was like, well, at least I'm going to finish this and it'll be done. Then it unlocks the next chapter.

And I'm like, oh, my God, like there's more to do here. And it is, I saw Jeff Grubb lamenting this on BS. That's blue sky, Tim, today. I was like, it is, okay, start the thing. Run on this empty fucking overworld mini map to this thing. All right, do it a little challenge. Now run to the thing. It's just like, this sucks.

Like, it sucks to do. And it's, it sucks that like, you're this close. It should have just been, hey, play the fucking game and unlock all the stuff. this many times, just like smash. And one of the biggest misses I think they have is they have tournament on here, right? And you click in a tournament and you go in there and you're like, okay, cool, there's singles or doubles, great. Then there's the mushroom cup, the

flower cup, the Star Cup, right? Right out of Mario Kart. Yeah. Awesome. You jump in. It's a three-round tournament. You beat the you beat the fucking wheels off these guys. Mike's so simple and it's like, dude, I would have seen, just fucking Scott, you shut, send off Adventure mode, throw it away, get it

off the spaceship, out the airlock, and give me a dozen tournaments of various difficulties. Here is normal rackets, nothing going on. Here is this racket. Here is it's all fire. Here's the like put in all the wacky shit there where it's fine. Unlock it like you unlock characters in Mario Kart. Exactly.

Add hype to it. Add a little you know flourish here and there. I see some people in chat talking about that. You know well that's, you know, it is a kids game. The problems we have are not the problems we have are like they don't care about your age.

No matter how old are young you are, you're going to think this shit sucks. Yeah, no. This isn't... Then... These things aren't like overly easy because they're... Because it's like, it's a kid's game, guys. Why are you all complaining? But it's like, being asked to sit there to return a ball 25 times, just hit a button.

It's just not fun or... And again, you could speed that up. You could bring the number way down. You could do a bunch of stuff that they just don't do for it. Is it also the problem of tennis itself as a sport? We talked about it with the recent top spin that came back and it said, man, the mini games are just so

boring and it's very similar to to this, where it is, just return the ball 35 times. Is it just tennis as a sport? No. And the minigames are difficult to create, to make ultimate fun? My honest to God response to and think about it is I think it's just

honestly figuring out how to justify a $70 price point. There needs to be hours on the clock, right? My adventure mode ended at four hours, right? That's what I suffered through and got the characters that were tied to it. I'm like, I'm going to grant. I'm out of that. And it's like, I think that's there to beef up your game time and make, give you, they're trying to give you stuff to do.

And I think they just missed the point of just like, you should give me tennis to play. I should be playing tennis. And like, even outside of that, the trial towers is another interesting idea where it is, you know, you go into these three different trial towers. You have to go to the top. There's a big match at the end and there's all these little challenges. But it'll be, okay, cool, you're playing this guy and he's got whatever racket and you don't have anything. so you've got to survive. Okay, you're on the ice court. So you're like, all right, yeah, that's what I want. But then they will shove these fucking challenges in there. All right, cool. Here's this guy. Get it by him, you know, 30 times.

I was like, what are we doing? Like, why am I doing this? And the things I would fuck up in the clip you showed Kevin, or Kevin the show that's so slow. In the advanced version of it, at least while Luigi moves a bit more in the back and the, and I would find myself messing up and screwing it up because I would get distracted. I'm so bored.

Yeah. Or I look at my phone. Like, oh, fucking got it. They're like, oh, what am I? Am I doing a lob? Or am I doing it? There's two games here. And that's really where it is, where I would so, I'm not an online multiplayer person.

We all know, I think, that online tends to break. There tends to be a meta, and that's the end of it, right? There's a bullet bill racket in this game that is completely unfun. And I think broken to the point that Blessing said when he went to the New York event and demoed the game, they had a wheel where they were spinning it on. And Bless wanted to try it. They're like, actually, don't pick that one. It's not fun to play.

It's like, I don't think they said not fun. I'm putting words. It's OP. But they were like, it's OP. It's broken. And so like I imagine when you play online, that will become the meta and that's what's going on. That mix with Bowser Jr. And that's what killed Aces.

And that's a reason that I wanted to be on this was to talk about. Let me just, I want to pass the. My final point here is like, as a multiplayer, you and your friends around beers hanging out, maybe even online too, go for it, man. We have had so much fucking fun here in the office playing there. I love it. even Nick came over and played, which is outrageous. But as me, the traditional person, the single player person,

I put 100 hours into Mario Golf on DS, like I was talking about earlier, I would stay away from this because it is that thing of like, you will finish the three tournaments on your first tries, towers will take you a little bit, and then adventure sucks and you won't play. It's like you got to have people to play with, I think, in person. Yeah, it's disheartening to hear of like how bad the adventure mode is to and how that's tied to unlocking characters. I forget how, like,

I don't remember the Adventure Mode from Aces. I remember there was one, and I imagine there was some tie to unlocking characters throughout that, but I don't remember it being such a huge, like, pain point of like, oh, my God, this is bringing everything down. Can I jump up right before I've had it? Yeah.

Right there with it, I think that's what is so interesting about this one. I like the gameplay and the rackets here more than I liked Aces. So for me, there's such a separation now of when it was, Adventure mode was probably a disappointment. It was a disappointment inaces as well. I thought that whole game was forgettable. Whereas I think they've gone up here in terms of, oh, wow, I love how this plays and feels. I want just more tournaments and stuff. Goals. Yeah, and with the gameplay, I fully agree with y'all of like the base Mario Tennis gameplay is just so fantastic and so fun and so addicting. And that's why, you know,

you have you, me, blessed like every once in a while being like, what's going on? What's up with that switch, right? And I think this serves as a fantastic party game to get friends together locally to play where you can have house rules like bullet bills are banned. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And I think so much about how annoying and short-lived the online aspect of this was.

Because, you know, you stole some valor. You gave away some valor. Because I was in the Mario tennis ace's online trenches for so long. I'll give you any value. For so long. Thank you, my. Give me all that valor, Doug. And I was hanging on for dear life. Because, you know, like, Andy and I are

homebodies. Like, we're not bringing people over to like play Mario tennis all the time. So I was, you know, holding on to, why good? You could though. You could, let him. I was holding on to online for so long. And it just, after, like, after only two weeks, it was, you play as Bowser Jr. Rosalina, who have, like, the most annoying opening serves.

And that was it. And it became so uninteresting and so boring. And even just after a couple of times playing locally, it's like, okay, yeah, Bowser Jr. is still very annoying with his opening serve. that mixed with the bullet bill racket, which is completely broken and makes the game just kind of so unbalanced and weird, which is such a sticking point

with all the other tennis ability, like fever rackets that I think are really fun and interesting and make it a bit more of a Smash Brothers type of vibe. That makes it more of like that fun party game, but then again, to tie it all into, you know, the point of having friends over and playing games like these is to have as many characters unlocked as possible. to have that fun, you know, party vibe.

And it really seems like the Nintendo sports team does not understand that and, you know, makes unlocking, the journey of unlocking all these characters, like a true slog, which I find so mind bogg. It's heartbreaking. Because it's beautiful. Yeah. I think the courts are cool. It looks awesome.

Yeah. The art style is fantastic. It's what you would want a modern Nintendo game to look like. And it runs great. Yeah. super smooth 60 frames per second all that fun stuff it's just it's it's missing so much in what it could in how it could make these challenges more fun by either making things a lot shorter or hey give us you know make these 70 dollars worth it give me you know if i were to wave the magical

game development one it'd be i take my my created me in there and i am and i am in this like you know of course I would love a full RPG mode but I would also love to just take on you know you go to that one Bowser's castle themed area that you're playing the Kupilings or whatever and then Bowser's the final boss

there and then you go to the water area and you're maybe fine and it's just like the mini bosses are just you're playing other people that are not the lead there and it's a little cool tournament format and it let me play the video game in order to unlock things. It's so bizarre and I hate you know

sitting here and designing a completely different game. But talking about a game that I think would serve what they're doing of like, yeah, so you go into this adventure mode. You know, you're Mario and you're everybody and they all get turned into babies as you've seen in the trailer. And then so you got to start powering Mario up by playing through the tutorials and playing these things.

And at the end of him, this XP bar just fucking fills in and it gives you a new level. And it's like, at one point I laughed, I'm level 46. I'm like, I don't know what this means. And like there's the speed in this and it's like filling in over here.

It's like none of this matters. It's all gated by the story. It's not like I can go anywhere and do whatever I want and whatever. So it's like, I'm playing this. I'm like, why the fuck wouldn't you have done? Yeah, okay, cool. You start adventure mode and you make a me. You do whatever.

You make your character and then have the thing of like, all right, cool, you can only do this many matches and this one will do your speed and this will do your tech. Are you going to be a technical player? Because there's different kinds of players for the main thing. And so you choose him. And then when you're done with adventure mode, which would be dramatically shorter,

you have this me that has those specific stats. Like you can run this again to make your friends or whatever. It's like that would make so much sense do that and have it be an hour and a half long. And like, okay, cool. That was a fun rewarding and I can run it again and do it again to get things to put the characters on the screen alongside everybody. And it's like, no, you do this where you do that. And then Adventure Mode's done. It's like, who designed this?

Kevin, can you hit the song, please? Because it's a games cast game. Hey, everybody. Welcome to Gamescast Game Tip where we help you. I will help you out with video games and give you tips for them. Um, I would say for my games cast game tip for Mario Tennis Fever, um, I really fucked up while I was playing The Witcher for 12 hours in one day by not letting Barrett play my switch so he could unlock things for me. So have like a friend or a little brother to just be like, here, have this, but you play. You play. Unlock everything for me. But it's just like so boring, you know. But and that's the thing about it though is like I, you know, I left it for a couple shows or whatever and I came back and I went home that night and played more. I was like, oh, you guys unlocked more guys.

but you still get down to, like, I mean, maybe a little brother or a little sister or whatever would go into adventure mode and go through all that shit for you. You still get to things where it's like, all right, cool. There's like one character is like, you got to do the four, the four player co-op ring challenge and there's an advance one. I'm like, ugh. Like, it probably wouldn't be that hard, but I also don't want to, hey guys, come over here. We got to play this thing. I don't. Not only we got to play this thing I don't want to play.

We got to unlock it. Like, it's not like I can just jump to advance mode. We've got to do beginner intermediate and then get to advance mode and this thing. Also, another complaint I have is, I wish you could hit the ball out of bounds. I think I don't know when you want to talk about gameplay. We should talk about you guys. I want to get into gameplay because I'm hearing a lot of what ifs.

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No. No, this is a thing. Okay. Can you play the outro? Game cast, game chill. All right, team, you guys have brought up a lot. We've talked about your review scores. How you're feeling so far? Let's dive in a little bit more. Gregie, where do you want to take this? conversation.

Again, I think we can... There's good, there's bad, what do you want to be? I mean, I think we've beaten the bad, so I think it's time to talk about the good, right? Talk about the real good. It is the idea that tennis is, it is so much fun to play.

Like I said, you play with these characters. You go through, you pick them, right? Are they speedy? Are they technical? You have all these different things. They can curve the ball better. How many characters? What can people look forward to?

Because I know there's a bunch of them. You got a lot of characters. Do the math, everybody. One, two, three, four, five, six. So there's... Okay, so, and then one, two, three, four, five, six, six. Six times six, three, six. And then you add two more, 38, you got 38 things.

Five by six or six by six? Six by six. Six by six. Okay. And then you added two at the end. 38 characters. Yeah. How many rackets?

Hold on, let me do that. One, two, three, four, five, six. One, two, three, four, five. 30. 30. 30. One of them is a randomized one. So like 29, really.

The courts I thought were disappointing. there you got 14 14 that's a lot and not yeah but the top the top three are all the same just different color colors yeah yeah that's all right and not nearly as imaginative as I would have wanted them to be sure yeah when you get down to the lower ones of like a Mario pinball or whatever that's fine but even when I was it one of you guys when I started up warrior pinball and you're like I thought there'd be like pinball I was like well the mini game version of this where there's like a twist on it or whatever

you can go play yeah the court stuff I when we watched a trailer, I was like, God dang, there's a lot of variety here. That's really exciting. I bet there will be even more, but it seems like the trailer kind of showed all of the variety for the courts. Yeah, it's odd with the Mario or the Mario pinball one

because when you play the mushroom one, that actually affects the gameplay. Yeah, the white spot or bounce here. And it's odd that like, yeah, when you go into the other fun ones, there's no effect. And the ice one's icier. Yeah, and one has a different bounce to it.

Yeah. Well, I think you can also edit those down, right? I think you can go into those courts and then say, like me standard bounce or whatever I think yeah I thought you could also you could change like the ball

yeah you can change from a slow ball standard ball or high ball and no I mean like for that one for the Academy Court mushroom springy mushroom gives the erratic shots bounce kind of what's the that's the camera I thought you could say

I like the look of that court but no I'm like a basic game no no no there's not that many gimmicks the bouncy ones a very specific one the ice is a very specific one right and then you have ball speed ratings and bounce ratings so you can see it at a glance so there's there's that to it but yeah like you'd have to go out of all that you go into mix it up which is like their party mode right and they have like special matches there where you have the piranha plants

coming out the rings going on uh the idea that what you're getting the random rackets dropped and yada yada yada but anyways but the one thing what i want to go and compliment it on again is the 9.0 i'm giving in the gameplay right of just playing tennis and how responsive i think it feels easy to wrap your head around difficult to master and then yeah the inclusion of the fever rackets you know

Mario Kart of course always gets the love and hate for the blue shell you know here we are this smash you know when we play in the office items off we don't want that bullshit you want the pure experience

I was ready to really hate the fever rackets and not like them I honestly really dug them in terms of what they add to gameplay and so if you're watching right now the fever rackets or listening I should say you can't see you go through you know you select the court

like we were talking about you select your character and then yeah you select your racket on what you want it to be. And they have various benefits, right? Where, of course, there's stuff like, okay, cool, you got the fire racket. You're going to shoot out fireballs, right? Okay, I use the mud racket. You hit it down. You make a mud puddle little slow balls to get into it.

It'll knock down other people. If they get into it, they can slip and slide and that kind of thing. Ghost turns you and your ball invisible, et cetera, et cetera. But only if you fill in your fever meter. So when you're playing, you'll see a button on the player, Huds, I guess, two different bars you're filling in. And once you get it, then you can hit X on your, when the ball's coming towards you, set off your fever shot with it, have it go that way.

So it's not something you can spam all the time. It's just something that happens with kind of the exception of bullet bill. Yeah. Where if you hit it for your fever over there, he just fucking rockets a bullet bill over there. And it's like, you're aiming it so your opponents might not know where it's going to go. Most of the time, they can't hit it. But it's not an automatic thing. No.

Like you're still, yeah, like that first one, you're sending it over. No, well, I'm not even talking about bill of bill. I'm just being fever rackets as a whole. They are not this hit the button and win thing. Oh, no, no, no. For the most part. Yeah, no, for sure. Like, you have so many great ones.

You've seen the whirlwinds here. You've seen, of course, the cactus. Like, when you send stuff over, it's totally possible that the opponent can hit the ball before it bounces, which sends it back over there. It's wherever the ball lands at first time, just bounces. It'll set off the special effect. So, yeah, if you have like a tornado one that you hit over to your opponent's side, but then they hit it first back to you.

it drops on your side, it could backfire on you. And I do really love that. Yeah, yeah. That implementation, there are some ones that I think are really broken, like the, the bullet bill one. The problem with the bullet bill one, right, is like, there are some of the fever abilities where it's not just a one hit. There's almost like a bar that'll slowly go down during time.

You get a little arrow next to your character, yeah. Yeah, you'll have an arrow next to your character and it'll be slowly this bar going down. And with bullet bills, you're like, really, it's really just. just like a powerful fast hit. But then it's not just like a one-time thing. It just happens however many times you hit the ball while that bar is going on.

The computer can fucking get a back, no problem. That's insane. Human beings I have not seen. I'm sure as we all get deeper in this comes the better. I was playing against Blass and I came back from a match. I should have lost. Yeah. And just sent over bullet bills like three or four plays in a row.

And it was ridiculous. And there are some other abilities that have similar. things like that where it's just it's how many times you hit the ball over in a certain meter fill right but some of those are actually really fun I really like the electric ball one where you send over

and the amount of like electric balls that are over the electrodes can yeah connect and it makes like this electricity grid which I think is really fun but yeah honestly this was another aspect similar to y'all that I was expecting to dislike because I don't remember the gimmick of aces but this felt really

leaning into let's do something more like party mode type of flavor. Aces had like a peri type of thing where like yeah you sort of uh if you hit back the ball in a certain way with a certain timing you could like do it extra powerful. I forget exactly what it was. And that felt a lot of the times like an automatic like I'm going to get that point. Whereas here like for the most part again like it does feel a bit more back and forth a bit more fair where you know in my head I was like oh I'm going to want to turn this stuff. off. But the more I play with y'all, I'm like, no, this is actually really fun.

And again, why I really like the in-person, you know, party mode type of vibe here. And it's the normal one too. Oh, sorry. Just because the last point that I was alluding to earlier is I think online for this is going to wear very thin, very quickly, similar to ACEs. And I think that's, you know, again, to put these rackets over and the gameplay loop they've created is, yeah, I was ready to hate it, but it did such a great job of leveling that playing field, where it really is.

you can jump in with somebody who's played a lot at home like I did, and you guys have only barely touched it and still be competitive. It's not like you're getting your socks blown off, right? And I think when you do get to that point, inevitably you will with your friends if you're super intuitive, like, cool, no fever rackets. We're just playing tennis. But then we do go to a criticism I have,

but I get why they did it since this is a party mode. They want to pick up and play. Back to Andy's point is, you can't knock it out of bounds, really. I saw once where I returned it and it went out of bounds. like, I've never seen that. And I haven't seen it since. Just once where it went, and it might have even been like...

It's usually when your character's like stumbling forward to try to reach really far for a ball. So, yeah, you know, you're in, you know, if you're playing a lot of hot shots tennis like I used to. If you're playing the real tennis game, like, right, you can pull the stick too far, hit it too hard, and you're going to sail out of the lines. You're going to get a fault that doesn't work that way. You know, you screwed it up. That doesn't happen here for the most part. You're cranking that stick left right up down everywhere to try to get your shots and the game isn't penalizing you for going too far. It feels like bowling with a balling with.

rail railings on you know what I mean it's just a very safety guided thing which is nice yeah I I do wish though that there were there was a way to you know to kind of bait I used the word punish but it's like all right if you if you're if you're going to try to be that aggressive then it could still backfire because you're being overly aggressive and now the ball's going you know you're hitting the ball too far right and you are hitting it out of bounds so I do wish that that existed because I think that there is a really nice push and pull there. And I'm kind of bummed out that it isn't here. I think that's an aspect where you get into the mindset of Nintendo thinking about all ages type of type of stuff.

Which I get. And I think it works for this. Again, I think that's the reason we were able to pop it in, play so much, have fun, keep coming and going with it. And I imagine, you know, even though reviews are done today, that it'll still be out there. I know Blessing is very, very excited to get his own copy. So I have a feeling we'll still be playing this on the day. me for a couple weeks to come. Yeah, and despite all of the downsides y'all

are saying, like, this is one, like, I'm going to buy a copy when it comes out later this week and still, like, unlock everything. I'm a little hesitant to hearing about the $70. I forgot that that was the price point of this, which is a bummer here, but, yeah, there's just something real satisfying about

that core gameplay that I remember. It's one of those that if they released a non-story, non-trial towers mode, that was just Titanfall one of just like this is just a multiplayer game this is just only the versus mode yeah i you know hey buy that for 40 but don't spend the extra 70 to get the story mode and all the adventure mode or whatever because they're just kind of useless unfortunately but yeah the core mode is just so much

fun to play and i love the randomness that it offers yeah i'm i'm not hopeful but i'd be interested to see if they're going to do dLC or updates for it i mean i know nintendo traditionally not but then they have and they do drop a few more tournaments in there. You know, again, this is like what's underserving the game is just not feeding the really great parts of it. And of course, I, you know, this is me going back and forth as somebody who loves playing it. It's like, well, if I was me, you know, back in high school and I picked this up and I had

my party modes with my friends, that'd be great. But when I wanted to play at night, what would stop me from going down and saying, all right, I'm doing an exhibition match. I'm cranking it up to the most, the expert difficulty. There's one above that, right? Like, go in there. and I just play exhibition matches, which you can do short,

you can do the whole, we're doing multiple sets and this is how, like the chance, if you just wanted to play, it's there, which is, I think, kind of cumbersome to understand

if you're not playing it, where it's like, you could just do that and you could have the, playing the computer really hard and them fucking serving everything back to your fucking face. I hate it,

but I like it in a challenge, but it's like, I just hate that adventure mode is so bad. And that all these mini games, I think, for me, we're one and done. I popped in, I did the ring challenge, I did what I needed to on the single to unlock the guy.

And it's like, cool. I'm never going to be like, yeah, I really go for that ring challenge right now, right? Even, I think maybe it was you and me, Mike, it did Wario Pinball, right? Where I was like, oh, let me show you what it looks like. Cool, let's go back for the real tennis. You know what I mean?

Like, the game should be built around playing as much real tennis as possible. I wish I was a bit more sorting options as well. When I was playing against Logan Plant from IGN, and we would always hit randomize on characters just to kind of force us to play other characters and not just be stuck on one or whatever. And it was nice having that randomization, but I wish that in the same way you could turn off items and smash.

Yeah, or select only Pokemon balls or whatever. You know what I mean? Like I wish that you could, you know, hit randomize and then you select out of six only rackets that you want. You know, instead of randomizing the whole thing, because there is no randomizer, There is a racket that is a essentially a yellow item block racket that whenever you hit the fever button,

it's going to randomly give you an ability. But it would be cool to say, okay, I want to use a random thing, but exclude this and this and this and this or whatever. And we go back to kind of where I started with this, where it's like so infuriating that your core game plays this good and that you have the fucking blueprint in Smash Brothers.

Yeah. How can you not be on the Mario Tennis team and not look at Smash Brothers and go, let's fucking do that. Let's take all of that on the options and the choices and the things. And even the way you play single player smash, which I never do, but I know people,

it's like, there's so much there. It's just offy. It's just leads into the core gameplay. It's Nintendo. It seems like a lot of sports games outside of a smash, like really want to re-contextualize and do, like, do tennis, but different.

It's like, not like the Smash Brothers single player, at least an ultimate for, from what I remember. it's like, yeah, they're doing different things, but it's always leaning on that core gameplay that is so satisfying that, like, you don't really care, like, yeah, there's barely a story or whatever, but it's just an excuse to keep playing this really solid core gameplay,

and it's fascinating of what the mindset is here for this team to be like, no, let's do a lot of stuff that isn't just... Busy work. Just busy work. There's a really neat feature, though, that I really enjoy in doubles matches, and it doesn't really matter a whole lot for singles, unfortunately, but in doubles, all of your characters have a health bar that you don't really know exists until you get hit by one of these hazards or one of these things on the ground,

whether it's a fireball or a freeze thing or, yeah, body shot. And your health bar will go down if you keep on getting hit more and more and more. And eventually, you know, you'll get the sort of smash-brose sound effect almost whenever you do like the final smash, that really loud sort of sound effect. in slowdown. Very slow. And it does a little slow-mo thing

and your character gets knocked out for a certain amount of time. Meaning if you're playing doubles, now if I get knocked out, my partner has to be their solo for a bit without me, which is really cool. And I love that sort of change to it.

And I wish they did a bit more with that. However, I'm like happy that's even a function in the game. I wasn't expecting it. I was thinking along the lines of how weird smash can get, I would love to see

just a random weird-ass thing of like, what if we had fucking 4V4 2 ball? You know, like, anything crazy and silly like that would be really fun and novel to sort of add to the experience. But, you know, I don't know. I think. You saw it somewhere in there. Like, you know, one of the trial towers things will be, okay, it's the, you're one of the babies with two other babies fighting a big guy. Like, they do the little mix-up thing where I'm like, yes, this is cool.

Why isn't there 19 tournaments and one tournament is all of this? You two babies versus everybody big. this, that, and the other, blah, and it's like, instead, no, it's like, all right, I've turned this fucking ball. As you saw in this video, send bullet bill back of the pirate ship. Like, I don't know, what am I doing? There's a lot of gameplay variety that doesn't seem like it hits, and it feels like an overcorrection from someone in the chat was pointing out.

Shun in the chat says, yeah, I thought the main issue people had with Aces was that it was just tennis, and maybe that was like an overcorrection of them trying to think of, like, how can we beef this up, justified a $70 price point? But I think they overcorrected. and I think Aces had much more problems than it just being tennis. Yeah. But to give Nintendo credit,

because, you know, the lingering heartbreak that we always have in the back of our brains is Mario Strikers. What was the new one called? Mario Striker something on the Switch. Yeah, Super Strikers? Or I forgot what it's up. Them obviously not having, like, the infrastructure

to think about, what are the different ways people are going to want to play this? and we were heartbroken very quickly of like how limiting that was. And it seems like at least when it comes to the core game play, just wanting to play with your friends, like they have thought about a lot of the variety and ways that you're going to want to play. Even with like the motion control version,

which I know you were really hopeful for it. It was really cool to see that they have something like that. A question that I have for you, Andy, is like the online stuff with how you can match up with friends or randoms, like how does that all feel? How does that all look? does it feel built out in a bit more less like

less limiting than the the strikers title so well the strikers title was like just insanely limiting and surprising at launch like that was like a big like wait that's sick tournament mode though we can't do this and that was one of those we were ready for an all day stream

and we logged down we're like wait no way dude we can't all play on our own switches from home Separately. In a game together? That's insane. That was crazy. Yeah.

So I was unfortunately not able to do any matchmaking or anything because that just wasn't online. And so we were just playing, I was playing solo private matches that seemed pretty easy with the sort of newer infrastructure that Switch 2 allows where you can invite people from like your friends list without, you know, having to make a room code or do it within the game. So like I was accepting invites from just the main kind of. profile menu on your switch when you go to the top left and click on your little dude's face. It does do a weird thing where it says like, hey, Logan Plan invited you to play a game. And then so I hit the home button. And it asked me, do you want to play the game? And I hit okay.

And tennis Aces was already or sorry, tennis fever was already open. And then it says, okay, we have to close the game first. I was like, okay. And it closes and then it reopens. And then now you're ready for a game. So that's just kind of a weird thing. But I, yeah, that was kind of a weird functionality. But other than that, it's all seemed very straightforward and simple.

I have not had a chance to mess around with a whole lot of the other systems because I was mainly getting invited to matches. And they all went really smoothly and well. And no connectivity issues, no, no nothing. Because I worry in the back of my head of like, what does 2V2 online look like? Is it easy enough to get three different friends or three other friends who are all from home, playing all together. That's one that I really worry about, right? For groups who are

not like us who are doing remote stuff, how easy is it for them to get matches like that together? We bring up motion controls. Did either one of you test the motion controls? What did you think? I did not play a full match or that. It was one where whenever I bust out the menu, the menu makes you play with two players.

when I go to swing mode play using JoyCon 2 or JoyCon motion controls so I go into swing mode and then it's like all right link up two controllers like well why let me just play a match with one right so I need two players to do this very so then I connected

two controllers and I had my two JoyCons there but like I don't really playing yourself I don't fully know the setup there but it didn't feel as good as I had hoped it felt it didn't feel like when Mario golf

or when we golf added the Wii motion plus thing and it's like oh there's an extra axis of control here this is getting a bit more in depth this just felt like move it and it's like you could just flick it yeah like I don't think they're really focusing on this at all which is unfortunate I was hoping for a bit more of a

of an attempt right now Greg's playing right now Got his ass Who you're playing against Computer Oh just the computer Okay so so I don't need to go into swing mode You go into swing mode

But when you pop the Do it again Go to swing mode Yeah yeah yeah And then pop the joycons off Okay And then tap one of the L's And there you go

You can just use blue Okay Telling me to use a strap I got the strap Always use protection But yeah Mario's moving all by himself I'm just swinging

Oh he's moving all by himself Yeah yeah there's no control on that. See, I was hoping for like a left move and then right does the swing in, you know? Really led down by that, boys. Yeah.

Very disappointing. Okay. Because that, when we see a game like this come out, our mind goes to like, oh, this is going to be really fun with friends. Because I don't care how much you've played or Mario tennis.

Now we're playing motion controls. And it's a different game. We're all on the same level playing field. Yeah. And that's what I was hoping for. And now it just seems like, well, maybe that's not going to be the best way for all of us to play games, unfortunately. Well, let's jump into some super chats as we start to slow down the show.

Crappy Patty writes in and says, my problem with the Switch Mario sports titles is that the gameplay mechanics have been the best in the series with the least amount of content. These games need the campaign content to justify the price. We've talked a lot about that. Do we agree with justifying the price off of extra content like campaign? but that's where you run into the scenario here where it's such an uninteresting main campaign adventure mode that is part of justifying a $70 price point, right?

Yeah, I don't know. It's a fine line that they got to find and if they really want to succeed with these 70, I think they will succeed their Nintendo. But if they want to keep the good graces of their fans who are into the sports titles, I think if you really want to justify that $70, it's not just putting in content for content's sake. It is finding something. Because we've seen that hasn't worked yet.

Yeah, exactly. But then he's back to it. If it keeps selling, then there's just no reason to feed us. What we want. It's whatever. Of course. Can I say one thing? I'm sorry.

Please. Kevin, can you please play the song again? Because it's a games cast, Game Tip. We're going to help you up. Thank you. Welcome back to a Gamescast, Games tip. This is me, Greg Miller.

stealing Andy Cortez's move that I had never thought about. In this game, now, of course, you know me. I don't use back paddles. I don't use any of that shit. I want to be able to drop in anywhere and know the buttons as is, not to go in just my settings. But Andy had a really brilliant thing that I never thought of. In the game, you do drop shot shots and you do top spins, right?

Everything else is one button press of I want to do a lot. I want to do, you know, a slice. Thank you so much. I'm like any of the normal shots that I can't remember now. But if you want to do a drop shop, you got to go B.A. and if you want to do a big old lob, you go A, B. Andy went and programmed him on his paddles on his pro controller. That's not what I did.

You can do it in the game. Oh, no, no, I know. In game, you can go in and be like, yeah, make the shoulder buttons in. And I thought you did the on your. Oh, no, I didn't do back palettes. You just did shoulders. Yeah, in the game, I just said. So even though you don't have the pro controller with you, you can put it to one button press,

which I never did because I want to be great. I want to go to that Nintendo SF store, my bib jeans. My head is like, oh, what's this guy here? you want to play for $20. And do it crazy. You know what I mean? You're like, how are you dropping the ball?

And the drop shot. If you just go to settings and then button mode, you could set like, I think ZL was set to something else and ZR was set to something else. Yeah. I said them to drop shot and lob. Thank you. Nice.

Kevin play the outro. Games cast. Keeping it going, The Juan writes in and says, Mike, what's up with the hair? I like the hair. Thank you to Oscar.

Still no answer. You know what I mean? He said it when he was playing tennis. He said it was like, he answered it very. clearly at the beginning of the show, okay? Oscar writes in it says nothing will ever beat the Game Boy and Game Boy Advanced Story modes. Andy, is that true?

Well, I didn't play the advanced ones. I played the Game Boy Color. But those were, they were great. You had your own, you know, pick a character, you just make your little dude, and then it's straight up an RPG. Oh, you're the new kid here, huh? It was like some of my first RPG experiences, and then you work your way up, and they're like, damn, this kid's actually kind of cracked. And now it's like, oh, the final boss is Mario and you have to beat Mario. And can you actually beat this, dude?

And he's just an Italian man. Bander S.N. writes in and says, Kirby Air Riders is going to be the best and worst thing for Nintendo. puts all these spinoffs to shame, packed with Unlocks, content and challenges. Play it. No, I'm good. The Unlocks, like, satisfying to do, though. And Kirby Air Riders, only Roger knows, I guess. I haven't bought it

one day. Game of the year for Rodgers. Snake Eater writes in and says, this is for Andy and his amazing musical skills. Oh, thank you. That was Michael McDonald actually. Oh, wow.

Commissioned on a cameo. Evan writes in and says, let's assume you grind to unlock all players and rackets. Now, is all your time moving forward with the game worth the price of entry? My instinct says no. I mean, probably, I mean,

again I think it comes back to that top level thing right of like because I think I would recommend this if you have friends to play with locally and if you don't then I wouldn't recommend it so it's like what are we talking about for your personal interaction they have like their ranking mode which I'm sure will be similar to last online yeah but again I think you're gonna go online and it's gonna be it's gonna only use this rack and only play this character you're fucked and then it'll still be people who figure out this is like this is my own personal offense to online gaming or I'm like well eventually it's just

going to be hacked. I've got to be snaking. That's Mario Card DS reference. But you know what I mean? Yeah. Games, I don't like that my character moves on his own in control mode. I want to move him with the left Joycon, you know. Johnny Van Pelt right says, this is a little late but this is for Barrett being at the desk, giving us a little more evil Barrett. Hi, I'm evil this year in case you forgot.

We got a lot going on here. Now we get off. the game here on this one. Ambrosia Jam writes, I don't care about Mario tennis, unrevealed, but the more I see about it, the more interesting it looks to me, just be Destranging 2, and I'm kind of stoked for a pallet cleanse before Resident Evil 9. There you go, homie. Yeah, I like that. And maybe play Mario tennis 64. Or play games cast, games too. Let's go around the table one final time before we get out of here.

What was your review score and anything that we did? I never really gave a final one because I really am. It's a tale of two things where it's like, I think it's, again, the gameplay of Mario Tennis is a nine. If you have people to play with IRL, and I would even go as far as if you can play your friend from college online, of course,

in that service. I never tried online. The online times never added up for me. Then sure, go for it. It's more than the single player where I'm like, I just wouldn't recommend it for you. So like,

this is a really, one, I feel. Because it is, I mean, like, I think it's just a recommendation, yes or no. So multiplayer, local, with your friends? Yes. Single player by yourself? No. Sounds like a good 6.5, okay.

Andy Cortez? I mean, I would say that if you, you have to maybe hope that a super strong meta doesn't get developed and if you don't want to be stuck in those, like, you have to play this character with this racket in order to win, or in order to be competitive, I think you can have fun with the, this game playing solo and doing like whatever the online ranked matches are just to see how high of you could get and I really enjoyed the tournament the tournaments that they had during

aces but yeah I would say if you much like a lot of games if you don't have friends to play with when you do the game is a lot more fun and if you don't I don't know if I could necessarily justify the $70 price tag yeah I that's another like I'm in a weird spot now Mikey because I was thinking about picking this up and the more we talk about this the more we talk about this the more I think about the longevity of this title, thinking about the, where I would naturally go is single player online, getting into those,

you know, the sweaty tournaments and that meta and all the stuff, I think back to my time with Aces and how short-lived that was, even though I didn't want it to be, right, because of how annoying a lot of meta's got and a lot of broken aspects of that gameplay was.

And so, yeah, I don't know if this is an easy recommend for most people for $70 but granted that's you know after playing four to five hours and thinking about you know the future of this game in particular one thing to toss out there and I

despite the great gameplay sorry I know you're fine I tossed out there that we didn't talk about and I didn't even try but it does on the main screen have game share right there ready to go again right I love that idea that Nintendo supports that of like maybe you are into it and is you and a couple friends with one with the switch one with switch one with the switch two

like you want to play at the airport or whatever. I really appreciate that that is. Yeah, yeah. All right. Well, that is your review for Mario Tennis Fever. Let me know it in the comments below. Are you interested in this?

Are you buying this? Are you skipping this one? Let me know, because you know your boys don't like Mike, I'm buying this. Okay? I don't, I listen to all of that for an hour.

I don't care. I'm buying this game. How long until you hand it to Kevin ASEX or Roger, and you say unlock this for me? Here's what I want, chat, just so you know,

this is my pipe dream. This is my pipe dream. that it has. I hope that it has a Super Smash Bros. Ultimate lobby system for me and my friends, where I can get about six to eight people in a lobby with the friend code and or invite system. And then

I can have four people playing, two doubles. And then I can... This is Nintendo. No, you're not going to be able to do that. That's what Mario, that's what Super Smashfuls Ultimate does. Have we not covered enough that this is not that team? That's my pipe dream. I hope that it's there when I've launched

for a while I can play it. But it probably won't. So let me know in the comments below. Are you buying this or not? Thank you all so much for watching today's games cast. We have a kind of funny podcast right after this. Nick, Joey Roger, myself are going to sit down to talk about what Nick's life is like. We're going to have some fun with that one. And then after that, we have an awesome live stream celebrating Overwatch, dropping the two, adding five new players into the lobby.

It's going to be a whole lot of fun. I can't wait. Don't go anywhere. We'll be right back with more. Goodbye. Bye. Bye. Thank you.