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Mario Tennis Power Tour for the Game Boy Advance - First Glance Review

With “Persona 3″ on my PS2, close to beating “Dragon’s Aria” on my PSP, “Etrian Odyssey” on my DS and “The Longest Journey” on my PC, I’ve definitely found some way to put some time in for “Mario Tennis Power Tour” on the GameBoy Advance.

Actually I beat the game within several hours in a two-day period. Like most Mario sports type of games, the game is quite easy to learn. Great for people who are busy individuals because you can save whenever you want and play from where you last left off.

Been jonesin’ to play a tennis game but I’ve been stuck on doubles on “Tennis no Ojisama” for the Nintendo DS and to tell you the truth, not familiar with the newer tennis games for the console systems since the original “Top Spin” was released for the XBOX (and I love that game!).

Nevertheless, “Mario Tennis Power Tour” is about you playing a boy named Clay or a girl named Ace. You can play singles or doubles but the main storyline is about a group of masked tennis players kicking butt in the game and beating the top player at tennis school.

Once you gain control with the game, you train, go against people in the competition ladder for Junior, Senior and Varsity and the points received after accomplishing a succesful training regiment to beating a competitor can be used to build up your serve, stroke, volley or top spin.

As you advance and get into hardcore training, you can then build up your power shots.

There have been criticism for this game with “not enough Mario”. Similar to the awesome Super Mario Golf for the GBA, you are going against non-Nintendo characters. Until you beat the game, then you get to go against the Nintendo characters that you are famliar with such as Mario, Princess Peach, Donkey Kong, etc.

All in all though, the game is fun. There is replay value because during the main tournament, you face certain opponents that you can open up the first time but opponents that you haven’t opened up, you can try to open them up in further competition or even try competing in either singles or doubles play.

All in all a fun game and for a Nintendo GBA game, its one of the few that you can find a good reasonable price for ala used.

Check it out!

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