Mario Tennis Fever Is a Tepid Mario Sports Entry

Mario Tennis Fever arrives on Nintendo Switch 2 from Camelot and carries a $70 price tag. It checks the basic boxes—a decent roster, a few modes and multiplayer support—but the overall presentation feels perfunctory and uninspired. The single-player adventure, meant as both campaign and tutorial, took about three hours to complete.

Its story has Mario, Luigi and others turned into babies after a monster attack while collecting a magic apple to heal Daisy; cutscenes are static and low-energy, and the game moves quickly through short matches and minigames without letting new mechanics land.

Special rackets that spawn fire, ice, mud and other effects show promise but receive little focused play, and the automatic level-up system offers no meaningful player choice. Beyond the campaign, modes range from score challenges to a freeplay option for up to four local players, plus motion controls that oddly limit the available special rackets.

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