The best part about casual multi-player games like Super Mario Party or Ubisoft’s Mario + Rabbids Kingdom Battle is playing with friends. SEGA’s Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 adds another mostly successful entry to the category.
If you’re not familiar with the game, this Mario & Sonic game is the sixth iteration of the same theme: characters you know and love from both the Mario and Sonic universes compete in the Olympic games.
This time the upcoming Tokyo games serve as the inspiration, but mostly that means the sports you can choose are summer based. As an added twist, you can also play 8-bit style games “from the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.”
Plenty of Choices for What to Play
Being an adult in my 30s, I’m really not the target market here (and that shows, but more on that later). So I invited my 8- and 12-year-old nephews to play with my 7-year-old son. I didn’t give them any instruction on how to play the game, just handed them the controllers, and gave them free rein.
I’m happy to say they enjoyed themselves, and the adults had a lot of fun watching. When playing Mario & Sonic, you can choose from over 30 events, 10 of them in a classic 8-bit style. They range from boxing and karate to archery and surfing, to javelin throw and boxing.
When you pick a sport, you then choose how to control the game. Depending on the competition, you have up to three options—holding two separate Joy-Con for movement controls, holding one Joy-Con with movement controls, or a “button only” mode where you hold the Joy-Con like an NES controller.
You can choose between one and four players, though some games are compatible with only two players. Once you choose your sport and control type, the game walks you through a quick tutorial. You don’t gain anything for winning a game. There’s no win or loss tracking, no stats to improve, nothing to unlock. In many ways, the overall feel is something closer to Super Smash Bros or Raving Rabbids than it is Wii Sports.
A Hit with the Kids
I’d love to say Mario & Sonic is great for all ages, but it’s not. The kids loved the game, and honestly, that’s the part that matters. They’d probably play it more than adults anyway. And they seemed to enjoy the different playstyles. If you have limited space to work with, the ability to skip the motion controls might be a benefit.
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