Strikers is Just Plain Broken
August 5th, 2007
This screenshot isn’t meant to brag because I wasn’t even really trying when I got this score. Anyone can dominate like this in Mario Strikers Charged when you’re playing the CPU. As great a game as this is for multiplayer gameplay, it sucks as a single player experience. I was going through the Fire Cup and was destroying the competition within 30 seconds of the match. Then I’d just hold the ball to run out the clock and move on to the next match. In the last qualifying round against Wario I decided not to run out the clock, but to keep doing Mega Strikes. I’m sorry, but at no level should the computer suck so bad that you can win a soccer match 54-0. How come when a defender is right up ‘on my grill’ and I start the 30 second process of charging for a Mega Strike, he just sits there and lets me do it? And then he just backs away, giving me a comfortable buffer zone so I can make sure I get the most out of my shot. In my opinion, that’s just broken. I’m sure it gets a little more difficult as I progress, but that’s not really the point. I’ve had fun with the single player experience in past Mario sports titles, but the simplicity of this experience makes it a chore.









