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This is best displayed in Mario Tennis Fever's story/adventure mode, which is narratively nuts even for a spin-off Mario title and one of the most flagrant instances of “the writer's barely disguised fetish” I've ever seen in a modern Nintendo game.

Mario Tennis Fever opens with fan favorite Princess Daisy lying in bed and dying from an illness she isn't recovering from. At the recommendation of Wario and Waluigi, Mario and company seek out healing fruit from a magic tree to help Daisy recover. Shenanigans ensue, and Mario and much of the main cast are turned into babies, which is sure to only further debate on whether Baby Mario is Mario when he was an actual infant or an infantilized version of gaming's favorite plumber. Baby Mario and Baby Luigi then go to tennis school to get their baby bods strong enough to play the game (through painfully tedious mini-games), and then they go on an adventure to defeat the monsters that turned them into babies and transform back into adults.

Jesse, WTF are you talking about?

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If you don't form a deep connection to the core mechanics of this game, though, there's not much for you in Mario Tennis Fever.

This was my main worry going into Fever. I loved the older games (the N64 one was probably my most-played WiiU virtual console title) and picked up the Switch one at launch, and put all of... four hours into it, tops, before setting it aside and never going back to it.

They just... overcomplicated it.

But I guess I should've been worrying at least as much over the story mode. I mean, don't get me wrong, I applaud Nintendo for going the extra mile to actually give us story modes in these sorts of sports games, that does a TON to help justify the high asking price, but uh... good grief, not like this.

Funny thing is, from what I played of Aces the competitive play was just straight tennis without any of the extra rules and was largely played by Virtua Tennis players because it worked exactly the same. This is in fact why I bought Aces, and I found those comp players and they wiped the floor with me.

But that's been the thing since I saw a new Mario Tennis was out. While I'd certainly play the 1P stuff, I'd basically be paying $70 to once again have people to play Virtua Tennis against. I'm legitimately on the fence.

I ended up refunding this game. Nintendo was a PIA about it but this game is not worth $70 or even $50. Maybe $40. to keep it short, the game can be fun but only if the person you're playing against is pretty much exactly the same skill level as you - and that's not common. Every game was pretty much a steamroll. I'd either not struggle at all, or I'd be destroyed. Rarely was there any inbetween. I don't enjoy crushing people easily nor getting crushed so there was no fun in this for me except the very rare games where they enemy was on par with me and we'd win by 1