

Some players are so incensed that they're trying to get a refund. It makes for very shallow gameplay for most matches because there isn't enough time to feel like you are developing a good strategy against your opponent." It completely shatters the rewarding feeling of fighting tooth-and-nail for 20+ minutes to come out the victor by a tiny margin. "It erases the incredible comeback victories you can have after being down 90 per cent of the match.

"It dispatches the adaptability of techniques you need to utilise when your opponent has figured your playstyle out. "It belittles the mental warfare you and your opponent are having as you try to outplay one another," Ventus55 continued. Redditor Ventus55 said forcing quickfire matches on players "removes all the deep analysis you sort through when battling a tough opponent". There are some Mario Tennis Aces players who are pretty furious right now. It's also odd in the context of previous Mario Tennis games, which did let you tweak the game and set count in the settings.

You have to play best of three games and that's it. You can't change the number of games that make up a set. But what's odd here is there is no way to tweak the settings. I presume Nintendo set Mario Tennis Aces to play this way to keep match length down to a minimum (pass the pad and all that). So, you can win a match in just eight points. In Mario Tennis Aces, it's best of three games wins the match. The final set (either best two out of three or best three out of five) must be won by two games, for example 6-4, 8-6, 10-8 and so on. To win a set you either need to be first to win six games or, if it's a tie at six games each, win a tiebreaker.

It turns out, outside of the CPU tournaments, Mario Tennis Aces forces you to play a shortened version of tennis that follows the same scoring rules as tennis, but not the established game, set and match rules. The Nintendo Switch game came out yesterday, 22nd June, and while it's going down well with players (Martin called it "fun - if a little fuzzy and fiddly" in Eurogamer's Mario Tennis Aces review), it didn't take long before people noticed there's something very odd about the game settings. Mario Tennis Aces doesn't let you play a regular game of tennis - and some people are so upset they're trying to refund the game.
