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Mario Strikers: Battle League, the upcoming football game, has a new gameplay trailer, but only in Japanese.
Nintendo has released the trailer on YouTube, to its Japanese account. Thus, you will only benefit from the trailer’s excited narrator if you speak the language.
Check out the trailer:
Thankfully, given the game’s premise, one doesn’t require fluency in Japanese to understand what is happening. There are Mario characters, and there is a football.
What’s more, Mario and his cohort appear to have decked themselves out in metal armour plating, giving them a slightly robotic appearance. I suppose the clue is in the game’s title: more than mere sport, there is battle to be waged and won.
Hence the fireballs, the giant banana skins, and the turtle shells barreling about. And hence, too, the way that they keep thumping each other—not purely in aggression to boost their allies onward.
Nintendo first revealed the game back in February. It’s the first Mario football game since Mario Strikers: Charged Football, in 2007. In our review of that game, Tom Orry said, “If you accept that the emphasis in Charged Football is on flashy moves and fun over skill and precision, you’ll find a game that has a place in your collection.”
Mario Strikers: Battle League is due for release on the Switch, on June 10th.
