If there was one key problem, for me, with Mario Tennis Ultra Smash on Wii U, it’s that it was just tennis. It felt more like a tennis simulator than a game, and gamifying sport mechanics is what Mario has traditionally done incredibly well. For a sports game, it was fine, for a Mario sports game? Not so fine.

Thank goodness we have Mario Tennis Aces on the Nintendo Switch to sort things out, then. Mario forgot that sports were all about having fun, but luckily the team at Camelot have come together to make a much stronger showing this time around, one which had me playing sets for hours.