Mario Sports Mix

Mario Sports Mix (マリオスポーツミックス, Mario Supōtsu Mikkusu) is a sports video game developed by Square Enix for the Wii. It was released on February 7, 2011 in North America, and in early 2011 in other regions. It features volleyball, hockey, dodgeball, and basketball. The game features mostly characters and locations from the Mario series with a few guest appearances by characters from Square Enix’s Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series of games. Players can also opt to play as one of their Mii characters. Mario Sports Mix has received average reviews, having an aggregate score of 64/100 on Metacritic and on score of 65.59% on Gamerankings.

Gameplay
The game is played much in the vein of past Mario sports games, as well as Capcom’s Capcom Sports Club and Konami’s Tiny Toon Adventures: ACME All-Stars, with features such as powerful special moves and over-the-top, arcade-like gameplay. Both cooperative and competitive local multiplayer modes are featured: depending on the sport, two players (two-on-two) or three players (three-on-three) can play cooperative multiplayer and four players (two-on-two) can play competitive multiplayer in two teams of two. Online multiplayer is also featured, with two players per Wii console joining up to play two-on-two matches either against friends or against random players.

The game features mostly characters and locations from the Mario franchise with a few guest appearances by characters from Square Enix’s Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest series of games. The Ninja, White Mage, Black Mage, Cactuar and Moogle characters all appear from the Final Fantasy series, while the Slime monster from the Dragon Quest series also appears. Players can also opt to play as one of their Mii characters.