The cutscene-heavy mode places you in the role of whichever character you choose as your silent protagonist, with the character of the opposite gender being your talkative sidekick throughout the game. Set either in a remote area of the Mushroom Kingdom or in a different area altogether with competing Tennis academies and characters appearing as quite "normal" humans compared to normal Mario characters, Power Tour focuses on a pair of young tennis players starting their careers at the Tennis Academy, a young boy named Clay and a young girl named Ace, and they aspire to become eventual Tennis champions. The game's main mode is dramatically different from the Exhibition mode, however: An RPG-based story mode called Power Tour that only features the Mario world and characters near its end. A Defensive Power Shot essentially saves you from losing a game by magically allowing you to return a ball otherwise far away enough from you that you can't reach it in time.Ī shot of standard gameplay in the Exhibition mode using Mario characters like Waluigi. An Offensive Power Shot either shoots the tennis ball forward much faster than normal, gives it propulsional force that "damages" the Power Meter of a character the ball crashes into, or imbues it with a special "magical" property that hinders the opponent receiving the ball, such as knocking that character back several feet or temporarily stunning.
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Characters have their Power Meters fill up over time, and once full they can unleash either an Offensive Power Shot or a Defensive Power Shot. All Mario Sports games implement a gameplay system of some sort to wildly differentiate from a normal sports simulator and adhere to the Mario aesthetic, and in this game this manifests in special moves called Power Shots.
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An arcade-like mode called Exhibition does serve this direct purpose, however, and you can use characters from the Mario series for playing casual tennis matches. Mario Tennis: Power Tour is a GBA tennis game classifiable as part of the wide-ranging Mario Sports game series, but it is by no means just a tennis simulator.