Tennis Open 2020 Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

Tennis Open 2020 Switch NSP Free Download Tennis Open 2020 is a game that presents the appearance of a serious simulation of the sport, aiming for a more realistic style and even seeming to promise real simulations of actual pros and courts. However, suffice it to say that it quickly becomes apparent that every element of this game is a facade. First, the visuals here have some decent textures for the courts, a good overall resolution and framerate… but the players themselves are poorly detailed, with stiff animations, and the presentation as a whole feels lifeless and lacking in personality. And while the announcer and ball sounds are decent, the announcer has few lines and doesn’t name the players, the audience sounds canned, and the music (only in menus) is forgettable. ROMSLAB.COM BEST SWITCH GAMES

Tennis Open 2020 Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

What’s more, those “career tennis players from all over the world” that the game touts are only referred to by first names, and depicted with blurry, non-distinct visuals. Could “Roger” be Roger Federer? The game undoubtedly wants you to think that, but I have the sinking suspicion that full names weren’t used here because the game’s creators couldn’t get the license to use them, so instead we have to settle for generic versions. The gameplay here has players aiming the ball using the left stick, and this almost works okay, except this aiming feels really touchy, with the ball seeming to decide on a whim whether a shot aimed in any direction goes the way you want or wayyyy too far that way, as if you jammed the stick all the way in that direction.

Gameplay

What’s more, if you guessed that the odd choice of having left stick control the direction of the ball means that the right stick controls player movement, you’d be wrong. If you guess that players have no control over their movement whatsoever, congratulations! You win a cookie! Players do have some capacity to improve the way their character controls by partaking in “training” minigames (all of which amount to “hit the ball in the highlighted square”). However, these minigames are tedious and pointless, and seem attached to an in-game money system that seems like it was designed for a game that pushed microtransactions (although no microtransactions are present in this game).  Moonlighter Switch NSP

Tennis Open 2020 Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

If you want to guess this game is a port from smartphones, congratulations! You win a cookie! Oh, and I have to call out one other bit of false here: the game’s page on Nintendo.com. claims “Natural moves of the player and precise hits (drop shots, lobs, slices, slams) give you that real tennis feeling!” Well, yes, you’ll be doing a lot of slices (on accident, hitting the ball out), but drop shots, lobs, and slams? No. You can choose a direction to aim the ball, including aiming it closer or farther away, but you have no ability to make these different kinds of shots.

Let’s see what this serves up

Let’s kick things off with the visuals. To put it bluntly, they are bad, like early PS1 era bad. I know this started as a mobile game, but I am playing it on a console and ill judge it such and for a game releasing in 2020 it is terrible. From the bland, flat textures to the hilariously blocky and stiff character models, the game feels outdated in every way. They include names of real tennis players but attached to any of the 6 or so player models that are in the game. There is no variety in the courts. The crowd looks like cardboard cutouts (not unlike sports events at the moment, so I guess it has that going for it). Mortal Kombat 11 Switch NSP

Tennis Open 2020 Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

I can’t say much about the sound design because it’s just as generic as it gets. Compressed audio all over the place makes it sound amateur and shows the conversion from mobile to switch had minimal effort put into it. If you got Tennis Open 2020 thinking it might be a decent simulation of the sport, you would be sorely disappointed. Between the soulless presentation, the lack of control, the generic names, and the clear indication that this game is a half-hearted mobile port, this is a game that only does enough to have the appearance of a more serious tennis game, but it’s far too lacking in too many areas to be worth your time.

Wimbledo or Wimbledon’t?

So we have established the game is not a looker. So how about the gameplay? Well, I’m sorry to disappoint, but it’s not much better. When it comes to modes and features, there’s a few, but nothing feels any different due to one glaring problem, the controls. Since it was initially designed with a touchscreen in mind, you’d think they would maybe put some effort into changing the controls to fit the console right? Wrong, they replaced the touchscreen with all of the controls being mapped to the left stick. Push the stick up to serve, push it up again to hit the ball back and push it down for a spike. You can’t control movement, even the angle of the ball feels like it’ll go in that general direction but with no accuracy at all. Mother Russia Bleeds Switch NSP

Tennis Open 2020 Switch NSP Free Download Romslab

The game is very random and incredibly dull because of this. Career mode is just a string of matches with a cash prize at the end, but you’ll be lucky to get to the end of one cup never mind the 12 it gives you to play. You can earn cash to customise your racket and character, but it is such a basic level of customisation it’s not worth it. Overall I went into this hoping for a fun little tennis game, and I came out of it with severe disappointment and just bored to death. The game looks, sounds and feels so bland and it is very much just a quick cash grab. I would personally completely avoid this game and look into the other solid tennis titles on the Switch if that’s what you are looking for.

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