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Super Mega Baseball 4 Review – A Solid Change

Super Mega Baseball 4 Review – A Solid Change

As the genre has progressed through the generations, sports video games have become more and more complicated as they add more wrinkles to their team management tools and more depth to their action on the ground. Super Mega Baseball 4 is reminiscent of sports games from the mid-90s, bringing streamlined gameplay and amazing levels of customization while introducing new concepts. But while the backtracking approach is valid in many ways, it comes with some concessions.

Stepping onto the field in Super Mega Baseball 4 is a welcoming affair. I love the arcade-style approach the gameplay takes. Thanks to rock-solid mechanics, you can get through a game in no time, while feeling like you’ve made a huge impact in every playthrough. Metalhead Studio has done a great job of making scoring a strikeout from the rubber feel as good as sending a ball hovering into the bleachers from the batter’s box. However, the terrain leaves something to be desired, as the dive seems imprecise and I sometimes had trouble predicting where to position my flyer.

Batters and defenders automatically lock the ball, while pitch and pitch are determined by quick mini-games. While it pushed me over the dozens of matches I’ve played, I’ve always wished I could change the throwing game, which requires you to line up a moving crosshair with your target.

Each of these can be tweaked by changing your “Ego”, which is essentially your difficulty sliders, but I’m disappointed that none of these can be tweaked further. In fact, that’s one of my biggest complaints about the otherwise solid Super Mega Baseball 4: the options are so simple they basically only let you adjust the game’s audio and visuals, but not the gameplay itself. If you want a different camera angle or change control schemes, you’re out of luck.

Conversely, when it comes to team management, Super Mega Baseball 4 shines perhaps more than any other sports game to date. With hundreds of fictional players and real legends, the game already boasts a respectable roster even without the MLB license. However, I wanted to pay homage to the ’90s era of baseball that this game is inspired by, and Super Mega Baseball 4 let me do more than I wanted, letting me customize the look, gear, animations, music, and abilities, as well as my team’s uniforms and logo.

I spent time building my own team full of some of the stars that weren’t in the game, and when I was done the time investment was worth it as I had a team full of my favorite players from when I was most obsessed. on sport, which I could then use in all modes. The customization options in Super Mega Baseball 4 are simply outstanding, and if you’re like me and have taken your virtual tee-ball swings from games like Triple Play Gold Edition or Tony La Russa Baseball 2, you’ll absolutely love it. control of the options list of this game.

You can take any team into single matches, single seasons, bracket-style tournaments, online leagues, or my favorite mode: Franchise. I love the new Shuffle Draft system, which gives you eight player cards still available on the draft board. After you choose your player for this round, the remaining seven cards are returned to the deck, the other teams follow the process, and you are dealt another eight cards until the lists are full. This puts an exciting spin on deck building on traditional sports game drafting conventions. A few times I’ve done a Shuffle Draft for no other reason than to see what kind of team I could create.

In Franchise mode, management decisions are presented to you after each game. These range from the player getting the last pair of socks to the one to blame for a bad loss. While sometimes tedious, these decisions affect player loyalty, which comes into play in the offseason when it’s time to re-sign them. Free agency plays a big role, as contracts only last for one year, and I appreciate the ability to make simple one-on-one decisions based on position each offseason. However, I am disappointed with the lack of trading available. Even in old baseball video games, trading is one of my favorite things to do in long modes, so its absence is a bummer.

Despite some disappointing options and feature exclusions, Super Mega Baseball 4 is a solid alternative to Sony’s annualized MLB game. Fans of retro-style arcade baseball games will find plenty to love, and roster customization enthusiasts have their new gold standard.

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