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Mario Strikers Charged

Mario Strikers Charged is the latest Mario Sports game right now. What sport is this game played at? Why, it’s soccer. In a general rule of soccer, you and your team must work together to shoot a ball in a net past the goalie. In this game, there are new things that have added to make things more exciting.

For starters, there are as many as 12 Captains and eight Sidekicks to choose from. Here, in Mario Strikers Charged, there are four players on each side. There is one captain and three sidekicks on each side. These are the captains: Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi, Donkey Kong, Bowser, Wario, Waluigi, Bowser Jr., Diddy Kong, and Petey Piranha. These are the sidekicks: Hammer Bro., Toad, Birdo, Koopa Troopa, Dry Bones, Boo, Monty Mole, and Shy Guy. Each character has unique abilities and powers to use against their opponent.

There are quite a few things to know about Mario Strikers Charged that makes this game totally unique. Items- You can use items to help you win those games. There are two ways to get items: A. You can do a charged shot, and B. If your opponent rams a player that doesn’t have the ball. Here are examples of some items; A. Mushroom- you become a litter bigger and move faster for a short time, B. Stars- Become invincible to everything for a short time, C. Bom-ombs- Explosive bombs that fall from the sky and attacks opponents. There are many more items in Strikers. Use them to your advantage.

The captains have two special things to use: Megastrikes and Super Abilities. 1. Super Abilities- these are items that only captains can use. It appears as a regular item would, but has faces of the captain of the team. As a bonus, the crowd starts chanting the captains when you have a Super Ability stored. Super Abilities are special items that help you in a pitch. Here are a few examples: A. Super Mario- Mario becomes huge and squashes anyone that gets in his way. B. Thunder Wham- Donkey Kong pounds a huge shockwave to other players, causing a tremendous throwback. Super Abilities are the ace in the hole for many players.

2. Megastrikes- these are the ace in the hole for the players. There are two meters that determine the number and speed of the balls. The left shows how many balls are launched. Get to as close the end part (six balls) without hitting the edge (three balls). You always have 3-6 balls that could possible go in. The right shows the speed of the balls. The gray part is slow, the green is fast, and the orange is super fast. The range of the meters depends on the type of play like Power, Balance, etc. Careful while trying to set up, other players can interfere while getting the meters up. But when it’s done, you might have 6 very fast balls going into the net. Careful again, Kritter (goalie of the teams) can stop the balls. But the faster the balls, the harder it is to stop the balls, and the more balls you get out, the merrier.

Sidekicks have two special abilities as well. 1. Deke/Fake- the special power of the sidekick. They use this mini-superpower to attack/dodge nearby opponents. Captains have these abilities, too. Hammer Bro. has the Hammer Slam that crushes nearby opponents, and Dry Bones can teleport that moves them from one place to another to dodge players and score. The better the color of the ball is, the farther the teleport. 2. Skillshot- Special powers to the sidekicks that are similar to Super Abilities to the Captains, but set up like you would a Megastrike. Hammer Bros. as Hammer Throw, throws 5 hammers to the goalie, then shoots the ball to get the goal, but you have to be close for it to work; and Dry Bones has the Shocker, in which he shoots a huge ball of electric shoots into the goalie, and then you shoot the ball into the goal. Try out all the Skillshots to see which ones you like the best.

This game has many combinations of teams, many fields to play on with lost of obstacles along the way, in-game cheats to access with the Striker Challenge, and trophies to win in the Road to the Striker Cup. Have fun, and work harder to become a Megastriker.

By Warren Carlin