Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is the sixth installment in the Mario & Sonic series based on the real-world 2020 Summer Olympics, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan. The game includes a…
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is a sport developed by Sega Games, released 1 November 2019 on Nintendo Switch.
What Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is a sport game developed by Sega Games and released in 2019. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo Switch only. It runs on Hedgehog Engine 2. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is the sixth installment in the Mario & Sonic series based on the real-world 2020 Summer Olympics, which will take place in Tokyo, Japan. The game includes a number of events, including returning ones from previous Mario & Sonic titles, such as boxing, soccer, swimming, and gymnastics, and new ones, such as karate, skateboarding, sport climbing, and surfing. It will also feature a mode with 2D Events where players can compete in classic 2D versions of events from the 1964 Summer Olympics. Based off older sports games, these events are played using button controls only and will only feature eight playable characters. These 2D Events' animations…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and party. It supports multiplayer for up to 4 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 4 players. Available modes: Multiplayer, Single player and Split screen.
Where it sits in the Sonic The Hedgehog series
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is the 338th of 407 entries we hold in the Sonic The Hedgehog series. The next entry was The Ultimate Sonic Bundle in 2019. Its critic score of 63 is 8 points below the series average of 71. The highest-rated entry is Super Smash Bros. for Wii U at 95.
How it was received
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 holds a critic score of 63 out of 100. That places it above 30% of the 1,609 rated sport games in our database, which average 68. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 6 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 launched on 1 November 2019, within three weeks of Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds and Disco Elysium. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death Stranding, Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order, The Outer Worlds, Disco Elysium.
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