Aim for the Ace! for SFC

Review #2003

Aim for the Ace!

Keep your eye on the ball

SFC 1993 Nippon Telenet Sports Sports › Tennis
Aim for the Ace! screenshot for SFC
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
2 / 5

Gameplay

This game offers two views - a behind the shoulder perspective and a standard top-down view. I hate the first view because the scaling isn't good enough to accurately tell you how close the ball is to you. This causes a ton of swings and misses. Also, the camera tracks the ball so closely that it's nauseating. Maybe it would improve with practice, but I found this game to be extremely difficult to play.

The top down view looks more playable but the controls are incredibly floaty. Your character slides for half a second after releasing the dpad and so sounds up all over the court. It may look better but actually controls worse than the behind the shoulder view.

2 / 5

Level Design

No way to select the number of sets, the court type, or anything. You can only pick the mode l: Exhibition, Scenario, or Multi and then the match starts. Scenario is a Japanese high school story mode with a bunch of dialogue between matches.

1 / 5

Theme

This must be based on a tennis-themed anime or manga. Not my cup of tea.

3 / 5

Art Style

The visuals are impressive, but again sort of nauseating in motion.

3 / 5

Audio

Nice fanfares and menu music. Also the voices that announce the score are fun, of a little bit French.

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