Princess Daisy's Rabona-Infused Arrival Into Mario Strikers: Battle League Is Better Late Than Never

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I wasn't particularly sold on Mario Strikers: Battle League at launch. I was the ideal candidate in many ways. Strikers is in the mix for my favourite GameCube game, I love arcade sports titles, and football is my favourite sport. The camp cheesiness of it all only sweetened the deal, but the final game was just too empty. I gave it three out of five stars, putting me on the lower end of review scores, and it still feels a little high. The game was perfectly competent, but there just wasn't anything to it. No story mode, no real progression, online was impossible during the review period, and there just felt like no real point to any of it. Since turning in my review, I've picked the game up twice more for a few online games, but instantly put it back down. Now Princess Daisy is in the game, I'm diving right back in.

There are a few reasons why Daisy's addition matters, so I'm going to get the silliest one out of the way first - I really fucking love Daisy. Princess Daisy is my favourite Mario character by so far that the rest do not even register. Birdo is a trans icon and Waluigi is neat, but after that, meh. For how extraordinarily well known Mario and his considerable supporting cast are, the characters themselves haven't made much of an impression. Most people could recognise at least five Mario characters, and even casual players maybe double that, but do we like any of them? You're into video games enough to be reading a fluff article about a mid-tier sports game on the Nintendo Switch, and I bet you couldn't even name your favourite. No, you can't say Mario.

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Sure, I like the others enough. It's cool when the weird little guys come out to play. What's