Mario Football: Touchdown!

Mario Football: Touchdown!, known outside of the U.S. and Canada as Mario Gridiron: Field Goal!, is a Mario sports game developed by St. Clair Publications. Notable for being "The Pubs"' only Nintendo 3DS title, it's the second entry in the Mario Football franchise, coming 12 years after the GameCube original.
==Gameplay==
As before, the game uses a truncated format of American football, with 5-minute quarters and the same people playing both offense and defense. The game uses a team system similar to that in Super Mario Strikers, with five players per team instead of the 11 seen in real life. As before, you assemble a team by picking a captain, followed by four filler characters. On offense, the player you control is the one who has the ball.
New to this game is the addition of Power Shots. As with the Final Fantasy series' limit meter (and the Final Smash meter in the then-pending Super Smash Bros. Ultimate), Power Shots become available if your Power Meter becomes full. You can then press to activate a super shot that will almost certainly score you a touchdown (if you're on offense) or an interception or block (on defense). However, Power Shots are not foolproof.
Also new to this game are Star Courses, enhanced versions of the regular courses which feature traditional Mario obstacles such as pipes, Thwomps, and Chain Chomps.
Finally, in this game, characters are actually limited to which courses they can play on in Exhibition and Tournament Mode, although those limits can gradually be lifted via Mushroom Bowl wins.
==Controls==
If you're playing on a New Nintendo 3DS, the ZL and ZR buttons perform the same functions as L and R, respectively.
Offense:
*: Move
*: Fake out
*: Pass
*: Punt/kick
*: Use item
*: Take a knee
*: Pause.
*: Switch item order.
*: Make a lobbing shot in conjunction with or .
Defense:
*: Move.
*: Switch who you're controlling
*: Low tackle
* or : Use item
* or : High tackle
*: Switch item order.
*: Pause
==Game modes==
*Exhibition: Play a single game.
*Tournament: Play a single elimination tournament with up to 16 participants.
*The Mushroom Bowl: Play a season of eight games.
*Training: Practice.
*Records: View your records.
==Characters==
This game features 12 playable team captains, 8 of which are available by default. This is down from the prequel, blamed by Alex on a combination of hardware limitations and other unknown factors.
However, there are now 18 "lackeys" this time around, up from the prequel and all of which are available from the start.
==Stadiums==
This game features 24 stadiums, eight of which are available by default and four of which come with unlockable captains. These twelve are "normal" football stadiums that have no gimmicks whatsoever. The remaining 12 have some kind of gimmick attached to them to make the game more difficult.
==Items==
All items from the prequel return in this game, functioning the same way they did before.
==Reception==
While this game did get better reception overall than the original Mario Football, St. Clair Publications lost some points due to the lower roster and some clunkier mechanics.
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