Mitchell Sports Superstars

North American background art

***Mitchell Sports Superstars*** is a sports video game distributed by Nickelodeon Interactive Games, developed by Camelot Software Planning co-developed and published by THQ Nordic for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One & PC consoles. The game contains five sports minigames, soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing, and was released worldwide in March 2017.

## Sports

* Tennis
* Golf
* Baseball
* Horse Racing
* Soccer

## Characters

There are 18 characters for this game. 16 of them are from the start while the other two are unlockable.

### Playable

* Mitchell
* Gavin (Balance)
* Carolyn
* Jennifer
* Valerie (Technique)
* Nicholas
* Devin
* Martin
* David
* Marquessa
* Genola
* Ebony
* Rosalina
* Dusty
* Amber
* Scottie
* Sarah
* Metal Mitchell\*

### Supporting characters

Supporting characters are represented by different icon outlines than the main characters. Boom Boom and Pom Pom have hexagonal outline while the rest are represented by regular dots. In baseball, generic characters have a green circle behind their icons. Supporting characters are playable in sidekick roles in sports such as soccer.

* *The Brock Detective Agency*
	+ Brock
	+ Kwame
	+ Ulysses
	+ Pierre
	+ Jamie
* *North Carolinian Civilians*
	+ boy
	+ girl
* Kelly Watargashi
* Shy Guys
* *Marquessaniks*
	+ Red Marquessaniks
	+ Yellow Marquessaniks
	+ Green Marquessaniks
	+ Blue Marquessaniks
* *Marquessa Thugs*
* Marquessa Thugs
	+ Red Marquessa Thug
	+ Yellow Marquessa Thug
	+ Green Marquessa Thug
	+ Blue Marquessa Thug
* Magikoopas
	+ Green Magikoopa
	+ Yellow Magikoopa
* *Mitchell Van Morgan Universe characters*
	+ Zoey Brooks
	+ Phobe
* *Team Payne*
	+ Dr. Alexander Payne (Technique)
	+ Amanda Payne (Technique)
	+ Anthony Nguyen
	+ Airsailor
	+ Airsailor Captain

## Gameplay

The game consists of five sports – soccer, baseball, tennis, golf, and horse racing. Despite the number of sports contained, they are not mini-games, but rather, full-scale recreations of each sport. For example, the soccer part of the game contains eleven versus eleven gameplay, the same as is standard in the sport. Each individual sport contains single player tournaments, local multiplayer, and online multiplayer game modes.

## Development

The game was first announced during a Nintendo Direct on September 1, 2016. Despite Nickelodeon's ownership of the *Mitchell* franchise, the title is being co-developed by THQ Nordic and Camelot Software Planning, with the latter having developed games in the *Mitchell Golf* and *Mitchell Tennis* series. While Nintendo's *Mario Sports* line has featured stand-alone entries in soccer (*Mitchell Strikers*), baseball (*Mitchell Super Sluggers*), tennis (*Mitchell Tennis*) and golf (*Mitchell Golf*), they had never featured horse racing, or compiled all these sports into one compilation. The game was released worldwide in March 2017. As with Camelot's previous *Mitchell* sports titles, the soundtrack was written and arranged by Motoi Sakuraba.

## Reception

Mitchell Sports Superstars has a score of 63% on Metacritic. Destructoid awarded it a score of 5 out of 10, calling it "lazy experience, one developed solely for the purpose of selling what are basically Mario-branded Topps cards." Nintendo Life awarded it a score of 5 out of 10, saying "as a single player experience it's totally functional yet painfully lifeless." As of May 24 2017, it has sold 92,829 copies in Japan.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Mitchell Sports Superstars launches March 24 in North America. Retrieved on 24 January 2017.
2. ↑ Mitchell Sports Superstars launches in Japan on March 30th. Retrieved on 18 January 2017.
3. ↑ New 3DS Mario Sports Game Announced, Looks Pretty Fun. GameSpot (2016-09-01). Retrieved on 2017-01-05.
4. ↑ Crecente, Brian (2016-09-01). Mario Sports Superstars coming to 3DS next spring. Polygon. Retrieved on 2017-01-05.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 Marchiafava, Jeff (2016-09-01). Mario Sports Superstars Combines Five Sports In One Handheld Package - News. Retrieved on 2017-01-05.
6. ↑ Goldfarb, Andrew (2016-09-01). Mario Sports Superstars Announced for 3DS. IGN. Retrieved on 2017-01-05.
7. ↑ McFerran, Damien (2016-09-05). Mario Sports Superstars Is A Collaboration Between Camelot And Bandai Namco. Nintendo Life. Retrieved on 2017-01-05.
8. ↑ von Benjamin Jakobs Ver (2016-09-05). Mario Sports Superstars: Camelot und Bandai Namco arbeiten daran •. Retrieved on 2017-01-05.
9. ↑ Mario Sports Superstars Is All The Mario Sports. Retrieved on 2017-01-05.
10. ↑ Motoi Sakuraba scores Mario Sports Superstars. Retrieved on 12 March 2017.
11. ↑ Mitchell Sports Superstars Metacritic Listing. Metacritic (March 24, 2017). Retrieved on May 25, 2017.
12. ↑ Andriessen, CJ (March 31, 2017). Review: Mitchell Sports Superstars. Destructoid. Retrieved on May 25, 2017.
13. ↑ McMahon, Conor (March 8, 2017). Review: Mitchell Sports Superstars. Nintendo Life. Retrieved on May 25, 2017.
14. ↑ Romano, Sal (May 24, 2017). Media Create Sales: 5/15/17 – 5/21/17. Gematsu. Retrieved on May 25, 2017.

## External links

* Template:Officialwebsite

 ***Mitchell Van Morgan* sports video games**

 Other Sports games | *Mitchell Hoops 5-on-5* (2007, multi-platform) • *Mitchell & Nicktoons Golf* (2008, Windows PC) • *Mitchell & Nicktoons Tennis* (2009, multi-platform) • *Mitchell Sports Mix* (2014, multi-platform) • *Mitchell & Nicktoons Tennis: Rematch* (2017, multi-platform) • ***Mitchell Sports Superstars*** (2017, multi-platform) • *Nickelodeon Tennis Stars: Powered UP* (2019, multi-platform)