


Each player needs their own Switch and a copy of the game to play. Both Tokyo 2020 and Tokyo 1964 events are available to play in this mode, and the length of matches can be adjusted. Players can connect multiple Nintendo Switches, either through the Switch's local wireless functionality or through a local area network, to play together. Eggman getting stranded inside a video game based on the Olympic Games of Tokyo 1964, and Luigi and Tails attempt to get them out, encountering various other characters on the way. The story involves Mario, Sonic, Toad, Bowser, and Dr. This is where the player can play the game's single-player story. The CPU difficulty can also be set here, the options being "Normal," "Hard," or "Very Hard." Each difficulty has its own set of medals for each event. After selecting Quick Match, the player will first choose how many players are playing before selecting events. Quick Match is where the player can play any of the game's events with any of the playable characters. 7 Differences from previous installments.4.13 Chapter 13: The Excitement Battery.4.8 Chapter 8: Under the Olympic Cauldron.4.1 Chapter 1: A Mysterious Game System.Despite the real-world Summer Olympics being postponed to 2021, the game still honored and bore the "2020 Summer Olympics" title. This causes Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 to have the longest gap between the game's release (November 2019) and the commencement of the actual Olympics (July 2021) out of any Mario & Sonic game. ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced on March 24, 2020, that the 2020 Olympic Games would be postponed to a later date in 2021, which was later revealed to be July 23, 2021, to August 8, 2021. The game is the first home console installment to include a Story Mode, which takes place in both 2D and 3D. 2D Events are introduced, which are events from the 1964 Summer Olympics, use only button controls, and are based on older sports games, utilizing the 8-bit ( Mario) and 16-bit ( Sonic) styles.

Additionally, the game's title places the location and year (Tokyo 2020) after "Olympic Games" rather than before, while it is completely omitted from the logo in non-Asian versions of the game. Unlike in previous games, most characters wear appropriate sports clothing depending on the chosen event. It is also the first Mario & Sonic game to be published by Sega in Japan and other East Asian countries, and the last game overall to be developed by AlphaDream following its bankruptcy on October 1, 2019. The game has also two companion games: an arcade version of the game that released in Japan on January 23, 2020, and a mobile game featuring only Sonic the Hedgehog characters that released on May 7, 2020. The game was formally revealed in Nintendo's E3 Nintendo Direct of 2019 and was released for the Nintendo Switch on November 1, 2019, in Asia and November 5, 2019, in North America. It was initially announced on March 29, 2019, as one of Sega's new video games to be based on the 2020 Olympics.
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This marks the first instance where the series skips a year of the Olympic Games, as Ubisoft acquired the rights to develop 2018 Winter Olympics video games before Sega could.

It is based on the real-world 2020 Summer Olympics, which took place in Tokyo, Japan. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 is a sports game and the sixth installment in the Mario & Sonic series, and the fourth one based on the Summer Olympics. Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020įor alternate box art, see the game's gallery. For the arcade game of the same title, see Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 - Arcade Edition. This article is about the Nintendo Switch game.
