Free update Mario Strikers: Battle League adds two characters and stadium

The first free update to the Switch game Mario Strikers: Battle League rolled out on Thursday. It adds, among other things, a new gear set, a new kind of stadium and the playable characters Daisy and Shy Guy.

The update was announced earlier this week and is now available. The new stadium is called Desert Ruin. As the name suggests, it lets the player play football in a ruin in the desert. The new gear set is the ‘Knight’ set, which gives the player extra strength. It is at the expense of the speed and technique stat. From now on, when the player selects the ‘random’ option when picking a character, it will automatically appear in the gear set that the player has selected for that character. Furthermore, Nintendo has made a few minor changes. Thus, the chance of scoring a goal from a long distance with a weak shot is reduced.

Mario Strikers: Battle League was released on June 10 for the Nintendo Switch. It was developed by Next Level Games, the studio behind the original Mario Smash Football game for the GameCube and Mario Strikers Charged Football for the Wii.