While it’s a bit more engaging than Baseball in Wii Sports, Mario Super Sluggers doesn’t live up to the bar Nintendo set with Mario Superstar Baseball.

Super Sluggers takes much of the same gameplay as its older GameCube brother - fields that are more than typical baseball diamonds, special moves depending on the classic Nintendo character you’re playing as, and so on - and a few tweaks to the Wii Sports Baseball control scheme.

The problem is in the simplicity. Half the fun of the game is the control scheme, but using the movement-based controls means you can’t control baserunning or fielding aside from shaking the Wii Remote to speed up your character.

There are a couple other control options, including turning the remote sideways or plugging in a Nunchuck, but then you lose the fun of the Wii-style controls and it becomes a Superstar Baseball clone.