Junkballers who try to sneak fastballs in will routinely get them pounded in ways they did not in the first game. If they throw a pitch that is outside of their strength, and it’s poorly rated or poorly placed, it will be hit a mile, especially at higher difficulties. The experience kept me mindful that pitchers now have more of a “type” than they did in Super Mega Baseball. I worked to Burbony’s strengths and backdoored the hitter on a 2-2 count. Chugg now has a five-pitch makeup, which is very generous, but it comprises the slider, a cutter, a change, a two-seam fastball and the four-seamer. (It would be even more unfair in online multiplayer.) I went scratching for the forkball like a phantom limb when I had a runner on in the seventh inning against the Platypi. Burbony could whip out a forkball in a pinch, and it was utterly unfair. He could do it all, but he seemed to have no real personality on the mound. In the first Super Mega Baseball, Burbony had great velocity and decent junk ratings. Pitching, likewise, has a lot of cushion taken out of it now that pitchers have a more realistic repertoire of three to five pitches instead of access to all eight types. Mojo in Super Mega Baseball 2 makes me pay attention to what my players are doing more than I had to before. Moreover, it got her to “locked-in” Mojo status for the next game. In the third matchup against our nemeses, the ridiculous Crocodons, she hammered a two-run blast in the top of the ninth to knot the score. Mojo is still there it’s just driven entirely by in-game performance. Super Mega Baseball 2 is better by subtraction, not additionīut I stuck with Straus out of loyalty - she also looks cool as hell in the sequel’s updated visual style, with those shades underneath her catcher’s mask - and I was rewarded. She won numerous games for me in late innings because of the old Mojo system, and without that I almost considered benching her for Clutch Cormen, who has higher batting skills. Harmony Straus, for example, would go super saiyan in any extreme circumstance, maxing all of her batting ratings thanks to her Mojo attribute. In the first game, players had individual Mojo ratings, which most notably affected them in high-pressure situations. Take Mojo, the franchise’s defining trait, which can boost (or lower) a player beyond their attributes. Then, after about four games, I’d discover that I didn’t really need it to enjoy what is, at its core, a fantastic-playing game of baseball. But in my initial play of the season mode, I found that I would lament the absence of something I really liked in the first Super Mega Baseball. There’s online multiplayer, which the original game agonizingly lacked, and endless customization options for uniforms and league alignments (including a slew of out-of-the-box new teams to stock a custom league). There are new systems to contend with, such as injuries and general wear and tear, which deepen the intrigue. Super Mega Baseball 2 arrives at this familiarity by subtraction, not addition. It feels like the sequel to a sports movie, a lovable ensemble back with everyone in character. Masha Donga is still the ssh-don’t-tell weapon at leadoff. Janus Friedman is still a moping waste of time. The closer, Rogan Balls, has been relegated to setup duty, where he always belonged. In the new roster, Chugg Burbony has taken over as the staff ace, the role he claimed in season one.
But I’m picking up right where I left off. There are two new faces on the squad, and a few changes that seem to acknowledge what I’d learned about the ’Loads over the course of my time with them. If there is a National Super Mega Baseball Hall of Fame, I am going into it with that hippopotamus logo on my cap. When Super Mega Baseball stole my heart at the end of 2014, I ended up logging more than 150 games with one team, the Wideloads. For a genre where year-to-year sameness is a kiss of death for the licensed big boys, Super Mega Baseball 2 has the liberty of celebrating its recognizable appeal rather than piling on extra details like so many burger condiments. Super Mega Baseball 2 looks a lot different from the original, but I’ve never played a sports video game whose sequel felt as familiar as its predecessor.
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