Everything: the trees, flowers, and even enemies have been altered to be cat-like. One of the bigger draws to this re-release is Bowser’s Fury, an entirely new mode that feels somewhere between Super Mario Odyssey and Super Mario Sunshine, only if they were both Super Mario 3D World in theme. Honestly, it feels as though Nintendo knows some bizarre secret about multiplayer Mario games and isn’t telling us, because while it’s a good laugh with like minded people, it remains a bit of an annoyance after a while. It’s smooth, don’t get me wrong, but it’s a shame it didn’t borrow the idea of Super Mario Maker 2’s co-op where you can even go off screen in a pipe and carry on playing separately from your partners. If someone gets too far ahead, the others will be bubbled and warped to the advanced player, and the online play doesn’t fix this. Offline, co-op is exactly as much madness as it is in games like New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe, but the 3D plane offers a little more chance for calm. New to the Switch version is an online co-op mode for up for four players. It’s worth noting that the Cat Suit dive can still be cancelled in mid-air, and those that know what that means… well, they know what that means. It’s elegant and works well, but the gimmickery of the Wii U was never over-used in this game anyway. The original Wii U title had touch controls for some smaller sections, and you can indeed use the Switch in handheld mode for these, but docked it’s a simple case of hitting the shoulder button and using the in-built motion controls. Move-sets are slightly different, but there’s a feeling of control Super Mario 3D World offers that I sincerely appreciate. 2 school of character selection is back in play: Mario is an all-rounder, Luigi jumps higher, Peach can float, and Toad is speedy Gonzales in Toad-form, but even Mario feels quicker and more responsive. Yes, it’s still a platformer and no, you aren’t going to suddenly forget the language of a Mario game, but it feels instantly faster than almost every other title. Where the main game here follows the tried and true progression from lush greenery through desert, ice, and everything in-between, the gameplay feels different. It’s fit to burst with creativity, and honestly, it’s brilliant to see probably the best Wii U game being given a proper chance with the audience base of the Switch. Captain Toad makes an appearance with unique puzzle levels which spawned an entire game in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, and that’s what I mean about the amount of ideas on offer being enough for multiple games in any other series. Despite being recognisable with its overworld map and distinct levels, there’s just so much here. Even in the first world there is such ingenuity that it’s hard not to just fall head over heels for the game. Even as someone who did everything available in the original Wii U release, levels would wow me over and over again as I played through this new version. On top of that, you’ve got the returning items like the Mega Mushroom, Propeller Box, and Boomerang Flower, and that proves how many ideas went into the 3DS title, Super Mario 3D Land, which I’d love to see revisited somehow, as well.īut Super Mario 3D World is pure happiness in gaming form.
Then there’s the Double Cherry (cloning the player multiple times over), Cannon Boxes, Light Blocks, Goomba Masks, and you can even pick up a Potted Piranha Plant that can eat enemies for you. Starting with the obvious star of the show: the Super Bell turns Mario into Cat Mario, and ushered in an entirely new way of platforming in the series, and I do think it paved the way for Cappy allowing Mario to almost fly across the worlds created by Nintendo for Odyssey.
This is a game that has enough unique and new ideas in it for five or six games in any other series. Ranking 3D Mario platformers aside, I truly envy anyone playing Super Mario 3D World for the first time. Look, I know that the business of games may not be the preferred topic of discussion when talking about something that’s otherwise so joyous, but there are only so many superlatives available to a critic and I want to space things out a bit, okay? With the broad appeal of the Nintendo Switch, there’s a very real possibility that a discussion might happen as to whether Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is actually on par, or better than Super Mario Odyssey.
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