I have a huge Mario gap in my gaming history because I ended up going: nes > Sega Genesis > ps1 > ps2 > ps3/wii > PC gaming (where I am today) there’s a lot I missed from Nintendo over the years but I recently played through this game and I personally loved how original and new/fresh it felt. Definitely reminded me of how i felt about Mario 3 on nes when I first played it.
What say you? Did you enjoy it? Want to see this become a new series in the Mario saga?
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It was good fun. I enjoyed the whimsical and trippy bits with the flower you could get in each level… and how the game mechanics changed each time.
Whether or not it deserves a series though??? I don’t really think so. These smaller Mario games like Wonder, 3D World, Bowser’s Fury, and New Super Mario Bros U to me are nice little appetizers between bigger 3D open world adventures like Odyssey and Galaxy. More than anything, I’d love love love LOVE to see a sequel of some sort for Odyssey or at least a few DLC worlds. But with Mario Wonder just releasing, and getting a Mario movie, I don’t think we’re going to see another major open world Mario game until the Switch’s successor releases.
I liked Wonder; I liked the movie; but if given the choice, 10 times out of 10 I’d choose even DLC for Odyssey over either of them… Wonder and the Movie were fun. Odyssey was pure joy. It’s been a looooong time since a video game made me unconsciously smile for as long as Odyssey did.
I think if I was playing alone I would like it more. The co-op design, particularly online, is not that great.
Of course they’re going to make more.
I think it is fantastic. Great level design, some of the wonder flowers had me laughing and some had me crying, though I have yet to 100% it (getting close). It’s 2D Mario done well! It’s not supposed to be baldurs gate level deep, it’s Mario wahooo
Feels like they took the best ideas from Mario Maker, polished it up to a glowing shine, mixed in some great movement, threw in a metric fuckton of whimsy and joy, and overall made a great game.
It’s the best 2D Mario since Super Mario World. I finished it with 6/6 medals (i.e., completed every last thing in the game). The five-star levels are a good challenge, although “The Final-Final Test” (final special level after acquiring 5/6 medals) is just cruel.
I’m having a great time with it. My wife and I are going through it together. Local multiplayer works great.
Having played various Mario games starting with NES I really enjoy the side-scrolling retro feel.
My partner and I are also enjoying it. The way the screen can only follow one person has killed us many times, but so far that’s the only bad fault.
Definitely adds to the challenge, but forces us to talk through the levels so that we move together.
Let Mario rest, goddamn
I think the only reason I liked it is bcz it reminded me so much of Super Mario World 2. It was just the right amount of new and nostalgia.
For me, these games dont make sense without multiplayer. I played it, finished it, deleted it.
