With 'Super Mario 3D World,' the plumber has transcended arguments of redundancy, even as the game representis one of the few franchises out there that iterates fun-focused dynamics rather than as a TV show scratching for life.
This kind of mix and match keeps the game fresh for as long as you want to play it. Chucking baseballs at each other is as much devious fun as it is integral to capturing green stars in the off-kilter Mystery House levels. Cat suits appear in levels of a vertical nature, but can also be saved to aid you elsewhere. Speaking of Plessie, expect to see the might level mechanic/creature multiple times, but as a mid-level switch-up instead of a full-level challenge. Nothing becomes tired because nothing is overused, and everything, like that cat suit, like the duplicating cherry powerup, like Plessie, serve their purpose in an exacting and dazzlingly efficient way. But to list every little twist would take far too long, because it's the crux of the gameplay to never stay the same. You'll be riding on the back of Plessie, a water-surfing dinosaur, zipping by boost pads on a Mario Kart-inspired level, trading blows with baseballs in cooperative play and crawling up previously insurmountable walls in your new cat suit. Importantly, not a moment or mechanic feels broken or unfair. Between the map and flagpole are a trove of ideas that fill each level with pinpointed and poignant entertainment.Īnd not a single level feels redundant or wasted. Replacing an overworld with a traversable map, and affixing each level with essentially the same exact goal – get to the flagpole – 'Super Mario 3D World' might initially seem less ambitious that its console predecessors, but the further you go, the more you realize the team is focusing with laser precision on one very important thing: level design. Like 'Super Mario 3D Land,' this game is set up with an overarching structure much more similar to the 2D counterparts. Nevertheless, the sequel, the game in question, 'Super Mario World 3D,' is, in the format of its direct predecessor, a seemingly never-ending well of novelty and creativity in level design, lacking only the awe and cosmic attributes of the Wii classics.įar and away, this is the Wii U's best game.
As good as that game was, to match the expansiveness and zaniness of the Galaxy titles might've required a bit more drugs than is safe for your average game designer. The Wii's 'Super Mario Galaxy' games dwarfed other 3D platformers and thereby defined generation it's that simple, but Mario's comeback to the 3D platformer on the 3DS with 'Super Mario 3D Land' didn't achieve the same heights. That's the burden of historical greatness. The expectations for Mario games are astronomically, comically high, and to assume a sense of entitlement for a better Mario than the last, particularly of his 3D adventures, is to embrace irrationality at its heart.
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