Topic: New Super Mario Bros. 2 Features Full-Game Co-op

[Traveller]

New StreetPass and co-op modes were revealed.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/30614

Today during Nintendo's 3DS Software Showcase, while discussing the features for New Super Mario Bros 2. Nintendo announced that the entire single player game will be playable cooperatively.

The gameplay will restrict the players' movements, requiring both Mario and Luigi to be on the screen at the same time. The camera will be tied to the lead player.

The new mode, called Coin Rush, utilizes Streetpass. In it the player can play a pack of three already completed levels with the goal being to collect as many coins as possible. Coins litter the stages in this mode and what were previously 1-Up Mushrooms become golden mushrooms worth 50 coins. Additionally, any remaining time on the clock is added to the player's score. The player also only has one life to work with in Coin Rush, and each score for a run is sent out via StreetPass, letting others see it when they replay the same three levels and try to beat the original player's score.

New Super Mario Bros 2 will launch on August 19, 2012.

[Adrock]

November 18, huh? There's no way Nintendo is launching Wii U on the same day (that rhymes). Maybe November 11, then?

[AV]

*yawn*


maybe as a mode in the new wii u game it would work, but as an entire game this game seems meh

[Traveller]

Mixup there, mario is august 19

[Adrock]

LIES AND DECEPTION!

[Chocobo_Rider]

Now, I'm pretty sure I know what the answer is, but just to be certain, the multiplayer is only local, right? =\

Have they explicitly said one way or the other?

[nickmitch]

Kind of a bummer about restricting movements. I wonder what that is.

[UncleBob]

Lame.  Wanted Mario vs. Luigi 2.

[HaloEliteLEGEND]

Two player multiplayer?
Very expectable...

[supergtt]

is the co-op online?

either way, pretty 'meh' on this game. I'm just not feeling nsmb level pack 3 very much.

[Chocobo_Rider]

is the co-op online?

either way, pretty 'meh' on this game. I'm just not feeling nsmb level pack 3 very much.

how did you feel when mb level pack 3 came out?

[UrameshiGU]

To me this game just seems so insanely uninspired. They kept the same music for this game that was in New Super Mario Bros. Wii, The art style is even exactly the same as the Wii's, and the buyer's "hook" for the game is simply collecting massive amounts of coins. It's almost like the entire premise of this game was thought up in a matter of a few seconds.