Combine the style of 3D Land with the multiplayer of New Super Mario Bros. and then dream for the exploration of Galaxy.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/blog/34825
From what I've seen and played of Super Mario 3D World, it seems to combine a lot of what I loved about recent Mario games. It has the revelatory multiplayer experience that goes between cooperation and playful competition with ease. Unlike New Super Mario Bros. U, which lost a bit of the novelty factor since New Super Mario Bros. Wii did that multiplayer three years prior, it feels fresh. Each character controls differently and playing together in 3D space is, no shock, a ton of fun. Even the bubble system is a lot friendlier, letting players automatically bubble up when they're left off screen (or some jerk runs quickly ahead while you try to explore).
3D World also has the marvel of Super Mario 3D Land, which is easily in the same league as Super Mario 64 and Galaxy for me. It has that same freedom of 3D space while still retaining some more of the 2D Mario elements that were a little lost in the transition to 3D. The cat suit adds a sense of variety, especially since the suit has so many options. You can climb up walls. You can do a diving strike similar to the flying kick in TMNT arcade games. You can scratch enemies. You can look freaking adorable as a cat with a cute tail and a sweet headpiece. Hell, Luigi is like a spotted leopard. It is incredible.
The one thing that 3D World lacks, at least in demo form, that I miss about older 3D Mario titles is the sense of exploration. It’s what made Super Mario 64 and Galaxy such sublime experiences. Worlds had personality and were filled with colorful themes and characters. As much as I love 3D Land, the landscapes were a little sterile, and at first glance, 3D World might be more of the same. Of course, it might have that exploration, but at this stage, all we can do is guess.
Still, the wait until December will be unbearable. I can’t wait for Super Mario 3D World. Have you seen how cute the cat suit is? It is so cute!
So 3D World is like step two in the grand plan to dumb down Mario.If that's what Nintendo did, they need to keep doing that because 3D Land was sexmazing. I invented a word to describe how good it is.
the problem with a playable Peach character is, who are you rescuing? In all Mario games your always traveling through the worlds to ultimately save princess Peach. So what's my motivation now?
And yet, this piece reads like justifying things from Stockholm syndrome victim. "Let's dream", "it might have". It feels like you're apologetic about your excitement.Neal IS a Nintendo apologist (his last blog post was titled "Wii Party U Is Actually Really Fun"). But at least he wears it on his sleeve.
Neal IS a Nintendo apologist (his last blog post was titled "Wii Party U Is Actually Really Fun"). But at least he wears it on his sleeve.But Wii Party IS fun! ;p
It seems to me that Mario games are both. The biggest difference is that Nintendo is now willing to keep pumping out games without the genre-defining attributes in the interim, and Miyamoto or whoever seems to be having a harder time coming up with those boundary pushing creative mechanics.
I just hope that this isnt THE Mario game, and is just a basic 3D one to satisfy fans while working on the actual console 3D Mario game.Yoshiaki Koizumi mentioned that his main project is not Super Mario 3D World (if that spanish translation is accurate).
If this is it, then I'll be insanely disappointed in EAD Tokyo and especially Nintendo for thinking this is enough.
Don't forget to take Miyamoto's modern visions with a grain of salt.I just hope that this isnt THE Mario game, and is just a basic 3D one to satisfy fans while working on the actual console 3D Mario game.Yoshiaki Koizumi mentioned that his main project is not Super Mario 3D World (if that spanish translation is accurate).
If this is it, then I'll be insanely disappointed in EAD Tokyo and especially Nintendo for thinking this is enough.
I can't wait to see his project. He is one of the greatest game designers in Nintendo right now and more than a worthy successor to Miyamoto even his vision clashes with Shiggy at times.
Super Mario 3D Land is my favorite game of all time. I would be ecstatic to get more of that.
Seriously, all the haters can go **** themselves.
Whoa...chill out. Ain't nobody hating here.I recommend rereading the thread. Unless you mean "ain't nobody" as a double negative meaning somebody...
But nobody is hating. I think some people are responding to Neal's excitement by saying why the game isn't exciting to them, and are just responding to reasonable hype with reasonable anti-hype. Some people aren't excited because the first 3D Mario of a console is traditionally used to be the exciting, brand new application of Mario that no one has seen before. This game is not that. It is 3D Land 2.Whoa...chill out. Ain't nobody hating here.I recommend rereading the thread. Unless you mean "ain't nobody" as a double negative meaning somebody...
Super Mario 3D Land isn't significantly more linear or less open to exploration that the Galaxy games were, Galaxy just did a better job of hiding it. It seems pretty clear at this point that EAD Tokyo doesn't want to make a Mario game with that much exploration emphasis, so I wouldn't get your hopes up for the next one being that way.3d land has quite a few nicely hidden things but there is so little incentive to look for them...
and the time limit kills any incentive to do soSuper Mario 3D Land isn't significantly more linear or less open to exploration that the Galaxy games were, Galaxy just did a better job of hiding it. It seems pretty clear at this point that EAD Tokyo doesn't want to make a Mario game with that much exploration emphasis, so I wouldn't get your hopes up for the next one being that way.3d land has quite a few nicely hidden things but there is so little incentive to look for them...
You don't have to be a Nintendo apologist to like Wii Party U. The game's predecessor had a ton of fun multiplayer games and modes, and the Wii U version only seems better.I never meant that to imply that only Nintendo apologists like Wii Party U or should like Wii Party U. My brief time with that game on the show floor was amusing. I meant that the title of that blog post reads as though Neal is aware that the game is perceived as not being good/creative/whatever, and that he's going out of his way to defend it.
I won't deny being a Nintendo apologist, but considering I started that off with "my reaction to Wii Party U was a sneer," you could think of a better example, TYP. :PAt least to me, the terms "apologist" and "fanboy" are not the same thing, though both could apply to the same person in a given situation. You were skeptical of the game at first (unlike a fanboy), but after you got some time with it you liked it, and now you are defending the game from unwarranted criticism or apathy. Since an apologist is someone who "speaks or writes in defense of someone or something", (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apologist?show=0&t=1372909040)it is an appropriate label.