Super Mario 3D World

Super Mario 3D World is a platform game released for the Wii U on November 21, 2013. It is a sequel to the 2011 Nintendo 3DS game Super Mario 3D Land. An expanded port, named Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, was released for the Nintendo Switch on February 12, 2021.

Super Mario 3D World

 * 1) This game is a massive improvement over Super Mario 3D Land (which is still a good game), with updated graphics, new power-ups, and the Sprixie Kingdom as the world map.
 * 2) Awesome, beautiful, and colorful graphics, even for the late year of 2013.
 * 3) Three new power-ups:
 * 4) * The Super Bell, allows you to turn into a cat, in which you can climb walls and scratch at enemies.
 * 5) * The Double Cherry, which can create a clone of your playable character up to five times.
 * 6) * The Lucky Bell, which has all the abilities of Cat Mario, but with the addition of turning into an invincible statue (Akin to Statue Mario in Super Mario 3D Land) and gain coins while falling as such along the way.
 * 7) Solid controls.
 * 8) Unlike its predecessor, the game now supports co-op gameplay with up to 4 players, which is very exciting.
 * 9) The game has 5 playable characters, each with their unique traits:
 * 10) Mario is an all-arounder with average speed, jump, and sprint.
 * 11) Luigi jumps the highest and has his trademark scuttle while having low traction and slower sprinting.
 * 12) Peach can easily float across gaps and has the fastest sprinting, but has slow speed.
 * 13) Toad runs the fastest at the cost of a low jump and slow sprinting.
 * 14) Rosalina plays similar to Peach, but ditches her floating with a spin attack to stun enemies (similarly to Mario's spin attack from Super Mario Galaxy), although it's lost whenever she gains a Power Up.
 * 15) Tons of replay value.
 * 16) Great platforming levels, as well as new concepts for Mario-styled levels including Clear Pipes.
 * 17) Very creative and brilliantly clever levels, like in one level where you would think the goal flag is really close to the start, but it starts to run away from the player as soon as you get close to it.
 * 18) The soundtrack is very catchy and has lots of charm, especially Double Cherry Pass.
 * 19) Creative boss battles.
 * 20) Each world requires you to save a single Sprixie Princess, and after you save one, they will take you to the next world.
 * 21) After completing the final world, you go to the bonus worlds, which is a nice nod to more challenged players.
 * 22) *When you collect all the stamps, Green Stars, and reach the top of every Goal Pole, you go to World Crown, which is home to the super-hard Champion's Road.
 * 23) The Nintendo Switch port has some changes:
 * 24) *The graphics have been updated tremendously.
 * 25) *Captain Toad's Adventures can be played with multiplayer now, with the whole Toad Brigade being playable (Captain Toad is still the only playable character in single-player mode, though).
 * 26) *Each players' movement speed has increased, thus allowing levels to be cleared far quicker than previously.
 * 27) *The players can now roll in midair.
 * 28) *The HUD is now smaller.
 * 29) *The pictures for the stamps are colored, and the stamps are more spread out on the Stamp Collection page.
 * 30) *When the players are in their cat forms, they can climb higher.
 * 31) *Amiibo supporting is now implemented. On that topic, if you scan an Amiibo, you get a new power-up called the Invincibility Bell, in which you turn into an invincible variation of the cat form, which is inspired by the Invincibility Leaf from Super Mario 3D Land.
 * 32) *Snapshot Mode from Super Mario Odyssey is added, where you can take photos when you play a level. You can also add stamps if you want to.
 * 33) Like Super Princess Peach, Peach is playable throught the whole game and doesn't need rescuing. Instead, she rescues the Sprixies.

Bowser's Fury

 * 1) A good standalone plot where Mario lands in Lake Lapcat, and Bowser Jr. must team up with him to stop Fury Bowser.
 * 2) The new location, Lake Lapcat, is a pretty interesting idea, to begin with since it is designed in an "open-world" platforming style, similar to a Metroidvania.
 * 3) Fury Bowser's design is awesome. Before, his black-colored appearance was based on Mario Party 2 during his metal shift then his black-colored appearance in Paper Mario: Color Splash after he covered himself in paint.
 * 4) The camera movement is now dynamic, thus making the gameplay more interesting.
 * 5) A total of 100 Cat Shines to collect, as well as some hidden Cat Shines.
 * 6) The soundtrack is just as catchy as Super Mario 3D World.
 * 7) Bowser Jr. is now a playable character. This allows for some interesting 2-player co-op.
 * 8) There are now cat variations of enemies and bosses from Super Mario 3D World.
 * 9) The new power-up, called the Giga Bell allows you to transform into Giga Cat Mario, in which you can actually fight Fury Bowser.
 * 10) *Even ignoring this, Giga Cat Mario's design is epic since it already parodies the Super Saiyan sequences from Dragon Ball Z.
 * 11) *Speaking of Dragon Ball, after beating the last phase of Fury Bowser, Bowser Titan's fight and the music is really epic and is considered to be the best boss ever created in the history of Super Mario.
 * 12) Lots of islands to explore, as well as creative platforming elements.
 * 13) Even Plessie from the Super Mario 3D World adventure re-appears in this mode.

Super Mario 3D World

 * 1) The camera angles can be disorienting at times, which can be due to the Wii U not having 3D effects.
 * 2) During co-op gameplay, when playing with 4 characters, the camera can struggle on which character it follows at some points.
 * 3) Co-op players all share lives, so you can get a game over even if you never lost a life but another player did.
 * 4) Unlike Super Mario 3D Land, the orange pipe is pretty disappointing, since it can only take you to the next world. To make matters worse, you can't save a Sprixie Princess unless you go back to the previous world to save it.
 * 5) In order to 100% complete the game, you have to beat each level as all five characters. Doing this with Mario and Luigi in Super Mario 3D Land is pretty tedious, but doing the same here can be 2 ½ times as tedious.
 * 6) While Champion's Road is challenging, it's notorious for its unfair difficulty, especially the part with the Dash Panels and the Ring Burners where you have to collect all the five Key Coins. What makes it even more frustrating is that there are no checkpoints throughout the entire level.
 * 7) *You can even run out of time while going through the "THANK YOU" clear pipes, which is very unfair.

Bowser's Fury

 * 1) A few of the Cat Shines can be really challenging, especially in Wasteland Giga Bell.
 * 2) After a while, the Cat Shine formula can get pretty predictable.
 * 3) Like Super Mario Odyssey, there are no extra lives or game overs whatsoever, and you instead lose a few coins after dying, which really isn't all that challenging.
 * 4) The game runs on 30fps on handheld mode, although that's likely to keep the Switch from overheating.
 * 5) Unlike in 3D World, there are only two playable characters, those being Mario (of course) and Bowser Jr.

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