Super Mario 3D Land

Super Mario 3D Land is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo and released for the Nintendo 3DS in 2011. It was followed by a sequel, Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U in 2013.

Why It Rocks

 * 1) Incredible and polished graphics for a game that came in early 3DS era.
 * 2) Tons of replay value.
 * 3) Great controls, thanks to the inclusion of the circle pad.
 * 4) There are three new power-ups: the Boomerang Flower, which lets you throw boomerangs at enemies, the Statue Leaf, which allows the player to turn into a statue similar to the Tanooki Suit from Super Mario Bros. 3, and the Invincibility Leaf, which is similar to the Super Leaf, but it provides invincibility.
 * 5) You can unlock Luigi by completing Special 1-Castle. Luigi controls differently, as he can jump higher and further, but he takes longer to slow down.
 * 6) There are callbacks to the previous games, such Poison Mushroom from mh:crappygames:Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels, which is much easier to tell it apart from a Super Mushroom and chases the player around. This is what inspired the Rotten Mushroom in Super Mario Maker 2, except that power-up can also climb up walls.
 * 7) Catchy soundtrack in which some of the songs would later be used in Super Mario 3D World.
 * 8) Great level design with fun and challenging obstacles, while also making use of the 3D space to hide secret Star Medals.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) The bosses are rather repetitive, as only Tail Bowser, Boom Boom, Pom Pom, Bowser, and Dry Bowser appear.
 * 2) Some levels are repeats of the previous levels.
 * 3) The camera is rather awkward in certain levels.
 * 4) Large amounts of content such as Mario and Luigi's voice clips, music and sound effects are recycled from Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2.
 * 5) The levels in special worlds are just recycled levels from regular worlds that are made harder by having different star placement, different enemies, a 30 second time limit, or a cosmic clone chasing you. Some of these are reused more than once.

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