Super Mario Wonder

[dataDave]

I like it how even the piss waterfalls area looks absolutely amazing.

[Neon Ignition]

Yep, an hour at a time feels about right. When they said they encouraged the devs to throw ideas into it, that's very much how it feels to play which might explain why it doesn't feel like the flow is the same as World/Island etc. It's less an adventure and more an experiment with level design at times. Happy to see it continue though over NSMB

[dataDave]

That's exactly how I thought about 3D World. Any one particular theme of a stage was never replicated again at any point. Although I think I remember 'medley' style stages later on that strung together sets of previous ideas into one course.

[endo]

This is probably GOTY for me, if SF6 doesn't pip it. I keep going to play it for 10 minutes and invariably end up spending a couple of hours per session at least. I agree that there's possibly a sense of, let's say, incohesiveness, in that each level throws a new idea at you (two per level when you take into account the wonder flowers), but the overarching feel of the world is very cohesive and it does have modern-day SMW vibes, as mentioned elsewhere in the thread. It's classic Nintendo stuff, in that the gameworld is absolutely compelling and totally disarming, and is miles away from the dead end the NSMB games were heading down. I've been playing solo and with the kids and it's just wowed all of us. Marvellous game.

[cutmymilk]

The end game has been wonderful, especially the star world levels and finding the secret endings. It is difficult but you can just feel yourself improving and nothing is impossible like every great Mario game.

I forgot all about the Mario Kart DLC and Mario RPG is out next week. Switch is about all I need these days. What a treat!

[importaku]

Pretty much done all the levels 100% now including all of the special stages, the only one kicking my ass is the wonder gauntlet final special stage, handful of standees to grab as well but seeing as i haven;t played any online with it i haven't been grabbing them obsessively.

A really fun & refreshing mario game, despite the general consenus of the talking flowers been annoying i actually really like them they have made me laugh so many times. For me they can add more into the upcoming mario games lol, although maybe they are unique to the flower kingdom so unless we return they won't be used. One thing i really did love is the fact the enemies now have proper personallities the way the goombas eyes follow you as you play and the little look of horror as they are about to be squashed is soo good.

[cutmymilk]

I love the X eyes they get when an elephant flings them.

[Atticus]

Finished this week and very impressed. Pure joy and creativity from start to finish. So much effort has gone into the game ... it's better than it probably needed to be. Never thought we'd get another 2D Mario Bros game of this standard but Nintendo have delivered.