Topic: Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

@Sugarkist Okay great! When's a good time for you?

@TeeJay Oh yeah, I always skip the credits when I have the opportunity. Probably not the best idea to put important story bits there.

Now completed everything in the main game with Mario except for Champion's Road. This has to be the most infuriating experience I've had with a game in a while. Not only are these the most difficult platforming challenges in the game, but they come with no powerups or checkpoints. Been playing for an hour and not even managed to get halfway through!

I'm considering stopping here, although it would be a shame not to go for 100% :/

How were other people's experiences with this level?

Still got Bowsers Fury to go though...

@jump
Luigi's Mansion 3 is the worst for giving you cool rewards you'll never use after getting 100%. I spent so much time getting all the Boos and all the gems and stuff, and then you get some kinda neat cosmetic things like for your flashlight but... I already 100%'ed the game, I'm not going back lol

@rallydefault To be fair you can show them off when playing online but.....online is probably pretty dead.

Ya know - it really would be great if I could see how many hours I've invested playing this so far. I'm about halfway through World Castle in 3D World and I've finished Bowser's Fury.

Instead the Switch can only tell me - 'First played 9 days ago'. Well yeah, no sh**, and thanks for that useless piece of information.

@TeeJay Online is like with the NES and SNES games included with NSO, you can only play online with friends.

@Tendo64 the switch parental app does this

@Grumblevolcano Are you replying to an older post? Cause I've known this for a while now lol. I've played with friends a few times already too

@TeeJay It was your comment about online probably being pretty dead.

@TeeJay
True, but yea, it's pretty dead. At least last time I checked.

Anyway, back to this thread, I played a bit of Bowser's Fury last night with my daughter - I love it! Mario seems to have full motion in it rather than the 8 directions... or maybe I'm just losing it lol

@Grumblevolcano Wait I thought you could play with randos in Luigi's Mansion 3.

@TeeJay Got confused, thought you were talking about 3D World. LM3 does have online with randoms.

Yea we got our lines mixed there a bit. LM3 you can random. There were some people still playing it as of a couple months ago.

In World 6 now & some of those stamps are starting to be hidden pretty well now. I must have replayed 6-1 (the one with all the clear pipes) like 5 times before I figured out where it's was located (and a similar number of times for 6-3, the Japanese castle level).

Figured I'd drop this gem I found while crawling YT a few years ago here.

(Warning: Contains language)

The end still makes me laugh. XD

Well, just beat the main game of 3D World. It's pretty much what I thought it was, a regular old linear Mario game with some interesting level gimmicks. To its credit I do think it's the best of the linear Marios, but that's not saying much because most of them are fairly samey gameplay wise.

This game is also really irritating to play with a drifting Joycon. I got sick of dealing with it to the point where I resorted to using Peach on most of the levels to compensate, and I pretty much had to give up on the stamp on A Beam in the Dark because it's nearly unbeatable as Luigi. Definitely not 100%ing this game without a fully working Joycon, if A Beam in the Dark is this hard with a drifting Joycon, I don't even want to bother with Champion's Road (I'm not even sure I want to bother with Champion's Road period, but definitely not without a working controller). But even beyond the drift, the controls feel a bit off, they're too stiff and there's not a good sense of momentum.

So yeah, I'm glad I waited until they added Bowser's Fury to this game before I bought it. The base game isn't all that special and it's the Bowser's Fury content that really puts this game over the top. It's not a bad game by any means, it just doesn't stand out all that much to me, the level gimmicks don't really make up for the fact that it's the same old formula done to death, it's the change in mechanics in Bowser's Fury that do.

As much as I love 3D World, I'm noticing that the speed increase is sometimes proving more of a hindrance than a help. Even when I'm using Peach, who had the slowest movement speed of all the characters, I'm finding myself overshooting jumps that I would never have done so in the Wii U version. I overall like the faster movement speed, but it has killed me on multiple occasions because I was too used to the original.

100 percenting the game would be a total nightmare.

Do the stamps really serve any purpose to collect? On several levels I've made the call to skip past the stamp as it's not worth the trouble dying for if unsuccessful in pursuit of it. If I get them, great, if not, who the hell cares.

Currently on World Bowser and looking forward to it being finished. Solid game without being outstanding.

I had it on the Wii U and re-purchased but I'm not noticing the faster speed as an hinderance myself. Maybe it's because I've not got that far into 3D World yet, I'm taking my time so far in between other games.