Topic: Super Mario Bros Wonder

@RupeeClock I assumed that online co-op would be one of the options when you set up a room? as well as the races.

Yep, I'm even more excited for this game. This game, quite simply, looks totally awesome, and October 20th can't come soon enough. My only concern is the online modes. It's cool that we can race our friends in levels, but I was kind of hoping for online co-op to be a thing. Hopefully they'll add it in the future. Other than that, I'm super excited for it.

Wonder's looking like everything I loved about 2D Mario but dialed up to 11 while also ditching a lot of the annoyances those games had as well, fantastic Direct and I cannot wait for it to come out!

There are a few hands-on previews going around at the moment from various gaming journalists.

Does include gameplay seperate from the direct so if you're trying to avoid spoilers then I'd say give it a miss.

how does a yoshi carry an elephant mario?

With difficulty.

This game looks so stupid and fun in the best way. I wonder if that supposed September direct can announce anything that will even make me slightly consider buying something that isn’t Mario Wonder in October or even the rest of the year. This game is a lock for me, sorry metal gear collection.

The only thing that will make me consider not buying Mario Wonder this year is if a from-the-ground-up remake of Super Paper Mario gets announced.

It's interesting that elephant power-up looks pretty central to the game rather than only one of many animals. I guess this just continues the tradition of each Mario game having a small number of completely random Animal power-ups.

Definitely looking forward to the game.

@NeonPizza unconfirmed last time I checked, I think he is though personally

Here's a minor detail that I like... when you get a power-up, you'd see a silhouette of what your powers/transformation will be. Such as the fireballs when you grab a Fire Flower. The new power-ups look fun to use, as well. The bubble transformation reminds me of a certain NES game that I know... wonder if Nintendo got some inspiration from Bubble Bobble?

I'm feeling a bit more positive about this game now. I still wish the characters all controlled differently for more replayability (Luigi's higher jump, Toad being faster, Peach's flutter jump, etc.), but it looks like a decently good time.

The fact that the badges seem to emulate all the character abilities lets you have that replayability if you want. Imagine playing the whole game with just one badge which has flutter or high jump or whatever.

I bet there are also a lot of different types of goals or trials we didn't see in the trailer as well.

I do hope we see a couple more returning or new powerups. Even with the Wonder Flower having a ton of unique effects that'll help pick up the slack if there aren't anymore powerups, only having 4 standard powerups and the Star is kind of disappointing. I do like that the Drill Mushroom revisits the Spin Drill from the Galaxy games, but it'd be nice to see other powerups that haven't been in 2D Mario before make it over. And it'd be a missed opportunity not to have at least one more powerup that's a full-blown transformation like the Elephant, since it seems like the Wonder Flower transformations are going to be more basic

That's fair. The badges will certainly add to the appeal. Playing the game as grappling hook Luigi definitely appeals to me! 😆

A lovely quote from the Wired interview:

“I do think people have ideas that Mario has to be a certain way. There are certain limitations that people have in their own brains,” says Tezuka.
He asks his teams to throw away their limiting beliefs right out of the gate. “If you think it looks cool, it’s going to be fun. Do it!"

I think this new Mario game seems like it would be cool but we won’t know for sure until people start playing it and posting reviews.

Even if koji kondo isn’t composing SMBW, I have no doubt in my mind that whoever is doing it will do a great job, as koji kondo isn’t the only one who can compose great tracks, there are many others too

And yeah, i can’t be mad about Charles stepping down, he’s been voicing Mario for ages, it’s better to replace him before his eventual death rather than after. That being said though it is still sad to see him leave the role

@Atomic77 People already have started playing it, there are demos at Nintendo Live!

@Link-Hero I made a mistake there, I assumed online multiplayer was there, but you're right.