Mario fans were given a special mention during today's Nintendo Direct, as the portly plumber will be celebrating his 30th anniversary this year. To help mark the occasion, it was announced that Mario Maker will be coming to Wii U in September, so fans can create their own version of the Mushroom Kingdom as they see it.
Players can build levels from scratch in four different styles, each representing a classic title in the Super Mario Bros. series. These different themes can be switched between at any time, changing the art style of the game from pixels to the high-res graphics of modern titles. With Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, or New Super Mario Bros. U as your creative palette, players can really go wild and come up with some insane challenges.
You'll be able to share your creations online with others worldwide, and can group different courses together as a 'World'. Levels can be individually named as well, adding to the wide range of customization options.
Mr.Iwata also took time to reflect on the series' success, and thanked fans for their loyal support over the years.
I couldn't be happier that Mario continues to be active across a wide range of games. Thanks in no small part to the love you all have for Mario. I'm extremely thankful.
With a loose release window of September 2015 on the horizon, we've also been promised a few other surprises along the way, to make sure Mario's birthday this year is one to remember.
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Not my type of thing normally but the interface looks pretty well laid out and I like the idea of playing other people's levels. Definitely interested...
Have my copy preordered and can't wait to create levels with my son. He will love this game.
A bit later than we all expected but I suppose it will be the better for it. I wonder if they still have a few more tricks up their sleeve for this title at E3? At any rate this is going to be great fun and I can't wait to get my hands on it and start creating and sharing levels, and playing levels created by others. This looks like it's going to be a total blast and a perfect tribute to 30 years of Mario.
Still looks really fun. However, I'm really disappointed that the Super Mario World style doesn't come with the game's unique mechanics (cape flight, wall running, spin jump).
Nice job coming in Fall, chould make a great Christmas gift!
Hopefully the 3DS will get some Mario love as well.
Sept is too late. And Yoshi s WW in the fall? Leaving Wii U w/ -
March - MP10
April - ?
May 29 - Splatoon, so over 2 months w/o a big game
June - ?
July - ?
August - ?
September - Mario Maker
October - Yoshi
Nov - XCX likely along w/ Fatal Frame maybe
Dec - Starfox if we're lucky
Thats a whole lot of question marks. June might be Lego Jurasic Park. I do still expect a new game at E3 for the holiday but this summer is a Wii U wasteland. They should have dropped Wii U $50 and announced a Splatoon Wii U bundle, maybe w/ the amiibo 3 pack for $300.
Wii U collecting dust on store shelves this spri g and summer.
Excuse if it was mentioned (I haven't watched the video) but, can you create airship levels from Mario 3?
I'm getting excited for this. I'd really like to see some level of curation on Nintendo's part and maybe a Iwata or Miyamoto showcase every week or so.
Awesome!
Cripes, how can this game be taking so long? Fifteen months after its announcement is a pretty dang long time.
Can't...wait...until...September...
AAAAAGH! I DON'T WANNA WAIT ANY LONGER! Ah well. As long as it's good, which I'm sure it'll be.
Very nice that you can group levels together in a world. It will feel less like little experiments and more like tiny complete games when playing. I wonder how many people will buy it primarily to play all the cool levels?
@DerpSandwich It's for Mario's 30th anniversary, which was September 1985.
Waiting a long time for this and wanting to try everybody's levels.
I'd love to see a demonstration of how robust a design app this is. It would be cool if the Mario team made a demo video showing a few levels they created using it.
Though I am not usually too creative when using level editors in games I can see myself having quite a bit of fun playing levels that other people create, and I may get it just for that!
There's no need for nintendo to continue releasing so many 2d platformers now as people will be making new, genius Mario levels for years. I hope this means we'll get a proper 3d adventure now.
I pray to god that people do not make levels of a picture of a certain male private. Hopefully, Nintendo security or whatever will take that down immediately if it ever does happen. That's something to be worried about.
I am most excited for this!
@rjejr
You forgot Fatal Frame on your list.
It saddens me that probably Kaizo levels will be the common level type.
Really looking forward to this one, I wonder if we will be able to construct our own boss levels with Bowser at the end?
@outburst - Wasn't Fatal Frame 2016? Or was that FEXMT? Did Fatal Frame have a date at all? Oh well, Ill google it after breakfast, I'm sure there must be more I missed, its too barren to be accurate.
Edit: Ah, I found "late 2015". I probably saw that in the ND and immediately assumed 2016. Though Halloween would make sense, so I'll put it down for Nov in all future lists, Nintendo isn't good at making sense either, if they were Yoshi for Easter, it's all about the eggs.
@DerpSandwich They announced Yoshi in Jan 2013, 2 1/2 years for a 2D platformer. And another 3 months to translate.
Looks great...too bad it's not releasing earlier though. Would be nice if NA got Yoshi in June instead of fall. Only Wii U game I've got this year is MP10 (which is fun) and I still don't have a real release date for my next one unless if I get Splatoon.
@Kaze_Memaryu They had Mario flying with the cape in the trailer.
Why not on 3ds also?
Is 3ds can't handle that one?
This game is Crysis 3 or what?
Surprised it's taking this long in the development cycle. They announced it 2 years ago? Plus with the void of summer titles, this would be a perfect lazy day summer game.
I love that they added more skins for the game. I'll be making super mario world and mario 3 levels all day now.
Can't wait to play this, the trailer on the Direct really sold this game for me! It'll be basically a endless Mario game, and we can all finally make (and share!) customized levels!!
@NebulaGamer - I stand corrected.
"They announced Yoshi in Jan 2013, 2 1/2 years for a 2.5D platformer. And another 3 months to translate."
And LBP was 2.5D but it had 3 layers, and the new game has up to 16 layers. How many layers does this have? It looks like 1 w/ the occasional jump like in Donkey Kong Country. And the original LBP came out in 2008, about 6 1/2 years ago, so Nintendo isn't exactly coming up w/ anything new making this 2.5D.
Still seems like a long time for a 2.5D game to be released. And making the US wait until "fall" while there are no big titles out for the Wii U in June, July or August? What are they thinking?
@Kaze_Memaryu Pretty sure in the direct I saw the cape working.
@Wii-1 It can happen.
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