Super Mario Maker is not only a terrific creation tool and platformer in its own right, but it keeps us on our toes with its quirky updates. Next up on 31st December we'll have new Course Events that'll unlock Excitebike and Birdo costumes, with the former certainly tickling our fancy.
The NES game, and that bike design, are certainly iconic, which may help explain why its tracks appearance in online rotations for Mario Kart 8 seems to be guaranteed votes in the lobbies. There's something particularly pleasing about seeing the bike in action, via a recent video from Nintendo's YouTube channel.
Birdo is also coming on 31st December, and you can see that below.
Finally, a small update for the game itself is actually live today; we're sure data miners are already digging around in its innards, and you need to download it before accessing online features. The Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker course event was uploaded a few days ago, if you haven't played it yet, and can actually be cleared - it seems - without jumping. If you want to be faithful to the source material, that is.
Are you looking forward to tackling a couple of new Course Events on New Year's Eve?
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Amazing Excitebike animation! To get that to work so seamlessly with how Mario jumps is quite an achievement.
That Birdo sprite looks a little weird. I guess the original SMB2 sprite was too tall? The Excitebike costume looks and sounds 100% faithful to the source material. Anyway, where's my costume #112 (Mario Land airplane), Nintendo?
Cool but I kinda don't care about costumes. I want more assets! Oh well i haven't been able to play at all the past few weeks anyway because of Xenoblade...
oh i just love the music of excitebike
why is birdo not an used as an enemy?
Can we get slopes now? Excitebike is meaningless without slopes!
Blah blah blah everyone'll get in before Daisy, blah blah blah...
Yassss!!! Excitebikeeeeeee~
Guess this explains why I was kicked out last night. Just started the game up for the first time only to be greeted with a message saying the server was down 3 levels into my first 100 Mario Challenge.
Can't wait to play as a Tetris brick. It'll happen!
I thought something exciting happened, like birdo being added as an enemy to the game.
I wonder if we'll see costumes of Roy, Lucas, Ryu, Cloud, Corrin, and Bayonetta when their amiibo release.
I nearly completed that Toad level without jumping. There was just one part that I jumped because I took the wrong direction. LSS: I thought it was already possible to beat it without jumping.
Right before 2016....Year of Birdo confirmed.
For a minute I thought the Birdo was a new boss here. T.T
Very nice additions. Keep em coming!
I'll get around to collecting these costumes, er, some time in 2016. Hopefully.
Xenoblade X has consumed every waking minute of my time, and once Fire Emblem Fates releases, heh, you may not hear from me til summer
@Grumblevolcano good point. They must be aware people want slopes by now, surely
Ugh I need to get start playing this again...
I haven't been in a platforming mood in a while.
Ya if you could show all the animations...that would be greaaaaaaat...
Woooo yaaaay, MORE costumes only available in 1/4 of the game's styles. Gee I can't wait for a hundred more costumes that can't be used outside of the generic original SMB style.
They need to add the costumes to all sets and they need to add slopes, which would help for Excitebike, other vehicles and Captain Toad levels.
You guys need to bring back the weekly top ten levels with the new bookmark system to make it easier to try them
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