Nintendo Spreads The Message About Blue Toad's Return To New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe

I'm sure GameXplain will tell us Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze does this feature better...

@GrailUK Coming soon in a 90 minute video.

@panthro We don’t call them videos, they’re more like documentaries at this point.

I'm satisfied that Blue Toad has returned

But you CAN'T play as blue toad and yellow toad at the same time. That's a step backwards and sucks so much, Nintendo!

Um, that first pic made me giggle (sorry!).

What a gift from Nintendo lol

Now you're playing with power. Incredebly mediocre Nintendo Power.

It's completely stupid that both Toads cannot be used at the same time. I don't understand why Miis are supported in other modes, but not in the main game. It's not as if Nabbit has any plausible motive for rescuing Peach, so why not Mii?

And why doesn't the game more than 4 players simultaneously? There's little reason for it not to. Sure, it'll be absolutely maddeningly chaotic, but that's part of the fun. An additional controller should also be supported for pointer controls so that somebody can spawn blocks on the screen a la the Wii U version.

@Silly_G Agreed regarding the Toads not being playable simultaneously. My take on the Mii thing is that for young-ins the big N wants to foster brand and character loyalty.

@Silly_G they could've kept the boost rush challenges with the pointer idea you have, and Im sure it was more work to make blue toad a color swap than to just leave it a playable character so they baffle me with their decisions. Hopefully they'll add an update were blue toad is fully unlockable if you 100% the game or something along those lines. Also why doesn't this game have amiibo support? They could've made it so you can reopen toad houses by scanning amiibo or maybe give players the boost star that appeared in boost mode

Nintendo did the research, there is always one person too stupid to use any of the normal difficulty characters when four people are together

I just don't see what all the fuss is about. Who the f*** cares? Red Toad, Yellow Toad, Green Toad. They're all Toads and all look eerily the same.

Well, except for the professor, Toadette and maybe Captain Toad...

THE PROPHET HAS RETURNED!

They are trying really hard over at Nintendo to get us pumped about a game from 2012 with minimal tweaks

@ThanosReXXX Don’t forget the legend that is Toadsworth.

@ThanosReXXX That's racist... Lol

Now patch it so that you can play with Mario, Luigi, Blue Toad, and Yellow Toad in 4-player, if desired... he's in the game, why would this not be allowed?

@ThanosReXXX In this case, the fuss is mostly that you can't have yellow and blue Toad out at the same time, meaning that if you play with 4 people at the same time (or even 3 people in Luigi U), one person HAS to use Toadette or Nabbit, meaning one person HAS to use a handicap, even if they don't want to.

Well that is stupid tbh that you can't choose both toads.

What a time to be alive,

@ThanosReXXX Toadsworth is not a professor.

I imagine they’ll patch in using both toads at the same time soon.

In the good old days people use to say nintendo did dlc right and ports as well... you could trust them with your monies... who is saying that anymore?

Can't wait to play this during my lunch breaks!

@nessisonett Ah, yes. Duly noted...

@Metrazi Racist? That's idiotic. It's just a game with fictional characters...

@Yosher Ah, okay. Fair enough, guess it makes some sense after all, then.

@Bensei I never mentioned Toadsworth. The bearded one with the glasses looked like a professor to me, so I called him that.

But even so, I was just kidding.

@ThanosReXXX I believe my level of sarcasm was too much for you.

@Moonlessky : The original game didn't support amiibo (hell, they didn't even exist until 2 years after the release of the game), so I suppose that Nintendo didn't see much use in shoehorning in amiibo functionality.

Perhaps they could have allowed for other playable characters to be unlocked via amiibo, such as Daisy, Wario, Rosalina, and possibly Waluigi, or even spawn nuisance enemies by using the Bowser, Koopa Trooper, and Goomba amiibo. They could have gone a step further and incorporated the Guardian and Bokgoblin amiibo as well. I think that would be hilarious.

Using the wedding amiibo to unlock alternate outfits would have been a nice touch as well.

OR if Nintendo were feeling ambitious, they could have allowed for amiibo companions to be "trained" by the player in a similar fashion to how amiibo can be taught how to behave in the Super Smash Bros. games.

Anyway, it's no biggie. This is a no-frills port after all. I just hope that Nintendo show a little more ambition in the next classic-style Super Mario Bros. outing.

@sixrings This is a port done right. If you didn’t buy the first one, you have a good game on your hands with a few quality of life improvements. If you did, you can forego the $80 purchase without missing out on anything. And what about that DLC?

@ThanosReXXX Isn't that Toadsworth?

@Metrazi Add a smiley or an "/s" next time, might make it a bit clearer... erm... lol...

@Bensei Could be, I honestly don't know. I just play the games, I'm not really all that interested in knowing all the supporting casts and their history and so on.

I wonder if they will update it so that all 4 characters can be on the normal difficulty instead of one being on easy..... As in have the yellow and blue toad playable at the same time.
Or they could of added other characters in the game (like Mario Run): Rosalina, Daisy, Yoshi (I know he is in the game but it would be cool to play him).

@ThanosReXXX Oh my most sincere apologies, I shall put "this is a sarcastic comment" next time just to clear it up for you.

I want a new 2D mario, more story driven, more action, more beauty, more drama, 60FPS. This mario became a bit boring and cheap (lazy development)

@sixrings almost anyone who likes nintendo games, they are the least buggy and best production quality out there....theres a reason why they can stick around when their systems dont sell but their games still sell millions, hell look at wiiu and gamecube for examples.GC sold around 21 million and WiiU was around 14, both have already been outsold by the switch, the top ten GC games all sold over 2 million copies and all were made by nintendo hell you have to go all the way to number 15 to find a 3rd party game RE4 and thats the only one in top 25 againm on WiiU top ten games all nintendo all sold over 2 million copies, thats 1 out of 7 systems had each of theese games. on top of that only one game in top 15 wasnt nintendo made minecraft....Point is Nintendo is the ONLY developer besides maybe Naughty Dog that you know when they release a mainline game not a spinoff that its gonna play good and be a good game...cant say that with anyone else again with the exeption of Naughty Dog.

Really wish you could pick Toadette or Nabbit without having the easy additions

Who is Blue Toad and why is he significant?

@ThanosReXXX You mean this chill dude?

He has no academic education (that we know of). He's just Peach's elderly attaché. More like a head servant.

@panthro More like in a 1 minute spam video. GameXplain barely even does analysis videos anymore.

Played this on the Wii U over Christmas with 4 players, quite happy with that version, see no reason to get the Switch version

Wii remotes feel nice to hold sideways and we had two Toads Simultaneously!

Also, got boost mode and the touch screen challenges which are pretty fun,

Nintendo, you need to offer more, or charge less to make this game a worthwhile purchase

@GrailUK it effortlessly does just about everything this game does better we’ve known that for years now even when it was the first DKCR that was doing it better and people getting their jimmies rustled because a YouTube talks about this doesn’t change it. Removal of WAH WAH music and some quality of life changes would have gone a long way here.

Nice, but why not take the opportunity to make it any color toad, or even Toad

@Metrazi There, there. No need to be sarcastic...

@Bensei Yup, that's the little fella I had in mind. Must be the 'tache and glasses making him look like some uber-Toad, hence I thought captain, leader, doctor, professor or something similar. Or just village elder...

Could also be that I confused Toads with Smurfs in my head...

@SalvorHardin You don't have any idea what you're talking about, do you?

My only issue is, if it wasn't intended to be a secret, and it wasn't since they tweeted it, why not have it mentioned in the game?

And going further, why not add more colors?

@SalvorHardin Sure, I accept that. But they don't need to tweet incessantly about it is all I'm saying.

I want that as my laptop desktop 😁

@Heavyarms55 I think it's simply something that would have been in an instruction booklet back in the dark days of the 90s & early 2000s.

I think Nintendo's removed the instruction manual & forgotten we still need the information one way or another.

@DanteSolablood It doesn't need to be in a booklet or in a tweet, it should just be stated in the game. How hard would it be to have a button icon and a message like "Change Toad"?

@Heavyarms55 Exactly. My point was that Nintendo have removed the booklets but are still in the "stick in in the manual" mindset.

Seems to me that being pushed to keep up with the modern age, they're making silly mistakes.

It’s a good game, but it’s also an old port, give us some surprises Nintendo!

Blue Toad's absence was the only con over the original game for me. I was going to get it anyway but it was cool to find out he was still in.

Bucken Berry will live on forever!

@GrailUK Just saw this in my subscription feed... are you some kinda wizard? https://youtu.be/iORdCuz2vtE

@Not_Soos haha, nothing of the sort. They just seemed to be on a Twitter crusade to bash the game and champion DKTF instead. Them being overly opinionated usually culminates in a video

@GrailUK I don't follow them on Twitter (mostly because I don't have a Twitter, haha), so I wouldn't know. I know the GX crew can get pretty political on their social media pages, so I appreciate that they don't bring those opinions to their channel, at least. Not that I'm intolerant, I just want to hear about games.

@Not_Soos Absolutely!