If you've already played Super Mario 3D World many years ago on the Wii U or just want to jump straight into the new content (Bowser's Fury), thankfully there's a mode select option in the Switch release.
Yes, according to Nintendo's Super Mario Twitter account, there'll be an option on the start screen to choose which adventure you want to play. In other words, you won't have to play through Super Mario 3D World just to unlock Bowser's Fury.
While it's unknown how long it takes to complete Bowser's Fury, Nintendo has previously described it as a "short but action-packed standalone adventure" and the above images seem to reinforce the fact it's definitely its own standalone mode.
Are you glad to see Nintendo has designed it this way? Would you like to see this standalone adventure perhaps sold seperately at some stage? Leave your thoughts down below.
[source twitter.com, via gonintendo.com]
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Yes but it probably will never happen.
@Darknyht What do you mean?
Either way, I just wish the mode was expanded on.
Hey if you add the fact you are getting all of the Wiiu version campaign and online then I feel like the package is pretty good. I'm sold on it now.
I pre-ordered. Can't wait
@Kalmaro Nintendo is most certainly developing a new 3d Mario game so I don’t think they could really expand upon Bowser’s Fury too much. Though it would have been nice to see a little larger adventure.
Sounds good to me
It would be cool if Bowser got his own game.
I'd pick it up if it was sold separately for sure. I already have Mario 3d world on Wii U so I won't double dip unless it's <£10. To be honest, I wasn't the biggest fan of 3d world, it was a bit boring and I always felt I was missing some of the intended experience by playing it alone and I never finished it. I enjoyed 3D Land though and need to go back and finish world at some point
I am basically looking at it as $40 for SM3DW and $20 for BF.
@WhiteTrashGuy Walmart has new games for $50. Might be $35 for World, $15 for BF.
Okay, but what if Mario could shoot a hadoken? 🤔
It's weird how they keep making those remasters/ports expensions, like Xenoblade Future Connected, Bowser's Minions,etc. seperate from the main game. It would feel more organic if it was added to the main game after the final world maybe. When you play the Final Mix versions of the Kingdom Hearts games, the extra content was add for the post game, Super Mario 64 DS has extra content spread throughout, the 3DS version of Donkey Kong Country Returns expends the world 9, Pokemon FireRed has a post game, the Color Dungeon of Link's Awakening DX was added in the graveyard of the overworld, etc.
Not that Bowser's Fury will be bad or anything, but personally I think it would have been cooler if Bowser's Fury was unlock after the main game with a new requirement like hidden coins in every levels or simply after the Champion's Road, I don't know
I’m thinking BF is gonna be like an hour of content. But I’ve never played Mario World so I’m still stoked!
@Isaix It would be more organic yes, but the codeword here is remaster. A lot of people have actually played 3D World and Xenoblade before, a lot of people do just wanna see the new content.
@Varkster But wouldn't it be more fun in Xenoblade if you could tackle the Bionis Shoulder at your own pace alongside the post game? In Kingdom Hearts 2 Final Mix, the extra content has a lot of new abilities you can use thoughout the entire game. It's fun to fight Sephiroth with Limit Form that wasn't available in the original verison.
If the Final Mix content was seperate it would still be cool to fight Lingering Will and Data Org. with the new abilities, but it wouldn't be as organic for the entire expirence, it would feel like some kind of underwhelming demo
What made me want to double dip on this was that fact that 3D Would will have online play. Disappointed that it wasn’t in the Wii U version. Bowers Fury is just a nice little bonus.
@neogyo I’d be very surprised if it’s that short. The world itself looks like it’s the size of a few worlds from Odyssey combined, plus Bowser essentially adds another mode/set of objectives to the stages, and there seem to be some obstacles and objectives tied to Plessie that will pad it out a bit. It’ll probably be at least a few hours worth of content.
Looked like 5 hours max to me. Maybe 8 if you really take your time.
Forget Bowser's Fury, try mine when I realise I paid full price for the Switch version for what could have been DLC on my Wii U copy.
I'm kidding, I will wait as my Wii U still gets used regularly and I have too many other games I need to catch up on.
Not worth 60 bucks. Greedy from Nintendo’s part when Microsoft does this much better.
Well it certainly LOOKS short... maybe 2 hours ish
They could even sell it as a separate game, so that Wii U dans don’t have to pay full price to get a sliver of content.
I'm waiting for reviews on this one. 3D world is really good and I loved it, but I'm not in a rush to play it again. I do however really want Bowser's Fury, so my purchase is going to depend on how meaty it actually is.
Paying £50 for a wii u game I've alrwady played just so I can play an hour or two worth of new content doesn't sit well with me, this game is going on my rent list for sure
@Isaix They do sometimes do it that way. Pikmin 3’s extra content was added into the story experience
Pre ordered along with the special edition switch.
Considering other console manufacturers can’t even get stock of consoles on shelf’s and new games are getting thin on the ground, let alone a game of this magnitude, we should be smiling.
I think the salty Wii U owners clearly show what's wrong with some of the Nintendo fanbase.
Even if every Wii U owner bought this game on Wii U, that would have been 13.5 million copies, the Switch still has 5-6 times as much users that have NEVER played it.
As far as I can see you need to collect 14 cat shrines to unlock the big bell and turn into massive fury cat Mario to defeat massive fury bowser.
The end.
@sanderev althoguh i agree with your point, wouldl ike to mention that super mario world was the 2nd best selling piece of software on the WiiU, (5.6 million), so the argument might be slightly stronger here at least than when the same people complained about pikmin 3 (which didn't sell that well at all)..
But the other complains are just so "pavlov", nintendo releases a port, so A) Lazy, B) Expensive, C) We don't want ports., but new games
but
A) The 1) they improved the main game (speed), 2) added functions (online! even thought nintendo , why no t speedrunning against strangers)_ 3) A bloody new mode which looks so cool ... as a bonus.. This is exactly what was demanded on other ports
B) It's a company.. They make an educted guess how many they will sell at $40 (lets say 10 million), and anotherone about how many will sell at $60, let's say 8 million.. And therefore put it up at the higher price.. it's as simple as that.. If they would be 'nice' by taking a loss or reduced profit, they would get into trouble with share holders... It's not a public service, and they understand if you don't buy it because you already had most of the entertainment.. (and you could have sold it on..)
C) I miss new games too, but it's difficult to see how many new releases would have been there if there weren't any ports. And if you agree with argument (A) that the ports didn't take much time, you surely have to admit that they wouldn't gained much time, since they didn't spent so much in the first place according to this argument..
Did anyone notice that the menu option to switch between the two looks similar to Puzzle & Dragon's Z + Puzzle & Dragon's: Super Mario Bros. Edition when the game comes packaged in one, but you have two options to play?
Bowser's bean burrito
Everybody:
complaining about WIi U ports on switch
Me:
Hoping they Announce Xenoblade Cronicles X soon
@rockodoodle
Lol, where mario is the final boss and Bowser stomps on toads in stead of goombas lol, saving the princes from that evil mario.
I think this was pretty obvious. I’m thinking three to five hrs for bowsers fury.
I’ve got it on wiiu but I’ve pre ordered the game and a bowser plush plus the amiibo set. Crazy I know. Just can’t wait to have it in my switch 🤩
Everyone’s concentrating on the length of the expansion and preempting that. What if it’s only 2 hours but turns out to be absolutely amazing, there’s so many brilliant short games out there and not everyone has the time, or wants to put hours upon hours into games
@HamatoYoshi Exactly. Some of us have lives.
@Guest88
"Not worth 60 bucks. Greedy from Nintendo’s part when Microsoft does this much better"
Doesn't Microsoft's new console have ZERO exclusive 1st party games that aren't also on Xbox One or PC? 😐
The fact they've explicitly used the word 'short' in the blurb tells me I'm not going to be buying this any time soon. It looks hella fun, but short-lived, like a single world in Odyssey but presumably without the same volume of collectibles, and as I still have my Wii U copy and no desire to play it online, I'm happy to wait a few more years for this and pick up a cheap copy someday.
It says one to two players! yeah, best news I heard all day.
The Japanese website says the add on is 3 levels long. So I think it will be about 5 hours of play time.
@Kalmaro Yes, I want a stand-alone version because I am not spending $60 again to access a short adventure tacked on to a game I already own and all but completed (two stages shy of everything).
They could have released the DLC as a $10-20 standalone, and won a lot of goodwill (same with Pikmin 3 [Stupid Autocorrect]). Even throw in a discount for the full game if you bought it and you have got a great PR boost. But Nintendo will almost never do that because they feel entitled to me paying $60 again. Mostly because anytime they re-release something we collectively run out and drop $60 for it. So in a way we are as much to blame for it.
I really can’t wait to try the new Bowser’s Fury expansion. And yet, despite playing the original 3D World to 100% completion on Wii U, I’ll still likely finish the main campaign before jumping into the new content. Yep, I’m clearly strange, I know 🤷♂️
@romanista They also added the snapshot mode from Odyssey to 3d World and btw 3d World on Wii U sold 5.86 million copies.
Super Sayan Cat Mario.... Ok, I'm sold to the expansion... However, I already played alot the Wii U version, so unless the expansion offers at least 5 additional hours of game, I am not paying the full price.
@Darknyht That's the problem I'm having. I WANT the game, but I'm paying full price for DLC basically and I can't justify that. Not when I already supported them and bought the orogo.
@Clyde_Radcliffe I believe their point was that if this rerelease was parallel to what Microsoft does, Wii U owners who already payed for this game would be able to access this new version of the game via “smart delivery” on the new system without extra cost and with the new content.
@Averagewriter It would be better for Mario too. In Super Mario 64 DS, they've added a seventh star in every world and the Castle is full of extra missions you do alongside the old levels. It's fun to go through the extra levels to unlock Mario, Luigi and Wario. Those levels could have been seperate from the main game too but they're not. In Yoshi's Island on GBA they've added 1 or 2 levels I believe in every world. In DKC Returns 3DS the extra levels are post game.
So it can be done with Mario games too
I'm probably gonna play the base game first anyway
@Eddyson Glad im not the only person who latched onto that! Great news!!
@The-Chosen-one or maybe he does something completely in Mario and Peach related. Make a bunch of mini games?
@AlienigenX I am happy that more people will get to play the game, but Nintendo is pretty bad at expecting another $60 for minor improvements (or just porting services to a new console) on games we already purchased. As I said, they could have released Bowser's Fury as a standalone and offer a discount if you pick up the rest of the game and made those of us that already own it happy.
But I am happy more people will enjoy the game. At the same time this might be the first Nintendo console in a long time where I own very few first party Nintendo titles due to the sheer number of ports they have done.
@mr12calvin It will get a speed run in 20 minutes.
For a ninja, speed is the only thing that matters.
SPEED-NINJA APPROVED
@Darknyht
Everything you said and more! They (luckily) did Smash right, but I refuse to get Kart 8, Trop Freeze, New Super Bros., Tokyo Mirage, Cap’n Toad and This on the principle that: I already spend WAY too much money on this hobby (I’m a Physical Guy!) to justify re-buying for completion/convenience sake! And those last three STING, as the new (albeit, minimal) content they did add look like a rollicking good time!
As you alluded to, owning a Nintendo console without a Mario Kart game seems perverse (what is this, GameCube!), and yet, here I am...
Proud Wii U owner, out!
So what your telling me is that there is no reason that this couldn't have been sold separately.
I feel lucky that i hated wii u and i loved switch.
I preordered already and i can't wait!!!
If this is a standalone game, then why is it locked behind a 3D World purchase? Just make it available on its own.
Plenty of games have their multiplayer mode available standalone these days, but only in Nintendo land a game can be locked behind another game purchase...
Sorry to disappoint, but Super Mario 3D worlds super easy. Like it takes no effort at all. It’s a baby game
If I already had this on Wii U, I wouldn't buy it now. I get that. But as I've had neither and love 3D Mario games, I fully intend to get this.
@BloodNinja late reply.
But hahahaha lol youre cool and funny 😂
@mr12calvin
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