It's another week and - until March 31st rolls around, at least - we've got the usual Super Mario Bros. 35 event coming our way, going live on March 19th.
Following on from the previous 5th Coin King event, this week's Special Battle has more in common with the 4th Coin King event, placing us through the complete set of courses once again. From World 1-1 to World 8-4 in order, players will need to beat each one.
Available until March 22nd, it's likely this will be Super Mario Bros. 35's penultimate event, unless Nintendo suddenly changes its weekly schedule. With that in mind, next week could potentially bring us something big.
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People still believe this is getting removed for eShop soon?
I bet they will bring it back in some form.
@MatoFilipovic yeah, probably with some form of payment that adds SMB3 levels.
@MatoFilipovic agreed this is destined to be re-released and rebranded as a standalone game or part of the NSO.
Super Mario Mania (something like that).. drop the tires to the anniversary and all will be happy
This is definitely going to be a jumprope Challenge situation. There is no way this game is going away. And if it is, then a physical release is inevitable.
@MatoFilipovic I think this game is indeed going away. That's Nintendo, and they do this kind of stuff. They discontinued NES and SNES mini when they were still selling a lot. If we go back more, they never sold GBA on 3DS, even that they got the roms ready (that ambassador program). They let a mountain of money go away and didn't care.
Without Mario 35 the NSO will become less appealing, but they just don't care. (and if they do, they can just press a button e fill the service with value from their back catalog).
My money's on Super Mario Bros 3 36.
I was really expecting crazy stuff from these events as the game was winding down. Things like start as Frog Mario and if you lose the suit you are out. All physics as if everything is ice. All enemies are Bowser. Old Game Genie type effects like super jumps. Stuff like that. Maybe if this becomes a bigger game at some point. Really sad to see this go away.
I think all the March 31st delistings will happen and they won't come back immediately. When they do come back though I think they'll be part of a more expensive NSO like $60 a year either being its own tier or a price hike for the existing tier like Microsoft tried to double the price of Gold back in January.
@abdias You know, I have to absolutely agree with you. For a moment there I forgot about all those stupid decisions from Nintendo, and the one where they brought GBA and DS games to Wii U instead of 3DS really stings.
Then again, it wouldn't be first time they said something won't/can't happen, and it does, like it was the case with NES Remix port to 3DS.
As always, time will tell, but you've convinced me that there is a high chance this will be one of the Nintendo's more peculiar decisions :S
‘From World 1-1 to World 8-4 in order, players will need to beat each one...’ no they won’t 🤷♂️
I don't have much time for this game anyway, but it shouldn't be taken down on March 31. That's totally evil of Nintendo to hook people on a game and then take it away. I bought a year of online, but this is disappearing halfway through my subscription. It's all about greed.
I'll miss the game. It's been a daily routine, and while it was slow to appreciate, it is addictive. My main beef is games can go too long. Often it's repeating levels until the 10 minute mark when the timer suddenly speeds up. I wouldn't mind seeing it speed up a little at 5 minutes before the big increase at 10.
@Peteykins Perhaps the warp zone will only give you the option of the next level or even the same level or an earlier level? Already it is restrictive as world 1-2 can show pipes only to world 1-2, 1-1 and 1-2. Other times it can be 6-3, 1-4, 2-2. It seems almost random.
Thanks to this event I was finally able to get to and past 8-4, and play as Luigi for the first time.
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