Super Mario Bros. Wonder Leaked Online Ahead Of Next Week's Release

I don't have the slightest clue how you spoil a Mario game to begin with honestly.

Since there isn't a public demo available on eShop, I donwloaded the leaked version and gave it a try.

It convinced me to preorder.

@Lizuka Levels, bosses, potential secret character(s).

@Lizuka Well of course there's tons to spoil. Like just who might be the final boss? There's so many 1 guess(s).

Jokes aside, there really is plenty you could spoil. Powerups, secrets, puzzles, unlockables. Once you see it all revealed to you, there's nothing to be surprised about.

@Vexx234
Yeah, who could have guessed that Luigi was the real villain in the end.

@Lizuka Personally, spoiling worlds, end game unlocks, etc etc is more annoying to me than anything in a story-based game...but that's probably cause I very rarely get sucked into a game's story. They're mostly pretty rough.

@Lizuka I don't wanna get the final boss fight spoiled. Really curious how that one's going to be.

The final boss should be mummy Ganondorf.

@NorthwestEagle Could be, but I don't know. I haven't followed anything since it's announcement. So, when and if I do ever play it, everything will be a surprise to me.

…jeez Nintendo can’t win with all these game leaks can they? I’d honestly just give up trying to keep things a secret if I were them.

Big, new 1st party Switch game leaks online a week early.

In other news, the sky is blue.

Nintendo getting a reason to sue? They must be delighted!

Leak it to me, so I can see all the contents.

@Greatluigi
Any game that releases physically will get leaked. For example, Spider-Man 2 has been getting leaked left and right due to people getting early copies. Now I don’t know if other company’s have it as bad as Nintendo since the switch is easier to emulate than newer consoles, but it’s not like their the only ones dealing with early copies getting out in the wild.

@PinderSchloss
If they didn’t sue for TOTK getting leaked, no way this spawns a lawsuit. Plus, wouldn’t they also have to sue the stores who broke street date?

I’m actually surprised that this hadn’t happened already. It seems to occur for every major first-party game well in advance of the release date. It’s a real shame and just ruins the experience for everyone else, but it’s pretty much a fact of life now. Hopefully Switch 2 will implement some security measures against this.

And yes, you absolutely can spoil a Mario game. It’s just that the major spoilers relate to different levels, bosses and secrets rather than story details.

@Lizuka By watching the Nintendo Direct that showed much of the game's intro, which pretty much spoils the entire story. It's Mario, there really can't be much more to it than what's in the intro.

@OstianOwl Took the words right out of my mouth!

@Mauzuri Yeah the T-rex and New Donk City in Odyssey would'be been nice surprises. I'm seeing some pretty spoilery thumbnails on Youtube showing some unlocks in Wonder that I definitely wish weren't revealed in a friggin' thumbnail.

Lol wait! They should that you can get the fireflower! My gaming world is crashed lol.
You cant spoil a Mario game, imo.
Edit: Ow wait.. you can.. power ups, where to find hidden stuff, boss battles etc.

Oof, guess I'll have to be careful where I tread for the next few days.
Having said that one thing I immediately looked up were clean rips of Mario and Luigi's voice and they're really good!

What a surprise

That huge twist halfway through the game really threw me off!

How is someone just able to leak the game in advance?? Are they hacking into Nintendo’s servers and just downloading it?? Or is it someone who works at Nintendo and is just uploading the roms?? Like, how does this keep happening??

@Aronin Most of the time, someone just gets lucky and finds a retailer who broke release date. Smash Bros Ultimate had a famous incident in Mexico I think it was, the game was available for sale 3 weeks before the official release date because a retailer received their stock and put it on the shelves for consumers to buy. Most individuals just buy the game and play for themselves, but others buy the game and then dump the contents online. It's called a leak because it happened well before release day.

I’m weak and couldn’t resist. I watched a leak video on YouTube and now I know that Bowser kidnaps the princess. However, I wasn’t aware that this is the first ever major Nintendo crossover and the end boss fight reveals bowser to be ganondorf and then you have to play the game again as Link to see the true ending before a final special star road appears which ends with Captain Falcon appearing and all the characters engage in one special F Zero race in a section created by Sega,

And then the game fades to black with just a single caption “Captain Falcon will return”.

I wish I hadn’t watched it now

@Aronin Online shops in South America and Southeast Asia, send the physical game you pre-ordered as soon as the distributors deliver it to them. Very common to receive a few days early. So people rip the game from the cartridge.

Yeah, not surprising. Sonic and Spiderman also get leaked early, so it's not even a Nintendo only thing.

At least Wonder isn't story heavy so it's harder to spoil. Going in blind is fun. Part of the reason why I loved Odyssey so much was discovering the worlds blind.

I don't mind a spoiler and not long watched a few on YouTube and all I took away from it was how bad/annoying the jump+slam noise is. Who came up with that as an idea and how do we get them fired?

Lock these losers up, theft is theft. Stop reporting on spoilers and giving these losers more exposure and potentially ruining the game for others. ***** thieves, they're utterly worthless and contribute nothing to society.

@Aronin It truly doesn't matter how it happens, they're thieves in every sense of the word and just like any other thief they should be fined, arrested, and banned from using software moving forward. ***** these losers.

As is tradition. Lol.

@RobynAlecksys Whoever did it, they paid for the game and just dumped its files online. You're downloading, installing or emulating at your own discretion. No one stole a single boxed copy of that game from Walmart shelves. It's a crime based on copyright infringement, unofficial distribution of intellectual property material, piracy, you call it. Thievery is a very different thing.

Contrary to what you seem to believe, they contribute a lot to the gaming scene, with software preservation being the most obvious example. You wouldn't have a single Game Boy Advance ROM image if it weren't for those "thieves" dumping and uploading them online, most games would be certainly gone for good due to expired copyright, lost source code, extremely expensive copies etc.

You wanna fight back? Go to the store and buy a copy. You're supporting the developer anyway, so why bother? It's not like piracy EVER damaged a good product's sales - Breath of the Wild was one of the most pirated games in the history of Nintendo (and was the reason for the first Wii U emulator to become a reality), yet it sells like hot cakes to this day.

To be honest it can't have amazing story to be spoiled really.

Digital only consoles will stop this from happening.

God forbid people learn to have a little patience.

Though I guess a bunch of these people wouldn't even buy the game anyway.

I just want to know if these chaps made it in.

Update: Yeah ...No. They didn't. Here's hoping for DLC lol

Oh jeez, time to go on my Twitter muting frenzy

So, arguments against this aside..what are they saying about it? Revolutionary? Just "merely" good? A flop? Etc. Just spoiler free curious how the intentionally early accessors are enjoying it.

I’m wondering how Nintendo is handling the broken street dates. I know how they handle it with the big stores but it seems like the little stores are still the weakest link.

@blindsquarel And the part when Loki showed up to advertise the new show. That was crazy

Watched a couple of levels streamed live on TikTok this morning. Looks fantastic. Had to stop watching! Can't wait to play it.

So...Super Mario Wonder on Steam Deck?

@RobynAlecksys me in jail after Nintendo ninjas find my homebrewed 3DS

Don't worry. I'm so far down the Celeste rabbit hole I think I'll be safe.

I have the game pre-ordered, and I'm also using my Steam Deck a lot lately for some Wonderful reasons. As much as I hate elephants in real life, Mario Wonder really seems like a revolutionary title for 2D Mario! Happy gaming ya'll!

@Greatluigi look like the leaks works some people get convincee to bought the game after trying the leak

i heard that elon musk wario is the final boss dancing to his castle theme.

Pretty sure people who preordered at certain places just got their copies a little early.

@rushiosan
Indeed, often the most frequently pirated media also has the highest sales. A good example outside of gaming was GOT.
As far as people saying "digital only games" will stop leaking, again I point you to GOT which had episodes leaked before they even aired. It wouldn't be any different for a popular video game.

@KryptoniteKrunch OMG I hadn't heard that Superstars leaked! Thank you! I've bought that game multiple times already but am desperate to play it early... downloading right now, hope I can get it working.

Frankly, I really want to play Mario Wonder too, but not until I feel I've really fully explored Superstars, so even getting to try it 2 days early helps! 😅

The final boss is Funky Kong. What a twist!

Anyone needing to steal ROM to play this to decide to buy was already a Pirate to begin with. Don't make excuse that your not a Pirate to ruin the fun of a fun game.

@SwitchForce How are people who download the rom ruining the fun of the game

And I will be avoiding those spoilers with the entirety of my soul. I want this game to be completely new to me, besides the bits and pieces I have already seen. Super Mario games don't come out very often, so spoilers sting a little bit harder for me with this series.

@Vexx234 Hate to break it to you but I watched somebody play through the entire thing last night and Nintendo themselves already spoiled all of those things through the marketing. There's not really anymore content than what they've shown outside a few level designs. Seriously.

@RobynAlecksys

Why do people go out of their way to defend massive corporations and capitalism?

80% of Nintendos revenue goes to its executives and board members. I don't pirate but I don't condemn every single instance of it as theft.

Nintendo will make plenty of money on their targeted demographic of kids, and casual gamers - the occasional tech savvy person who pirates the game isn't going to hurt their sales.

You're not helping Nintendo by saying things like this. Capitalism in its current form is pretty evil, and while I think piracy of smaller indie devs is definitely a no-no... I don't think doing the same thing to a bigger company is somehow inherently evil.

What are you one of the guards from Aladin?

Does Bowser wins at the end? Oh, I don't want to know

Will the Nintendo Life review go live for Super Mario Bros. Wonder before Friday? There are murmurs that I've seen regarding an aspect in the game that seems very disappointing, and would like to hear if that is true or not and how those are executed.

Spoiler: You run and jump.

@robotoboy20 Wrong is wrong. Two wrongs don't make a right. You can't have it both ways either. Saying it's okay to steal from a big company, but not from indie dev, is trying to have it both ways.

All that does is trying to justify a wrong. What's worse, is stealing isn't going to make your cause any better. All that's going to do is reinforce Nintendo to take tougher measures in the future.

Theft is theft regardless how much you wanna pretend only some of it counts.

@robotoboy20 "massive corporations", Nintendo is big, yes. But I wouldn't say massive. Also pirating/stealing the game doesn't just hurt the corporations and developers, but also the player. Especially those who like to play future games as well, since it can happen that a new game gets less funding or is even scrapped entirely because of lacking sales.

Because that is what (any) corporation / company does; if it doesn't sell, they will not make it. So by stealing you are not hurting the "massive corporation" but you are hurting yourself and your fellow gamers.

@DiamondCore Actually Iwata took a pay cut when the Wii U was failing. See: https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/01/iwata_and_miyamoto_both_take_pay_cuts_in_response_to_nintendos_poor_financial_results

@DiamondCore Big on a local scale, absolutely. But massive, which would require a global scale.. I don't think so. Even in gaming alone; they're not bigger than EA, Sony, Microsoft (XBOX) or Tencent. And comparing to other tech companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft (total), Amazon, etc) they're small.

@DiamondCore That theme park is licensed, so are the movies and TV shows (including Pokémon). Sure they still make money on those, but way less than you'd think.

And luckily they are still growing, it would be very bad otherwise

You might not really see the magnitude of size of some companies. For example Disney. Would you say that Disney is bigger than Nintendo or not?

@sanderev Yep. I agree. When I was a kid, I worked for a supermarket called Kroger. It's the USA's largest supermarket operator.

Once I went behind closed doors, it was truly something to see just how many stores the chain owned under different names.

I agree with you. On the outside things doesn't seem all that big. Once you are neck deep, the magnitude is something else.

I watched a good part of the game, I skipped some boring parts of the video, but I ended up watching all the content the game has to offer.

This game should be called, spiritually, Super Mario: Star Allies.

Kirby Star Allies suffered from a serious problem: stages that were very similar to each other and very generic, uninspired, without a characteristic that made them unique.

Super Mario Wonder seems to have the same problems, very short and very generic stages with little to offer. Most stages are finished in less than 1 minute.

They are very similar stages, and only the background changes. The arrangement of the blocks is similar, and, at the very least, they don't make the stage unique or unforgettable. Just like Kirby Star Allies.

We know that the reviews will be super favorable as always, and full of exaggerations. So I'm not hurting the game's sales with my humble opinion.

I continue to find Rayman Legends' stages much more unique, bigger, more detailed, with many more secrets to discover, and much, much better done. And it's an old game.

Mario Wonder looks like a mobile game. My impressions, and the usual mario defenders will disagree, as they will always, no matter what, defend the brand.

But it doesn't change my opinion. I will never buy this game.

I'm an experienced player. But children will like it, as it is an easy game, and even small 30-second challenges, which count as a stage, and Nintendo shows as a 5-star challenge, are super simple and easy. Children will like it. Even more so today's children, who are so sensitive to frustration and can never, ever lose.

@Greatluigi and that is why you are not in charge of any confidential property of a company.

@RobynAlecksys buying a game early isn’t a crime, sure it’s illegal to upload and download it but no one would ever get arrested or fined for that. Even if someone stole a copy from a retailer, that’s just a misdemeanor

Oh no!!!! the spoilers are coming! 😱😱😱

@Dizavid It's a Mario game, hard to call it revolutionary or ground breaking. Just like Starfield is a typical Bethesda game (for good and for bad), Wonder is a typical Mario game: it's fun, it runs smoothly, it's good to play with your children if you have any, and that's about it.