The game exceeded my expectations.
All the levels feel to me a lot shorter than what we were used to in previous installments of the franchise but it’s all made up by the lack of a timer in them.
Having no time limit to finish a level and most of the time being able to backtrack to the beginning allows you to not need to rush each stage and take your time to really enjoy the mechanics and find the collectibles in each of them.
The best feature in the game is by far the online multiplayer, done in a way I’ve never seen before: instead of actually playing with other people, Nintendo will connect you to up to 3 other players playing the same level, but you only see them as a ghost. You can help them and vice-versa in a number of ways.
In online multiplayer, you can donate items to the other players and revive them if they die either by touching their ghost yourself or placing a standee on the ground, that revives them if their ghost touches it. It’s like a cardboard cutout of yourself.
The online and the talking flowers help the world to feel populated, something that the other games in the franchise lacked a bit.
The only thing holding this game from a 5-star rating is the lack of boss variety, but this is a problem that plagues the entire franchise as a whole. They do make some changes, like having some of the worlds not have a boss fight at all, which I welcome, but fighting the same Bowser Jr. fight 4 times in different stages could have given space to more interesting boss designs, which would only further enhance the lovely chaos of Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Definitely recommend.
All the levels feel to me a lot shorter than what we were used to in previous installments of the franchise but it’s all made up by the lack of a timer in them.
Having no time limit to finish a level and most of the time being able to backtrack to the beginning allows you to not need to rush each stage and take your time to really enjoy the mechanics and find the collectibles in each of them.
The best feature in the game is by far the online multiplayer, done in a way I’ve never seen before: instead of actually playing with other people, Nintendo will connect you to up to 3 other players playing the same level, but you only see them as a ghost. You can help them and vice-versa in a number of ways.
In online multiplayer, you can donate items to the other players and revive them if they die either by touching their ghost yourself or placing a standee on the ground, that revives them if their ghost touches it. It’s like a cardboard cutout of yourself.
The online and the talking flowers help the world to feel populated, something that the other games in the franchise lacked a bit.
The only thing holding this game from a 5-star rating is the lack of boss variety, but this is a problem that plagues the entire franchise as a whole. They do make some changes, like having some of the worlds not have a boss fight at all, which I welcome, but fighting the same Bowser Jr. fight 4 times in different stages could have given space to more interesting boss designs, which would only further enhance the lovely chaos of Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Definitely recommend.