Wonder comes so close to being a perfect Mario game - the Wonder Seeds were amazing ideas, the 10 coins feel nice enough to obtain, the artstyle and animation are great, and the levels themselves all feel pretty nice.

Unfortunately Wonder also has standees (i hope you like mashing A on either a gacha or money sink), bad online multiplayer (the general one is fine but why are my friends all ghosts and also not even required to be in the same level or anything?), and some disappointing boss fights (Bowser Jr.).

Only other complaint I have is that badges felt mostly useless so I just had the floating cap one on most of the time, but I'm gonna at least hope that other people enjoyed the variety and got some mileage out of stuff like jet run and the grappling hook.

Reviewed on Nov 25, 2023


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