Super Mario 3D Land

Name: Super Mario 3D Land
Rating: 91 (3 reviews)

Super Mario 3D Land represents the first 3DS title to fully make use of the system’s capabilities. With an expertly balanced difficulty progression, dazzling level design and masterful Power-Ups, this is the ideal 3DS experience. Most of the first eight worlds fly by a bit too quickly, but with extra content you unlock afterward, medal challenges in each level and StreetPass allowing you to best your friend’s times, you’ll still find plenty of replay value here. As an experience, Super Mario 3D Land gets deeper the longer you play, as you sink into its particular groove and learn to appreciate it as a unique title - one that is separate from yet beautifully derivative of the entire Mario franchise. As a whole, 3D Land is brilliant and addictive, and should do for 3D-enhanced platforming what the original Super Mario Bros. did for 2D platforming. If you own a 3DS system, you have no choice - you simply must own this game.

-- As reviewed by IGN

91

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Based on 3 expert reviews

MSRP: $32.97

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Product details

Nintendo Selects highlights a variety of great games at a great price, including this One.
The Super Mario 3D land game reinvents everything fans love about Mario gaming with a platforming environment in true 3D.
Use Parental Controls to restrict 3D mode for children 6 and under.
Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB) Content Description: Cartoon violence

PROS

+ Old-school Mario action with a new-fangled 3D twist

+ Endlessly inventive levels and gadgets

+ Clever use of 3D and perspective

CONS

- Early stages very easy

- Reveals hand-cramping qualities of 3DS

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Expert reviews and ratings

By IGN on November 09, 2011

Super Mario 3D Land represents the first 3DS title to fully make use of the system’s capabilities. With an expertly balanced difficulty progression, dazzling level design and masterful Power-Ups, this is the ideal 3DS experience. Most of the first eight worlds fly by a bit too quickly, but with extra content you unlock afterward, medal challenges in each level and StreetPass allowing you to best your friend’s times, you’ll still find plenty of replay value here. As an experience, Super Mario 3D Land gets deeper the longer you play, as you sink into its particular groove and learn to appreciate it as a unique title - one that is separate from yet beautifully derivative of the entire Mario franchise. As a whole, 3D Land is brilliant and addictive, and should do for 3D-enhanced platforming what the original Super Mario Bros. did for 2D platforming. If you own a 3DS system, you have no choice - you simply must own this game.

95

By TrustedReviews on November 19, 2013

If so, Mario is up to the job. Super Mario 3D Land is an absolute corker; a game that cheerfully pinches elements from 26 years of Mario history and ingeniously reworks them for the 3DS. If it’s not as revolutionary a game as Super Mario 64 or Super Mario Galaxy, it’s certainly as rich, as ingenious and – most importantly – as much fun.

90

By TrustedReviews on November 19, 2013

And its playfulness extends to the way it uses 3D and perspective. The 3D is used with subtlety, yet the effect is all pervasive, allowing Nintendo to mess around with top-down views and vertiginous depths for some classic heart-in-your-mouth moments, or hide collectibles behind the scenery, hinting at their existence while daring you to find a way in. You can get further info using a brilliant binocular gadget, which gives a long-distance view of the level with the binoculars aimed by moving the 3DS itself. There are even some ingenious challenge rooms that use perspective tricks to stop you reaching that secret star coin or handy power-up. You don’t need to have 3D turned on to play the game, but for once it adds an extra dimension to the experience, not just the visuals.

90