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Nintendo's "Super Mario 3D World" wows with a brilliant multiplayer design and a fresh set of challenges, but some perspective issues almost spoil the fun.
-- As reviewed by Tom's Guide
Product details
- Enjoy two Mario adventures solo or with friends
- In Super Mario 3D World, choose a character each with distinct playstyles as you dash and climb through dozens of colorful courses, collecting Green Stars and power-ups along the way
- Cooperate (and compete) with friends locally or online to reach each stage’s goal. A crown is awarded to the highest-scoring player, making for a friendly frenzy
- In addition to added multiplayer options, the Nintendo Switch version of the Super Mario 3D World game has been improved with faster character speeds and more
- Explore a seamless feline world in Lake Lapcat, complete objectives to collect Cat Shines, and defeat a giant Bowser in the new Bowser’s Fury adventure
PROS
+ Excellent balance between cooperative and competitive play
+ Refreshing challenges
+ Interesting level design
+ Gorgeous, irreverent art style
CONS
- Depth-perception problems at normal TV distance
- Screen crowding and tracking issues with four players
- No online multiplayer
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Expert reviews and ratings
By IGN on November 19, 2013
Super Mario Galaxy 2 successfully iterated on one of the most inventive platformers of the last console generation. Super Mario 3D World takes slightly smaller steps in the grand scheme of the platformer genre, but it fulfills the promise of a multiplayer Mario much better than anything that the Japanese game maker has done before. Super Mario 3D World is marvelous, and its constant variety and fantastic light-hearted co-op play proves that Nintendo still knows exactly how to tweak the Mario formula in fun ways.
96
By Tom's Guide on November 19, 2013
Nintendo's "Super Mario 3D World" wows with a brilliant multiplayer design and a fresh set of challenges, but some perspective issues almost spoil the fun.
70
By TrustedReviews on June 19, 2013
Admittedly, it’s not one you’ll enjoy for the rich storyline. Mario, Luigi, Toad and the rest fine a pipe that leads to the undiscovered world of the Sprixies, only to find that Bowser has got their first. From there we’re on to a map not unlike that of the SNES’s Super Mario World which links up a series of stages, mini-boss battles, miscellaneous challenges and gift-giving toad houses, not to mention a boss stage at the end of every land.
90