[Mailenstein]

HALF WAY THERE

Can't wait for the SMW 3D classic present either.

[Zeer0id]

Can't wait for the SMW 3D classic present either.

*faints*

[PhoenixSFT]

Hi. Question for Mr. Martinet. In New Super Mario Bros. 2, when Bowser kidnaps Princess Peach he takes her back to his castle, yet when Mario arrives we find that the castle's layout is entirely different to that featured in the previous game. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a magic castle or something? Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.

You're my hero.

[Santiako]

Can't wait for the SMW 3D classic present either.

With widescreen and leaderboards of course.

[mrklaw]

Still looking forward to it. Main worry is too much spamming of power ups. I loved 3D land, but there were too many raccoon suits. You basically go through the entire game in one

[BowieZ]

I'm pretty certain there will be one NSMB and one 3D Mario game per system (3DS, WiiU).

Super Mario 3DLand
New Super Mario Bros. 2
New Super Mario Bros. U
Super Mario Universe

And that's it. Then by 2016-2017, when the Nintendo 3D phone-console comes out (Nintendo All), and it'll have been over 4 years since the last 2D Mario game, we'll get a brand new 2D Mario series (Mario Bros. 1, 2, etc) (and maybe New Super Mario All-Stars).

[Mailenstein]

With widescreen and leaderboards of course.

You forgot to mention the newly added island with +10 new levels and the super star road with additionaly 15 new designed levels. Also online coop should be mentioned.

[Mr. Wonderful]

The narrative was always not the point of the game.

No, they're not the point, but they lead to more interesting worlds and level designs.

[bede-x]

I'm pretty certain there will be one NSMB and one 3D Mario game per system (3DS, WiiU).

That's a perfect amount and it would be great, if they could stick to that. Then they should just add a Kirby/Donkey Kong/Wario/new game, whenever the need for another platformer arises.

[Zeer0id]

No, they're not the point, but they lead to more interesting worlds and level designs.

Narratives could easily stifle the creativity that leads to interesting worlds and level designs by forcing them to follow a certain premise.

Mario design is always gameplay-driven. The stories are shoehorned in afterwards and used to connect together their ideas. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but I think you'd be wrong to assume that the stories have any impact on level design.

[Trevelyan]

I'm pretty certain there will be one NSMB and one 3D Mario game per system (3DS, WiiU). Super Mario 3DLand New Super Mario Bros. 2 New Super Mario Bros. U Super Mario Universe And that's it. Then by 2016-2017, when the Nintendo 3D phone-console comes out (Nintendo All), and it'll have been over 4 years since the last 2D Mario game, we'll get a brand new 2D Mario series (Mario Bros. 1, 2, etc) (and maybe New Super Mario All-Stars).

The 3DS has a good 4 years left in it at least. Nintendo won't leave money on the table by not releasing at least one more Mario game before those 4 years up. Anyway, I could use at least one more 3DS Mario game in a couple of years.

[Sigismundo]

The 3DS has a good 4 years left in it at least. Nintendo won't leave money on the table by not releasing at least one more Mario game before those 4 years up. Anyway, I could use at least one more 3DS Mario game in a couple of years.

Well, we've got the regular 2D Mario and the 3D Land style Mario.

How about a 64/Sunshine style Mario?

[Mailenstein]

The 3DS has a good 4 years left in it at least. Nintendo won't leave money on the table by not releasing at least one more Mario game before those 4 years up. Anyway, I could use at least one more 3DS Mario game in a couple of years.

The DS got one - in 2006. I thought they would dish out one more for the DS, considering it was pretty successful, but no, didn't happen. So I wouldn't be surprised if that's it for the 3DS.

[Drago]

Thought this was interesting...

How to get 40 lives in 6 minutes

Not only do you get 40 lives, but also 4000 coins. Making the worthless journey to a million coins that much easier. ;P

tbh I will probably do this to help me go all the way to a million much quicker, just for completions sake o_o

[AniHawk]

maybe the next mario game will be super mario 3d all-stars and have 64, sunshine, and the galaxies.

[StreetsAhead]

Nintendo Club survey in Japan asked if I'd pay for DLC, or if I wanted it free (or not at all). Also, asked for suggestions for characters, rules, levels, and so on in a free answer question.

[Zeer0id]

Nintendo Club survey in Japan asked if I'd pay for DLC, or if I wanted it free (or not at all). Also, asked for suggestions for characters, rules, levels, and so on in a free answer question.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

[StreetsAhead]

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean?

[Mailenstein]

Thought this was interesting... How to get 40 lives in 6 minutes Not only do you get 40 lives, but also 4000 coins. Making the worthless journey to a million coins that much easier. ;P tbh I will probably do this to help me go all the way to a million much quicker, just for completions sake o_o

Well, not really. There is a level where you get down a pipe to reach the star coin located at there. It's filled with jumping koopas and rainbow staircases (after you hit them with a gold Mario fireball), if I remember exactly. Kill all the koopas until one is left and wait until he is jumping near the stairway. Then just do the typical SMB 1up farming trick and you will be at 999 lives (or three crowns) in a few minutes.

Also, 4000 coins in 6 minutes isn't really that much. Just play coin rush mode. I'm getting 10k coins easily in under 8 minutes. If you're good enough you can collect 100k coins within an hour.

[Teknoman]

I'd pay for a one time expansion...but only if the levels added were 100% original or used new assets.

[StreetsAhead]

I'd pay for a one time expansion...but only if the levels added were 100% original or used new assets.

How does:

$2.50

3 maps (mix of new and recycled assets)
Playable Wario


Sound?

[Teknoman]

How does: $2.50 3 maps (mix of new and recycled assets) Playable Wario Sound?

That would work for me...if Wario had all his usual voice samples. Would be nice to see a Super Mario Land 1 or 2 themed pack since we still havent seen Mario return to Sarasara land or any of the crazy areas from 2.




Also still think Tatanga not showing up in Galaxy was a missed opportunity.

[AniHawk]

tatanga died on the way back to his home planet.

[JoeInky]

How to get 40 lives in 6 minutes

Damn, they have my favourite NSMBW music in the game but they didn't update it like the rest of the reused music :/

[Lord British]

Also still think Tatanga not showing up in Galaxy was a missed opportunity.

Yeah, a missed opportunity for millions of people to go "huh?"

[StayDead]

My copy still hasn't arrived. It was tracked in Heathrow on Friday >_<

[Mailenstein]

My copy still hasn't arrived. It was tracked in Heathrow on Friday >_<

Checking for dem tax.
Seriously tho, you should've gone digital on this one probably, like me. I don't care much about physical copies (case, booklet etc.), so I will gladly download Nintendo 1st party titles from this point on.

[StayDead]

Checking for dem tax. Seriously tho, you should've gone digital on this one probably, like me. I don't care much about physical copies (case, booklet etc.), so I will gladly download Nintendo 1st party titles from this point on.

I'm definitely going fully digital for Nintendo games from now on. I went digital for Oni Training but wanted the box stupidly for NSMB2. :p

[Plinko]

Nintendo Club survey in Japan asked if I'd pay for DLC, or if I wanted it free (or not at all). Also, asked for suggestions for characters, rules, levels, and so on in a free answer question.

Who in their right mind would say they didn't want DLC?

[Santiako]

I'm sure the first couple of DLCs will be free (at least for a while), then they'll start charging for them.

[StreetsAhead]

Who in their right mind would say they didn't want DLC?

You haven't seen the Fire Emblem thread, have you?

[The_Darkest_Red]

You haven't seen the Fire Emblem thread, have you?

In that case it's more the content of the DLC that I take issue with.

[Mik2121]

How does: $2.50 3 maps (mix of new and recycled assets) Playable Wario Sound?

3 maps?? What about something like 5 maps, playable Wario and some unique Coin Rush level that's just made to collect TONS of coins?. Yeah... ;D

[jwhit28]

I don't want much story, but it would be nice if they acknowledged that I did this before. Bowser's crashed ship in Super Mario World blew my little mind as a kid. The landscape in SMW would also change as you progressed like the hill getting a band-aid from being smashed by a castle.

The platforming and courses are what the game is all about so make an over-world interesting enough to let your platforming tell the story like Donkey Kong Country Returns.

[JoeInky]

3 maps?? What about something like 5 maps, playable Wario and some unique Coin Rush level that's just made to collect TONS of coins?. Yeah... ;D

The DLC levels will all be coin rush only so they'll only be a pack of 3 levels.
I'm interested in just how hard these levels are going to be, seeings as the devs in that Iwata ask's expressed an interest in making the optional DLC levels really hard (if I'm remembering correctly).

[Mailenstein]

I'm definitely going fully digital for Nintendo games from now on. I went digital for Oni Training but wanted the box stupidly for NSMB2. :p

Heh.. good choice overall. Thank god I'm not into boxes and stuff anymore. On a side note, is Oni Training any good? I've downloaded the demo, but I didn't play it yet.

[Zeer0id]

I'm not even sure what that's supposed to mean?

Just expressing my thoughtfulness about the questions and the way they are posed :P

[Diddy Kong]

How does: $2.50 3 maps (mix of new and recycled assets) Playable Wario Sound?

I'd pay double for playable Wario alone!

[Lord British]

So, how many stages does this game have? Any secret worlds?

[Currygan]

So, how many stages does this game have? Any secret worlds?

80, presumably

[Cheesemeister]

Also still think Tatanga not showing up in Galaxy was a missed opportunity.

You know who else we haven't seen in a long, long time? This guy:

[Berordn]

So, how many stages does this game have? Any secret worlds?

It's advertised as having 80 levels. As for worlds, there's 6 normal worlds, and then secret Mushroom, Flower and Star worlds.

[Starsunder]

You know who else we haven't seen in a long, long time? This guy:

MY MAN.

Whyyyyyyy havent we seen this guy again? No boss, final boss, Smash Bros appearance, nothing.

Wart. Your time is now!

[Varjet]

You know who else we haven't seen in a long, long time? This guy:

He was in Link's Awakening, which is more recent than SML2 lol, recent

[Foshy]

You know who else we haven't seen in a long, long time? This guy:

And while we're at it, this one too.


Mouser can stay dead though for all I care.

[GaimeGuy]

And while we're at it, this one too.

Kill it with fire!


Fire doesn't work D:

[Anth0ny]

Nobody cares about story in Mario games. It's about the gameplay.

Exactly.

Too bad the New games have simplistic, boring, floaty gameplay. A lack of story in Galaxy 2 and 3D Land didn't stop them from being masterpieces.

[MyAbsolution]

That would work for me...if Wario had all his usual voice samples. Would be nice to see a Super Mario Land 1 or 2 themed pack since we still havent seen Mario return to Sarasara land or any of the crazy areas from 2. Also still think Tatanga not showing up in Galaxy was a missed opportunity.

That boss in SML1 was a precursor to me liking Schmup games :)

[woo and indeed hoo]

Would someone be kind enough to tell me what the StreetPass functionality of this game is please?

I'm on a bit of a media blackout for the game so please forgive me for not doing my own research and/or just reading the thread.

Clarification of this aspect would be most appreciated so I can decide whether to go retail or download.

I have more than one 3DS you see.

[Mpl90]

Last French trailer with HUGE spoilers The final part shows an important moment of the Bowser battle

It's really crazy

http://www.wiiz.fr/article.php?a=41218