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Super Mario 3D World (Wii U) box art
- Thread starter Hero of Legend
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To be fair, if the demo levels of Mario Galaxy were indicative of the final game it would be a pretty but lousy game. At least the levels they chose for this game had some stuff going on. That level with the wall conveyor belts seems interesting and is an idea they can really expand upon. The Galaxy demo was mostly moving between small fairly empty planetoids with simple gameplay and a boss battle. And then a later demo had the first level of Honeyhive Galaxy, which is a pretty boring level despite how big it is.
IsntChrisL
Member
The shitty resolution isn't doing it any favors. I also don't like the double characters part of it. It's ok though, I guess.
The DKC:TF box looks great though.
The DKC:TF box looks great though.
NobleGreenBeast
Member
I like it, very colorful. I see how people can say that it is cluttered, but I do not think it is that bad.
Both. The mechanics are a step back from the Galaxy games, and the level design wasn't that great.
Fine for a handheld Mario (3D World is basically a Mario 3D Land expansion pack), but I hold console 3D Mario games to a much higher standard. I'll try to judge it by its own merits when it's released, but... eh. Disappointing.
Racoon/Tanooki Mario, Frog Mario, Penguin Mario, Bee Mario, Bunny Mario, Koopa Mario, Flying Squirrel Mario... but Cat Mario crosses the line. Some people are weird.
Azure Dream
Member
Now that would've been clever. But then they couldn't be in very cat-like poses, unless it covered them entirely.
No they haven't
3D World is boring by comparison.Yep. This is the worst Nintendo box art in a while compared to
Lordwindowlicker
Member
I don't think that's correct at all. It only vaguely resembles 3D Land. It has a similar feel, but it REALLY doesn't play anything like a handheld game, whatever that means. Although I always felt like 3D Land felt almost like a console quality Mario, albeit a bit scaled back. 3D World feels like a full on console sized game.
It may be different in design than Galaxy, but it's not just an "expansion" to 3D Land.
yep
I'd rather prefer the total white placeholder one of last month
Hahaha, fair enough. What I should have said is, I'm surprised that they are pushing so heavily on the cat suit as a feature of the game, it almost feels gimmicky. But now that I think more about it, the original NES Mario cover had him with his fire power. And the NDS Super Mario Bros had him as Giant Mario. So I guess it's not that uncommon.
No they haven't
This is my favorite (official) boxart in a long time. The high resolution. Demonstrating the primary color pikmin (with different flower-attachments and mouth/ears/nose) as well as the textured rock pikmin, the emphasis on fruit and a tiny flying pikmin in the back. The gentle introduction of human elements and even the font. They could have very easily gone the traditional route of showing 100 pikmin all running around, but they realized that many details at once clouds the message. This box definitely got me interested in pikmin again after having skipped the second one.
Majmun
Member
Are you for real? They are overdoing it by showing double characters on the box. And it looks like a mess instead of something simple.
Not a fan.
Supreme Stephan
Member
It's a bit boring maybe. Not a fan of the double Mario either. Could be worse I guess, at least there aren't three of him.
As to the bolded...It's these kinds of leaps of logic that...I just don't see as being very valuable as conclusions, or even as predictions (which this is not stated as, as usual).
Shaking my head and saying something like "where do you get this stuff?" is all I can imagine as a response to these kinds of claims.
On topic: It's not my favorite box art, but seems okay and certainly isn't offensive. I don't see the big deal, or any problem at all, really, with having each character on the box twice
Hero of Legend
Member
Mario looks like a pussy in this game.
But is it the pussy you've been looking for?
IdreamofHIME
Member
I miss U R MR GAY
StreetsAhead
Member
The rest of the world says 'sequels'.
sakipon
Member
Not the pussy we want, but the one we deserve.
Prince Vultan
Banned
Is that the Mario game that launched with the Wii U?
Freezie KO
Banned
You're thinking of New Super Mario Bros. 2. This is the one that came out on 3DS.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Agreed. If 3D World is an expansion pack, then SMG2 was just an expansion pack as well.
Which is exactly what a majority of people called it when it was announced/came out. But that didn't stop it from being the best Mario game of all time.
TheSpaceBetween
Member
Strongly disagree with your last statement, but I agree with the essence of the point you are making, which is why I think the term is silly. When people say a game is an "expansion pack," they are attempting to degrade it. Which is ridiculous. Was Uncharted 2 an expansion pack? Was Super Mario Bros. 3? What is the difference between a sequel and an "expansion pack?"
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
I don't think the boxart is great(think it's ok) but how else could you do it???
1. They want to show the selling point(or one of them)---the catsuit
2. They want you to know it's a mainline Mario game---show him in his red outfit everyone knows
Azure Dream
Member
Actually, that's sort of what SMG2 is. At least, that's how it started life, as a bunch of concepts left over from SMG1, the project dubbed "Super Mario Galaxy More".
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
Maybe they will put the game a week early on the Eshop.
That's sneaky but it would be awfully tempting.
Hot Coldman
Banned
TheSpaceBetween
Member
That is the case for most sequels. At a certain point you have to stop adding ideas to a game. At the end, there are usually things that devs didn't get to try, and these things are added to the sequels. SMG2 was not a unique case. The fact that it actually reused levels from SMG was one of the reasons I didn't like it as much as the first. But even the reuse of areas/levels from past games in sequels is not a unique concept.
Anticitizen One
Banned
thats the worst artwork ive ever seen. Donkey Kong Country is gonna kill it this Winter.
boiled goose
good with gravy
Hideous.
So much worse than every other main mario art.
Looks cheap.
Double characters ugh
So much worse than every other main mario art.
Looks cheap.
Double characters ugh
Freezie KO
Banned
You should see Thomas Kincade.
Azure Dream
Member
No, sequels usually aim to be bigger and better on all fronts. This literally started life as a pack of new Galaxy levels. It ended up being polished into a full tradition sequel, but that may not have been the original plan.
I only recall them reusing some boss fights in a secret level, what levels did they reuse? Keeping in mind that Throwback Galaxy was redone from scratch, not simply "ported" from Super Mario 64.
Edit: I think I recall the tower level being reused too, but with a different spin on it?
Not as good as the other awesome Wii U boxarts.
Yeah it's kinda weird and cluttered. They wanted to show off the new catsuits but also wanted to include the iconic designs. Their solution isn't great.
Im pretty sure a few devs have gone on record with saying "The ideas we couldnt use for the first game are the first things we aim to do in the second" which is what his sentence past your bolding was getting at
chertipros
Member
Does this mean we'll get new info on the game soon? I hope so