Nintendo rarely indulges in half-measures though, especially on flagship hardware around the holiday season. Some fans have worried the 2D game will just be a stop-gap to finish off the Switch’s run until a successor launches. With Wonder, the first new Mario game since Super Mario Odyssey six years ago, it looks like Nintendo is going the extra mile. The games were never quite as good as the NES, SNES, Game Boy, and Game Boy Advance games they spiritually channeled, however, even when the sub-series made its way to Wii and Wii U. series offered a 2D version of the hit franchise to complement the plumber’s 3D sandbox adventures on console. Originally released on the Nintendo DS, the New Super Mario Bros.
Nintendo’s always been lauded for its attention to small details that culminate into a smooth and tactile platforming experience that’s bigger than the sum of its parts, and these additions are a perfect example of that. Brief snippets of characters like Peach and Daisy imply they’ll have a similar variety of expressions. Throughout Wonder’s trailer, you can see Mario making an array of different faces and gestures while running, jumping, and climbing. “Nintendo was really okay with 2D Mario looking like that for 6 or so games straight.” “Comparing these to their NSMB series equivalents is pretty hilarious,” added GuyWithThePie. Beautiful,” wrote Twitter user StephenJPlant alongside screenshots of some of Mario’s new facial expressions in Wonder while ground stomping. “Haven’t seen this kind of personality and style since the days of 2D sprites. Nintendo was really okay with 2D Mario looking like that for 6 or so games straight /mmWF5AAp2W Like water, Mario Sunshine’s ideas only needed a proper container to take shape.Comparing these to their NSMB series equivalents is pretty hilarious.
And Sunshine’s secret levels, which removed the water jetpack, were a direct inspiration on the winning Galaxy series. Making Mario fun and useful and challenging was a big lesson Nintendo carried over to its later Switch release. But that shouldn’t take away from the fact that this is probably still the most fun version of Mario to control. They never quite figured out the appropriate amount of challenge to fit with Mario’s newfound freedom to fly and hover.
This led to an ambitious open-world design that was a bit confused. It dared to redefine what regular Mario felt like. It enhanced Mario’s core abilities of jumping. Instead of Mario’s traditional powerups like flowers and stars, which gave him additional new powers, Sunshine’s water jetpack did something revolutionary. As a result, Super Mario Sunshine is packed with ideas. The first GameCube Mario was also Mario’s grand return to 3D adventuring, after Super Mario 64 blew the doors open for the genre.
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