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Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury Free Download GAMESPACK.NET Sandwiched between the sublime planet hopping of Super Mario Galaxy and the absurdist delights of Super Mario Odyssey, Mario’s Wii U outings are very much the black sheep – or perhaps more appropriately, the colourful cats – of the franchise. They’re getting another shot, however. First, New Super Mario Bros. U returned in a deluxe 2019 re-release, and now it’s Super Mario 3D World’s turn. And better still, the already decent-sized Wii U adventure is bolstered by an entirely new outing: Bowser’s Fury. Both parts of the package certainly have their moments – and Bowser’s Fury in particular has a pretty interesting central hook – but by the time I was finished I still had an itch that Mario’s cat suit didn’t quite scratch. Back in 2013, IGN’s reviewer praised Super Mario 3D World for being a joy to play, both in single player and with friends. Many of the points made in that review very much still stand, in particular the entertainment value from the fact that each level is typically built around a unique gameplay twist. Much like the Galaxy games, this has allowed Nintendo’s designers to flit nimbly from idea to idea.TOP/BEST ADULT VIDEO GAMES IN UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (USA)

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In one level platforms appear and disappear in time to music. In another, players use the gyro functionality to activate blocks themselves. There are levels with all sorts of fun concepts – playing in silhouette, walking on invisible tiles, steering through mazes of Futurama-style pipes, and navigating paths with panels that flip each time you jump. There’s even a level that pays homage to Super Mario Kart, complete with music straight from the SNES classic. Power-ups add to the variety, giving Mario a cannon on his head, or allowing him to be cloned and tasking players with wrangling several of the portly plumber at once. Levels generally contain standalone micro-challenges too – short, single room set pieces that are one and done. And as is so often the way, Super Mario 3D World’s true scope – its full set of Worlds – doesn’t become apparent until well after you’ve “beaten” the game. The visual design is also still a highlight. The environments are wonderfully vibrant, from the way shrubs and flowers bop along to the jaunty melodies that are apparently piped into each area, through to the impressive amount of variety between worlds.

The Spice of Life.

The suite of cat suit animations are also just so lovingly composed. Mario doesn’t need to wiggle his bum before he pounces, for instance, but the move is so much the better for that small detail, and that’s just one of many.That said, playing Super Mario 3D World again now, the gameplay actually feels like a bit of an awkward fit for the presentation. Levels are viewed from fixed perspectives (that can often be shifted left or right) and generally have limited depth, giving you a path to follow but only so much room to move within it. This has a few unfortunate knock-on effects. Despite sharing some design principles with Super Mario Galaxy, for instance, 3D World feels a lot more staid. Of course, there’s a pretty big difference between Mario running all the way around planetoids and the levels here, in which he’s basically trapped in a set perspective diorama, but 3D World’s presentation means that even transitions lack the dynamism and excitement that naturally come hand in hand with galaxy-hopping. To get from one playspace to another in the Galaxy games, for instance, you literally rocket off the surface of the world you’re on and zoom through space, spinning and twirling and collecting Star Bits as you go.Pokemon Brilliant Diamond

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In 3D World you, erm, go into a box… and then come out of a box in a different place. At best you fly slowly through a glass pipe. It just doesn’t feel as effervescent as Mario’s most freewheeling outings. Well, it’s finally here. The 35th anniversary of Mario may soon be ending with a Thanos-style snap of the fingers for Super Mario 3D All-Stars and Super Mario Bros. 35, but before we mourn them, Nintendo has one final release to celebrate the big three-five, and this one’s sticking around for good. Super Mario 3D World is one of the last major Wii U games still to get the Switch port treatment, and now it’s finally here with an all-new adventure called Bowser’s Fury along for the ride, too. The main event in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is obviously still Super Mario 3D World itself, the 2013 release that ended up becoming the Wii U’s second best-selling game but still sold less than nearly every other major Mario platformer because… well, it was on the Wii U. This is the game’s second chance to shine, but for many players, it’s going to be a brand new experience – so forgive us for a second if you’ve already played it, because we need to bring everyone else up to speed.

Schrödinger’s Cat.

One night Mario, Luigi, Peach and Toad find a clear pipe outside Peach’s Castle. After Mario and Luigi fix the pipe (yes, they actually do some plumbing for once) out pops a little fairy called a Sprixie. The Sprixie starts to tell them that Bowser is kidnapping her friends when, right on cue, Bowser pops out, nabs her and heads back into the pipe. The foursome decide to head into the pipe themselves, where they end up in the Sprixie Kingdom, and if you haven’t figured out that the aim is to rescue the Sprixies from Bowser then you must be new to this video game lark. Much like its 3DS predecessor Super Mario 3D Land, at first glance Super Mario 3D World appears to be a free-roaming game similar to the likes of Super Mario Galaxy and Odyssey, but is actually more of a linear platformer like the 2D Super Mario Bros. series. While you’re free to run in eight directions and some stages have open areas, each stage still has a clear path from the start of the stage to the flagpole at the end. The layout is similar to the 2D games, too; you’ve got a world map that lets you travel between levels, and each level has a set of collectables (in this case three green stars and a stamp) to encourage you to explore their nooks and crannies to ‘complete’ them 100%.DEAD OR ALIVE Xtreme Venus Vacation

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As in the best Mario games, Super Mario 3D World is absolutely packed with ideas. Each of its individual stages is guaranteed to introduce at least one new mechanic or enemy to ensure the player isn’t just playing the same thing over and over again. Even when a stage seems to bring back a mechanic you saw earlier in the game – such as a certain type of platform gimmick – they’ll mess around with it by placing it in a new scenario or giving you new power-ups to deal with it. We’ve said this about other classic Mario games, but you know you’ve got a good one when it dedicates just one level to a concept that lesser studios would build entire games around. Super Mario 3D World didn’t get the recognition it deserved on Wii U. It was slept on. Disrespected even, just like Luigi is routinely disrespected by Nintendo. But now it’s back on a platform that wasn’t forgotten shortly after launch (burn). People will remember it this time. I’m only going to briefly talk about 3D World here because it’s mostly the same as the 2013 original I extensively covered in my original review. It’s still great, mind you! And with online play, it’ll be even easier to rope others in.

Co-Op Catfight.

The mechanical “speed increase,” while subtle at first, really makes a difference on a heap of levels and brings 3D World up a notch, action-wise. It still has everything that made me fall in love the first time. Strong and varied level design. Fantastic and interactive power-ups. And the option for multiplayer that feels less cramped than some of the other 2D offerings. But enough about 3D World, let’s talk about Bowser’s Fury, since a lot of you are probably dying to know what it even is. It’s an experiment, as far as I can tell! But a darn good one. Almost like the blueprint for a new full open world Mario adventure, Bowser’s Fury plops Mario (and partner Bowser Jr., who can be controlled by the AI or a local friend) into a new sandbox that takes around three hours to finish, and five hours to 100%. That’s a little on the short side! But given that I immediately loaded up a new save file and played it all over again, there’s something special there. Like a lot of fleeting romps, it never overstays its welcome. Bowser’s Fury might not be as long as a full Mario game, but it feels as mighty as one when you’re actually playing it.

All the while, Bowser can awaken and wreck your day with projectiles in Fury mode, shifting the map in the process. While it’s not that unpredictable it does offer up a sense of tension, as you’re often just about to clear a stage before that extra Fury wrinkle pops in. The first time Bowser wakes up and that metal theme hits just right, it immediately sucks you into its unique world. Your end goal is to grab enough Cat Shines to square off against the final boss (at which point the credits will roll), or go for every Shine for a 100% rating. So basically, it plays out like the majority of 3D Mario games since 64. It also never really asks too much of you. Puzzles are generally uniform in each portion of the map (red coin hunts, get Bowser to blow up a specific set of blocks, get to the end of a course), but they’re always fun. A few are even very well hidden, to the point where some of you may even seek out a guide. But those are exceptions rather than the rule. Of course, the designers have tried to think outside the presentational box in a few different ways.

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Heck, you can even run right up the flagpole at the end of each course. It’s a liberating inclusion, expanding your possibilities in ways that throwing fireballs and boomerangs or swiping enemies with your tanooki tail doesn’t. Other power-ups also transform traversal, whether you’re soaring up into the sky using a Propeller Box or stomping through the scenery after chomping down on a Mega Mushroom.Even so, I just don’t enjoy Super Mario 3D World’s gameplay as much as other entries in the series, and I think that has a lot to do with this game’s heritage. The foundation of this design was born in Super Mario 3D Land for 3DS, after all, and in that context it excelled. The constrained scope of levels suited handheld play and the limits of the hardware well, while the set perspective and movement restrictions gave Nintendo’s designers the perfect diorama-like design to showcase the system’s 3D screen. It worked wonderfully. On console, it’s a rather different story. Without the depth perception enabled by a 3D screen, the forced viewpoint makes spatial awareness harder to judge than it would be in a purely 2D design or in a 3D game with full camera control.Super Mario 3D All-Stars

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