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Super Mario Maker is a level designing game releasing for the Wii U in 2015. Based upon the course building tool used by Nintendo to create the 2D Mario games, Super Mario Maker allows players to build their own courses in the style of one of several Super Mario games. The game is being released as part of the Super Mario Bros. 30th Anniversary, and will be sold alongside an art book.
Blurb
Nintendo website
The ultimate evolution of Super Mario Bros. is here!
The Mario experience of your dreams has arrived and is bursting with creativity... including yours! Play a near-limitless number of intensely creative Super Mario levels from players around the world. It’s easy enough to create your own levels with the Wii U GamePad controller that it may feel like you’re simply sketching out your ideas on paper, but you can now bring enemies and objects into a playable course in ways you could only dream of before. What was impossible in traditional Mario games is now impossibly fun, so let your imagination run wild!
Features
- Play a near-limitless number of Mario levels created by Nintendo and players around the world.
- Create your own Mario levels by using the Wii U GamePad controller touch screen to add enemies, blocks, pipes and more.
- Break the conventions of traditional Super Mario gameplay by blending enemies, traps and items into unexpected twists, like Piranha Plant-shooting cannons, power-up-tossing Lakitus, or even Hammer Bros. riding on Bowser while bouncing on trampolines.
- Touch control, instant editing and a robust online ranking and search system makes creating, playing and sharing a seamless process.
- Switch between four distinct themes, each with different art styles and features: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and New Super Mario Bros. U.
- Transform into different characters at random with the new Mystery Mushroom item. Expand the roster of possible characters by completing 100 Mario Challenge mode or tapping compatible amiibo.
- Tap a 30th Anniversary Mario amiibo figure to the Wii U GamePad controller to add a Big Mushroom power-up to your course!
Gameplay
Players can create their own 2D Super Mario courses by dragging elements onto the stage with the Wii U GamePad and adjusting them. Players can create courses in the style of Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and New Super Mario Bros. U, which are mostly faithful to the original games' gameplay. The properties of various enemies and objects can be adjusted by shaking them or placing other items or objects on them. While some assets are game-exclusive, certain assets have been created for graphical styles that they did not debut in (i.e. a Super Mario Bros. version of a Chain Chomp, an enemy that debuted in Super Mario Bros. 3). New powerups are also set to appear, such as the Luigi Mushroom, which gives Mario a distorted appearance and Luigi's physics, and the Mystery Mushroom, which allows Mario to transform into one of several other characters by tapping an amiibo on the Wii U GamePad, though this is restricted to the Super Mario Bros. graphical style.
Players are able to share their courses with the rest of the world and download courses from other players. Also available is the 100-Mario Challenge, in which players must clear 16 player-created courses within 100 lives.
Technical details
- Media: Wii U optical disc, digital download
- File size: N/A
- Supported functions: Nintendo Network, amiibo
- Input: Wii U GamePad
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