Super Mario Bros. Wonder Direct | Reaction + Discussion
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ส.ค. 2023
- Super Mario Bros. Wonder is lookin' real good, guys.
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This looks like the perfect way to make 2D Mario fresh again. This surrealism really is what we needed. I can't wait to play it.
“Just What I Needed!” - Mario
Hype
hype
@@dertechl6628 hype
This identical comment on Completionist's playthrough.
RIP Yoshi’s spine.
Lol
I guess this is why he doesn't take damage lol
@@dawnrigel4255 😀😂
@@dawnrigel4255he doesn't take damage because he's built outta solid steel to be able to lift Elephant Mario 🤣
Yoshi:🥲
My main takeaway is that a Yoshi can ride another Yoshi and now I want an entire stack of Yoshis riding each other.
Yoshception
Stackable bois
Imagine being a goomba and you turn around to see this menacing tower of Yoshis coming right at you
I'm pretty sure there's only two yoshis though
A Yosgy ?
Considering browser's a castle I'm curious to see if the last boss is against a giant castle or some weird manifestation of him inside of his flying castle head
i think itd be super cool if the final battle had mario && co get turned into similarly styled floating buildings by a wonderflower. no idea how the gameplay would work tho
Browser?
I'm guessing that the last level/world will be traversing through Bowser's flying castle head to find a Wonder Flower that'll turn Bowser back into himself.
@@zephyrus2569That would make sense, that would explain why they only showed us 7 worlds when typically there’s 8 normal worlds.
@@jacobtorres3730I have no idea why Bowser autocorrects as that sometimes, since Bowser is an actual name.
You _cannot_ go wrong with a grappling hooks in any game
Reminds me of Metroid
@ chibi robo zip-lash
@@caitlynmcmunn you can go wrong with grappling hooks in ONE game
Pikmin grappling hook when??
Mhw iceborne joins the chat
I didn’t expect Arlo to be dead this whole video, but I knew the badges would get him.
Arlo hates being spoiled. But we always love his vids. lol
It's still "Bowser's Castle" but this time the apostrophe is not denoting use of the possessive form, it's creating the abbreviation of "Bowser is Castle".
I think the drill has a lot of potential for hiding some truly hard to find secrets in levels.
Yeah for sure. We also saw that you can dig things from the ceiling which is cool
@@darks1d3rz16yeah that's OP af. There's gotta be some sort of limit to it, there's no way you can just dig in the ceiling of any underground level amd just pass through the whole stage😂
@@carl_consumer.of.realityWell the limit there is that you'd have to be able to reach the ceiling. The devs could just raise the roof so the players can't reach it.
17:00 "its a basic story, but as long as you get visual flare thats cool" sometimes thats all you need for an enjoyable experience
-_-
compared to the usual stories from 2d mario games, this story has a lot more going for it. the idea of bowser BEING world 8 is crazy
Not enough people understand that. It doesn't matter if a story is simple, it's how you tell the story is what really matters
but it would be better if it wasn't the same. if the story was different from usual mario at all, you wouldn't be complaining, you'd be praising it
imagine if i removed something aesthetically cool from your favorite game, and told you "you don't need any more than this!"
@@FirstRecords204 I mean it's not really the same. The usual is Peach is kidnapped by someone, even if it's not Bowser.
But even then, you can still tell the same story structure and still make it very appealing or even shocking. The Origami King for example. Yes Peach was kidnapped, but then once you actually get to where Peach has been kept, you see she was folded into a flat piece of paper, which may not sound much, but then you remember these characters are literally made out of paper, meaning King Olly literally cut her insides out and hung her flesh up on the wall. That is such an effed up way to have Peach captive.
All these elements and enemies are so cute and pretty. Id love to see these in a Mario Maker.
Mario Maker 3 on the next console should definitely add this mode over New SMB
@@bregowineor in addition to? No reason to remove the NSMB mode
@@bregowine
No don’t remove it. Just add a new theme like how the 3D world theme was added
@@bregowinethe more the merrier.
@bregowine The Mario maker games have ran it course.
FINALLY as soon as I watched the direct I immediately went caveman mode waiting for The Arlo Take
He seemed so sleep
@@repingers9777 True, I was the same way when it dropped because it was like 7am where I am lolll
@@repingers9777it’s tiring being a fluffy blue monster
You should come up with your own opinion instead
@@jonathanwilson7949you shouldn't police people comments, nobody's going to listen anyways.
Arlo’s insistence on live-reacting to these at ungodly early hours despite the fact he doesn’t even stream them never ceases to amaze me.
I thought i'd never see official Nintendo material of Yoshi riding Yoshi
Yoshi’s Crafted World:
Or an elephant 🐘 riding Yoshi
Mario Kart 8: (even if one of the two is a motorcycle).
Deviant art lost exclusivity lol.
great prompt for self conscious scrutiny of whether im too dirty minded or not
thank you for being the only creator to have a normal reaction about elephant peach and daisy
Oh no... 😬😭
He's not the only one but they are very few.
For me, I laughed but because it looks crazy. I also laughed at Toad for that matter and at Mario on the first trailer
@@vittosphonecollection4134 that is a perfectly fine reaction, i meant in regards to people alluding to nsfw parts of the internet
@@dandyspacedandy Yeah, Ik
The fact we're getting this and RPG essentially back to back makes me so incredibly happy
I'm hoping they use rpg to restart the mario & luigi series.. Paper mario is fine and well, But it has never been my thing and those games didn't deserve the death they got 😣
Yeah just cause alpha dream is gone doesn’t mean Mario and Luigi should too!
@@GustavoCaucayoThe right thing would be to get a Paper Mario that actually becomes a return to formula instead of "TEENY-TINY STEPS INTO THE RIGHT DIRECTION" just so we pretend the last three games never happened
Enjoy it. This is probably a once in a lifetime Nintendo experience. The Switch's time is ending and the cards fell just right for it to happen.
These games are a great ending to the Switch lifetime. But with such strong titles, I wonder what Nintendo has in store to start the next console
Something I noticed with the badges is that the one that always makes you run and the Invisibility one are grouped, which makes me feel like that section will be focused on tradeoff abilities
Yeah there’s 3 different kinds
They really took "Bowser's Castle" and made it a contraction instead of a possession!
One of my favorite details in this is that when a bubble approaches a Koopa they start panicking before being enveloped by the bubble.
Just so charming, I love it!
The level backgrounds are simply beautiful.
I have never heard arlo be so quiet during a reaction.
I kept forgetting he was there and thought I was just rewatch ming the direct lol
Ikr I was expecting him to explode like he did with the Mario Movie
Makes sense though
The badges make such a difference to replayability, I hope then end up adding even more later down the line
I’m really excited for this game, maybe it’ll be good, maybe not. I’m just happy Nintendo are taking 2D Mario seriously again and distancing itself from the “new” games.
they're not distancing themselves from them, they have Nabbit in the game. But they have moved on and finally evolved again.
I'm still salty about the NSMB games. They looked soulless since the beginning and they kept 2D Mario in that sad state for ages.
If they all looked like SMB3 or something, it would've been far more bearable. But taking a bland, sterile art style and repeating it four times in a row was a terrible idea.
@@LC-id6wxwhich one you are talking about?
Out with the "new" and in with the new
This is literally just New Super Mario Bros Wii U 2
Hey Arlo, I don't know if youll see this but I just wanted to say thank you! I watched your deep dive into Pikmin and realized how much of a fun game it is, I went out and picked up a copy of Pikmin 4 yesterday and it has easily become my new favorite game!!! I would have never realized how fun Pikmin is if it wasn't for you! Thank you!
we got 'em boys >:)
Arlo is also the guy who made me fell in love with Pikmin! I watched his series on the first Pikmin way back in 2018 and loved it!
Yesssss so happy for you! Pikmin 4 is also one of the prettiest switch games, So you got yourself a whole ass treat 🙌🏽🙌🏽
Another thing to mention for the animal power up. This is the first time the characters actually TURN into the animal and are not in a suit!
For Arlo’s sake I want to see this level of care and creativity put into Paper Mario
I want to see that for my own sake.
What creativity? All the characters play exactly the same, this is a major step back from everything we've seen in recent Mario games
@@chiquita683Nah, this is definitely better than NSMB2, Wii, and U. No doubts.
I do agree that the characters all playing the same is disappointing but in this game is displaying a lot of creativity so far in art style, level design and variety.
@@chiquita683Bro like it matters, the badges are here to change how the game works and we don’t need different characters to play different think more of them like skins.
I saw someone explain the way Online Co-op seems to work in this game as "it's basically an MMO", and honestly... it feels quite accurate, everyone is in their own little instance of the level, but you can still see and interact with each other... and honestly, I get the feeling that this might be the only way how Co-op across multiple systems might even work in the first place for Wonder, maybe specifically due to how Wonder Flowers affect the courses, having other players be on other screens when that happens would mess with stuff (pretty sure we see that a bunch in Mario Maker-levels as well), but at the same time, they might not want to just teleport everyone to the Wonder Flower when the effect activates like how they force other players to follow someone into pipes. Also, it might be a precaution in case of lag, that could ruin the game for some people with the timing against enemies, if every player is in their own instance, that won't matter, while still having that pseudo-co-op through the player shadows.
Generally though, Wonders feels like a wonderfully fresh take on the Mario-formula, and definitely like it's trying to reinvent the formula a bit, I can just smell how the badges came to be while they were brainstorming for new movement-options to add to Marios standard skill-set in a way similar to how wall-jumping and grounpounds were in New iirc, or the spin-jump in World.
I've seen people like The Completionist and CNN say the game has real direct co op in friend rooms online that doesn't involve shadows so I don't know what to believe at the moment.
It would be in character for Nintendo too because they didn't even mention that 3D World+ had online multiplayer added until the literal last minute iirc
CNN's comment is: "But while these experiences were often limited to your own living room in previous Mario side-scrollers, Wonder finally lets you romp around with folks all over the world via online play.
You can play through the entirety of Mario’s new adventure with faraway friends, and based on my demo, the whole process seems pretty easy to set up. You can take up to one local buddy with you to your online adventure, which is ideal for playing with a combo of friends both at home and afar. But Wonder’s online capabilities go beyond basic co-op; you also have the option of seeing other players’ “shadows” as you traverse a level, which lets you keep tabs on how other plumbers and princesses are tackling the same course in real time"
Jirard/The Completionist said basically the same thing regarding the online and that there's either 2 people per console or one per console online and talked about the shadows and the friend shadow races like an entirely different thing
@@JacobNintendoNerd99I don’t see them making up that kind of thing (especially the completionist) so maybe we really do have regular co-op and they just didn’t cover it?
@@captainpep3 I wouldn't accuse them of making it up but it's always phrased weirdly when brought up. But the same thing was going on with 3D world+ before it released too with this
For a long time Mario fan whose favorite games are Super Mario World and Super Mario Bros 3 this game feels like a dream come true.
To me it feels like a blend of Yoshi’s Island (for how the game looks different and the new enemies) and 3D World (for how it appears to be more open and each level seems to be unique). They took the best out of Mario Maker and World as well (including mechanics).
This might be as good as Odyssey and my GOTY!
I'm so happy about this game. Different Kingdom, a million new creatures and enemies, new powerups. It's not just a bunch of desert, snow, lava, etc etc levels. All that plus the surrealism I love from the series. I can't wait to play it.
I mean, it's still just New Soup. Just slightly different aesthetics.
Just like how every 3D Mario is the same with new aesthetics.
@@EWOODJ I mean...that's a ridiculous notion. Not even a matter of opinion there, bud. Just completely wrong.
Those badges are gonna add even more replayability!
That and the fact you can collect standees. Makes this game so much more awesome. So happy this game has personality and things to complete. Can’t wait for it
Agree. And it’s nice they didn’t let it get out of control. One badge at a time keeps it simple.
I'm dying for an invisible run.
@@KotagMasterPut the volume on mute, see if you can really pinpoint your location w/o sound effects
@@bk6555Jesus Christ, how much more masochistic can you get?! (Jokes aside, this is a great idea haha)
This literally posted RIGHT as my lunch break started! Perfect!
SAME
I Hope you enjoy your lunch
Wonder gives me the same vibes that the SNES Mario games had. Real hyped for this!
I love, love, LOVE the badges! That is the coolest innovation for these games!
This game makes me really excited for the next Mario maker. I cannot wait to see what cool ideas people come up with due to these new enemies and mechanics. Especially the badges. I could see some really cool vertical level design with that grapple badge. Gets my own imagination going.
Mario Spike Bowling
I'm even more excited to see Mario Wonder come to Mario Maker 3. With all the new and old enemies, new power-ups, and how would they even incorporate the wonder flower? I hope this happens. These would be very fun tools to build levels with.
I’m so happy they managed to “fix” Yoshi’s appearance! He looks more like a dinosaur, and less of a weird green humanoid. It’s closer to his original design for Super Mario World and I think it suits him perfectly.
You haven't seen their Object-Holding Animation...
I've come around to how Yoshi is being utilized.
The knockback helps big timing and no powerups or badges with him, playing as Yoshi is going to feel very different and may be difficult in it's own way.
Perfect for a second playthrough later on.
This looks AMAZING, exactly what 2D Mario has needed.
The theme they’re going for, my guess, is Mario in Wonderland. That’s why the King is a Caterpillar and weird stuff happens when you touch a flower, Bubbles and Pink Elephants. Definitely a weird theme for them to do but will make a fun game.
Guys if you go to 3:51 and look at the top where it says “w1 pipe rock plateau” you can see that there are 8 dots, meaning that there are actually 8 worlds. The 8th might be the secret world or it may be something like 3d world where there’s a fake ending
The 8th world is Bowser.
@@FrankieGarcia-np4up yeah that actually is probly true
World 6 will be the fake-out final world, and World 7 will be the actual final world. World 8 will be the bonus world.
I think the first world is like the tutorial thing with 3 levels
@@zkproductions4351no actually if you go to the exact time frame where I said in my comment you can see that there are a bunch of dots on the world map screen and the first part has dots too meaning they are part of world 1
I swear if I have to reach the top of the flagpole with every. single. character. on every. single. level. I'm gonna loose it
Really excited for this game planning to get it for my mom since she loves Mario games
The biggest addition is badges. It’s gonna have such a massive impact on gameplay
Super Mario Bros. Wonder got me more excited for 2D Mario again than the New Super Mario Bros. games ever did. Can’t wait to play it this year.
I like how the specify that konks can even plow through goo as if goo is otherwise an unmovable substance 😂
It turns out that all this time, Bowser's Castle was just a contraction of "Bowser is Castle".
It’s nice to have a game that harkens back to the days Mario Land and World, when Nintendo was willing to be a little more bold with their choices. I actually really like NSMB Wii and U but the riskiest thing those games did was multiplayer. Wonder seems to have a wider breadth of influences and ideas.
Intelligent Systems has no more excuses for their character designs. Then again, they didn’t after Odyssey, or even 3D World.
On elephants being the only animal - there's an article in I think Wired where one of the developers explains why the drill isn't a mole power up. Namely, because they specifically wanted the protection from above stuff with the power up, which wouldn't have made sense with a mole. Also in that article - During brainstorming they came up with 2000 wonder effects and then filtered down to what was in the game, and they decided against letting us equip multiple badges because that felt a bit too much like Zelda to them, and wanted to maintain a simpler sort of gameplay for Mario (and, if you look at some of the one's that have been announced - a lot of them are either stuff that used to be part of Mario's standard moveset (triple jump seems like it's a badge now, and the crouch jump from Mario 2 is in there), or old character specific abilities either in analogue or in whole (the cap hover is kinda similar to Peach's old hover ability)
The badge system is like Yoshi's woolly world and the Yoshi's being impervious to damage is also largely taken from wooly world, I'm glad they are adding accessibility options
Hey Arlo just a heads up: the ad pre-roll for this vid advertised the Mario Rabbids DLC. Not sure you have any control over that, but, considering that video of you standing in front of a burning bridge, I thought you should know.
when the Mario is wonder ful
I wish the dock was blue for Mario's overalls.
I love how they took so many great elements from previous mario games, like the drill power up from galaxy 2 and the super jump from mario 2 and just bringing every character from the series back. (I still cannot belive they brought a smash Bros skin in for a power up...) then, they combine that with a whole new array of features and make somthing fresh, and add a whole sense of series cohesion. Medals are totally somthing that looks incredible. The vine grapple looks insane, and the invisibility looks
Fun as heck. I can't belive they even decided that enough was enough and gave us a way to have actually good swimming in a mario game. wasn't sold on this game at first, but now it's somthing at the top of my list.
Personally I think the only reason they let Yoshi be playable at all is to even out the easy mode options considering they couldn't reasonably take HIS abilities from him like everyone else and since it looks like characters can't be repeated they wanted to give more than one person access to easy mode
And besides in the majority of 2D platformers Yoshi is invincible even in his own franchise
tbh i dont get why we cant have repeat characters, direct and website show different colourways. just let people choose, i can already see kids fighting over who gets yoshi 🙈
Wonder is looking to be amazing, just wish it had ACTUAL online co-op, considering 3D World had it with very little problems.
You gotta consider how complicated the mechanics in this game are. All the reality shifting wonder seed stuff would be very hard to sync between players online. They probably didn't want to be limited by netplay while implementing features.
It is actual online co-op. Not to the same degree as local, but you can cooperate with others and help each other out.
@@MerryMidlightAlternatively, I think Nintendo is just super outdated and still doesn't understand online
@@MySnugglePuppy It's not to the same extent as games like 3D World which elevated its replayability tenfold with online play that has INTERACTIONS. SMM2 also has online co-op, despite the game itself having terrible netcode. NSMBU Deluxe sucks for lacking online play, so wonder at least does everything in its power to give online play BUT the one that's industry standard.
@@BorfieKai No no he do got a point more I think about it. With the way it's made, a player can lag behind PRETTY far without being pushed by the border. Then there's the fact that some items are only obtainable in the normal reality and the Wonder reality, not to mention the entire level itself would change. So imagine if you wanted to grab an important collectable, but then someone ahead picks up a Wonder Flower, causing that important collectable to lock itself out entirely. I believe that's what Nintendo wanted to avoid doing so they made it Dark Souls instead.
I don't think it downgrades the co-op aspect. Looking at the two side by side it's basically the same. Player Collision's already debunked for Wonder so what would even be the difference if they were shadows or not. As far as they shown, it doesn't look like you can pick up other players either (which tbh I get people liked that, but it became infuriating for me after a TON of co op experience).
It's a basic story but I'll take any Mario story that isn't 'Bowser kidnaps Peach' if only because it lets Peach be playable.
and we can play as Daisy too!
Can't believe it took this long for Mario to catch up with Rayman Origins lol
I appreciate that you're one of the only people reacting to this mature enough not to go "Oh no, the Internet!!11!!" when they showed Elephant Peach
I think Elephants Peach and Daisy are cute
I am looking forward to playing the game with others
The badges look cool because they don't all just help you. That invisibility badge seems mostly like a detriment, but also seems like the sort of thing made for challenge runs.
and I've heard of Bowser's Castle, but this is the first time I'm seeing Bowser IS Castle!
10:08 - When Arlo actually remembers to REACT. 😂
16:09 - Discussion portion of video
Y'all can skip the first 10 minutes, you aint missing much...
As another hardcore paper Mario fan, I knew exactly what part of the video that was gonna be lol
I already feel like this game is taking a lot of mechanical inspiration from recent Kirby games, and if that is the case, I'm even more excited about it
Watching with arlo is so much better than watching alone ☺️
This game is gonna take "World Bowser" to a whole new level!
Also Pac-Man World gave you the ability to freely choose between episodes (levels) from the worlds unlocked in a specific part of the game
You would think that just an abstract gimmick such as "Oh, everything's on drugs now" would be an excuse for the safest, laziest, low-effort ideas to clutter this game. Instead, it's shaping up to be the jumping-off point for some of the most ambitious, innovative and totally revolutionary gameplay features 2D Mario has ever deigned to give us. Wonder oozes new life from out of every pore and is promising to achieve a remarkable symbiosis between style and substance.
I'm going to thoroughly enjoy watching the speed running community optimize this one. it's going to be really cool.
Love how a 2D Mario has everything I wish for in a Paper Mario
honestly i was on the fence about wonder, not because i thought it looked bad at all from the first teaser, i just am really not big on 2D sidescrolling games, but i'm definitely buying after seeing this direct. they did great making it fresh again and it looks really fun!!
I'm actually a big fan of how they're handling the online. I really liked seeing the ghosts of other players on the Ninja speedruns in Mario Maker 2, and seeing other players live and even being able to interact with them is great
My thoughts... Honestly I love what I am seeing! It is so charming and weird, and that is wonderful! Also elephant! I didn't know that I needed an elephant Peach in my life, but here we are! Wowie zowie indeed!
Dont search Elephant Peach on internet...
Im a Furry, Trust me
It's Nintendo's main character in a new mainline game, it's going to be a 20 million seller, at the very least. It's going to make them 1 billion+ dollars, literally. That's why it got its own direct.
I like how it comes out the day after my birthday
One thing I love about the addition of Badges besides the obvious of a customizable ability to give yourself to change how you play is that, the game is probably gonna be designed with badges in mind quite a bit, so doing a challenge of badgeless or using that Invisibility one where you can’t see yourself could be really fun.
I'm only disappointed we haven't gotten any hints that Rosalina will be in the game. We could have all 3 of the main Princesses in the same game!
... I am definitely maining Daisy, though.
DK in the DLC.
Maybe she'll be a post-game unlockable like in 3D World.
Imagine Wario Waluigi, DK and Rosalina this game would be absolutely awesome
Wario would have looked so charming if they had made him a playable character. Honestly it eats at me why they don't put him in more games.
THISSS! Especially since wario land is essentially dead, Would've been cool to see
New Arlo. Instantly to the downloads for my work trip tomorrow 😅💕
Remember: new enemies means new characters in the paper Mario series
Hmm... I think they're gonna be Wonder-specific enemies.
Unless we get to visit Flower Kingdom in a more normal game, I think Nintendo would consider them too crazy and leave them only for Wonder (or a new series, who knows?)
The sooner this comes out, the better! I can hardly wait!
It would have been nice to see some passive character abilities for the characters like in SMB2 to make them stand out alongside the badges.
I think that's what they traded for.
They traded character exclusive abilities for the fact you can practically add any of the character abilities onto anyone. You're not limited to a character to have a certain trait. I noticed in the direct there's a Scuttle Jump badge (Luigi's gimmick with higher jump and floaty fall), and Peach's glide is essentially the Parachute Cap. Toad's speed became the Jet Run badge, but dialed up to 11 due to its new ability to run in midair for some time. Now I do wonder if that means there's gonna be a badge for Daisy's ability, which was double jumping.
Cap Glide is Peach's glide as portrayed in Super Mario Run (and U Deluxe if you count Peachette), when the princesses use it they use their dresses instead of caps and that's what makes it obvious. Then there's the crouching super jump from SMB2USA and the GBA remake of Mario Bros., so I would not be surprised at all if Luigi physics were a badge which just leaves Toad.
Also, Turbo Run is a badge and it makes you run at full speed with no way to turn without wall jumping and no way to stop, which seems to be a direct reference to Super Mario Run in and of itself
@@rayplaysgamesrpg7233Jet Run is more so Super Mario Run because you can't stop or turn with the badge which reads more like the mechanics of that game.
I do think Daisy"s ability could be there but I didn't know there was already confirmed Luigi physics based on my above comment lol
I understand that badges replaced some of the characters' abilities from prior games, I just wish it didn't come to that so you could justify more characters being added later (i.e. wario with a charge ability and waluigi(never) with a long jump). Though I don't see any SMB2 style plants you can uproot for Toads' absurd lift power. Overall, I would love to have seen a synergy between these two character ability systems to make some cool loadouts that could make some levels absurdly easy.
Instead of relegating the super jump to a badge, have it as a default with different jump heights per character and have the badge add a second level of charge for an even higher jump (not by much, but enough to clear otherwise difficult obstacles), pre existing abilities combining with badges that match it in this fashion would have been a better choice from my perspective.
During the reaction half of the video, I noticed Arlo's voice was significantly louder than the direct. I think Arlo and the direct should be the same volume. I only mention this because I think making this change could improve the quality of reaction videos.
The animation is fantastic and I love the transformation sequence
My theory is they dont want to make a big deal of the next Mario voice by "announcing" him. I feel like a very small reason why this all happened is because of the controversy and talk when Chris Pratt was revealed as movie Mario. Nintendo mightve not liked that the guy behind the voice was as important as the mascot itself. Maybe Martinet was close to retiring and since the franchise is getting a bit of a facelift anyways, they decided to pull the trigger and get him out of the role. Having a new, less recognizable VA will help them put whoever they want as Mario in any other future projects without taking as much backlash.
This is exactly what I thought. I have heard from the Kit and Krysta podcast that Nintendo really doesn't like when a real person is associated with a product or the company. Which is unfortunate.
Get well arlo!!
Ever since I was a child (I was born in 1980), and I played the Super Mario Bros. games. SMB, SMB2, SMB3 and then in the beginning of the 90's, SMB4 or Super Mario World. and I dreamt of future sequels like Super Mario Bros. 5 and Super Mario Bros. 6 etc. How different and how wonderful they would be. Then we got Yoshi's Island, but I really never counted it as a Super Mario Bros. game although the game was weird and wonderful, but 99% of the time you played as Yoshi and indeed we can now place it under the Yoshi series rather than the Super Mario Bros. series. Then we got the 3D Mario games, which were great, but they were also their own thing and a stark deviation from the 2D games so I didn't count them as part of the Super Mario Bros. series either. Then came the New Super Mario Bros. games. They were also great, but they felt more like a celebration of the old games and offered very little new, unique stuff so I don't count them as a real progression of the Super Mario Bros. series. Now, after 30+ years, after Super Mario World, I truly feel like Super Mario Bros. Wonder is finally worth the title of Super Mario Bros. 5. It's full of surprises, new unique things. Truly wonderful!
What bugs me a lot about the online multiplayer is that they've proven *twice* that they're capable of giving us legit online co-op, in both Mario Maker 2 and the Switch port of Mario 3D World (whether they work or not is more subjective, as is the case with any online based things). This feels like a needlessly convoluted workaround for it, and I'd honestly just prefer regular online co-op with my friends as opposed to whatever they're giving us here
That being said, I love and adore literally everything else about this game and I want to play it yesterday~
The fact that you apparently can't turn the flowers off...I'm gonna hate that. Games are for exploration, not for flowers telling you everything and also they're annoying
Definitely. It would be way better to notice something in the level and think to yourself "Okay, I see something neat, now how can I get to it?"
But this direct has the flower saying "HHMM, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN GET A 'SECRET' IF YOU DO THE THING I AM OUTRIGHT TELLING YOU TO DO!"
It completely kills the joy of finding things, which is weird because that seems to be a pretty big focus the game, what with them removing the timer and adding exploration based powerups and badges.
You can turn off their voice tho
@@zkproductions4351 doesn't stop them from spoiling secrets...unless the demo is wrong, there's no option to remove both voice and text
Incoming video from Arlo about why he is nervous about this game and provides some BS reasons just to try to get some clicks… surprised he wasn’t complaining the whole video about how he wished they didn’t do this because he didn’t wanna be “spoiled”…
You watch every video Arlo makes just to complain and then complain that he always complains? Okay lol
You're complaining about someone not complaining, classic internet
@@darks1d3rz16 awe did I make you upset because I criticized someone who doesn’t even know you exist?
@@Miriam_J_ you’re complaining about Someone complaining about someone not complaining on the internet… classic
I cant wait for speedruns of this game, I wonder what the optimal badge for each level is
I like how it’s a 2D Mario game with 3D Mario aspects
I don't get the hype. Yes the visual aesthetic is improved. Yes there are some nice new mechanics...but it still looks like it has that boring level design the New Bros series did. Much too open and flat to accommodate the 4 potential players. The Wonder Flower sections look fun...but would rather that creativity be applied more to the entire level. Might pass on this.
There's no massive issue with the Bros level design, it has always been pretty solid. There's a reason people bought every game like crazy. But also, what are you talking about? The level design hear is almost completely different. Simple but varied, and the wonder flowers in every level literally make it completely alien to the normal mario style. Don't be obtuse.
@@alexinabox6931 level design felt flat and open to me once New Bros went to Wii and they had to open up and flatten out the level design for 4 players on screen. And like I said I think the Wonder Flower sections look fun....but it feels like an "insert" versus informing more of the overall level with it's creativity. I think I just really miss how World and Island had more meat and exploration to the level design.
@@johnpolishimpossible2say191 Literally Wonder is comparable to World. Have you gone back and played that game lately? I love it to bits but it's got very little in terms of intricacies of the level design. And we haven't even seen how much the new levels are explorable - the wonder flowers are definitely not an afterthought, they're baked into the level design pretty clearly.
The way they made Yoshi lip rolled up when he grabs 💀💀
Mario and friends discovered how to extract their own DMT
I didn't notice it until near the end of this video, but you know what iconic 2D Mario thing is missing from this 2D Mario game?
THERE IS. NO. TIME LIMIT!
I cannot tell you how happy this makes me. I HATED having a time limit, especially in the levels that required more exploration. I suspect some challenges and maybe even some Wonder moments will have a timer, but this is a huge and (in my opinion) very positive change.
yeah, it seems like the Wonder Flower has a timer
this game is so exciting to me, because it pulls from all of my favorite 2d mario games. the world map feels like a direct successor to super mario world, the art style feels inspired by yoshi's island / yoshi's story, and the weird and wacky enemy designs remind me of the gameboy mario games like super mario land 1/2. really feels like nintendo is moving on from SMB3 nostalgia and instead catering to people like me, who grew up with the later games instead.
Of note, besides the cap badge there is no flying power up.
Probably a good choice since we have had like five different flying power ups and they can make most levels too easy.
you know it took me until that last take to realize that the bowser castle before it started to move had the smoke shaped to imply limbs
> Mario 3 has the best world map and they still have not reached that level again
Mario World would like a word with you. You've got all these islands that just look like decoration, but find the right secret exit and Mario waltzes a trek across the map to go there! Know how much it blew my mind finding Soda Lake as a kid! Trees being cleared away, rock structures forming to make paths, so many fun surprises!
I'd really appreciate it if future videos weren't insanely quit so that my ears won't be blown out every time an ad pops up
Couldn't agree more with practically all you mentioned in the discussion Arlo!
By the way, the badge system works in the same way as in Yoshi's Woolly World except for a couple of differences (you could equip one per player and usually had to pay currency to do so) and the bouncing on pits/lava, coin magnet and sensor badges are even straight up from that game, but Wonder made that which was already pretty fun even better!
From the first trailer the first thing that came to mind when i saw the elephant mode was the Dendy mascot. Surely thats not intentional, but i cant unsee it.
That direct was wonderful! :). I loved everything about it from the playable characters, aesthetic, powerups and return of badges! Preordered it the moment the direct finished!