Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is the Future of 3D Mario

[Music] remember the wii u this much maligned console has its die hard fans myself being one of them it may not have been the most popular nintendo console to date but it did feature an extremely good mario game super mario 3d world only problem was not a ton of people actually got the chance to play it in comparison to the current fan base that owns a nintendo switch fortunately the game has been given a remaster slash port treatment and brought over to the switch just a few days ago now i was surprised by the difficulty and delighted by the charm the first time i completed this game i'm happy to say super mario 3d world holds up extremely well on a different console some smart features that make sense for a switch port but this new version also adds something totally unique a spin-off game called bowser's fury that for me signifies the potential future of 3d mario titles hey everyone and welcome back to an all new episode of the completionist new game plus the show where i am re-completing the first 120 games i ever featured here on the channel more on that in the box down below speaking of boxes and your support and awful bad transitions a big shout out to patreon.com completionist mostly because for those who subscribe for a quarter or more in the higher tiers you got access to a free poster that looks like this now this poster right here in my hand is not what you got if you're on the patreon because it came in a different color if you want to pick up this right here you're not on the patreon you can head over to completionist.com today and pick one up this is a poster that celebrates the last uh few months of the completionist in terms of games we've completed jokes we've made so on and so forth so again if you want to pick one of these guys back up or pick one of these up you can head over to completionist.com and get one today now on to the game at hand super mario 3d world here's the deal i love this game it's one of my favorite games i ever played on the nintendo wii u it's a game that i really thought no one got to enjoy and i'm so happy that it's out now on the nintendo switch for all you guys to enjoy more importantly this game was one of the early markings of my relationship with nintendo and it just seemed so appropriate because they hashtag free product hashtag not an ad i was not set paid to say this but i'm clarifying as best i can uh they gave me the game early and that means a lot because i haven't gotten the game early since super mario odyssey with that said i'm very excited for super mario 3d world not because it's one of my favorite mario games of all time but there's new features like multiplayer online there's amiibo support faster gameplay and there's another game inside of here in the form of bowser's fury so with that said let's recomplete super mario 3d world plus bowser's fury we're gonna recomplete mario 3d world and then complete bowser's fury because it was not before let's let's let's begin i've talked enough [Music] for as long as there have been nintendo systems there have been mario games now not every nintendo home console launched with the mario game and not every mario game was a launch title but it is undeniable that the success of any given mario game is dependent on the success of the console it launched on it might seem like an obvious thing to say but even if a game is fantastic popularity is easily swayed by its platform super mario 3d world is one such casualty now i'm convinced that a super mario 3d world world launch title for the nintendo wii u and the wii u wasn't called the wii u the story of that system and how the game is viewed would be a very different one the first three nintendo home consoles launched with mario games and those games are heralded as some of the most legendary in history super mario 3d world should have been the flagship wii u mario title instead this game got buried behind new super mario bros u which came out the year before 3d world when i first completed it i thought super mario 3d world blew new super mario bros u out of the water and i love new super mario bros u and thanks to a recent financial report we now know that the switch has almost sold four times as many units as the wii u ever did that means that this recent switch port gives more people than ever the chance to play this unsung hero of a mario game i loved talking about this game when it came out every now and then i get to complete a game that i want to do that's brand new and this one fit the bill perfectly at the time it was billed as the next step in 3d mario i found it to be a passionate love letter to mario as the series and this is in 2013 years before mario odyssey blew all of us away again 3d world is much more than just a console version of the 3ds's super mario 3d land this game reminded me why i love 3d mario games yet again i thought it was aesthetically gorgeous one of my favorite looking and sounding mario games to date everything about it is charming and smile inducing and though i found the completion process a little maddening i still gave the game my now retired rating of benept the story in 3d world does things a little differently making it slightly more compelling than the average mario title mario and pals aren't teaming up to rescue peach for bowser this time around in fact 3d world calls back to super mario brothers 2 by letting players control peach and toad as playable characters don't get me wrong bowser is still kidnapping but this time it's spritxies adorable little fairy folk mario luigi peach and toad chase bowser to the spricksy kingdom to save the seven sprixies and defeat bowser once again until they eventually play a sport or a car racing game so the real draw of any mario game is the gameplay super mario 3d world is a return to form for 3d platformers from the character who basically originated the genre but also combines this 2d element via level design in objectives players choose a character and jump dash flow and flutter through dozens of differently themed stages and worlds on their way to the flagpole that ends each stage there are collectibles to find mainly three green stars and stamps but 3d world also breaks up the action from just 3d platforming with mystery houses and captain tone levels there's plenty to do it's still a mario game but with plenty of fresh elements sprinkled throughout i found the original game pretty easy to blast through at first but the difficulty steadily ramps up in the last couple of worlds felt like a final exam for everything i had learned from mario games up until that point i found that 3d world pushed me more and more the longer it went on with the final worlds requiring me to use hundreds of stockpiled lives to figure out a way through it's been almost eight years since the original release of super mario 3d world looking back the game felt truly innovative now that it's on switch this game can finally get the attention i feel it deserves [Music] i've always thought that super mario 3d world was low-key one of the best games no one ever played completing it again i realized a bunch of things the game is both better than i remember due to some mechanical improvements made for the switch version and it also reminded me of why i want to make content online recompleting super mario 3d world made me excited to create and although this game is largely the same as the original wii u version i've changed a lot since then resulting in a far easier completion process than i anticipated but let me back up real quick because there is a lot about 3d world that gets me excited on the video game side as i recompleted this game several things sprang to mind i think the visuals here are some of the best in the mario series definitely in the upper echelon the music is phenomenal still a highlight after all of these years and the tattoo alone makes the case for being one of my favorite power-ups in the mario game for the utility it adds to the gameplay now i know i just said this but i cannot praise the music enough long-time series composer koji kondo actually took a back seat during the music production during 3d world with super mario galaxy composer mojito yokota taking the lead the first time i played this game i was struck at how little classic mario music was reused most of it was new for 3d world the jazzy big band inspired soundtrack remains one of my favorite things to return to in fact i can draw a straight line from my band big bad bosses to this game's soundtrack the theme for world bowser one of the toughest areas in 3d world towards the end of the game is full of swagger and boldness that i've always associated with bowser that track alone was the true inspiration for what drove me forward to creating big bad bosses with jake kaufman which spawned the boy band album that you all know today that you hopefully have via spotify or itunes google play by please this game has hands down some of the funkiest tunes in mario history the quality of life updates for the switch version are subtle yet game changing most significant is that the movement speed in general is increased by a little bit not by a lot but enough especially if you put a ton of time into the wii u version it is a little noticeable and makes the game feel a little more modern combined with the fact that my skills have been honed since the original release of this game and i found that completion was much easier this time around i was still doing the same stuff finding three green stars and a stamp on every main stage completing mystery house challenges and captain toad puzzles and completing every stage by reaching the top of every flagpole with every character in the game but it was a pleasure to do so speaking of captain toad 3d world was actually the introduction of captain toad as a playable character the captain toad treasure tracker was ported to switch before 3d world was so there's probably a ton of people who've played that game before they experienced these levels i love their implementation into this game and the switch version is definitely definitive way to play these levels the wii u gamepad was difficult at times but with the switch you can just use your controller the camera is a lot easier to control in this version and with the increased movement speed it's just generally better all around the captain toad portions of this game aren't nearly as intricate as the full version but i love the captain toad is involved here and these short diorama-like stages are a great way to break up the platforming levels one of my favorite features of the original version was that i could choose who i wanted to play as resulting in pretty different experiences across all worlds and stages this time through completion was made easier because i knew exactly how to make the most of each character's strengths and weaknesses by using peach and her floating ability or luigi and his high jump i was able to hit the top of the flagpole without even trying sometimes what i'm trying to say is that i hate playing as toad because man that dude can barely jump compared to the rest of the playable characters in this game and even though he's not my favorite character i still didn't have much trouble beating every level with every character this is partly due to the drop-in dropout co-op mechanic that was used in the original wii u version that still is here on twitch i could essentially summon a second player with another joy con or controller and then pick up that character and carry them to the flagpole touching the top of a flagpole and holding another character counts as completion for both of the characters which cuts completion time for the game down quite a lot there may be a ton to do completion wise but i felt so much more prepared this time around mainly i knew better how to take full advantage of the tanooki suit in the cat belt in my original playthrough i would often have to replace stages multiple times to find every collectible this time around i was able to snag almost every green star and stamp my first or second time through the stage because my mario literacy is through the roof now i could basically read what every stage wanted me to do to find secrets and if i couldn't figure it out the right way i usually had a cat bell or tanooki suit stored away as insurance completing this game gave me a sense of satisfaction because i felt like i had grown so the photo mode that replaces the miiverse functionality is really good in fact both 3d world and bowser's fury are designed around photo mode 3d world has some of the most vibrant art direction of any mario game and it was a clear inspiration for odyssey with the photo mode and the way the collectible stamps are used it feels like a chance to celebrate how this game looks even more there's one more new feature that i thought was going to be bad but turned out to be incredible i can't believe i'm about to say this online functionality now the wii u version did not have any online multiplayer the switch does and when i played this game with kit and krista from nintendo minute and andre from blackbeard comedy it truly felt like we're in the same room together let me repeat that it felt like i was playing a cooperative game on nintendo switch online in the same room together during a pandemic it was chaotic fun and a welcome change for a nintendo game to have a smooth online experience now full disclosure i had the chance to play online in a bubble before the servers were fully publicly available since i experienced the game early if nintendo can keep the online support for this game as strong as it was when i played it then the future is going to be very bright for future nintendo titles but they have a lot of work to do until then in fact once the game was made public i realized something that saved me a bunch of time so first things first in the original episode i actually made a huge mistake and i think i repeated my mistake here in this episode too so i'm here to clear the air right now i claim that you have to touch the top of every flagpole with every character in order to complete the game you don't you need to touch the top of every flagpole with one character it doesn't need to be all in one character just the fact that you have to touch the very top of every flagpole in the game but from there if the host player decides to invite three friends to play with them you and some friends can do a whole clear of the game with all 5 characters with me and my twitch mods we cleared the entire game's speed run style in about three and a half hours that was after the fact that i got all the green stars and i got all the stamps so we were clearly just rushing to get to the end of every single stage this saved me so much time compared to last time when i had to have a friend over or i had to turn on my wiimotes and touch the flag at the exact same time so shout outs to my mods for helping me complete this game and of course there's the invincibility leaf situation now for those of you guys who don't know if you lose enough lives on a level in mario games nowadays eventually this golden item box will spawn and if players pick up the leaf it essentially locks you out of true completion it's a great feature for less experienced or easily frustrated mario players or people who just want to blast through any given level the game doesn't tell you that using this item closes the true completion door in your face this is a nintendo trend at this point seems like there's always something the game never tells you about that if you do hurts completionists they did this in super mario 3d land for the 3ds which was way worse over there and last summer's paper mario the origami king stuff i wouldn't mind so much if they had just mentioned it beforehand but at least i'd already completed 3d world so i knew about the turtles way in advance to get a little nostalgic here completing 3d world again reminded me of when i was starting out on my youtube career this was one of my favorite nintendo opportunities to cover the game early in the personal style that i have and it led to a wonderful relationship but beyond the professional stuff i was just utterly charmed by everything in this game completing it again i was reminded of that charm and the excitement that comes from playing something crafted with true passion [Music] all right enough about the old stuff it's time to talk about the big new thing included in the switch version of super mario 3d world a whole other game called bowser's fury now it might seem short to some but it is dense bowser's fury channels charm and smart design choices to present what could be the future of 3d mario games or rather what the current state is via mario odyssey and how design philosophies could continue in a new direction when bowser's fury was first teased fans went crazy trying to figure out just what it was exactly was it an added world to the original game a new game plus of sorts it's something in between bowser's fury is an open world mario full of new things to collect and areas to explore it feels like one very very large mario odyssey style level big enough to hide a ton of secrets but still compact in that it doesn't take a long time to go from one corner to the next this game is also playable from the very second you boot up the game to me bowser's jury feels like the mario odyssey dlc that we never got gameplay is as if mario odyssey and 3d world had a baby with freedom of exploration and many missions that characterize odyssey but with the mechanics and power-ups of 3d world it's a joyous combination of the two there's even a whole new story to kick things off for once bowser jr needs mario's help bowser the villain that we've all come to know and level for several different games has been corrupted for the first time ever bowser is truly terrifying and bowser jr just wants his dad back mario and bowser jr must find cat shine spread throughout lake lapcat and use the power of the golden gigabell to shine a light and restore big bow back to how he once was the first time i played super mario 3d world i said it was a love letter to what came before bowser's fury rekindles a similar feeling to me the world feels about three or four times the size of a mario odyssey level and it's all seamlessly connected there are discreet little islands and zones full of micromissions to complete all over the lake and i dearly hope that future 3d mario games draw from what this game establishes bowser's fury takes the cute charm of 3d world and cranks it up to 11. like the cats who power up in 3d world well how about an entire cat themed paradise there are seagulls with cat ears i've been running through bowser's fury and literally have to stop because i was laughing at a seagull with cat ears this feels like an ever escalating bit in the best way like someone in rnd nintendo was like what if we put cat ears on boom boom and then someone else slammed the table and said what if we put cat ears on everything i hope nintendo keeps trying to top themselves in future games because the way they do it here is wonderful i thought i knew what to expect as i started bowser's fury but the game surprised me constantly the looming doom of bowser and his presence really affected me my first thought upon seeing calamity bowser or fury bowser whatever he's called was that there will never be anything as evil looking as this in a mario game ever again it's a great twist for the character we may not see this exact bowser ever again but i think we'll see nintendo drawing on their history to make unexpected changes going forward the game also has some gameplay tweaks that i did not see coming mainly the way that bowser jr is implemented in the game it's surprisingly great a second controller can't control him but he can also be controlled by ai and this completely changes the game i could choose whether bowser jr would help me a little or a lot when he's helping me a lot he's basically in hunter killer mode bashing enemies with a paint brush and helping uncover power-ups that i could store for later use this was especially helpful during the completion journey as he would pretty much protect me from harm as i went after the cat shines but he's still bratty bowser jr and his sass and aggressive personality shines through if an enemy hits mario bowser jr chuckles to himself i hope nintendo keeps flushing outside characters like this there's also a butt load of new elements shadow luigi anyone seeing mario's brother pop up in shadow form was a shock and felt yet like another innovative look ahead it's also one more little nod to super mario sunshine whenever shadow luigi would pop up i had to chase him down to grab a cat shine from him he felt designed to specifically distract me from whatever i was doing but it always led to something new and interesting probably the most significant change in bowser's fury makes it so that it gives mario an inventory of sorts now up to this point mario's been able to store up to one power-up for some time but bowser's fury lets me hold on to five of each power-up and i can swap between them whenever i want it this might seem like a small change but it makes exploration totally different whenever i needed it i could pull out a cat bell turn into a cat and climb a wall if i stumbled into an area full of cat-eared magikoopas i could pull out the boomerang and be good to go being able to reach into mario's bag of tricks and get what i needed feels revolutionary in a way that i didn't expect there's never been anything quite like this before in a mario game in the same way that the open world of mario odyssey felt like a turning point giving mario an extended inventory is a thing that i hope continues for future mario titles and at first it seemed like having a full bag of power-ups would make the game seem too easy that quickly changed the first time the rain started pouring down and godzilla bowser reared his gigantic head i rarely associate panic with mario but every time bowser appeared things got crazy it turns out i needed all those power-ups after all just to survive when i wasn't dodging out of bowser's way i was doing my best to lure him over to another new element bowser blocks these blocks are unbreakable by mario but it was absolutely necessary to destroy them to gather cat shines or power-ups inside them fortunately bowser's fire blasts can break them it was extremely enjoyable to find the balance of scampering out of the way of bowser's wrath and using his attacks to unlock what i needed putting bowser on a timer like the blood moon from breath of the wild is a stroke of genius if i was in the middle of a difficult jumping section and it started to drizzle i knew i had to hurry the hell up or i would be in big trouble rarely has a mario game made me feel this way there is always something new to do at any point on the map and sometimes running away from one spot would lead me to something in a different area bowser's fury was constantly pushing me beyond my limits to see something different the journey to complete bowser's fury is a surprisingly short one much like power moons and mario odyssey i was finding cat shines all over the dang place pushing me closer and closer to my final confrontation with the goop corrupted bowser every time i found a shine when bowser was trying to kill me a beam of light weakened him just a little bit and he would leave me alone for a little while eventually i found enough cat shines to power up the gigabell which gives mario a chance to crib supersonic style as the golden giga cat mario [Music] these titanic battles felt really unique and were a fresh take on the standard mario boss fight even though it takes three hits to kill as always almost unlike super mario 3d world the difficulty of bowser's fury is a little more consistent different parts of the map and the discrete challenges associated with them are unlocked by finding more cat shines and defeating giant bowser in battle mario and bowser jr can basically go explore anywhere they want with the help of the aquatic dino plessy the best thing about plessy is that it's essentially a fast travel mechanic in a gigantic sea of water if you ever get lost plessy is there to save you after about 50 or so cat shines the game essentially forces you into the final boss fight once that was over i was free to continue exploring and gathering cat shines until all was said and done because honestly that's all there is to do to complete bowser's fury collect all 100 cat shines seems like a little compared to other mario titles but still feels just as satisfying when super mario 3d world came out it broke the mold now new players have the chance to see how charming and just how freaking tight the game is bowser's fury breaks the mold too it's the mario odyssey dlc that never existed but could herald much more involved mario mechanics in the future or hey maybe it's just another weird spin-off and i'm totally wrong either way it's a worthy experiment that totally deserves to be celebrated and played all the way through even if completion bonuses leave a little bit more to be desired bowser's fury is a total success as 3d platformers both super mario 3d world and bowser's fury have a ton of collectibles to find for both games the rewards for doing every little thing seem minimal but the fact that the journey to completion is acknowledged at all is still a very nice feeling battling cow bowser or meowzer to some and seeing the credits unlocks a few things first up you unlock luigi bros which is the original mario brothers game starring luigi why luigi because this game has a ton of references to luigi in order to celebrate the year at the time the year of luigi but unlike most of you out there watching this the joke's on you i celebrate the year of luigi every year second you end up unlocking three more worlds world star world mushroom and world flower these three worlds are either remixes of older levels that make them more difficult albeit more enemies or tougher time clear conditions or genuinely new levels that are more difficult than most stages in the game most of these stages once again include three more stars and more stamps once you've done the preliminary completion of finding every star stamp and touching the top of every flagpole with at least one character you unlock the ability to see what levels you've cleared with what characters you've done it with meaning you can now track all the levels in the game that you still have to clear multiple times but the big final discovery is that you unlock world crown which features one more captain toad level a monster of a gauntlet in a form of the mystery house and the granddaddy of them all champions road champions rhone hands down is not only the most difficult level in the game but one of the most brutal levels in mario history it will truly test every bit of your skill it's long it's difficult and it's challenging but i think it's the perfect way to end this mario journey and if you've completed everything up to this point all correctly you'll have five stars that appear on your game save file meaning you've completed the game and if you remembered to never ever ever ever use that invincibility tanooki suit then those five stars sparkle and shine it's basically just an acknowledgement for the player that yeah you've done everything and now you're sparkly let's jump back to bowser's fury the rewards for finding all the shines in bowser's fury are a little more visible and fun with all cat shines found during the final boss fight bowser's hair turns an electric neon white which is very cool best of all though there are cosmetic changes that you've earned bowser jr now becomes cat bowser jr and now whenever you have the cat suit cat mario now becomes mini giga cat mario now again these don't fundamentally change much of anything in the game it's just a really cool thing you can see if you're running around the world again and again in 2013 i was disappointed that the completion rewards weren't very tangible in 3d world but now that i've completed more mario games and haven't completed this one again i can say that the journey is the reward being able to point to my game save and say yeah i did that feels awesome it's the same with bowser's fury everything about the game is just so right the difficulty is on par with mario odyssey at the very least but instead of collecting hundreds and hundreds of moons the game wraps it up after just 100 and you do get to see the full painting that bowser jr was working on from the very opening cut scene and the casting aesthetic across the entire game is just icing on the cake when i re-completed super mario 3d world and completed bowser's fury there were 380 green stars collected spread out over levels mystery houses and captain toad levels 85 stamps found and even though me vs no more i appreciated messing around with the stamps in photo mode 100 cat shines found perhaps the most adorable collectible in any mario game 25 and a half hours played a way faster run through super mario 3d world than my original playthrough the combination of faster movement speed in general general mastery on my part and the fact that i did a four player multiplayer clear with my twitch mods that saved me a ton of time 1355 deaths now before i hear all of you making fun of me i want to be clear about something on my single player playthrough i died about 50 times however when you play online the host lobby is responsible for all the lives lost and when you're trying to clear every level in the game with friends it's a chaotic masterpiece thus adding all those extra lives to my playthrough and two games in one package the best way to return to a classic game is to turn it into two games as most of you guys know by now i love super mario 3d world i love it more now than the first time i completed it which hasn't always been the case during my new game plus adventures maybe it's the benefit of hindsight but i found the ball choices bolder the charm more charming the journey more fulfilling and bowser's fury floored me with the light i couldn't put it down literally completing it in just a matter of hours i did not expect to love as much as i did and i really didn't expect it to make me this hype for the future of 3d mario titles nintendo really honored the legacy of this game and has done mario fans everywhere an amazing favor by giving more people now than ever the chance to play and enjoy these games now here's the deal though completionists might not like what they're about to experience in playing this game if you're completing it amongst friends you're going to have a wonderful time if you don't have any friends or your friends are selfish you don't want to help you with your save file then you're going to have to do what i originally did in this video which was play the game by yourself and just hope that you have enough patience to keep up with you getting all the five stars and the shiny sheen on your game save file does feel good and i really do enjoy that and that for me is a personal fulfilling thing but in a big but i could see why completionists everywhere are so divided amongst this entire thing thus that's why i used to have the original rating of finnepedia but since then i decided to choose my convictions and battles more carefully and more specifically so with that in mind guys i give super mario 3d world plus bowser's fury my completionist rating of completed [Music] you

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Length: 29min 41sec (1781 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 18 2021

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[u/Beatlejwol]

Jirard.

I need that Mega Man X shirt.

[u/CharRespecter]

How come the original 3D World vid isn’t up anymore