The cat suit, the double cherry, the cannon block, the skating shoe, giant Mario, the pet piranha plant for gobbling baddies, the Boo-disintegrating torches, the multiplayer, the mystery houses, the Captain Toad levels, the 2D shadow sections, the stamps, the Miiverse integration, the Mario Kart level, the inventive bosses, controlling platforms by blowing into the gamepad's microphone, and Plessie the aquatic dinosaur, to name but a few. The game contains a plethora of new ideas. Some small part of me that's always remained troubled by what path the history of gaming took can now eventually be laid to rest. The title is so incredibly apt, at heart it really is Super Mario World in 3D, but in practice it's so much more.
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The game features 8-way as opposed to true 360 degree control, which cuts down on the forced uncertainty of playing a game in a 3D world on a 2D TV screen. The thrill of precision control, the focus of linear progression, the simple goal of discovery and collection, it's all here. Super Mario 3D World is what my naive 14-year-old self from 1997 was expecting Super Mario 64 to be. It's still the finest example of that type of game even now, approaching 20 years later, and without question the most influential game of all time. In time I grew to love Mario 64 for what it is, this subtly different new genre of "3D platformer", a little less reflexes-based, a little more cerebral. It was that tightness of control that only games played in a 2D plane can bring. For all the awe of being able to command Mario's myriad of new techniques and explore Peach's castle in three dimensions, something had been lost. And at first, I was somehow disappointed. After what seemed like forever, the day arrived and I finally got to play it. I could scarcely imagine what wonders it could bring. It was a combination of being at the perfect age and the mindblowing prospect of what was to come - a Mario game in 3D. The screenshots I pored over, the magazines I bought just to get a little bit more information on this brave new world, just envisaging how it would feel to play it. I personally don't recall anticipating any one individual game more. And, more excitingly than the console itself, its flagship title, Super Mario 64. At that time, the new kid on the block, the Sony PlayStation, was surprisingly trouncing SEGA's Saturn sales-wise, but the one we'd all been waiting for, Nintendo's new N64, was on the horizon. The move from the 16-bit era to the 32/64-bit one was the biggest shift gaming has known. It hooked me from start to excruciating, five-and-a-half hours' worth of solid attempts final-level finish.
But with Super Mario 3D World, Nintendo EAD went above and beyond and constructed something which overlaps perfectly my template for a sensational videogame. So any half-decent Mario game always has a good chance of being one of my favourite games of any given year. No other character embodies the essence of gaming more. So any half-decent I will come clean - I adore Mario.
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