While the presentation still doesn’t feel quite right in the remake – it’s like an external team using brand guidelines to come up with ‘something Mario’ – there are some significant additions here.

Thankfully, while most of its early levels are virtually identical to the original, the game’s fourth world is entirely new to the Switch version – the first of two new worlds in the remake – and it does introduce some original mechanics. The remake also introduces a co-op mode and a casual difficulty, which adds checkpoints, though we can’t imagine many older players will need it to be any easier.

  • Bobby Turkalino
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    89 months ago

    I’ll never understand these articles that act like Nintendo rereleasing games is some new thing. Super Mario World, A Link to the Past, Pokemon… they’ve been doing it for decades because there’s absolutely a market for it. I think you would be hard pressed to find a longtime Nintendo fan that feels negatively about this

    • @drislands
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      39 months ago

      When did they re-release SMG?

      • @Stovetop
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        Assuming SMG is Super Mario Galaxy, that was in 2020 as part of the 3D All Stars collection.

        Sadly, Nintendo being Nintendo, thought it would be a great idea to “Disney Vault” it and pull it from sale after just a few months. Only available now if you buy a secondhand physical copy at a huge markup.

        • @drislands
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          29 months ago

          Whoops, I meant SMW. There I go, asking the entirely wrong question while trying to be clever.

          • @SandLight
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            I don’t remember the year, but I had SMW on the game boy advanced so it was rereleased then.

            • @drislands
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              39 months ago

              Oh yeah, I remember that! Dang, that was a long time ago…