Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury takes everything that made the cat-filled Wii U original special and adds various small gameplay tweaks to make it even more enjoyable. As the only four-player 3D Mario game, it combines the freedom of the third dimension with the spirit of his 2D games' tighter, more constrained (yet no less imaginative) courses to wonderful effect. Super Mario 3D World is a colorful and unintimidating introduction to a larger Super Mario world, as well as a joy for veterans of the Z-axis.

The original game is sublime in its own right, but the additional open-world-y Bowser's Fury mode included with the Switch version makes this an essential purchase even if you already own the game on Wii U. The only real knock on the awkwardly abbreviated SM3DW+BF is the patchy online multiplayer implementation, but this Switch release is otherwise up there with the best of the plumber's output. Dog lovers should probably stay away; everyone else, go for it.

Detailed information:

Number of Players: 4

Genre: Action, Platformer

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