The Golden Classic Course DLC pack for New Super Mario Bros. 2 was announced today for Japan. The set of three levels are all throwbacks to past games, with each level coming from games like Super Mario Bros. 3 and the original Super Mario Bros.
These groundbreaking video games changed gaming forever and drew in scores of fans in the process.
If all the world is a stage, then Mario is adept at playing all the roles – something Miyamoto was very keen to tell us.
3 had a good balance of difficulty before crybabies stepped in and cried about the difficulty of SMW, which is why the game was made easier before release. Would also explain why most other games have been easier except for special worlds etc.. or ones you unlock after you beat the main game.
Isn't the reason we got a Doki Doki Panic sprite swap because Lost Levels was originally deemed too difficult?
This is a lot of revisionist history. All games back then had to be difficult or else they would be over in less than an hour. Super Mario 3 was actually super approachable because you could use the map and warp whistles to go right to the boss. And as with Super Mario World, you could farm stages for more lives. The beautify of Super Mario 3 was the abundance of secret areas and tools like Hammer Bros. suits. You didn’t really want to rush it. The lost levels were a different beast. They were never marketed as a mainline Mario game.
I watched an interview with a developer (I think it was for Disney's Aladdin) from years ago and he said they were required to raise the difficulty because so many games were rented back then. They didn't want the game finished quickly so you had to rent it longer. it was the home-rental equivalent of pumping more quarters into an arcade machine.
The cry babies? It was Nintendo’s perception that yanks didnt like difficult games hence the easing of the difficulty.
This is an odd statement considering the history of Japanese games that had you press X on your way to victory. Seriously, games like Ninja Gaiden in the 00s was born of the developer’s belief that Japanese gamers had grown too soft.
Shaz from GL writes: “Though things haven’t looked the best for the ‘Blue Blur’ in recent years, here’s hoping ‘Sonic Superstars’ can keep up with ‘Mario Wonder’.”
Yes most people will just buy both it's not 1992 anymore.
Retro fans will buy both, families will probably end up with both eventually fans of specifically those two out of nostalgia have careers and enough income to buy both
I don't see a problem
Hardly competing. It's releasing on PS4, PS5, Xbox Series and Xbox One, Wonder isn't.
Absolutely, but it certainly won't be because the 2 games released around the same time. Mario is more popular and typically the games are better.
I'm so buying this pack. THIS is Nintendo's first DLC attempt for a Mario game. I'm glad they are doing something right with it!
cool. Good to see thats its free too.
I wonder if nintendo can find a good excuse to exclude us. My game case is white, I want double free!
This is nice but ill wait for SSB to come out in the WiiU first !
Hmmm it looks like I'll be picking up New Super Mario Bros 2 in the near future.