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#77 Super Mario 3D World (Wii U, 2013)


Despite being my favorite series, it's hard for me to put my love for each individual Super Mario game into words. They're just so special in everything they do. Every general field of design (game, sound, level, art, etc...) is at or near the top of the industry. It's weird that for a company like Nintendo with so many peaks and valleys in their portfolio, Super Mario games are almost always high-quality.

Super Mario 3D Land was an excellent game and also narrowly missed out on being on my list, but its followup in 3D World takes the formula from it and improves upon in across the board in all the areas that I so briefly mentioned before. If I were to single out one thing, it was how fun the cat suit powerup was. I don't know what possessed them to add it in, but did I love the capabilities that it added. One thing that I enjoyed about 3D Land was the level-based setup with the star coins to collect in each one. It's basic but worked extremely well. This emphasis on collecting while platforming makes the cat suit a perfect fit as Nintendo could get pretty clever on where to place the coins, and as someone who loves exploring in the virtual spaces that video games offer, the cat suit could actually be my favorite power-up in a Super Mario game.

When Nintendo started porting over most of their main Wii U games to the Switch, it was just a matter of time before the best Wii U game was going to be one of them, so I'm glad that those who never got a Wii U will have an ehanced version of it available for them on the Switch. I normally don't buy ports for games that I already own, but just talking about this game really wants me to go through it again.

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