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Fallen we but equal time with the door into the house! Have we here many years Mario fans? Yes? Good! Sit down first. Nintendo has here done something they have not done in the official, purebred parts of the Mario series since Super Mario Bros. 2: We have here a Mario game and ... hold on ... Peach is not kidnapped! So! Now it's out!
Joking aside: action Technically makes Super Mario 3D World course not very different from other parts of Mario and also staged this a much slower pace than Mario Galaxy. This time will be kidnapped by Bowser little fairies. Mario and his companions they naturally want to liberate again. That's it.
Of the act and the shallow staging Mario 3D World thus joins precisely to the position of its predecessor, Super Mario 3D Land on the 3DS, a. It is practically reduced to a minimum. Minimal and it would no longer there. Instead, Nintendo fully focused on the gameplay. And even among us: we want from a Mario game something else? Of course I would not mind at all times as a Mario Galaxy 3 in beautiful HD. But as long as the gameplay is rocking, the rest fits.

And how does it look out the gameplay? In principle, Super Mario 3D World is right there, where the roll predecessor Super Mario 3D Land ceased. We have no real, open Mario as Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy. Super Mario 3D World is virtually the exact fusion of classic 2D Mario and the modern 3D Mario. Quasi linear 3D Mario. The Level hub looks like more of the map of a New Super Mario Bros. or Super Mario Wold as the sunny town of Super Mario Sunshine, or the castle Super Mario 64. The only difference is that you can move freely on and is not bound to the connections between the levels. That is on the map can be found sometimes hidden small pipes to bonus levels, it can be found coins, sometimes a life and so on. Here we have a kind of quasi New Super Mario Bors. level Card 2.0. Simpel? Yes, absolutely. But it works.

And what about the levels? How is the gameplay?
All who have the shock that this time will not be kidnapped Peach, meanwhile coped may stand up and cheer. Playful, it is one of the best and most varied Mario games ever. Simple jump'n'run you would expect, of course. But that's not enough. Nintendo had here probably only one thought in mind: Is it fun? If so, then purely kommts. So we hop as usual level, but getting there sometimes to do with specific Stages. Mario Kart 8 take? Well, then we play just the level, which is based on one of the tracks from the SNES Mario Kart. Enough? Well, let's jump in Plessy, a kind of water-dinosaurs, and nozzle on the water. Enough? Well, then let's take the captain Toad Level, where you can not jump and have to find the right way in a small puzzle game. Also enough? Super, we now take a mystery-house, where you have to understand within 10-15 seconds, like a section of works. Also enough? Well then, we are now building a level, which consists of a small area where you only have 100 seconds to collect all the stars. Even more variation? Well, we pick up an item a, which always adds an additional, playable version of his character and bring the players to four characters at the same time bring the goal.
Still not enough? Then we take a boss level, where you have to jump over ball-Willi shooting tanks. And a train, where another train bombarded with a steering ball-Willis, is also great. And if we are talking about trains: How about a golden train, which is full of coins and Mario must collect as many coins as possible? Okay, enough linear stuff first: Now we take a more open level where Mario must collect 5 tokens to open the exit.
I can do for hours so on. Each level is a new surprise. The only game that would come to mind, which similarly has a lot of variety, would be The Wonderful 101, another exclusive title for the Wii U. In terms of gameplay Nintendo has created something really great here!

The difficulty is this time it was good. The predecessor to the 3DS was overall slightly. Super Mario 3D World also starts very easy and takes a lot of the hand. The difficulty increases here but at significantly faster. However, he is never so for hard nut to crack, as one would expect from the very old Mario games. Nevertheless, getting especially those who really want to unlock everything, attached a quite challenging game, while those who want it just by playing a game of not too light, but do not get too severe difficulty.

Is there someone here who has not recovered from the shock of the Peach-kidnapping? Yes? Well, you are allowed now to stand up and cheer. Of course, Peach is in play. One has the possibility next to Mario yet to play as Luigi, Toad or just Peach. Everyone has this special property. Luigi jump higher and farther, Toad can be sharper steer (which at many levels is also really useful) and Peach can hover briefly. Mario is divided as usual as an allrounder. No significant strengths, but also no significant weaknesses. Diligent players may still another known character from the Mario universe unlock.

Thus the different characters but also all really make sense, Nintendo has built a multiplayer for 4 players. The works incredibly well. He is still very crazy and chaotic, as one would expect from New Super Mario Bros.. By 3D perspective there is but this time not so chaotic that it sucks. In order to introduce even a little against each other, the best player wearing a crown. This means that you try asking them to come to something in the enclosure. At the same time, however, geared more then to play together. This leads to a really interesting and spaßigem gaming experience. Unfortunately, however, only back in the local co-op mode. And here my only gripe is the entire game: Nintendo builds again no online mode. You yourself say that was not necessary, because the game is more fun with friends on the sofa. Just as the multiplayer works, I see absolutely the same way. But how one builds a non-local and online multiplayer? Then you can occasionally also times in multiplayer games, if no one else is there.
Nevertheless, the multiplayer is a fun expansion for the game and works great.

So any online features?
But! Nintendo integrates the Mii verses in a variety of ways. Are you connected to the Internet, so will appear on your map Miis from other players. If you moved you to this, so the player's message is displayed, which he wrote in the Community of Super Mario 3D World in the Miiverse. Do you have a Level completed, you can post from there directly into the Miiverse, including a screenshot of your score. Selected from all messages that are created in this way, appear at the end of the corresponding level at the top. There you can therefore see directly what other players thought to this level.
Furthermore, Super Mario 3D World is the first game in which you can collect stamps for Miiverse messages. These stamps can be great images in posts create, even if a Picasso or Da Vinci has been lost to a.
In the game itself, the whole thing is also integrated. In Level that you have already played, the Mii of another player is projected. You can play the level so against the spirit of another player, you can watch abschauen tips or can it be used to find stars that you have not found before him.

Star in each level there are usually 3. There are exceptions, where there are more and there are exceptions, where there is less. These are needed to the boss level unlock. If you even just a few of the stars collect during Level, ranging from usually for boss fights. Those who wish to unlock all bonuses and supplements, they should all gather. The stars themselves are sometimes hidden very obvious, others are not easy to find. Here Nintendo bridges the gap between pleasant and annoying in my opinion very good.

And graphically?
Since I have to say ... I was very skeptical at the beginning. Well, the trailer have already shown, where the journey goes. But Nintendo had large and broad announced that Super Mario 3D World will run only in 720p. What? Only 720p? The Wii U supports 1080p ... why should we not use it? According to Nintendo, because it's just not necessary supposedly. I konnts not believe.
And now that I have it played? Damn ... they were right! It's amazing what we get presented here. The entire picture, the textures, everything is razor sharp. The colors are really pretty strong. And that of the PS3 / Xbox 360 ... and currently also in PS4 and Xbox One visible ... edge flares? It does not exist virtually. I could not detect any strong podium formation and although we only play in 720p.
Of course you have the Mario-style, the Nintendo drives for ages like. Everything is very friendly and colorful quitschig. This may not appeal to everyone. But other than that we get here in 720p a sharpness and edge smoothing, as I have seen it to last only for The Last of Us and Uncharted 3. Kudos, Nintendo! So I did not expect!

Conclusion:
I can here now further rumschwärmen how great and varied the game yet and and and. But I just brings out the point: you have ne Wii U? Do not ask ... Buy Now!
You have no Wii U? If you are interested some of the titles of the coming year and to add to this more titles like Pikmin 3, New Super Mario Bros. U or The Wonderful 101, then the time has now come not later than the console!