Luigi flutters his legs and jumps higher. Peach hovers in air for a few extra tics. There are bonus stages that mirror the post-level slot machine of SMB2, with an arrangement of that very same song.

If you progress far enough, a rocket propels you skyward to the next collection of stages the spaceship is modeled exactly on the Rocketship found in SMB2. And though you can’t pluck turnips out of the ground, special stages star a ground-bound “Captain” Toad who would go on to pluck and toss the veggies in his very own starring title heavily based on the 3D World levels, Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker. In a way, this is nothing new: Nintendo 'poaching' from Nintendo is a long-held philosophy. But then why hadn’t the core conceit of Super Mario Bros. 2 - four unique characters, pulling and throwing instead of jumping and stomping - ever been re-used? Mario games comprise an extended timeline of iteration from game to game to game, an incessant series of minor tweaks transform old ideas into seemingly new things altogether, the way a river turns rocks into polished stones. 3D World could be seen as the culmination of this thinking. Kenta Motokura, co-director on the game, had a simple policy: “Let’s put everything in!” So perhaps it’s unsurprising that so many aspects of Mario 2 bubbled up to the surface during 3D World’s development. Mario 2 itself is merely an adjustment of a previous concept.Ģ - four unique characters, pulling and throwing instead of jumping and stomping - ever been re-used? Why hadn’t the core conceit of Super Mario Bros. As any reader of this site no doubt knows, the Super Mario Bros. 2 we got in the West is a reskinned and modified version of the Japanese game Yume Kōjō: Doki Doki Panic from one year prior.

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