These are some of the most creative Mario games of all time. They embrace whimsy, creativity, and Nintendo's patented Mario ...

which is much easier to do than when developing a 3D game. Mouri and Tezuka approached development of Super Mario Bros. Wonder with the mantra of "big changes". As Mouri pointed out, elements of ...

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Developer Koichi Hayashida then steps in to explain that Tezuka suggested using the 3D Mario games as a reference point for the development of Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Tezuka goes on to state ...

Wonder is that it’s visually arresting ... standard 2D Mario experience since 2006. In those games, Mario himself is an obvious 3D polygon positioned on a flat, 2D plane. The backgrounds ...

2D or 3D, seems to gleefully reinvent itself to some degree, doubling down on the unique delights that they bring me. Continuing that trend, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is very aptly named because ...

In that regard, Wonder takes far more cues from recent 3D Mario games and does its own thing. Mario games work best when they deftly jump from idea to idea, squeezing as much as possible from each ...

and the game makes Mario and friends look about as fresh as they have since the series went 3D more than 25 years ago. But the real change lies in the Wonder Flower hidden within each level.

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Wonder takes center stage--and it delivers such a knockout performance that it makes the argument, implicit or otherwise, that 2D Mario games can be just as vital to the medium as their 3D siblings.