me taking the cable car on tricky trapeze theater for the tenth time trying to get that green star
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Funnily enough, I have never opened nor participated in a Digital Foundry thread on this forum!
The only games I have noticed stuttering is in this (briefly), Bloodborne and the very first Uncharted.
Must be my eyes, but to be fair, there was a similar post to mine not far up from my own so, I can't be imagining things...
Anyhoo, I am thoroughly enjoying this game now, even if the frame rate feels somewhat jarring when hopping from 3D World to Bowser's Fury, if only for a couple of minutes.
It's nice that a second player can join in when playing Bowser's Fury ... 😊
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker remains my favourite Wii U/Switch game.
It is absurdly charming, and playing it for the first time on Christmas morning (back in 2014) was delightfully whimsical! The music when you boot the game up for the first time is joyously welcoming.
Doesn't really matter when it makes for a shit experience. Smash is unplayable. Mario Kart is great. I don't really care why this may or may not be the case.
I shouldn't have started it during break. I played the full first world in this last hour. The levels were easy, but after all that is the first world, and in two of them I didn't find all the three green starts. Instead I managed to try all the stamps in a first attempt. I loved also the Captain Toad's level, why didn't I buy that game?
that little unenthusiastic "all right" mario lets out sometimes after getting a green star is so fucking funny to me.
Toad is a little speed demon now! I'm loving the increased movement speed.Switching to Toad
Only played a bit of Bowser's Fury, but the 3D World mechanics work better in a free-camera open environment than I thought they would.
Yeah at the end of the day the subpar online experience is on Nintendo to address. It becomes especially hard to ignore now that Online is no longer free like it was for earlier systems.
I agree tbh. I'm hoping it will be ok for me, but its confounding that they keep doing stuff like this. They'd be better not including it or clearly / honestly communicating about it if its infeasible to make something like this work.
This is kinda what I was worried about when I first heard about the speed boost. Levels and enemies are designed around your character speed! I guess there's a little more leeway here since the characters had varying abilities in the original release, but man that's a big speed boost.
The problem is this game is much much too easy. Mario 3 is so much more satisfying. But 3D world is good to play with little kids.
Mario 3 may have seemed hard when it first came out on NES, but if you go back now, you'll see it's probably not as hard as you remember.
It's a surprisingly easy game by today's standards.
On the flip side, the first two worlds are actually fun now. :-o
Haven't games become much easier? I would say Mario 3 was easier than many in those days but a lot harder than today's games. All modern Mario games are easier than the retro ones. Except the very last levels after the final boss.
it's kind of disingenuous to conflate the accessibility of the games now with overall difficulty. mario 3 had a lot of early design decisions that added unnecessary constraints. i'd probably still agree that 3 was a little more difficult overall because it required more precision platforming, but 100% 3D world asks for you to explore the game and utilize its mechanics in a way that 3 doesn't
Mario 3 is especially easy. You can farm P-Wings and fly through every level if you really want. Who says Assist Mode is new?
Mario 3 is only challenging if you're forcing yourself to not use the Leaf.
I've been replaying every Mario game recently. There's peaks and valleys in challenge over the years, but the only one that's an actual breeze that I can casually 100% without dying is the original SMB on NES.
I guess that is hat I mean. Without using P wings it is a harder game.
For you SMB is the easiest? World 8 is tough for me. I think it's the only Mario game that I struggle with. Except the The Lost Levels.
I've pre-ordered my copy from Amazon back on September 11th earlier, & yet it still says "Arriving February 23rd to 26th."
Wow I had no idea, thanks for letting me know! Guess we are buying digital since my kids can't think about anything else.
Does anyone know if we need multiple copies of the game to play wireless local on two Switches? Or just one copy?
He will eventually show up again. Using the giga bell doesn't remove him completely, but I think it increases the time between when he comes back.
Yeah dpad is used to activate photo mode and use stock items...
I also used the dpad on WiiU so I'm disappointed, but since the movement has changed from 8 way movements to 360° control, I think it wouldn't have been as good as it was on WiiU to use the dpad. Still, they could have easily kept it :/
Thanks, that's what I was wondering. It's annoying that I have to get used to having him flying around the screen when I don't even want his help.
I'd say Super Mario Sunshine, Mario Galaxy 1, and Mario Galaxy 2 were harder than Mario 3 by a considerable margin if you attempted to beat them 100%. More recent games - I.e. 3D Land, 3D World, and Odyssey are about on par with Mario 3's difficulty.
Mario 3 is a remarkably easy game when you have the racoon tail.
Can't agree with that. Definitely think 3 is harder than the games you mentioned. Couldn't you get a game over in the original NES version which would send you right back to the beginning of the game?
Honestly the tiny changes like the speed making you catch the lip while jumping up short stairways and the microphone platforms in Puffprod Peaks being made automatic bother me more than it should. These Switch ports really can never be "definitive", huh.
SMB3 was made easier when it came over to the West.
https://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Bros._3/Version_differences
Sunshine sure but Galaxy is an absolute cakewalk to complete tbh.
No. The most you're ever pushed back is to the beginning of the world, and any changes that you've made to the map (like broken locks) persist between continues, so the game basically allows you to resume progress from the last fortress that you cleared.
SMB1, 2J, and 3 have infinite continues. Only American SMB2 is limited among the NES games in this regard.
smb3 is super easy until the later worlds, but that's just me.
yea, the game doesn't have the greatest depth perception for me either (never has), which is funny coming off of super mario 3d land, a game designed to combat that issue. of course, that had 3d tech to help, but...
I literally can't see the 3D effect of the 3DS, so every time 3D Land intended you to make use of it it always irritated me a bit.
3D World uses more consistently clear camera angles throughout the game, and it's generally easier to use your shadow to keep track of your position in this game.
i mean yea, the 3d only helped if you could see it, of course.
it's obvious why they can't use a mic, (because there isn't one), but it DOES remove some of what made that level special, which is unfortunate.
the platforms would have this insane movement speed with the mic, and now they just mosey along super slowly. functional but a bit whatever.
I noticed that double cherry Marios catch up with the leader when you run a specific direction. Did it work like this in the Wii U version?
