Live Magazine February Issue February 2014 | Page 52

REVIEW

SUPER MARIO 3D WORLD
Super Mario 3D World is everything
Nintendo stands for in gaming, it
is the whole reason anyone plays
videos games, to have fun. Having
played Super Mario 3D Land and
enjoyed it, I wasn’t expecting 3D
world to be much different, well I was
wrong and then some. The amount
of colour and charm and variety of
gameplay is outstanding and the Cat
suit is one of the best additions to
any Mario game ever! It adds speed
and the ability to attack enemies instead of the traditional head stomp.
It opens up great new ways of gameplay and a slightly easier way for
younger kids to play. Super Mario
3D Land is a tech demo for Super

Peach and Toad stumbling across a
strange clear pipe and for once actually using some tools and plumbing skills to fix it. Then suddenly a
Sprixie (fairy like creature) appears
only to have Bowser come along and
kidnap the Sprixie right in front of the
group! Down the new warp pipe he
goes to Sprixie Kingdom and our heroes follow to rescue the Sprixie and
defeat Bowser in twelve new worlds!
The four player adventure is absolutely gorgeous in HD with so many
colours (unlike most games today
that are over using blacks and greys
with dark worlds). The animations
are amazing, especially as the cat

so cute “meeoow” when you finish a level. Playing multiplayer will
help with some of the harder levels
late in the game (Champion Road
is evil!).
Mario is the all-rounder - nice speed
with a decent jump and easy to control. Luigi has the highest jump and
runs slightly faster but is harder to
control. Peach is slow but has a
floating jump which helps for a lot of
the harder levels and Toad is superfast which helps for the levels that
have a time limit. This really adds
to the gameplay. Every single level
can be finished with every character (which is actually a checklist and

“I BELIEVE IT HAS A GREAT BALANCE AND YOU CAN ALWAYS TRY COMPLETE THE
LEVELS WITHOUT POWER UPS WHICH MAKES IT A LOT HARDER!”
Mario 3D World; it truly is the reason
to own a Wii U!
The story starts off with Mario, Luigi,

when you prance around on all fours
and climb a wall only to slide down
with your claws leaving scratch
marks on the surface and the ever

something you need to do to finish
the game 100%), but some levels are easier if you use a specific
character and even have buttons