Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a delirious new side-scrolling platformer coming to Switch in October
As rumoured ahead of today's Direct showcase, Nintendo has a brand-new side-scrolling Mario platformer in the works. It's called Super Mario Bros. Wonder and is coming to Switch on 20th October.
At first glance, Super Mario Wonder's presentation is all very New Super Mario Bros, with crisp, clean lines — albeit this time slightly stylised — and familiar Mario motifs. But then, midway through its announcement trailer, Mario encounter what I'm assuming is a Wonder Flower and things get weird.
Warp pipers come alive in wiggly choreography, heaving and bending all over the place; spehrical cows come tumbling in; Mario — and the world around him — gets a new stretchy, silhouetted look; here are swarms of sheep!
What else? It's got an overworld map, plus Peach, Daisy, and Toad all look to be playable in both solo and, seemingly four player co-op. Youshi's in; worlds, spin, rainbow torpedos pummel the earth, on and, yes, Mario can our into an elephant.
It looks wonderfully, deliriously absurd, and it's coming to Switch on 20th October.
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