Mario in Wonder Land

[A Black Falcon]

Yes, Nintendo did a Direct today about the Super Mario Bros. Wonder game!  ... Yes, I think it's amusing how that is always how Nintendo introduces games in their Directs.  But anyway, the game looks pretty good. 

The visual style and controls look like they started out with the basic engine of a NSMB game, but mixed things up but with new, more creative graphics, some cool level morphing areas when you get a Wonder flower, a bunch of new enemies, and more.  It looks good, and I want to play it, but my main reaction is predictable: I'd like to see some of that stuff in Mario Maker!  It's a shame that all this stuff will be stuck in only this game given how Mario Maker seems to be abandoned, I want to make and play levels with some of these things...

But yes, I know, I'm a hopeless Mario Maker (2) fan.  I still play it all the time and watch people better than me play it on Youtube to.  I made another new level a few days ago, and have another harder one I'm working on.  I love that concept so much, it's basically the perfect core game idea.  This game looks great, but while I'm sure it would be a lot more consistently fun than Mario Maker, there's something about those games' stupid weirdness that I really really love.

But anyway, other than that, it's really great that there are 12 playable characters, I love that.  Nintendo finally decided to remove the flight ability from Peach in a game; she's playable here, but all characters play exactly the same.  It's too bad, but if that is what is required to get her playable in the games I guess it's necessary.  However, it's kind of too bad that the Yoshis are invincible only.  It's the same mistake they made in the switch version of NSMBU with Peachette, including interesting characters but then locking them into super easy mode only.  Like, why have a character as 'the OP one' instead of a toggle or something?  Oh well.

Otherwise I like almost everything else I see.  The online features look decently thought through as well.