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OB1 was trying to say that with only one year between the two games (SMB3 and SMW) being released, they couldn't find time to innovate much. I point out that they in fact had more time than just one year. However, it turns out that SMW was released in 1990 in Japan, thus meaning that they had a total of 2 years, right between our guesses. Is two years enough time to come up with nifty new ideas? Three years was enough to go from SMB1 to SMB3 anyway. Of course, from there we have to think about how much of a change there really was between the two. They added all sorts of new moves, and they made the camera scrollable in every direction. They also added the overworld map. Aside from that, it was essentially the same old same old, but I will go as far as to say the sheer number of different enemies (and powers, mainly flight) and the free roaming screen easily makes for a much different experience. SMB3 to SMW? Yoshi (which by the way is essentially a much more widely available version of the giant shoe from SMB3 in cloud land), and instead of a few hidden levels, there are two worlds full of hidden levels (well, really that's just the same thing as hidden levels, just more of them). Yoshi is the largest change, and though he does change the way you play when you are using him, it's not quite as major as SMB3 was.

Okay, a bit of a rant there, but where was my point? Oh yes, as I was originally saying, they had a total of 2 years between SMB3 and SMW. Was that enough time? Well, maybe so, maybe not. Maybe they simply WANTED to just do an evolutionary next step from SMB3, and save their innovative muscles for SMW2.