Super Mario 3D Land
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Super Mario 3D Land is a platform game developed and published by Nintendo and released for the Nintendo 3DS in November 3, 2011. It was followed by a sequel, Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U in November 19, 2013 which is considered as an big improvement to the latter.
Why It's a 3D Land
- Amazing graphics for the early 3DS era standards.
- The concept of combining the 3D gameplay while also using the codes present in the 2D Mario's game (as the levels aren't open) works very well
- Great and catchy musics especially the Special World 8 Map and the Castle theme which was later used by 3D World by making an even better music
- Tons of replay value
- The controls are really good, thanks to the inclusion of the circle pad.
- The Tanuki power up made his return ever since Super Mario Bros. 3 which is an amazing power up especially there since you can float which makes platforming passages a lot easier
- Three new power-ups:
- The Boomerang Flower : Allows you to throw boomerangs similarly to Boomerang Bros
- The Statue Leaf : Basically the normal Tank power instead it also allows you to transform into a statue which makes you invincible during a short amount of time
- The Invincibility Leaf which is a special item available if you die so many times in a level which can serves as an help for players who struggles in a level
- The game uses the advantage of the brand new Nintendo 3DS functionality which is the 3D. In some parts of a level, the 3D must be used for collecting some star medals which shows that this game uses the advantage of the 3DS's 3D
- You can unlock Luigi by completing Special 1-Castle. He is similar to Mario, instead he can jump higher than Mario.
- The infamous Poison Mushroom from The Lost Levels where fixed from this game by making it a lot more distinguishable and easier to avoid it
- Great level design with fun and challenging obstacles
- In specials worlds, they are some levels that have differents concept of challenge such as having a time limit or a cosmic clone chasing you
- After finishing the entire game by finishing every levels by using both Mario and Luigi, every green stars and golden flagpoles, you are going to unlock a special level
Bad Qualities
- The bosses tends to be repetitive, as in the Airship levels only Boom Boom and Pom Pom appears while in Castle levels only Bowser, Tailed Bowser and Dry Bowser appear.
- Some levels tends to be recycled from the other ones especially the ones from the Special Worlds
- The camera is rather awkward in certain levels.
- The very last level you unlock after completing everything is incredibly hard at this point that it's heavily recommended to have a stock of Tanuki before playing the level and even then the level it still very challenging
- The game can be really easy if you always keep the Tanuki power up
Reception
Super Mario 3D Land received Universal Acclaim towards critics, even Meteoritic considered this game as a must-play. Even by the users this game is mostly received very well
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