

Mario is the all-arounder, Luigi has his fluttery high-jump, Peach can float, and as mentioned, Toad is a little speedster. Super Mario 3D World is a rousing platforming adventure with co-op featuring four characters with relatively different power sets. That odd holdover just doesn’t belong on the Switch version.īut while the game packs plenty of changes, it’s still the core game at heart. While the fidelity and textures look very similar, the icons have been shrunk to take less screen real estate, and the text boxes have been lightened to let you see the game world more clearly.Īnd, of course, the strange microphone-blowing mechanic to move platforms has been changed so that platforms now move automatically. The Switch version is also just more visually attractive. It also makes moving around the map to choose your next stage move at a speedier clip. This has the added effect of making Toad a much more tricky risk-reward character, since his dash was always significantly faster than other characters, and now he’s just blazing-fast. You could always hold Y to dash, but now all the characters move significantly faster. The most obvious change when viewing the games side-by-side is that character speeds have been greatly increased, both in the overworld map and inside stages themselves.

But while this is a re-release of an eight-year-old game, it’s not without some neat quality-of-life improvements, which we showcase in this video. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury continues Nintendo’s trend of taking some of the biggest and best games from the Wii U generation and bringing it back to the much more popular Switch platform. With Super Mario 3D World headed to Nintendo Switch, we put it head-to-head with the original Wii U version to see the differences.
