Just a few minutes into playing the Super Mario Bros. Wonder demo at Nintendo Live 2023 in Seattle, I knew I was playing something special. For the first time in a long time, a 2D Mario game — 2.5D to ...

Of course, that distinction is a bit of a swerve from Nintendo. The roster includes four different versions of Yoshi, which definitely helps boost the numbers in Nintendo’s favor a bit. That said, the ...

Super Mario Bros. Wonder had me hooked from the moment I saw Mario transform into an elephant man. In this unusual new form, Mario can bash enemies with his trunk, soak up water to spray at friends ...

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A giant chrome anthropomorphic eagle, with a huge star (reminiscent of that on the Texan flag) for a chest and American flag-painted wings, explodes onto the screen in a flash of lightning. The eagle ...

To talk of return to form, it suggests that Mario’s recent 2D outings before this weren’t very good. I don’t think that’s entirely fair, as the New Super Mario Bros (NSMB) games, first pioneered on DS ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Whether Nintendo intended it or not, conventional wisdom tends to sort modern Mario games into something of a mental tier list. The 3D Mario games ...