While Bowser’s Fury still plays like Super Mario 3D World, it features a welcome balance between the more open-ended 3D platforming from other three-dimensional Mario games and the carefully crafted, bite-sized stages featured in 3D World. In fact, you don’t even have to play Super Mario 3D World to launch Bowser’s Fury both games are accessible directly from the main menu. Instead, Bowser’s Fury is an entirely separate experience that in some ways has more in common with Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine than 3D World. When this re-release was first announced, I assumed that the add-on was little more than extra Super Mario 3D World stages. That said, when it comes to Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury, there’s a lot of new content present that helps justify the title’s $79 price tag.īowser’s Fury really has surprised me. On the other hand, these are mostly classic titles that didn’t get the attention they deserved given the ill-fated Wii U’s dismal sales numbers, so why not give them another chance at life?ĭo I wish Nintendo would not charge full price for these re-releases and instead create a cheaper ‘Wii U Classics’ line? Definitely. It’s easy to be hard on Nintendo for shovelling out several relatively uninspired Wii U remasters for the Switch over the last few years, including, most recently, Pikmin 3 Deluxe (I still really like that game, though). When I reviewed the game in 2013, I described it as a reimagining of the Mario series’ classic 2D side-scrolling formula.įast-forward to 2021 and that statement still holds true. It’s hard to believe that Super Mario 3D World first released on the Wii U over seven years ago.

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