Super Mario 3D Land

[sirmidor]

meh i just hate time limits in general. 2d or 3d. i always hated the speed levels in smg 1 and 2. at least daredevil allowed you to plot out what you were going to do, with speed it was just :''run, run and run some more and hope you'll get it right''.

[MelonBread975]

I can't wait for this game it comes out in 3 weeks :D

[MelonBread975]

Now it comes out in 2 days~ My expectations are blowing through the roof right now. I'm really impressed with the graphics too.

[Khaos]

I don't have to buy it, my sister preordered it. lol

[MelonBread975]

me and my sister both preordered our own copies O:

[Joshi]

Been playing this game the last few days.  I'm kind of underwhelmed.

The fact that Mario moves in 8 directions is weird, what with the circle pad and all.  Having a run button is odd, too.  I feel like they just ported over code/features from SM64DS without regards to whether it makes sense on the 3D, where we have analog controls.

The levels are pretty solid, though, which is nice.  The powerups are fun, although I wish Raccoon/Tanooki Mario could actually fly.  It's weird that the Boomerang Suit is held in reserve so much, acting like it's the game's super coolest mode, when it's basically just Fire Mario with only one projectile and smaller range.

The 3D is kind of dumb.  The game was much more enjoyable to me when I turned it off.  You'll read reviews that say there are a few parts where you "need" 3D; they're wrong.  The rooms where you "need" it, it doesn't actually help at all because the camera is locked into a specific position to create an optical illusion in the first place, and the button that you can stand on to move the camera temporarily works with and without 3D.  The people who claim 3D helps with jumps are largely talkin' out their butts, too, at least as far as I was concerned: I almost exclusively used shadows to judge that stuff.

I didn't like how the game was divided into worlds, yet the worlds didn't have any sort of theme.  There wasn't a real 'sky world' or 'desert world' or anything, even though the backgrounds on some of the map screens might suggest as much.  It felt a bit too SMG2 in that regard, and that was honestly something I didn't like about that game, too.

I wanted Yoshi :(

It was a good game over all, though.

[MelonBread975]

Haha yeah I agree. I still think the 3D helped but it wasn't needed.  I actually played a level with 2D and I didn't even notice until I got to the flagpole.

[Khaos]

Bump. I got this yesterday, breezed through the first 8 worlds in 6 hours. I must say, once you get to the special world, just got real.

[MelonBread975]

Yeah I can't beat the final level you unlock once you beat every level 100%.

[Khaos]

It feels like the first 8 worlds were just training for the special worlds :P

[MelonBread975]

I've played the crap out of this game. I have the maximum amount of lives so I can play as hatless mario. I have over 360 star coins. I have 5 stars on my file. I have really good times on all the levels. Bluh.

I have over 40 hours logged on this game

[redguy]

is that true

[Meta Knight]

I'll be honest and say I didn't really like it, I found the game to be too easy for me.

[redguy]

I'll be honest and say I didn't really like it, I found the game to be too easy for me.

really

[Meta Knight]

Yes I been playing Mario since the Super Nintendo and all that experience carried on.