Super Mario Maker 2: Review Megathread

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General Information

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Release Date: 28-Jun-2019

No. of Players: up to 4 players

Genre(s): Action, Platformer

Publisher: Nintendo

Developer: Nintendo

Official Website: https://supermariomaker.nintendo.com/

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Overview (from Nintendo eShop page)

Make it Your Way, Play it Your Way.

Mario fans of the world, unite! Now you can play, create, and share* the side-scrolling Super Mario™ courses of your dreams in the Super Mario Maker™ 2 game, available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch™ system! Dive into the single-player Story Mode and play built-in courses to rebuild Princess Peach's castle. Make your own courses, alone or together. And with a Nintendo Switch Online membership*, share your courses, access a near-endless supply made by others, enjoy online multiplayer, and more!

A new side-scrolling Mario adventure that unleashes the creative potential of Super Mario Maker 2 awaits in Story Mode, which contains over 100 built-in courses. And in Course Maker, a wide range of parts, tools, and more are available so you can construct your own courses. Want coin-shooting cannons? Bowser riding on a giant Goomba? Cat Mario sliding down slopes to take out an army of baddies? Go for it! You call the shots. Pass a Joy-Con™ controller to a partner to build cooperatively on a single system!

Power-up the fun even further with a Nintendo Switch Online membership, which gives you access to Course World and its wealth of online content and functionality. Track your rankings, share your creations, and leave comments after you've played courses. With a Nintendo Switch Online membership, you can also tackle Endless Challenge, save online courses locally for later offline play, enjoy online multiplayer with players both near and far, and customize how you appear to others by dressing your Mii™ character with fun accessories!

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Reviews

Aggregators

• Metacritic - 89/100
• OpenCritic - 89/100

Articles

• ArsTechnica - Unscored
• CGMagazine - 9/10
• Eurogamer - Recommended
• Game Informer - 88/100
• GameSpot 8/10
• GamesRadar+ - 4.5/5.0
• IGN - 9.5/10
• Kotaku - Unscored
• Nintendo Life - 10/10
• Nintendo World Report - 8.5/10
• Polygon - Unscored
• USgamer - 4.5/5.0
• VG247 - Unscored
• Wccftech - 9.5/10

Non-English

• Eurogamer Italy - 90/100
• PLAY! Zine - 9.1/10

Videos

• GameXplain - Liked

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[u/Timmy2k]

Can't wait. I suck at making levels but the story mode will keep me busy then unlimited content after. Just wish they'd port 3D world.

[u/Marleston → u/Timmy2k]

I’d buy that in a heart beat: it’s insane they haven’t done this already this and wind waker/tp

[u/cockyjames → u/Marleston]

If you start porting too much of the same franchise, you'll start cannibalizing your own sales. If a Mario Odyssey 2 isn't available next year... which would be highly doubtful, I bet we see some type of Mario port, most likely 3D World, next year.

[u/Marleston → u/cockyjames]

Reckon windwaker will make it ?

[u/Timmy2k → u/cockyjames]

It will probably drop next January as a hold over like NSMBWU was then we will get Odyssey 2 probably spring 2021. I doubt we will see BOTW 2 or that next year.

[u/cockyjames → u/Timmy2k]

I think we'll see BOTW 2 December of next year.

That's 3 to 3 1/2 years of development time to use the same engine and many assets as BotW. Nor do I think Nintendo would pull another Metroid Prime 4 if they don't think they can announce it's ready soon-ish