It has been a long, long time since Nintendo produced a ‘properly’ 3D entry in the ‘Super Mario’ platforming franchise. Indeed, the last time we got to play a ‘Mario’ game whose lineage can be traced back to those first cumbersome steps taken by “Super Mario 64” it was 2010, and the game in question was the expansion-pack-flavored semi-sequel, “Super Mario Galaxy 2,” which was so good and so well-designed that I believed Nintendo had finally figured out what they were doing with regard to Mario and 3D. Then, three years later, Nintendo floored us by releasing “Super Mario 3D World,” which scrapped all of their hard work and seemed to want to reboot 3D ‘Mario’ games into something more in-line with traditional 2D ‘Mario’ titles. As one of the few rare critic... |
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