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Official Nintendo Magazine Awards Zelda Link Between Worlds And Super Mario 3D World High Scores

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Official Nintendo Magazine has awarded The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds a 94% and Super Mario 3D World a 93%. In the review, ONM states point-blank that Super Mario 3D World makes it look as though other gaming companies got High Definition wrong. They also mention the high level of polish that each level received and reveals that the game has an abundance of post-game content. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds and the North American version of Super Mario 3D World are released on November 22nd,  whereas Mario’s latest outing on the Wii U launches in Europe on November 29th.

Here is the full list of ONM’s review scores for the month:

  • Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag – 91%
  • Batman: Arkham Origins – 78%
  • Batman: Arkham Origins – Blackgate – 77%
  • Deus Ex: Human Revolution – Director’s Cut – 90%
  • Disney Infinity (Toy Story) – 63%
  • Final Fight – 55%
  • Final Fight 2 – 52%
  • Final Fight 3 – 40%
  • Hakuoki: Memories of the Shinsengumi – 68%
  • LEGO Marvel Super Heroes – 91%
  • Mario & Sonic at the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games – 49%
  • Moshi Monsters: Katsuma Unleashed – 25%
  • Super Mario 3D World – 93%
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link between Worlds – 94%
  • Wii Sports Club – 68%

What do you think of the score(s)? Can Mario help get the Wii U back on track?

“Super Mario 3D World makes everyone else look like they had HD all wrong.” – Official Nintendo Magazine

139 thoughts on “Official Nintendo Magazine Awards Zelda Link Between Worlds And Super Mario 3D World High Scores”

      1. THIS IS WHY NINTENDO IS AND ALWAYS BE FOR CASUALS. EVEN IF THE GAME IS RUNNING ON 20FPS THEY ALWAYS GON BE HAPPY. THATS WHY THEY REFUSE TO BRING A REAL CONSOLE.

        1. What are you even talking about… Their game is 60fps, Nintendo games are extremely polished.
          You’re talking like a child, showing his ignorance to the world is not the way to go…
          Nintendo provides new and unique ways of playing with each of their consoles when Sony/Microsoft sell their consoles by saying they are very powerful systems when the PC is a miles ahead.
          Coming on a Nintendo fansite to troll shows you obviously have some troubles dealing with the fact that Nintendo have amazing exclusives when Sony/Microsoft can barely offer a couple good exclusives a year to their players.

        2. Explain the relationship between video game hardware and the definition of hardcore gaming using specific examples from both the 7th and 8th generations of console games. (max 400 words)

        3. They’ve opted against 1080p so that the game runs at a silky smooth 60fps. Nintendo make professional games, not sloppy like most developers settle for.

    1. exactly, even if is not 1080 the magazine is telling that the game looks stunning, even better than other HD games, so i don see why “too bad”

      1. Just a troll desperately looking for arguments.
        Nintendo are the leaders of the console market, that often pisses off kids and immature people.

            1. Nintendo were leaders in the late 80s, early, 90s, not anymore, only thing that’s keeping them alive is the handhelds, stop being such an ignorant.

  1. Sir cummings of the purple palace of orange dildos

    I hope that the success of 3d world is loud enough to convince people to buy the console over ps4/xbone

    1. EXPECT SAME THING AS PIKMIN HUGE SALES FIRST WEEK THEN SECOND WEEK GOOD BYE TOP 10. EXPECT AS WELL A HUGE INCREASE ON WII U HARDWARE SALES. REMEMBER XBOXONE IS OUT THAT DAY.

      1. I DONT LIKE SONIC GAMES THEY TOO FAST TO BE ENJOYABLE. MAYBE IF HE STOP TRYING TO BE A RACING CAR I CAN GET INTO HIS GAMES. SONIC COLORS LOOKED GOOD I PLAYED TRHOUGH IT BUT I GOT FRUSTRATED BECAUSE OF THE SPEED. THATS WHY I LOVE MARIO GAMES.

          1. agreed Sonic’s sctick is speed but whats wrong with a little diversifying? I mean I don’t like sonic because I can never go at my own pace always racing against a timer… no thank you, I prefer a game in which you enjoy the story and the artwork but Sonic just makes it too pressurising

            1. I never got into the Sonic franchise, but many Mario games have timers too and you kinda have to hurry – like this one. It still won’t stop me from getting it, it looks too awesome. :)

              1. of course many Mario Games have timers, but that’s just to make sure no one exploits scoring high points in unlimited time, BUT ALL the Sonic games are timed, I can name over 10 Mario games that don’t use timers, and let you pace yourself heres a little few

                Super Mario Galaxy

                Paper Mario

                Super Mario Sunshine

                Bowsers Inside story

                Dream team

                etc

                1. And those are exactly the Mario games I love the most! ;-)

                  But we’re talking about 3D World here, that’s why I mentioned it. I hate being rushed in games, I guess Mario is not that bad in that regard – Sonic does look more intense.

                  1. Then again, I just recommended Rayman Legends, which has some really rushed levels. I’m not very consistent, I guess. *g*

          2. I liked Sonic Lost World. The problem wasn’t that it wasn’t “speedy” enough. It was that the controls we’re a little questionable and the game had too many cheap deaths. Plus they made collecting the gold rings meaningless.

            I believe if the Sonic team sticks towards the direction of Lost World, and refine the “less”-refined aspects of the game, create a better story, but keep the visuals then the next Sonic game will be REALLY good.

        1. Once again, your troll is bad. Ignorance is killing it.
          Sega said Nintendo players clearly were the main public of Sonic.
          Others consoles players just don’t care about the video game franchises they’ve learnt to play with, as long as they have their tons of generic games that can be played with a way better quality and maniability on PC.

    1. Your empire! LOL, seriously you are the most disgustin fanboy that i have ever seen. How old are you? 10? Poor Commander still failing…

      1. you fucking think, he sounds like he is in his 30’s or some shit too, he says he had all nintendo products since game and watch, yet he doesnt even have the failedu. what a great fan, more like cheap ass. also he is an annoying little fairy that wont stfu about his sexuality and is a racist cunt who hates amricans and more. fuck that social reject, i tried to be nice for way to long but he is truely pathetic to act like a robot all day. if he was a robot he would be a nazi because thats what he talks like. also he is a hypocryte. he doesnt deserve any respect, because he is probably one of the worst people on here.

        1. “I tried to be nice” ? if that was you being “nice” I hate to see you being really nice go fuck yourself iceazeama or from now on ill call you eczema it suits you more considering you are a disease of the flesh, and I give respect to NC but no one gives respect to you except your multiple accounts, you like having tantrums about Nintendo huh, like little infant with no father

          1. yes, im never mean personally towards anybody here, also keep assuming things from me like how i make multiple accounts. i just arnt nice towards nintendo, but you fanboys get so defensive about it like you think im attacking you, which is sad. also i do have eczema actually and its bad, almost died form it twice, had to go to the mayo clinic. waking up almost every morning in pain, cracked skin where i cant even bend my knees and arms. bleeding, itchy all day where i couldnt even hold a contoller, would sleep on the floor with covers on me, just laying there all day. raw skin. i could go on all day on this, so call me eczema loser. i dont care, only a few people ecer gave me shit on this on life and guess what?? it was the kids with no friends. its getting some what better though because i take care of it non stop and im getting older. might as well say it.

            so yeah, the more you know bitch. say you dont care, which i dont want you to. so ill keep on saying what i think of nintendo and if you cant handle it, you need to stop being such a corporate slave. its a piece of plastic man not your friend. so keep on behind over for nintendo, your best pal.

            1. oh do tell me more about you skin condition, but in all seriousness that just shows how pitifully weak you are, I have never met a person who had had nearly “died” from a skin condition like eczeama, lol even my dog had eczeama and the vet said it was no big deal talk to me when you had nearly died from cancer, only than will you have an excuse, but I SKIN CONDITION?!??! that is hilarious, you are so pathetic that you are weak against eczeama while still bitching Nintendo is pathetic are you reall that childish it seems so

              1. OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH,the bashings and ragings here, are so tiring to hear, and I wish you people just would stop! If a real fight in life was hereI would call the cops. Fan boys, and fan girls, just keep inside your head, insults don’t need to read, so shut, up, NOW! But really, insulting his skin condition?

                1. Have you known this guy? he has being coming here for months just to bitch about Nintendo… on a Nintendo news site!?!? now he talks about nearly dying because of a skin condition that most breeds of dogs get whats next saying chicken pocks are going to put you into a vegetative state,

                  P.S

                  you come to a website and not expect fighting, so appear to be as delusional as eczeama boy over here

                  1. go fuck yourself, you couldnt even bare to be me. calling me weak is what everybody through my whole life hasnt called me but the opposite. adults teachers, my coaches have told me that they havnt met anybody that had to deal with more shit than me in there 40 years and i know plenty of others have to deal with crap too. i have a lot more than your pussy ass could of handled and handled now, or you will ever have to deal with in your fucking life time and more, you litte pussy .im not going to say what else i have because i feel like a mess, ive been screwed and that something bad is going to happen to me yet again. check out my youtube comments you cunt and maybe you will see i give all fanboys shit because there pathetic like you. keep on being a defensive loser you social reject. you call me the bad person but yet you make fun of stuff that is just what only the most pathetic lonely people would do. look at those fucking pictures ive went from that from just being pinkish and itchy. that because i take care of it literally threw out every day and i have some of the worst eczema that some dr.s have even seen.

                    1. Aww boo hoo maybe people would like you more if you didn’t go on to a Nintendo or any other site to bitch about stuff the site in question was made for, rant all you want rash boy I don’t care, if you act like a bastard ill treat you like a bastard even if you are a bleeding, pink, splochy rashy bastard,

                      1. people like me off the internet i dont give a shit what any of you overly attached plastic humpers think. i think what i think about nintendo and ill say it. you guys sound like those kids that act like someone else to try to fit in a group. well im not just going to praise everything nintendo because they pretty much sold out and make the dumbest decisions day by day year by year and its gotten to the point where they get non stop hate and just make gimmicky shit and dont care about any body but the casual market.

                        1. @blood lmao ice won so bad lol you always loose your arguments just like that spanking I gave you yesterday and when you loose you start using baby tactics. What a real loser.

                        2. Coming from the guy who dick rides Nintendo commander all the time. “how are you NC ?” “how did you sleep last night NC?” “I love you avatar NC?” what a fag, stay mad sheep loser lmaooo!!!

                        3. Oh are you real? If he is a “Baby” atleast a baby is better than you.
                          Shut. Up. Now. Please. We are sick of it, and your arguments don’t make sense.

                          “What’s 2 + 2?”

                          “Wow your a dumb ass.”

                        4. Beats an opinion hating trolling fanboy. God your pathetic. You lost a long time ago. And how the hell did you get thought as a toddler and me as a wannabe therapist. I can explain my nickname for you. You hated on ice’s opinion, opinion hater and fanboy there. Failing at arguements by calling unrelated names. (Love how the argument has totally changed) and you are a troll.

                        5. That means you fail to care about being one. You think that doesn’t matter, do you. Bashing some one because they don’t like some thing you do. I think the Wii U is awesome, but I won’t bash one that doesn’t agree. Also I’m flattered. (Sarcasm in case you didn’t know.)

                      2. some people have more severe bipolar and some just have it moderate, do you understand, or are you going to just be exposing yourself as a pathetic overly attached fanboy who is obsessed with a piece of plastic. you just exposed yourself.

                          1. no……. you lost as in life and as in a person, you just showed it. i dont give a fuck if your on the internet, the way you act im surprised if you even get off it. if you want to win a pointless internet thing than there you go. i hope it means something. also keep on praising everything nintendo because there just a corporation just like the others that doesnt give a shit about you but you defend them like if it was your sister being commited for a crime. for what are they doing you any favors or are you just attached to them. so you think im attcking you guys when im talking about nintendo!!!!! fuck ive even seen people with mental disorders that act more normal than you and some of the other plastic humpers here. you guys act even more crazy than manic depressive people.

                          2. Wasn’t there some update to this website so there were no trolls and arguments like this didn’t happen?

                      3. Can you guys shut up. I’m sick of it. Blood quit insulting an unrelated skin condition. (Why are you even talking about that still?) and iceazeama, you know people will start flame wars with things like this, I recomend you just don’t. And both of you, please, I’m sure your better than this, so shut up.

                        1. Do you know how obseesed this guy is with the Wii U failing? google search his username he actually trolls youtube and other Nintendo sites to bitch, if Sickr wont just ban this fucker I will keep him in his place myself

                          1. Oh, one more thing, I prefer a hater that has reasons than a fanboy that insults a skin condition. I love nintendo, but god, you don’t have to bash a different opinion. I wasn’t on sides, but ice won. Bye.

                          2. LMAO blood got owned again this loser always looses, gets no pussy, and dick rides the Nintendo commander. You lost in so many ways that you shouldn’t even comment on this site anymore LOL XD

              2. I wouldnt have any problems with him, but he just hits on nerves with his childish behavior, talks like he is part of Nintendo even when he is just an consumer is all just so laughable. And why would Sega give Sonic to Nintendo when its their flagship ip? He doesnt understand business at all, lives just in his fairy tale “console wars episode VI: Return and revenge of NintendoCommander” Lmao.

                1. he is also just a racist hypocrite. pretends to be a nintendo robot all day. yet he doesnt even have a wii u. the fanboys on this page are pathetic defensive plastic humpers with no life and thats why im just kinda in and out now.

          1. Lego City: Undercover, Wind Waker HD, Pikmin 3, Sonic Lost World, and judging by the review shown above, Super Mario 3D World.

            That should be enough to last you until Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros 4 come out. :)

            BTW, typing this on my Wii U. :D

          2. well mh3u is the best one, which is sad because its almost a wii game. its not easy though and you also have to know how to create the right armor and all that crap a lot. according to mr ignoring man aka dumbshit that says the same thing over and over its not so called hardcore, when its probably the hardest wii u game out there and takes the most to learn.

          3. also my definition of a hardcore game is how hard it is or how comples it can be. just because a game is so called more mature like cod (lame same old bullshit, most casual game out there) doesnt mean its hardcore. that word is stupid too but thats how i have to explain games now, either casual shit or more hardcore. normal too.

            im hardcore ddduuurrr i feel like the biggest tool while saying that, i dont even feel like im a hardcore gamer because that means you just play videogames 24/7 and do nothing else.

        2. Can somebody PLEASE, ban all these losers coming onto a Nintendo website and harassing everyone? Sickr, you’re seriously slacking in the moderation department.

          1. There is no moderation in this comment section. At least not directly. I think he has to report their user (if they use one)

          1. Definitely the first one as despite not having guy or a 2 player option it was still a decent port. 2&3 are utter garbage though.

        3. Who cares. It’s an official magazine, they’re biased. I don’t doubt that Between Worlds will be awesome but I don’t give any weight to what an official magazine sayd.

          1. yeah, its like…. you dont think the official sony magazine wont give sony games good scores?? hahahah, so when they give games good scores, these fanboys will say its so biased but since its there best friend nintendo, mental disorder in plastic humping. its ok

            #hypocrites. they just keep on exposing themselves.

        4. Well, a Nintendo magazine gave that quote….soooooo yeah. I have to admit that I really didn’t like the quote either because it’s a very unnecessary and inaccurate shot at the other consoles. Mario 3D World looks good, but I’ve seen older games that looked better. (Final Fantasy XIII-2 makes this look like the ET video game)

        5. The thing is, Super Mario 3D World actually does look absolutely stunning. It’s akin to how Super Mario Galaxy looks compared to similar titles around that same time period. Even now, I’d say Super Mario Galaxy’s graphics (and SMG2, for that matter) still look excellent, and as we know, the Wii’s an SD console.

          Yes, some games do look better than 3D World in the eyes of other people, but so far, 3D World is easily one of the best looking games I’ve seen this year. I’m sure I’ll enjoy it.

        6. I’m actually seeing wii u s getting sold out at alot of stores around, a friend of mine who works at Walmart told me they got 10 unis and they were sold in that day, went by gamestop they were sold too, target, and best buy as well. Some told me they had more of the mario units than zelda and people came and bought the mario units first.

          1. Yeah, I’ve seen people buy Wii Us and Wii U games too. But then again, I saw a woman having to return Lego City Undercover because she thought it was a Wii game…

        7. I know albw will do great. as for the other one I don’t see many gamers getting that. though I’m sure kids will jump up and down for that one, and their moms too.

          1. I’m getting it; looks like a great single player experience and it’s probably going to be a blast with friends and family this Christmas!

              1. I hope it will be a great single player experience for a gamer as me, too. I just borrowed 3D Land from a friend, and loved it. If the Wii U’s 3D World innovates like that AND MORE, it’s going to be great!

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