UK gaming publication EDGE has produced an interesting feature looking at the making of the critically acclaimed Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U. Super Mario 3D World co-director Koichi Hayashida told the magazine that after Super Mario Galaxy 2 was completed they wanted to make a brand new Mario title. Super Mario 3D World was in development at Nintendo for three years.
“We decided we should make an entirely new title, rather than another in the Galaxy series,” co-director Koichi Hayashida says. “Up until that point, we had only been working on games for the home console, so you might expect that we’d go on to develop a game for Wii U. In fact, we got really interested in creating a 3D Mario game that could be played with the 3D effect of 3DS. That’s why we chose to develop for the handheld system instead. Saying that, though, at that same point we also planned on making a version for Wii U. So, in that sense, you could say the game was in development for over three years.”
“We discussed and discarded a huge number of ideas during development,” Motokura says. “Sometimes you just can’t tell if an idea is good or bad by looking at it on the drawing board; when this happens, we try it out in-game. If we don’t find the idea fun, it won’t make it into the final product. There was a lot of back and forth on the course designs due to this.”
“We thought about what was the simplest bit of fun that could be had using Mario’s regular abilities. We decided it was jumping across a series of platforms without falling – think back to the doughnut blocks and rotating platform courses in previous games. This decision helped us make comparatively intricate courses for Super Mario 3D Land and 3D World. In contrast, in a game like Super Mario 64, I think the fun needs to be on a slightly larger scale, hence why the triple jump worked so well there. It’s not that one ability is better than the other, it’s just that we use ones that best fit the design of the game.”
Sounds interesting…
I still haven’t played this game. I need to get on that.
Yeah, you really do!
interesting.
platforms are very important that’s why i hope Nintendo never makes this open world game with a huge hub that some people want. its like they want a banjo kazooie but with mario
Super Mario 64 & Super Mario Sunshine pretty much had a nicely sized hub. I want to see a future 3D Mario return to that because SMG’s hub was pretty small & a bit dull for my liking. But considering Microsoft owns Banjo Kazooie, I wouldn’t mind a Mario game with something similar, though. It would be like Super Mario World but in 3D with more stuff to do on the overworld than just go to the next stage. A shame Super Mario 3D World didn’t do just that considering the similar name but with 3D in between Mario & World.
I wanna play this, buuuut no Wii U and no money. :(
EDGE..the most anti Nintendo site you can find. Seriously, WTF is with this site? Negative news. Promoting publications that hate on Nintendo?
So it’s basically confirmed in the second paragraph, 3D World is just a Wii U version of 3D Land (with obvious differences and improvements). Here’s hoping the new Mario game will be completely different from both of them.
That’s a bit like saying Mario Galaxy 2 is just another version of Mario Galaxy (with obvious differences and improvements), I believe. I may just be misunderstanding the point of your comment, though, but it seems like you feel 3D World was not different enough from 3D Land? Well, it *is* a sequel to it, so it’s reasonable to assume that Nintendo would have 3D World follow in it’s predecessor’s footsteps, while adding improvements, features, and changes to it, as sequels tend to do.
I agree with The Weasel.
Why, thank you very much, sir or ma’am .
Sir. And you’re welcome.
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