Super Mario Wonder, The Mario Movie and Why One Is Worse Because Of The Other.

Super Mario Wonder launched in a really interesting context.
On the one hand 2D Super Mario has gotten stale.
Yet while 2D Mario has fallen from grace over the past couple of years, the Super Mario franchise itself certainly has not.
On the contrary. The Mario franchise is currently as popular as it arguably hasn’t been in three decades.
Thanks to the huge success of the Super Mario Movie and the homerun that the Switch ended up being, Mario is currently living through a massive popularity surge. So at the height of Mario’s popularity, Nintendo released a game in the 2D Super Mario platformer genre - a genre that has lost popularity in the past decade.

Super Mario Wonder.
And Super Mario Wonder is pretty good.

In this video, we are going to take a look at why I believe this.
We are going to have a chat about the level design of Super Mario Wonder and how Nintendo evolved the 2D Mario formula, we will discuss the Mario movie and why I ultimately am not too happy about it, even though I thought it was fun, we will discuss what the opera Carmen has to do with all of this and in the end you will hopefully understand, why I think that Super Mario Wonder is an excellent game that left me disappointed.

====== Links
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====== Timestamps
00:00:00 - Intro
00:02:01 - Shaking Up The Stale (Evolution of 2D Mario)
00:13:04 - Systemic Difficulty (Difficulty Discussion)
00:27:34 - The Mario Movie (Movie Review)
00:45:16 - The Luigification of Mario (State of the Mario Franchise)

====== Credits for the Music
Super Mario Wonder OST - “Piranha Plants on Parade”, “Title Screen”
Super Mario Bros OST - “Overworld Theme”
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time OST - “Gerudo Valley”
Dark Souls OST - “Firelink Shrine”
Tropical Freeze OST - “Grassland Groove”

== Kevin MacLeod
“The Builder”, “Adventure Meme”
Kevin MacLeod incompetech.com
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
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Additionally, the video uses licensed tracks from productioncrate.com and motionarray.com