Oh, darn TV Tropes formatting and my inexperience with it!
The worst part is, having realized what you just have, that you can circumvent the character limit at post, but at the cost of never being able to edit it ever again, will now represent an eternal temptation to indiscipline that can be hard to resist.
I found out about the bug about the character limit when I posted my review of Breath of the Wild, and went back to fix a typo. Since it was fairly close to the character limit (only a few hundred character limits over), I'd assumed that it was in compliance until I investigated further.
While this review rambles a bit and could benefit from being trimmed down, it also does things better than other reviews do. It takes the time to evaluate the game's features instead of writing a single line and calling it a day, has a title that sums up the reviewer's opinion on the work and stays on subject. As such, it does a decent job at recommending Super Mario Maker 2.
Just checking back in a few days later. I didn\'t know it was customary to review reviews here on TV Tropes, but I guess it does allow us to get some of that sweet recursion.
Hello again, I know it\'s been just over two months but I wanted to say: I only wrote this review because the only other review here was someone who had an overly heated gamer moment and blew things way out of proportion
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I like Super Mario Maker 2.
I’d say that “pretty good” is the perfect way to describe how I feel about ‘’Super Mario Maker 2’’. It’s not amazing and I really don’t know if I should’ve sunk as much time into it as I did, but it’s definitely a fun time. Maybe my opinion has lowered because it’s worn me down, but I think my 900+ hours (yes, really) of playtime will allow me to talk about it.
Let’s start with Story Mode. I guess it’s interesting enough. The dialogue and course descriptions are pretty funny, and the courses are well-designed enough. I don’t know why Toadette is a narcissistic, mad-with-power Jerkass, but I don’t even care because it’s amazing.
Onto Course Maker. Making courses is pretty fun. Seeing your grand visions come to life is actually quite satisfying. The UI works fine enough, I suppose. I just don’t know about some of the baffling restrictions they place (game style exclusives, theme exclusives, etc.), but that hasn’t even been as annoying as I thought it would be, though I’m sure other people beg to differ.
Yamamura’s Dojo is new, teaching you about course making. It’s alright, but I feel like it’s more for the little kids who don’t know what makes games fun.
Heading into Course World, well, let’s address the elephant in the room. The primary content of this game (as well as uploading one’s creations) IS locked behind having a Nintendo Switch Online membership. Now, whether or not Nintendo Switch Online sucks is a whole other debate, so just know that I don’t have any strong opinions on it.
You can play courses made by creators all over the world! Some are even good! However, I do find that most of the top rated courses feel like they focused more on being gimmicky than being fun, though they can be both.
There’s Online Play. I find the multiplayer fun, despite its infamous lag issues. But hey, in Multiplayer Versus, get to a high enough rank and you’ll mostly be playing against people with good connections! Oh, and after the 1.1.0 update, you can have online play with friends, so that’s pretty cool.
You’ve got Leaderboards for checking out top players in certain categories, official Nintendo accounts, and people you’re following. Okay.
Endless Challenge! Choose a difficulty, try to beat courses, keep your life count high, and it’s not too shabby. They did take away the 100 Mario Challenge from the previous game (this is the first time I’ve even mentioned that game, surprisingly!), so there’s no ending. I’ve no problem with that, but some other people definitely miss it.
Overall, many other things didn’t return. The biggest is probably Mystery Mushroom costumes, which I’ve heard variously attributed to copyright issues and color differentiation in multiplayer. That’s probably one of the biggest things I wish were still in. Weird Mario also didn’t come back, but he was an abomination anyway, so it’s whatever.
They also removed customizable pre-set toolbars, the 10 Mario Challenge, and a whole bunch of other stuff I don’t feel strongly about. I feel like I should mention that I never played the first game, though I did watch quite a few videos of it.
Updates! 1.1.0 added online multiplayer with friends.
2.0.0! Lots of new editions, people only really care about the two I’ll be discussing. Link is playable now, and his move set is so interesting and makes for some great courses. Ninji Speedruns are here, they are courses made by Nintendo where players must complete them as fast as possible and temporarily get some number of stars surrounding their Mii depending on how well they did.
3.0.0. They finally did it. A World Maker, where you can make your own Super World with up to 8 worlds and 40 courses, WEIRD MARIO MAKES A CAMEO, THE GAME IS NOW GOOD. Oh yeah, and it added some course parts too, I guess. The SMB 2 Mushroom lets you become SMB 2 Mario and pick up enemies. They have the Super Acorn and Power Balloon now, and Balloon Mario’s controls are now much more tolerable than in his source game.
And that is, for the most part, ‘’Super Mario Maker 2’’! I feel like this review has been more summary than opinion, so I will reiterate that this is a fun game. I have to stress, though, that this game will not blow you away, It’s more like an effectively infinite version of a ‘’New Super Mario Bros.’’ game, though both better and worse in several ways. Actually, a lot of the fun was in making courses myself; it was a feeling similar to painting along with Bob Ross, if you know what that means.
I feel like this game has flown pretty under the radar, and I think that’s because despite there being drastic differences, people see this as “just another 2D Mario game”, and I can’t fault them for that. The 2D Mario series as a whole has kinda started to fall by the cultural wayside. I mean, remember when ‘’New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe’’ was a thing and the most anyone cared to do was to start trying to put the Super Crown in weird places?
Maybe it’s just because of its competition. ‘’Super Mario Odyssey’’ and ‘’The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild’’ are both games on the same console heralded as masterpieces of gaming, and at the same price to boot. Maybe this game just didn’t look too awful impressive to Nintendo Switch owners. And maybe, since I might’ve sold the game as a little underwhelming, they’re right.
Anyway, maybe I’m going off-topic. Give ‘’Super Mario Maker 2’’ a shot if you want; you’ll probably get your ~60 bucks’ worth. I give this game 8 laggy multiplayer matches out of 10.