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Developer: Nintendo
Publisher: Nintendo
Release Date: TBA
Retro is big these days. Television is full of shows celebrating the pop culture of decades past, and compilations of old games continue to do well. But there's always room for improvement on an old formula. As a result, it seems perfectly fitting that this year's best-showing platform game is a new game starring Mario and Luigi. The duo practically invented the 2D platformer, and Mario came back around to take the genre into the 3D world, too. But now they're heading back to 2D, but their 3D tricks are coming with them. And from the three-level demo Nintendo showed at E3, it already looks like a winner.
Yeah, that's right, New Super Mario Bros. looks like it's going to be a full-on, all-new 2D adventure starring Mario. You'll run into familiar enemies, like koopa troopas and Lakitu, and you'll drop down pipes and perform all of those same sorts of tasks that you'd expect from a Mario game.
But at the same time, Mario's more agile than he's been in previous 2D outings. You can do wall jumps, backflips, and even collect a new large mushroom that makes Mario grow to the full height of the screen, making him a nearly unstoppable destructive force. The polygonal graphics serve to deliver a fluid look to the animation that you might not expect from a 2D Mario game. There's bound to be more twists and turns to uncover, and after checking out three reasonably short stages, we're pretty much dying to see more.
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