Super Mario Maker 2

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Super Mario Maker 2
Super Mario Maker 2 logo.png
Super Mario Maker 2 logo
Original title ス ー パ ー マ リ オ メ ー カ ー 2
transcription Sūpā Mario Mēkā 2
Studio Nintendo
Publisher Nintendo
Erstveröffent-
lichung		 June 28, 2019
platform Nintendo Switch
genre Jump 'n' run
Subject Level editor , side scroller
Game mode Single player , multiplayer , co-op mode
control Joy-Con , Nintendo Switch Pro Controller , touchscreen
medium Game Card , Download ( Nintendo eShop )
language Japanese , English , Spanish , French , German , Italian , Dutch , Russian , Korean , Chinese
Current version 3.0.0
Age rating
USK released from 0
PEGI recommended from 3 years
information A paid membership to Nintendo Switch Online is required for online mode .

Super Mario Maker 2 ( Japanese title: スーパーマリオメーカー2 , Hepburn : Supa Mario Meka 2, official abbreviation : SMM2 ) is a side-scroller - level editor - video game of the Jump 'n' Run - genres that of the Japanese game developer Nintendo and released exclusively for the Nintendo Switch on June 28, 2019 .

As in the previous Super Mario Maker players can create their own Super Mario - Level create and then upload. Super Mario Maker 2 is playfully based on its predecessor, but brings numerous new gameplay elements and opponents from various Mario games, primarily from Super Mario 3D World , into the game.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Super Mario Maker 2 is largely based on that of its predecessor, Super Mario Maker . You can create and upload your own levels or play someone else's level. In offline mode, there are over 100 levels created by Nintendo that are ready to be played and also serve as inspiration.

A novelty compared to Super Mario Maker is that there is now a co-op mode in which up to two players can work on a level at the same time, while in the online mode up to four players can now play the same level with or against each other and the online mode called “Networked Play”, which contains the two game modes “With each other” and “Against each other”, in which up to four randomly selected players play with or against each other in randomly selected levels. After completing the level, the players can anonymously rate between “Boo”, “Medium” and “Great” how well they think the level they have just played was suitable for the respective mode. Nintendo has not yet made a statement (as of October 2019) about the ratings affecting how often the corresponding level is turned on in the game modes.

Unlike its predecessor, Super Mario Maker 2 levels can also be rated negatively (“Boo”) instead of just positive (“Great”). However, negative reviews are not displayed.

In Super Mario Maker 2, compared to the first part, the player can choose from a new graphic style in the style of Super Mario 3D World, so that the game now has a total of five different graphic styles.

While the previous mode 100-Mario Challenge was, where the player with 100 after losing not return increasable experiments had to deal with a given depending on the difficulty number of levels, this mode was in Super Mario Maker 2 by the endless challenge replaced , in which the player starts with five attempts that can be increased and has to conquer as many levels as possible. The selectable levels of difficulty now only determine the level of difficulty depending on the completion rate of the level and no longer how many levels have to be mastered, since in the endless challenge there is a theoretically unlimited number of randomly selected levels.

Since version 1.1.0, the levels can also be played online with friends.

announcement

Super Mario Maker 2 was first announced on February 13, 2019 as part of a Nintendo Direct in the form of an announcement trailer for June 2019. The trailer was published the same day on Nintendo's official YouTube channel and had been viewed over 3.9 million times by June 20, 2019. In a release date trailer, the game was finally announced for June 28, 2019.

The game is also available in a limited edition that includes a Super Mario Maker 2-themed Steel Book and a 12-month membership to Nintendo Switch Online . Anyone who pre-ordered this limited version of the game before its official release or downloaded it from the Nintendo eShop received a stylus in Super Mario Maker 2 design for playing in handheld mode.

reception

Even before the official release of Super Mario Maker 2, various trade magazines criticized the fact that you could not play the online mode of the game with your friends, but only with randomly selected players. It was only possible to play levels with friends when playing either locally on a Nintendo Switch or on the same network. As part of Nintendo's Treehouse events on June 11, 2019, Nintendo announced that it would change this and make the online mode playable with friends. On June 11, 2019, Nintendo confirmed this information on Twitter . With the update to version 1.1.0 on October 2, 2019, this function was finally integrated into the game.

The game's offline mode was already playable during Nintendo's Treehouse event on June 11, 2019. Many testers particularly praised the clever ideas that were incorporated into the levels prepared by Nintendo.

Many players criticize the fact that (input) lags and strong drops in the game speed, which affect all participants in the online game, often occur in online mode , which is due to the fact that Nintendo is based on peer-to-peer - Connections are set, whereby a single bad connection has a negative effect on all network participants. The selected levels are often criticized for not being designed for online mode.

Meta-ratings
Database Rating
Metacritic 88/100
reviews
publication Rating
GamePro 86%
Nintendo Life 10/10
PC Games 9/10

Super Mario Maker 2 received mostly positive reviews from various trade magazines . On the Metacritic website , which aggregates ratings , the game received an 88% rating based on 97 reviews. Nintendo Life rated the game 10 out of 10.

Sales figures

In Japanese retail stores, around 200,000 units of Super Mario Maker 2 were sold in the first week of sales . Excluding downloads, there were around 85,000 sales in the second week of sales. By June 30, 2019, around 2.42 million copies had been sold, making the game one of the best-selling for Nintendo's Switch console. As of October 31, 2019, the game had been sold about 3.93 million times, according to an official Nintendo annual report.

Web links

Individual evidence

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