With The Super Mario Bros. Movie brea𓆉king box office records every week, it’s easy to f🅺orget that it’s been a long time since everyone’s favorite mustachioed plumber last starred in a new 3D platformer. Six years, in ܫfact.
Like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tꦫhe Legend of Z🌞elda: Breath of the Wild, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Super Mario Odyssey launched at the start of the Switch’s life cycle. We started hearing about a new Zelda shortly after Breath of the Wild’s release, with a trailer debuting at E3 in 2019, a little over two years after launch. In the four years since, we’ve received periodic updates on 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tears of the Kingdom, culminating in its launch last week. In that same span of time, Nintendo has maintained radio silence on w🧸hat’s next for Mario.
Like I said, it’s easy to forget. Mario is everywhere. This year, some of Mario’s Game Boy Advance games came to 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Nintendo Switch Online, where you can now play Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario Kart: Super Circuit, Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros. 3. Plus, in 2022, we got Mario + Rabbids: Sparks of Hope and Mario Strikers: Battle League. If you just want to see Mario, the character, and play games with him in it, you’re never going to have to wait long. He’s a very busy guy,🌞 and his Switch resume is do🦩tted with tactics games, an RPG, multiple sports titles, a level design tool, and a couple parties.
But if you want to actually play a game where you can do the things Mario is known for, the pickings are slim. After Super Mario Odyssey, every Mario platformer on Switch has been a reไrelease. New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe in 2019, Super Mario 3D All-Stars in 2020, (which is no longer available for digital pu🐼rchase), and Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury in 2021.
That last title is the most significant of the batch, and the closest we’ve come to a new 3D Mario game since 2017. While the bulk of its content was a Switch port of Super Mario 3D World, which originally released on the Wii U, it also contained 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Bowser’s Fury, an entirely new game. A minia🙈ture open-world in which Mario attempts to complete platforming challenges while under the watchful eye of a kaiju-ified King Koopa, Bowser’s Fury seemed to point toward an interesting new future for Mario. It was a fun game in its own right, but short enough that it could be completed in a couple hours. It seemed like a proof-of-concept, a game-shaped piece of DLC, not the entirety of what the Mario team could have been working on for four years. Two more years have passed since, and we still have no word on what the next Mario adventure will be.
It’s not unusual to only get one 3D Mario game per generation. That was the case for the Nintendo 64, the GameCube, and the Wii U. The Wii is the major outlier, with two entries in the Galaxy subseries. But we typically only get one Zelda per generation, too, so it doesn’t seem unreasonable to expect something different this time around. Given the seismic success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, you would think Nintendo would want to have a new Mario title on store shelves. There isn’t, at least not right now. Maybe it’s t🔴ime for the sequel.