Super Mario Maker 2

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  • Summary: Mario fans of the world, unite! Now you can play, create, and share the side-scrolling Super Mario courses of your dreams in the Super Mario Maker 2 game, available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch™ system! Dive into the single-player Story Mode and play built-in courses to rebuildMario fans of the world, unite! Now you can play, create, and share the side-scrolling Super Mario courses of your dreams in the Super Mario Maker 2 game, available exclusively on the Nintendo Switch™ system! Dive into the single-player Story Mode and play built-in courses to rebuild Princess Peach’s castle. Make your own courses, alone or together. And with a Nintendo Switch Online membership*, share your courses, access a near-endless supply made by others, enjoy online multiplayer, and more. A new side-scrolling Mario adventure that unleashes the creative potential of Super Mario Maker 2 awaits in Story Mode, which contains over 100 built-in courses. And in Course Maker, a wide range of parts, tools, and more are available so you can construct your own courses. Want coin-shooting cannons? Bowser riding on a giant Goomba? Cat Mario sliding down slopes to take out an army of baddies? Go for it! You call the shots. Pass a Joy-Con controller to a partner to build cooperatively on a single system.… Expand
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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 96 out of 98
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 98
  3. Negative: 0 out of 98
  1. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Apr 28, 2020
    100
    A transcendent experience that will only continue to improve over time. [Issue #41 – September 2019, p. 68]
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  2. Areajugones
    Jun 26, 2019
    95
    In short, it makes creating levels as exciting or more exciting than playing them. Miyamoto would be proud.
  3. Vooks
    Jun 26, 2019
    90
    Super Mario Maker 2 is a much needed and long awaited addition to the Switch. Even the smaller additions to course making goes a long way to giving players the tools they need to make courses that you wouldn’t be able to distinguish from the real deal. If you’re not interested in building levels, there’s plenty to play in the story mode and the content from the Course World will ensure there’s content for years to come. While there are some limitations that might irk hardcore course builders, there is so much more to like about the game. How can you pass up a Mario game that has the most inventive courses the series has seen in years.
  4. Impulsegamer
    Jul 8, 2019
    90
    The necessity of a Nintendo Switch Online subscription to fully enjoy some of Super Mario Maker 2’s best features is an unfortunate reality for Switch owners, but the wealth of amazing online content is worth the price of admission in my eyes. If you own a Nintendo Switch, Super Mario Maker 2 deserves to be permanently installed on your system.
  5. XGN
    Jun 26, 2019
    87
    Super Mario Maker 2 expands on the first in a great way. New possibilities, a story mode and coop are a great addition. There are however a few details that can lead to some frustrations, but they are few and far between.
  6. Meristation
    Jun 26, 2019
    85
    Super Mario Maker 2 is a remarkable continuation from the original game. This new entry in the series takes the best elements of the previous one and adds a huge number of new elements, modes and styles. The creator mode is larger and deeper, the online multiplayer is just fun; but the story mode lacks on personality. Even though the game is bigger and extensive, it is definitely not the ultimate Mario Maker.
  7. Destructoid
    Jul 14, 2019
    70
    But that toolkit is only half of the equation. The other half is a platform game with no quality control, no impetus for putting legitimate effort into your original designs, and no way to weed out poor content creators other than trusting that players will be able to discern the difference between a bad level and good level and rate them accordingly. Given how many positive messages I've seen attached to genuinely bad stages, I don't have much faith in the Mario Maker community right now and I question whether it'll get better down the line.

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  1. Positive: 260 out of 316
  2. Mixed: 30 out of 316
  3. Negative: 26 out of 316
  1. TheVJ
    Jun 28, 2019
    10
    This is an absolute must-buy for the Switch. It takes Mario Maker 1 and adds a huge amount of things to it. New styles, new themes, nightThis is an absolute must-buy for the Switch. It takes Mario Maker 1 and adds a huge amount of things to it. New styles, new themes, night versions of all of them, vertical levels, custom scroll, multiplayer co-op and versus both local and online, a full story mode, ...

    I could go on and on, but the tl;dr is that you owe it to yourself to get this if you even remotely enjoy platformers in general.    … Expand
  2. bowserjr
    Feb 11, 2022
    10
    Great game. I think it is good because you get to make mario levels+in“worldbot” make the world
  4. Derpfishh
    Jul 2, 2019
    10
    Endless fun, full of different mechanics there isn't much to be said other than if you like platformers or level design (I'm not much of aEndless fun, full of different mechanics there isn't much to be said other than if you like platformers or level design (I'm not much of a creator just play levels) and haven't got this game yet...WHAT ARE DOING!!!… Expand
  5. Simplified
    May 11, 2020
    9
    Sorting through the not-so-great levels and levels designed to exploit the game make it a bit tough at times, but it is easy to sink hundredsSorting through the not-so-great levels and levels designed to exploit the game make it a bit tough at times, but it is easy to sink hundreds of hours into this game. Easily one of the best titles on the Switch.… Expand
  6. ditrobix
    Nov 12, 2022
    9
    No le puedo dar el 10, porque por alguna razón nintendo no quiere arreglar algunos bugs que aún posee el juego al armar ciertas cosas para losNo le puedo dar el 10, porque por alguna razón nintendo no quiere arreglar algunos bugs que aún posee el juego al armar ciertas cosas para los niveles.

    Ojalá algún día los arregle (no creo que suceda pero bueno...)
    Juego muy divertido.    … Expand
  7. Toffeltrasa
    Jan 15, 2022
    8
    Nintendo really said: If you hate the New Super mario Bros games so much, then make it yourself.
    One of the most expertly crafted games in    Nintendo really said: If you hate the New Super mario Bros games so much, then make it yourself.
    One of the most expertly crafted games in the platforming genre.    … Expand
  8. LatsaSpege
    Aug 3, 2020
    0
    this game is a great concept, but mario. Every mario game feels like garbage to play, and this is no different

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