{"id":4601,"date":"2023-12-04T01:58:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T01:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=4601"},"modified":"2023-12-04T01:58:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T01:58:11","slug":"super-mario-bros-wonder-complete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/4601","title":{"rendered":"Super Mario Bros. Wonder: Complete"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI wrote recently<\/a> about completing both Dark Souls III<\/b> and Super Mario Bros. Wonder<\/b> on the same day and have published my thoughts on the former already. Today I want to talk about the latter.<\/p>\n

I purchased the game after work on its release day, a Friday, and within a few levels…I just put it down. The title’s bright palette, familiarity and usual bevy of secrets typically piques my interest like few games can. After a short period getting accustomed to the new physics and controls, I was off, nabbing devilishly-placed pink coins, scouring corners for hidden wonder seeds and bouncing my way to the top of flagpoles, much as I have in the 80s, 90s, 00s and 10s. This is my favorite gaming series ever<\/a>, why was I so indifferent towards this entry? There is, in fact, nothing tangibly wrong with Wonder<\/b>. It ticks all the boxes with aplomb, missing a step neither in its nostalgic tendencies nor its forward-thinking accessibility options. New enemies are well thought out, worlds are appropriately diverse and those secrets, my favorite part of both Mario and FromSoftware games, is evident throughout. <\/p>\n

However, several days passed without as much as a hint of Mariolust, unlike in decades past. It was only during my incapacitated state, waiting for surgical repair, that I revisited in earnest. Relegated to a bed (and an armchair, for brief stints) aided me in re-discovering my lost inspiration. And so, over the course of three days, I ploughed through the final worlds and today, I share my thoughts on the game.<\/p>\n

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I have a long history with the franchise, my memories dating all the way back to the original NES and over the years I’ve catalogued my completion of recent games<\/a> and ranked the entries<\/a> (as of ~2010). I’ve been quite excited about Super Mario Bros. Wonder<\/b> but does it live up to its universal praise? In short, it’s fine. <\/p>\n

Now, do not get me wrong: Wonder<\/b> is a great game. <\/p>\n

[more to come – interrupted]<\/p>\n

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I wrote recently about completing both Dark Souls III and Super Mario Bros. Wonder on the same day and have published my thoughts on the former already. Today I want to talk about the latter. I purchased the game after work on its release day, a Friday, and within a few levels…I just put it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,4],"tags":[115],"class_list":["post-4601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games","tag-mario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4601"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4614,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4601\/revisions\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}