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Super Mario Maker 2 is a great update to the original Mario Maker. I remember Adventure Construction Set, too. Many years ago, I played Pinball Construction Set on my Apple IIc. My final note, which I also made five years ago: Nintendo should make Maker a whole line of games. This, but also Zelda, Metroid, Mario Kart, etc etc. Seriously: I need game design help! Playing with Mario Maker 2 began to teach me some things. If only Shigeru Miyamoto were to materialize and give a few talks, too. Mario Maker 2 feels like it's Nintendo's Master Class in game design.
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I've started getting addicted to Master Class, the online video educational series where famous designers and creators give classes on writing, cooking, filmmaking, and even game design (Will Wright has a series of videos). I loved watching these sessions, and I wish there were more. There is a sort of teacher in Mario Maker 2, in the form of a pigeon (Yamamura) who delivers a few dozen short lessons on game design, helpful ideas and tutorials. My levels are a garbage pile of weird ideas thrown together. I've realized, playing Super Mario Maker 2, that I'm a terrible game designer. I could use a whole year's worth of pigeon gaming classes. But it will, and I can't wait to see what happens. On the pre-release version I played, that community barely exists yet. Player-created levels ran the gamut from brilliant to ridiculous. The most amazing thing about the first Mario Maker was the online community. They blew me away with their creativity: From cranes and balancing games to shooter-like levels where you ride clouds. The levels are designed to illustrate ideas you could potentially make yourself.
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There's the game's Story Mode, which is like a full standalone Mario game and has dozens of levels to try. It may seem like you know everything Mario Maker 2 can do. My son says: "It's really cool because it has the original characters and also new spinoff characters, things like Meowser (a cat Bowser)." He made a level that cleverly guided me along a path of coins and an arrow made of blocks into a pit of doom. The Story Mode is a full Mario game of levels, and there are an infinity more that'll be online.
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(A better instruction manual would have helped.) In fact, I could have done with a whole textbook to study. The button mapping is different, and not all that clear. My son agreed with me that it's hard to work on the TV, because you have to use the controllers to move the cursor, and it's harder to select items. Levels can also be played with up to four players, even online. Nintendo added a two-player create mode, too, which I haven't even explored. Unlike the Wii U version, which truly allowed second screen gaming when connected to a TV, the docked Switch ends up needing the controller to navigate, which isn't ideal for creating but can be done. It's the most tablet-like game Nintendo's ever made for the Switch. Super Mario Maker 2 does has a few multi-touch moves, though, including a two-finger zoom-out to see course overviews. Jeff Bakalar talked me into it, and he's right. The Switch doesn't have a stylus, but you could (and should) use a capacitive stylus like the kind you can buy for phones and tablets. Maker's creative app is still about tapping and dragging icons and building them with the touchscreen. He's moved on to other games since the original Maker and he's older now, but he caught up fast. I've been playing Super Mario Maker 2 for a week and also letting my kid play. I found this stylus in my desk, after seeing Jeff Bakalar use one. This is the beautiful Mario Infinity I can stick in my bag and experience on a large-screen TV. The Nintendo Switch solves for both, and offers up the perfect package. There was a Nintendo 3DS version, which was fun but the screen was too small and there was no way to share your games on a larger screen.
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I wanted a completely portable magic Mario gaming kit when the Wii U version came out. This means you could build a level, change it from one style to another and potentially give your level a whole new aesthetic with the push of a button. In addition to the large swathe of objects and items players can use to create new worlds, Super Mario Maker also allows players to save levels in five unique Mario styles (Super Mario, Mario 3, Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros, and Mario 3D World), all of which have different graphics and different Mario moves/mechanics. Super Mario Maker 2's creative toolkit is larger than you might expect. The possibilities are tremendously and amazingly weird.
