Then there’s the Double Cherry (cloning the player multiple times over), Cannon Boxes, Light Blocks, Goomba Masks, and you can even pick up a Potted Piranha Plant that can eat enemies for you.

Starting with the obvious star of the show: the Super Bell turns Mario into Cat Mario, and ushered in an entirely new way of platforming in the series, and I do think it paved the way for Cappy allowing Mario to almost fly across the worlds created by Nintendo for Odyssey. This is a game that has enough unique and new ideas in it for five or six games in any other series. Ranking 3D Mario platformers aside, I truly envy anyone playing Super Mario 3D World for the first time.

Look, I know that the business of games may not be the preferred topic of discussion when talking about something that’s otherwise so joyous, but there are only so many superlatives available to a critic and I want to space things out a bit, okay?

With the broad appeal of the Nintendo Switch, there’s a very real possibility that a discussion might happen as to whether Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury is actually on par, or better than Super Mario Odyssey.

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