Super Mario 3D World Teams Up Mario, Luigi, Toad, And Peach For A Wii U Adventure!

Super Mario 3D World for the Wii U will bring back the old gang from Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES, becoming the first 3D Mario game to be fully immersed in multiplayer.

"The first thing we do is decide on a concept for a stage that really drives how a player will be experiencing it," said Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development (EAD Planner and Project Leader Koichi Hayashida to Polygon. "It's something we all get together to discuss. We get a lot of post-it notes, and we just put up hundreds of them onto the wall and start looking at them and discussing them. And out of 100 ideas on all of these notes, we might end up only using one or two of the ideas generated. Some are completely crazy ideas!"

"But once we've decided on a concept, we make the stage, then we play it, then we refine it. And that process repeats over and over again until we get to the point where we feel like we're mostly polishing the gameplay in a very fine-tuned sort of way. When we get to that stage, we know we're almost done."

But with the added challenge of planning levels for four unique characters from the Mario universe, the design team had to add new innovations to keep gameplay flowing for every potential player.

"We think about our level design from a perspective of first, 'Is this something that's fun to play through as Mario?'"

"In this game, we had some interesting challenges in that you can lift up other characters and throw them ahead of you, so you can jump and throw someone, and they go really far. That can be a really interesting challenge in level design; to make sure people don't go where we don't want them to."

According to Ubergizmo, new costume is also being introduced in the title called the Cat Suit, which allow characters to scale walls and polls.

But it comes down to the Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad's unique abilities to get through Super Mario 3D World.

As Luigi jumps higher, Toad runs faster, and Peach floats, Mario will have all the help he needs by the time the game drops for the Wii U in December of this year!