
Look a bit further out and Blue Toad and Toadette are clearly visible.Ĭould that mean that Super Mario Maker 2 lets you build levels for two, three or four players to run through together? Every 2D Mario game since New Super Mario Bros. That alone might not mean much, but he's also in the "level" in the foreground, dressed in a Cat Suit in Mario's hands.

The first thing you might notice is that on the game's box art, Luigi joins his more famous brother in construction worker get-up. So what other details can we squeeze out of the trailer and screenshots? Some really exciting ones, actually. It also looks you can now set paths for moving platforms and those Piranha Plants that stretch out on vines.Īnd that's basically all Nintendo told us, before the presentation merrily danced through a long line of Japanese RPG announcements. With that comes new enemies like the Ant Soldiers, which walk along ceilings and drop down at you, and new power-ups like the Cat Suit, which lets you climb walls. The biggest new addition announced was a fifth game style, based on 2013's Super Mario 3D World.

Super Mario Maker 2 - Announcement Trailer - Nintendo Switch All levels can be dressed up like the classic grasslands, caves, castles and underwater locations, in different styles based on Mario games through the years.ĭuring the Direct, Nintendo highlighted a few new features, the most mundane of which is that diagonal slopes are now possible and you pick stuff out of circular menus – most likely to make it easier to navigate using controllers instead of a touchpad.

At a glance the basics of the first game are all there – players build their own side-scrolling Mario levels by placing blocks, objects, power-ups and enemies on a grid. The long-rumored announcement came at the top of the latest Nintendo Direct presentation, where the games giant runs through news and details about upcoming titles. Nintendo was pretty light on the details of just how the toolbox has been expanded, but a closer look at the trailer and screenshots reveals a few secrets that might hint at what we can expect. This sequel to the criminally-overlooked 2015 Wii U game has you building your own Mario levels, sharing them with the world and playing an endless stream of other players' creations. Nintendo today announced that Super Mario Maker 2 is coming to the Switch in June.
