Super Mario Maker Reviews
Super Mario Maker is not the ultimate platform game tool (that would be learning real code) but it is the best platform game creator commercially available to all audiences. It's also an excellent anthology of Mario levels, with endless potential for growth and expansion.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Not being among the most anticipated games on Wii U when it was announced, Super Mario Maker is finally one of the most beautiful hits of the machine available in this year 2015. Everything has been designed to meet the expectations of fans of the franchise that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year.
Review in French | Read full review
Super Mario Maker is tricky to review and score. It's a heck of a first effort from Nintendo when it comes to level editors, with a shockingly deep number of options. However its few limitations are puzzling, and its time-based content gating makes it very slow to start creating.
If you really sit down and take a good long look at the big picture, Super Mario Maker could go down as the greatest Mario game ever made. It bridges Mario across thirty years of platforming, and puts the power in the player's hands to play Mario how they want. I myself cannot wait to see what the rest of the world has waiting for me to play, and I in turn can't wait to share my creations with the rest of you.
Simple, inspired, and constantly encouraging, Super Mario Maker gives players the freedom to enjoy Mario the way they like to the most. The pre-made levels are mostly just samples, but the real potential lies with the online community. Super Mario Maker not only respects Mario's 30-year history, it gives players the keys to the Mushroom Kingdom like never before.
And that's Super Mario Maker in a nutshell: Making and playing. It might seem small and perhaps even insubstantial on the surface, but it offers nearly limitless creative potential as well as a virtually endless selection of player-made courses to try. It's not going to be Nintendo's next Super Smash Bros., but Super Mario Maker is something close to essential for anyone who's ever played a Super Mario Bros. game and thought: You know, I think I could do that.
Super Mario Maker provides endless fun, heavy doses of nostalgia, and a superb level creator that makes it easy to play the role of amateur game designer. A must have for any Wii U owner who is even mildly interested in Mario games and/or likes to create.
There are some incredible moments waiting for you. You just have to dig a little to find them.
Simple to create, fun to play. It lacks the multiplayer and other details to reach its full potential, but it's clear that it's going to provide us with infinite fun with thousands of cool levels based on the best 2D Mario.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Super Mario Maker has many faces. It depends on whether you play or create, which mode you prefer and what you prefer. However, each component of the game is entertained for a huge number of hours, during which you let go of your imagination, but also get carried away by memories and nostalgia.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Super Mario Maker is a remarkable game that only just falls short of what many have been dreaming of for 30-odd years. Anyone, regardless of skill and creative talent, can play and enjoy Super Mario Maker, and that is a rarity for creation tools. All I ever wanted to do back in the day was recreate Super Mario levels with interesting twists. Super Mario Maker encourages me to do so much more and try and be a game designer all by myself. And for that I love it.
An outstanding piece of creative software
Super Mario Maker is a special video game, period. You could include all of the lengthy, metaphor-laden nonsense that your little brain can come up with as to what is and isn't perfect about it, but at the end of the day, this is a title that allows you to create and play Super Mario Bros.
Super Mario Maker isn’t something I necessarily thought that I’d want to play but after spending some serious time with it I’m happy to say I’m almost in love with it.
Though surely there's plenty of room for additional features and improvement, Super Mario Maker is a user-generated content experience assembled with the wisdom and mature philosophy of gaming's finest.
Some will see in Super Mario Maker the admission of a lack of innovation so often blamed on the series. Yet this is the most creative approach ever undertaken by our mustachioed plumber. Nintendo thus opens the doors of the Mushroom Kingdom wide so that we offer Mario new adventures, thanks to a surprisingly playful construction process and rarely simple, GamePad in support.
Review in French | Read full review
Super Mario Maker takes the crown by having a grid that although limited makes the creative flow much more stable than the aforementioned, Super Mario Maker is a dream come true for all Nintendo fans and one that reminds us how incredible and unsurpassed the design of the original games is even when compared to everyone's attempt.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Super Mario Maker is where fanship turns into craftsmanship for those who for years have wished to design their own Mario levels. The game is intuitive and perfectly accessible for experienced players and newcomers alike. The lack of multiplayer is difficult to understand, though, as is the nine day timeframe needed to unlock all contents of the level design tool.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
It's an experiment that acts as a deconstruction and overjoyed celebration of everything Super Mario Bros.
If you ever wanted to make your own Mario levels, Super Mario Maker for the Wii U is the way to do it.