Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s Switch 2 Edition adds essential improvements to an already excellent platformer, with great boss battles, difficult endgame challenges, and clever cooperative minigames, even if I wish it’d gone just a bit farther with some ideas to reach its full potential.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder's biggest missteps involved difficulty and multiplayer, and Meetup in Bellabel Park adds new content to effectively address both of those. Super Mario Bros. Wonder was a joy to play through in 2023, and now, a few years later, it's even better.
Altogether, Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup at Bellabel Park gets my qualified recommendation. If you're primarily interested in single-player Mario platforming, and especially if you've already played through the Mario Wonder campaign, this upgrade gets you a fun but short series of creative Koopaling boss fight stages, a bunch of challenge stages, an additional power-up, and new build options thanks to the Dual Badges.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park is a mixed bag. On the one hand, we have an opportunity to replay Mario's best 2D adventure in years with some minuscule single-player adjustments and extra boss fights; it remains a joy from start to finish. uch sitting out this particular Switch 2 Edition.
It's honestly tough scoring Super Mario Bros. Wonder + Meetup in Bellabel Park. The base game, Mario Wonder, is still excellent, but it's a three-year-old title at this point. You can also pick up the Nintendo Switch version for cheaper and not feel like you're missing out on any content. Despite my issues with Bellabel Park, it doesn't make Mario Wonder a bad game. If anything, it just makes the newest version one worth picking up only if you're looking to play with your kids or younger siblings. They'll undoubtedly love what's in store for them. If you're like me, though, and were hoping for something along the lines of Donkey Kong Bananza, Odyssey, and the original Wonder content, you'll be disappointed.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder – Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Meetup in Bellabel Park is a great upgrade to the original game if you're going to take advantage of the multiplayer modes, but it is far less essential if you're mostly a solo player. There are some nice additions for the main campaign, but the £17 price point feels excessive without party play. Taken as a complete package, however, this makes the already fantastic game even more wonderful and addresses most of the issues that we had with it.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder makes the leap to Nintendo Switch 2 along with its new expansion, "Belabel Park Encounter," which adds brand-new content to the base game, consisting of challenges in various formats. Essentially, this DLC is built around offering a new multiplayer experience within the series, becoming a kind of Mario Party designed for platforming fans; although it also includes challenges and trials for all tastes.
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