A new Super Mario Bros. game is always a landmark event, so it’s no “Wonder” that many gamers have been incredibly excited for the next installment of the long-running series, Super Mario Bros. Wonder. While it’s launching this Friday, October 20th for the Nintendo Switch, reviews for the game have already gone live from various outlets, and it looks like Nintendo has another hit on their hands. Here’s what the critics have been saying about Super Mario Bros. Wonder.
Eurogamer (Christian Donlan) | 5/5
An endless cascade of ideas in a game that takes Mario to some wonderfully strange places.
VG247 (Alex Donaldson) | 5/5
Within the understood parameters of what 2D Mario can be, this has to be the single best entry since Super Mario World – and is the perfect first game to launch a new era of Mario games with his new-found elevation to movie star status.
VGC (Andy Robinson) | 5/5
Inventive and full of heart, with a tight design and striking presentation, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is undoubtedly the plumber’s most memorable 2D outing since the 1990s.
GamesRadar+ (Sam Loveridge) | 4.5/5
Move over Elephant Mario, the true star of Super Mario Bros. Wonder are the Wonder Flowers themselves, which continuously add the unexpected to an altogether brilliant 2D platformer. Okay, Elephant Mario’s pretty amazing too.
Destructoid (Timothy Monbleau) | 9/10
Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the first game in literal decades to live up to the plumber’s legendary 2D platforming legacy.
IGN (Ryan McCaffery) | 9/10
Super Mario Bros. Wonder looks and plays like the true next step for 2D Mario platformers. Wonder effects change each stage in both surprising and delightful ways, the Flower Kingdom makes for a vibrant and refreshing change of pace, and Elephant Mario steals the show.
Gfinity (Luke Hinton) | 9/10
While it doesn’t break the mould like its predecessors have, Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the perfect refinement of 2D platforming, and one of the most polished and engrossing games you’ll play all year.
Forbes (Ollie Barder) | 8.5/10
Overall though, Super Mario Wonder is an excellent 2D platformer. With excellent level design, polished visuals and mad Wonder Flower setpieces. It’s not my favorite Super Mario game in recent years, but it’s definitely worth checking out.
Dexerto (James Busby) | 8/10
Wonder may not take the crown from Super Mario Bros. 3 or Odyssey, but the latest outing encapsulates the very essence of what a 2D Mario game should be. It’s silly, whacky, and most importantly great fun […] The fact that Nintendo can still deliver a great 2D Mario game 42 years after the first title hit our screens back in 1981, really is a wonder in itself.
TheGamer (Jade King) | 8/10
I’m excited about playing with friends and family to snoop out the remaining paths that alluded me, and it feels like a game of this ilk would really come alive as four friends are causing maximum chaos together. Alone, its whimsical spark is sadly only surface level, fading away much as the petals on a Wonder Flower wilt under Bowser’s influence. The magic is there, and very tangible in all the right places, Nintendo just needs to take a look at the foundations and reinvent them alongside this luscious new aesthetic. Do so, and we’d have a masterpiece.
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