The Chuffing Mental Third Anniversary Wii U Voting Thread: Thanks For Playing!

"Basically the game I’ve wanted since I was 8 years old. I can draw my own Marios. Nuff said."

"Experimenting with your own mad designs and developing a level to suit your own playing style adds another dimension to the signature platforming joy of Super Mario. Andyman loves ISIS."  [She is a pretty cool Egyptian goddess.]

"I can happily waste so many hours creating my own levels & then I can play countless others everyone else has created. 'Tis infinite Mario.

Unless you're andy what's not to like?"

"Speaking of gifts that keep on giving, here's Nintendo, allowing us to make our own 2D Mario levels with pretty much all the tools that they have at their disposal. Online quality - and difficulty! - varies wildly but to see Mario stretched and contorted through the minds of thousands of fans is always surprising and occasionally delightful."

As our commenters have sussed out, this is the bit where Crumpy Andy cries crumpy salty tears.  It's not for me, I prefer levels designed by proper level designers; but if you got a kick out of creating your own Mario levels as a child that just hasn't gone away, this is where your inner child can be allowed to run rampage.  The amiibo implementation's pretty good too, and it's another of Nintendo's "downloadable service" titles where the game is constantly being topped up with more free stuff.  Here's hoping slopes and creating your own worlds come along soon!

Celebrity Guest Salvador Dalí





"Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of owning Super Mario Maker.  I am creating levels which make me die for joy, I am creating with an absolute naturalness, without the slightest aesthetic concern, I am making things that inspire me with a profound emotion and I am trying to create them honestly.

"In this level, the descent of Mario into the pits represents the constant self-destruction of man, his rescue by floating platforms represent man's rebirth from the ashes, and the Lakitus represent the aliens feeding me messages through my moustache.  It is a level to be experienced, rather than played: it plays itself.  This new and original idea is sure to turn heads.

"And yet, I see that it has been outdone in popularity by a level that's a giant phallus made from bricks.  Well played, Internet.  Well played."

"It's the fruit that does it."

"Last times Number 1 got everything right"

"Pikmin back on form, actually good new additions, a little bit of pressure and an amazing world. Wow"

"The Pikmin games have been slowly training me into someone who can competently play RTS games, and with the extensive maps and multiple characters of 3, I've never been closer. The characterisation, gorgeous videos and slick, fun action certainly helped as well. This won our first Wii U Games vote and it was well deserved. Absolute Banger."

"This seemed to take aaaages to arrive. But it was worth the wait. A great new cast of playable characters, Pikmin that were more “care-about-able” than ever, and of course the beautiful close-up fruit. Even the multiplayer’s great fun (despite the fact I lose 90% of the time; I get distracted building up Pikmin populations)."

"Unparalleled in its field. Accessible, but intellectually rigorous while it’s at it, this is the acme of strategy gaming on any Nintendo console."

It came first during the Wii U's first year, when there wasn't all that much else out, and it's still in the top half of this vote now.  That must mean it's still pretty good, then!  Pikmin 3 brought back the time limit to the series, but it did so in the best way possible: by making the time dependant on the amount of fruit grabbed.  And what fruit.

Er, I mean, I think that's what happened?  I (sigh) don't care much for it myself, because it's another genre (RTS) that I'm by no means big on.  But like with Bayo 2, that doesn't mean I can't appreciate what it does have for fans of the series: two new Pikmin types (flying Pikmin!  Here comes the apocalypse), luscious levels, mad enemy designs, and beautiful beautiful fruit.

Mmmmmmmm, fruuuuuuuuuit.

Celebrity Guest The Man From Del Monté





"Yes.

"Yes to all of it.  Especially the Citrus Lumps.  I want those bad boys brought up to my room by those stinking plant-peasants, and made into a cocktail as a tribute to the British Empire.  Or the entire planet will be rased at dawn."