Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

I pre-ordered from GAME and I'm still waiting for it to arrive.

Never again.

They had lots of copies on the shelves when I went in to pick up Azran.

Just trying to make you feel better.  

When I went to pick up mine today the guy told me that apart from the pre orders they had none left

I got mine with my PS4, but preorder bonuses weren't in so I have no fluffy cover.

Having read the last few replies, I broke my gameless November to go and nab it. Possibly the best Nintendo game this year - in a year of some fantastic Nintendo games - and they handed it over in an XBox One bag.

The game arrived!
Kinda appropriate considering one year ago I played NSMBU on my new Wii U for the first time.

It's very beautiful indeed. And, oh, look! What is this yellow/beige covering on the ground in the second world map?!

Nintendo, ever the traditionalists. Possibly the only complaint - if you could call it that - about the whole thing so far.

I've just got to Castle World, so far this game has been keeping me away from my ps4.

ZeroJones wrote:

It's very beautiful indeed. And, oh, look! What is this yellow/beige covering on the ground in the second world map?!

Nintendo, ever the traditionalists. Possibly the only complaint - if you could call it that - about the whole thing so far.

The funny thing with that was that even though the map was clearly "the desert world", the levels didn't follow that at all!

There was a few like this in the ice world too which is good to see them mix it up.

Hopefully my brother is giving me this for Christmas. If he gets it wrong and buys me NSMBU by mistake, there may be a moider.

I assume everyone is so blown away by this amazing game that they're rendered speechless.

I really love it.

Still haven't received my furry box GAME pre-order bonus though.

Same here. Despite it being sent out by first class on Wednesday, my copy arrived last Tuesday and there's still no sign of the furry cover. I guess that's Christmas post for you.

Otherwise I haven't been able to play this by circumstance, which really disappointed me. Very much looking forward to playing it as soon as I can though.

Yeah brilliant game, though it hasn't been my favourite wii u game this year.

Elaborate?

Apart from a handful of worlds here & there I've pretty much coasted through the game, now Im not saying I want it to be super hard as I think it strikes a great balance difficulty wise I've just had a tiny bit more fun with the likes of pikmin 3 & Rayman Legends.

Don't let that put you off though as there is a lot to love about it.

It does automatically have the upper hand on Rayman for me, on the grounds that it's... y'know... Mario, and not Rayman. But I'll agree that I'm not liking the tales of non-challenging gameplay. The Galaxies had no problems throwing up tough but enjoyable worlds. I suppose I'll see.

For me, the game really picks up in challenge and inventiveness around World 3.
And I've heard some of the later levels are really tough.

I made it to the end credits last night, game seemed quite brief, though that may have been to me playing it in big chunks each time. As has been said, it's not a massive challenge, only four or five levels so far have given me problems. But that doesn't take away from the fact that this is fun. Seriously, it's such a fun game. I'm quite miffed that I'll probably never get the chance to play the multiplayer. Anyway, the game is a corker, easily in my top three Wii U games so far.

Axis1500 wrote:

Still haven't received my furry box GAME pre-order bonus though.

Me neither even though they have them to give away in store, not fussed as I returned my copy from GAME anyway.

I've almost completed it myself but in multiplayer not single player, only on the 2nd world on my own and whilst that may have affected my overall impression of the game I'd probably agree with Jaster that's it's much too easy to be game of the year and this is coming from someone who had to navigate the jump flip panels with 3 other people jumping about.

Still a brilliant game, it would benefit from an DLC as there seems to be a lot of great ideas that are only briefly visited a lot like in the Galaxy games.

I'm taking my time with this at the moment, I'll go through a world then go back and get any stars I missed before moving on

Quite impressed with the first Ghost House, though it was still a bit linear for my liking. The Captain Toad levels are a great idea - different enough and they don't appear so often that they're boring. All good fun so far!

I want a captain Toad game, I think it could turn into a clever puzzle title for Nintendo.....bang it on the e shop for about £2.50 as a test.

Okay, question. I'm looking to play some multiplayer with my family this Yuletide. Do I really need a Classic Controller/nunchuk for everyone, or do the Wiimotes work okay on their own?

Balladeer wrote:

Okay, question.  I'm looking to play some multiplayer with my family this Yuletide.  Do I really need a Classic Controller/nunchuk for everyone, or do the Wiimotes work okay on their own?  

Brilliantly, it works with just about every permutation of controller Nintendo has released for the Wii or Wii U. Saying that, I don't know how well it will actually play with a d-pad...