Super Mario Bros. Wonder

SUPER MARIO BROS. WONDER

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the newest 2D Mario game and the first appearance of Kevin Afghani as the new voice of Mario and Luigi since Charles Martinet's retirement from the role. The game features Mario and friends visiting the Flower Kingdom, when Bowser accidentally makes contact with a Wonder Flower, a plant with some seriously trippy reality-bending powers, and ends up fused with Prince Florian's castle.

Our playable characters in this game include Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, both the blue and yellow Toads, Toadette, four colors of Yoshi, and Nabbit. All play more or less the same, though the Yoshis and Nabbit all act as the game's easy mode. This includes running and jumping, with powerups including the Fire Flower and Super Star, and the new Elephant Fruit, Bubble Flower, and Drill Mushroom. The Elephant Fruit specifically turns the player into an elephant who can charge, butt bash, flick with their trunk, and carry and shoot water.

Also of note is our new badge mechanic, provided by Prince Florian, which gives you an added ability that you can equip from the start of any level. These include, as specific actions: the Parachute Cap, the Floating High Jump, the Boosting Spin Jump, the Wall Jump Climb, the Crouching High Jump, the Grappling Vine, the Dolphin Kick, the Timed High Jump, and the Fast Dash. Others give you some form of boost, such as a safety bounce, becoming a coin magnet, an item sensor, and just having certain items automatically, and others are expert level boosts, including invisibility, a jet run, and spring boots.

As for other allies, we have the Poplins, Florian's people, who can break up rocks and build bridges, some work as anglers, and others can teleport. It might be fair to attach things like the propeller flower to them as well. Then we have Captain Toad who pops up now and then, and the Talking Flowers, who are just great and comment on random things going on in each level.

Bowser is our main villain. He can breathe fire and flies around in his Klown Kar. After being merged with the castle, he shoots out fireballs that move like chomping piranha plants, attack with giant hands, and throw spike balls. Bowser Jr. pops up as a boss frequently, rolling around in his shell and butt bashing for most of his boss fights, but also using Wonder Flower power to grow, shrink, and alter the stage in some way. Kamek also appears, typically calling in airships to act as mid-level boss fights and such.

Our returning enemies include: Koopa Troopas, Koopa Paratroopas, Dry Bones, Goombas, Goombrats, Bone Goombas, Boos, Piranha Plants, Fire Piranha Plants, Bone Piranha Plants, Munchers, Nippers, Ninjis, Cheep Cheeps, Urchins, Bullet Bills, Bob-Ombs, Hotheads, Pokeys, Buzzy Beetles, Spinies, Lakitus, Spikes, Hammer Bros, Mechakoopas, Thwomps, and even King Boo in one level. Newcomers include: flying Anglefish, rolling Armads, Blewbirds, inflated frogs called Bloomps, charging Bulrushes, Condarts, Gnawshers, fat Hoppos, jumping Hoppycats, Thwomp-like Konks, eating Maw-Maws, Missile Megs, unwrappable Mumsies, kicking Outmaways, Pokipedes, Blaarghs that fall from the ceiling called Raarghs, Revvers, Robbirds, Bullet Bills that heat-seek, Shovas that push things, Skedaddlers that run and spit projectiles, Smackerels, Smogrins, rolling Snootles, Sproings, Tailies that hang from the ceiling, blobby Wubbas, and a bunch of guys that don't have names yet, like little green snails, mimic doors, owls, turtles, snakes in pots, walking fireworks, and a shadowy Mario that follows you around.

The whole game takes place in the Flower Kingdom, with its local Beach-themed area Petal Isles as the central hub connecting you to Pipe Rock Plateau, a grassy/mountainous region; Fluff-Puff Peaks, a sky region; Shining Falls, a strange polygonal mountainous world; Sunbaked Desert, a desert of course; Fungi Mines, a forest-y cave area filled with mushrooms; and Deep Magma Bog, a lava world. Each one of these has an access to the Special World, not unlike the one from Super Mario World.

And I think that's about it! Here's what we've got so far:

Characters:

Elephant Mario/etc.: charge, butt bash, trunk, shoot water

Prince Florian: Parachute Cap, Floating High Jump, Boosting Spin Jump, Wall Jump Climb, Crouching High Jump, Grappling Vine, Dolphin Kick, Timed High Jump, Fast Dash, safety bounce, coin magnet, item sensor, invisibility, jet run, spring boots

Poplins: break up rocks, build bridges, anglers, teleport, propeller flower

Spawny

Madame Bwahstrella

Kanya: Mecha King Bob-Omb

Allegra: Dorrie, tuning fork, musical blast, flip, water spit, vibrations

Rayman

Phantom: vanish, invulnerable spotlight, musical blast, sonic wave, sets

Stages: 

Tower of Doooooom!

Melodic Gardens

Phantom Show

Flower Kingdom

Petal Isles

Pipe Rock Plateau

Fluff-Puff Peaks

Shining Falls

Sunbaked Desert

Fungi Mines

Deep Magma Bog

Special World

Thanks for reading! Next up, we technically have another new game coming out this Friday, but we're not there yet, so we'll start with our newcomer characters, starting off with the hefty boy himself.