Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury | Nintendo Switch | Launches 12/02/21

PatSharpsMullet wrote:

jawa2 wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:

Rubix wrote:

ITSMILNER wrote:Well Shopto have let me down and my copy has not turned up again, annoying as I was really hoping to play it this weekend

Could be Royal Mail

Could be, I have seen the postie about though do I know they are delivering at least. The tracking shopto gave me doesn’t seem to work either so I have emailed the support team to see if they can track where it is.

Yeah, I suspect it's a Royal Mail postal delay rather than ShopTo not posting it yet. I believe the tracker isn't a full "where is the parcel right now" one, but it just flags up as "complete" when delivered. In my experience ShopTo are pretty reliable but, as others hinted at, I think publishers are now stricter about not allowing games to be posted until the day prior to official release.

The parcel tracker with ShopTo orders shows when it reaches each mailing centre, the delivery office, and finally when it's been delivered. My copy from ShopTo arrived yesterday so I would imagine it's a case of Royal Mail being gooseberry fool as opposed to ShopTo not sending it out.

Yeah it’s very likely a Royal Fail issue, so damn annoying, was tempted to grab a copy in Tesco today and then return the shopto when it arrives

shy guy 64 wrote:

Miguel007 wrote:Does anyone know if it’s worthwhile hitting the very top of the flagpole and getting a golden completion for each level, does that unlock anything? Or would it just be the Green Stars.

There is a certain thing that can only be accessed with all green stars, all stamps and all gold flags

Thanks shy guy, I’ll stick to doing the golden flags, cheers

Bowser's Fury sure is great, eh? Just finished the mainline of it on stream, and I was enjoying myself greatly with it. I won't say any more, as I know others haven't got it it yet. What I will say, though, is that I wouldn't mind a full Mario adventure in this style. Sure, it'd be no fun if Bowser got to return for a second run, so what about bringing in other bosses who would appear at random (or in a specific order, I don't mind which) and bring their own attacks to the fray.

DarkRula wrote:Bowser's Fury sure is great, eh? Just finished the mainline of it on stream, and I was enjoying myself greatly with it. I won't say any more, as I know others haven't got it it yet. What I will say, though, is that I wouldn't mind a full Mario adventure in this style. Sure, it'd be no fun if Bowser got to return for a second run, so what about bringing in other bosses who would appear at random (or in a specific order, I don't mind which) and bring their own attacks to the fray.

That does sound good

Went straight in with bowser's fury yesterday, and im having great fun with it. As id not read up on it, i was very pleasantly surprised to see it's a far more substantial thing than your initial first few shines would have you believe. I honestly thought that when you have a proper fight with bowser that would be it, so to then see another set of islands pop up was great

Played an hour or two of Bowser's Fury. Absolutely brilliant stuff. I hope they expand on this concept in the next Mario game. It works very well..

Victor Mildew wrote:...i was very pleasantly surprised to see it's a far more substantial thing than your initial first few shines would have you believe...

Blatantly carefully written to avoid a "no context" post . You were so close to going right in but then you pulled back.

Tomous wrote:Played an hour or two of Bowser's Fury. Absolutely brilliant stuff. I hope they expand on this concept in the next Mario game. It works very well..

That additional game mode sure does look way better than I'd anticipated, Tomous. I saw Jazzem stream some of the action last night and it has made me want to try it out at some point!

World 4 done

For the folk who’ve played Bowser’s Fury already, does it look any nicer graphically? 3D World already looks really nice but wondering if the extra content pushes the Switch anymore?

Robbo-92 wrote:World 4 done

For the folk who’ve played Bowser’s Fury already, does it look any nicer graphically? 3D World already looks really nice but wondering if the extra content pushes the Switch anymore?

I think it looks similar. The extra power is used for the open world nature of the game and longer draw distances. And it does struggle with that frame rate wise at times.

Tomous wrote:

Robbo-92 wrote:World 4 done

For the folk who’ve played Bowser’s Fury already, does it look any nicer graphically? 3D World already looks really nice but wondering if the extra content pushes the Switch anymore?

I think it looks similar. The extra power is used for the open world nature of the game and longer draw distances. And it does struggle with that frame rate wise at times.

Makes sense, shame about the frame rate though, hopefully it’s not too noticeable when playing.

How good is the music in Bowser's Fury?!

Also, looks like Bowser's Fury was developed by 1-Up and NST.

I wonder what the 3D Mario team are upto given we're over 3 years along from Odyessy?

whelp finished the bowser's fury story

jawa2 wrote:

Victor Mildew wrote:...i was very pleasantly surprised to see it's a far more substantial thing than your initial first few shines would have you believe...

Blatantly carefully written to avoid a "no context" post . You were so close to going right in but then you pulled back.

Tomous wrote:Played an hour or two of Bowser's Fury. Absolutely brilliant stuff. I hope they expand on this concept in the next Mario game. It works very well..

That additional game mode sure does look way better than I'd anticipated, Tomous. I saw Jazzem stream some of the action last night and it has made me want to try it out at some point!

I see you.....

I'm starting to find the constant interruptions by bowser a bit annoying now. As I'm getting further on and the objectives are getting tougher, having bowser pop up in the middle of a times challenege is annoying and can be a pain if his fire breathing side happens to fall on a bit you need to move quickly through rather than hide. The other option is to wait it out before starting those bits, but as I've cleared nearly everything up to that point, it seems stupid to just stand and wait for him to kick off, hide for a bit, then get on with what I needed to be doing.

Nearly at the end of Super Mario 3D World now, I don’t know if I had this issue playing on the WiiU version however, I have found some areas difficult to judge where you will land especially on scrolling sections. I find myself dying on silly jumps because I couldn’t judge it correctly.

Beaten Bowser and up to around 60 cat shines.

Wonderful little addition to the game

Completed about 8 worlds of 3D World and yeah it's great, very fun and enjoyable.
As for Bowser's Fury, it's fantastic, I loved the open world aspect and the complete freedom here to do what you want. Really hope this is an insight of what a future Mario games will be like.

and all cat shines got

Copy finally arrived! Will get stuck into this later tonight, think I will start with Bowsers Fury first