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Cheeky Devlin wrote:Here's the Treehouse Segment, labelled "Part 1". I'm expecting more tomorrow.



28:00 onwards is where they mention the online play.

OldSoulCyborg wrote:It seems they changed how the SMW goal works. You don't have to break the goal tape, just have to pass through the bars. Sure, that's how it worked originally in SMW, but in SMM1 you had to touch the goal tape.

Not sure how I feel about that.

Hyperion wrote:So where's the cheapest place to pre-order this?

Here’s the basic breakdown of controller-based Mario making: Using the analog stick moves a cursor around the gameplay area, which is bordered by icon bars with all the tools you will use. If you want to access those, you just tap the D-pad up, left, or right to snap into those menus. Once you pick the thing you want to do, you shift back to the left analog to place it.

It’s got a bit of a learning curve, but generally it’s a lot less painful than I thought it was going to be. I think the most annoying thing is picking out a new part to place. While you have a sort of bookmarks bar at the top of the screen with recently-used items (which you can optionally pin in place), to get into the whole bag of tricks you have to press Up, scroll over to a magnifying glass with Right, scan through a series of radial menus with the L and R buttons, then use the analog stick to pick the item you want once you find the radial menu that contains it.

Either way, this does not affect me in the slightest, as there was no way I wasn’t going to use the touchscreen for creating courses. I was so sure of this that I even went out and bought a nice capacitive stylus before I even had the review code. I bought this one from Digiroot, mostly because it was “Amazon’s Choice” and not too expensive should I simply need to throw it in the trash.

Fortunately, it worked out quite well. It’s got one of those big mesh pads on one end and a thinner rotating nib on the other. The big mesh pad was precise enough to work accurately inside Mario Maker’s relatively chunky gridlines. And I’m very glad it did, because as near as I can figure, if you want to create levels in Switch’s handheld mode, you must use the touchscreen. Once you snap the Joy-Cons onto the system, the only way to access the icons is via touch. And so if you want to create in handheld mode (which you probably do) and don’t own a capacitive stylus, you’re going to be smearing up the Switch screen with your finger, and it’s going to be gross.

The Watching Artist wrote:If You’re Going To Play Mario Maker 2, You Should Probably Get A Stylus

https://www.kotaku.co.uk/2019/06/19/if-youre-going-to-play-mario-maker-2-you-should-probably-get-a-stylus

Here’s the basic breakdown of controller-based Mario making: Using the analog stick moves a cursor around the gameplay area, which is bordered by icon bars with all the tools you will use. If you want to access those, you just tap the D-pad up, left, or right to snap into those menus. Once you pick the thing you want to do, you shift back to the left analog to place it.

It’s got a bit of a learning curve, but generally it’s a lot less painful than I thought it was going to be. I think the most annoying thing is picking out a new part to place. While you have a sort of bookmarks bar at the top of the screen with recently-used items (which you can optionally pin in place), to get into the whole bag of tricks you have to press Up, scroll over to a magnifying glass with Right, scan through a series of radial menus with the L and R buttons, then use the analog stick to pick the item you want once you find the radial menu that contains it.

Either way, this does not affect me in the slightest, as there was no way I wasn’t going to use the touchscreen for creating courses. I was so sure of this that I even went out and bought a nice capacitive stylus before I even had the review code. I bought this one from Digiroot, mostly because it was “Amazon’s Choice” and not too expensive should I simply need to throw it in the trash.

Fortunately, it worked out quite well. It’s got one of those big mesh pads on one end and a thinner rotating nib on the other. The big mesh pad was precise enough to work accurately inside Mario Maker’s relatively chunky gridlines. And I’m very glad it did, because as near as I can figure, if you want to create levels in Switch’s handheld mode, you must use the touchscreen. Once you snap the Joy-Cons onto the system, the only way to access the icons is via touch. And so if you want to create in handheld mode (which you probably do) and don’t own a capacitive stylus, you’re going to be smearing up the Switch screen with your finger, and it’s going to be gross.

Hmmmm....

ITSMILNER wrote:I thought it comes with a stylus anyway?

Nintendo.co.uk wrote:...You can get the Nintendo Switch stylus (Super Mario Maker 2 edition) by pre-ordering Super Mario Maker 2 at selected retail stores.

If you pre-order Super Mario Maker 2 Limited Edition via Nintendo eShop, you’ll receive a My Nintendo Store code that you can redeem for the Nintendo Switch stylus...

Nintendo.co.uk wrote:Stylus available in limited supply

jawafour wrote:

Nintendo.co.uk wrote:...If you pre-order Super Mario Maker 2 Limited Edition via Nintendo eShop, you’ll receive a My Nintendo Store code that you can redeem for the Nintendo Switch stylus...

Edit:

Nintendo.co.uk wrote:Stylus available in limited supply