kazanova_Frankenstein wrote:I played about 3 hours of this and I don't have any motivation to return to it. I mean it's... fine, but I really expected the level transformations to be more exhilarating / fun than just wacky.
I do enjoy the talking flowers though, so no regrets.
Sorry to read it's not quite clicking with you yet Kaz.
I do hope you stick with it, but where's there's some games I'd say 'carry on, it gets better', whilst the best is yet to come; 3 hours in you have a pretty good taste of what this game is about (you don't have to plough through super easy levels to get to moderately challenging one's (but probably not the 5 star one's yet), you've seen the map, some of the more wonder seeds are quite early on and you probably have a good feel of the overall game). You're not wrong the wonder seeds can be a bit hit and miss, some being more spectacle than exhilarating gameplay.
If you're fundamentally not into 2D Mario, the wonder seeds alone are unlikely to change this for you.
Enjoyed the new Mario Bros games but knew they could be better camp here. For me, in terms of how it looks, plays, attention to detail and creatively this is everything I could hope for a 2D Mario. Weird is the theme with this game and I love it. Nintendo apply changes to 2D Mario so incrementally, but they've really done a lot to refresh the formula here. Wonder seeds are of course the most obvious shake up, but I appreciate what they've done with the map, the expressive little stretch-and-play-dreamworks-style-character animations, level background details etc. I'd also say take away the wonder seeds and the base conventional levels are still more fun than the other 2D Mario games.