Email: New worlds for Super Mario Brothers

Hey, great posts as usual, here are some worlds that I thought would be cool to have:

 

– funny thing, I would like to see a “galaxy” world, or space world, you would have black holes in the ceiling that will suck you in if you get to close, changing gravity on different parts of the levels, etc, I was actually hoping they would add something like that into NSMBWii, the small parts on galaxy were you are in 2d mode with changing gravity were fun, I guess Nintendo thinks it’s too sophisticated for 2d Mario

 

– instead of a couple of levels on some of the worlds, why not a complete haunted world? not only haunted houses, but also haunted versions of mushroom forests, water levels, etc, ghostly/skeleton versions of the enemies even if they are only reskins, a full world with haunted levels of different sorts

 

– also a return of a dark world more similar to SMB3 would be great, not just lava and rock but having some levels in it without lava would be cool, like those with a black sky and white land, as if it was all barren and empty

 

– I agree that another actual pipe world would be awesome, full pipe world, not having a mountain world with a couple of pipes, which Nintendo probably thinks it’s good enough

 

those are worlds that come from the top of my mind, surely some well payed developers that actually work on that for a living can come up with better ideas, right?

I can’t go through all my emails in a single day so this is why you’re seeing people suggest things that other people suggested. We’re seeing multiple people suggest a Space World or Haunted World which indicates attraction to many people.

You did remind me of that ‘Barren World’. That really, really did make an impression. To jog the reader’s memory, here’s the clip:

At the beginning, you see 8-2. It is really striking just how BARREN it is. It really feels like there is no life in Bowser’s world. Unfortunately, later Mario games focus too much on the lava and the rock. But 8-1 and 8-2 were really creepy. The sky was just black. And the land was just a dead white. There was lots of quicksand.

A barren world is a very interesting idea and one that I’ve never seen in a video game (aside from those two stages in Super Mario Brothers 3). The theme would actually be very strong because the public is familiar with barren worlds through NASA probes and certain spots on the Earth. World 8 in Super Mario Brothers 3 was just amazing (but horribly done like a Vegas show in Super Mario World). I did greatly enjoy World 8 in NSMB Wii. But if they are just going to make Bowser’s world be nothing but fire and brimstone, then they ought to consider a BARREN WORLD. Gameplay elements would involve things like quicksand, things collapsing, hidden ruins, etc. etc.