Super Mario Maker 2: Create, Share, Play your Mario levels

GameSuper Mario Maker 2Nintendo Switch

Five game styles, including a brand-new one: Super Mario 3D World. Released on June 28, 2019 exclusively on Switch, Super Mario Maker 2 pushes the creation workshop far beyond the Wii U game. This guide details its graphic styles, its solo Story Mode devoted to rebuilding Peach's castle and its considerably expanded toolbox.

Ever dreamed of designing your own Mario levels? Super Mario Maker 2 — whose title is the same in French as it is worldwide — is made for exactly that. Released on June 28, 2019 exclusively on Nintendo Switch, this genuine creation workshop turns every player into a stage designer.

Create, share with the whole world, then play everyone else's levels: that is the promise of a game that never stopped growing thanks to its free updates.

Contents

• A new-generation 2D Mario level editor
• Five game styles, including the all-new Super Mario 3D World
• A solo Story Mode to rebuild Peach's castle
• A far richer toolbox for creating
• Creating and playing together
• Free updates that changed everything
• Quick recap
• FAQ

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A new-generation 2D Mario level editor

Super Mario Maker 2 is the direct sequel to Super Mario Maker, released on Wii U in 2015. Where the first game laid the foundations of the editor, this Switch version widens the field of possibilities enormously.

The idea stays crystal clear: you build 2D Mario levels piece by piece, then share them online so players all over the world can try them. The other way round, you can download and play an endless supply of creations dreamed up by the community, from the gentle stroll to the most fiendish trap.

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Five game styles, including the all-new Super Mario 3D World

Every level is built in one of the saga's five graphic styles: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros. U and, for the first time, Super Mario 3D World. Switching style instantly changes the look, the physics and the sounds of the stage.

This Super Mario 3D World style is the big newcomer, missing from the first game. It runs on its own terms, with elements all its own: the Cat Mario suit for clawing, climbing walls and pouncing on enemies, or the Koopa Troopa Car that lets you tear through a stage at full speed.

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A solo Story Mode to rebuild Peach's castle

Sorely missing from the first game, a genuine solo adventure makes its entrance here: Story Mode. It lines up more than a hundred levels designed entirely by Nintendo, a perfect showcase of everything the editor allows.

The premise is a treat: Princess Peach's castle has just been built when a Reset Rocket accidentally wipes it out. Mario then has to pile up coins level after level to fund the works and rebuild the castle piece by piece.

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A far richer toolbox for creating

On the design side, the toolkit grows noticeably. In come the slopes, available at last to slide down or climb, the snake blocks that follow a path you trace yourself, plus seesaws and swings for passages that are all about balance.

The mood can be tuned too: a brand-new forest theme joins the settings, a day/night cycle can turn a stage's rules upside down — gravity, enemies, visibility — and you can even set the water or lava level, and make it rise and fall.

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Creator's tip: the clear conditions, there from day one, set a precise goal — finish without stomping a single enemy, collect a given number of coins — far beyond simply reaching the flag.

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Creating and playing together

The experience doesn't stop at solo play. The game offers local and online multiplayer, cooperative or competitive, for up to four players, on levels drawn at random or hand-picked.

More original still, you can build a level with someone else by splitting the design work between you. Good to know: the online features — sharing, downloading and multiplayer matches — call for a subscription to Nintendo Switch Online.

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Free updates that changed everything

The game's real strength is how it kept growing for free after launch. The 2.0 update, on December 5, 2019, slipped the Master Sword into the Super Mario Bros. style: grab it and Mario turns into Link, gaining sword, bow and bombs, just like the Zelda of old.

The 3.0 update, on April 22, 2020, crowned it all with the World Maker mode, which strings several levels together into a complete world — up to eight worlds and forty stages. It also added new power-ups and brought the Koopalings in among the playable bosses.

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Super Mario Maker 2 at a glance

Title	Super Mario Maker 2
Genre	Level editor / 2D platformer
Developer and publisher	Nintendo
Platform	Nintendo Switch
Worldwide release	June 28, 2019
Predecessor	Super Mario Maker (Wii U, 2015)
Game styles	SMB, SMB3, Super Mario World, New Super Mario Bros. U, Super Mario 3D World
Multiplayer	Co-op and versus for up to 4 players (local or online)

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FAQ

• Which console can you play Super Mario Maker 2 on?
  Only on Nintendo Switch, where it was released on June 28, 2019. It is a console exclusive.
• Do you need an internet connection to enjoy the game?
  No, not for creating, playing Story Mode and testing your own levels offline. Sharing or downloading creations and playing online, however, require a Nintendo Switch Online subscription.
• How many levels does Story Mode contain?
  More than a hundred levels designed by Nintendo, to work through in order to rebuild Princess Peach's castle.
• Can you really play as Link in Super Mario Maker 2?
  Yes. The free 2.0 update of December 5, 2019 added the Master Sword: grab it in the Super Mario Bros. style and Mario turns into Link.
• What are the differences from the first Super Mario Maker?
  The sequel adds the Super Mario 3D World style, a solo Story Mode, plenty of tools such as slopes, snake blocks and the day/night cycle, online multiplayer and major free updates.

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