
3, Super Mario World, and the recent New Super Mario Bros. Super Mario MakerĪs the name might suggest, Super Mario Maker allows players to make their own Super Mario Bros. levels-specifically, levels that fit within the aesthetics of four games in the series: Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. The addition of more species of Pikmin, with new abilities such as flight, create much more complicated puzzles than the previous installments. Your march through the luscious forests and the ponderous ponds, in search of the cosmic drive key to send you and a bountiful of fruit back to your home planet, is a treacherous task you’ll need the Pikmin help to solve the puzzles. The poignant connection you establish with the Pikmin only make the game more uneasy as you watch them be devoured by the predators of the planet. They will fight for you, protect you, and sometimes even die for you and your selfish cause. The incredibly cute, but helplessly naive, creatures called Pikmin follow you curiously like you’re their messiah sent from the heavens. As an alien that’s exhausted all resources on your home planet, you visit merely to exploit it.

Gorgeous greens and subtle blues paint the beautiful world of ‘PNF-404’, an emotionally aggravating planet of wondrous wilderness filled with exotic life forms.
