What should the next 3D Mario be?

Which style of Mario?

  • Mario Odyssey sequel

    Votes: 30 30.6%

  • Bowser’s Fury sequel

    Votes: 15 15.3%

  • Galaxy sequel

    Votes: 38 38.8%

  • 3D World sequel

    Votes: 15 15.3%
  • Total voters
    98
RetroGamingUK

RetroGamingUK

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We're potentially less than a week away from the Switch 2 reveal and, thus, the reveal of the next big 3D Mario game.

So, what type of 3D Mario game would you want Nintendo to announce?

For me, Mario Odyssey is my favourite 3D Mario since Mario 64, I loved the level design, cappy mechanic and the aesthetics. I'd be very happy to see Mario Odyssey 2 announced.

How about you?

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Aldric said:
Rude.

They should expand on the Bowser's Fury concept.
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Didn't enjoy Bowser's Fury as much as Odyssey.

It had a cold aesthetic to it, and the open world implementation meant that each area never really felt distinct.

Single open world would be such a cynical direction for the series.
 
Another exciting prospect

With the Switch 2, when docked, rumoured to be close in performance to PS4 Pro, the next 3D Mario (and other Switch 2 3D platformers) could look as good as Ratchet & Clank.

 
RetroGamingUK said:
Didn't enjoy Bowser's Fury as much as Odyssey.

It had a cold aesthetic to it, and the open world implementation meant that each area never really felt distinct.

Single open world would be such a cynical direction for the series.
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I don't see why it'd be a problem. There are ways to have a sandbox Mario experience with a continuous open world. You don't even need to have a completely free BotW style structure, just unlock different parts of the map after certain arbitrary goals are met.
 
None of the above.

I want to see something new in Mario series rather than a sequel to an existing game.
 
Odyssey would be my first choice, then Galaxy. Haven't played Bowser'a Fury.

I'm just praying it's not 3D World/Land.
 
I don't mind much as 3D Mario is always top tier but one thing I want is less grind, less repeating the same area over an over for another star, this was already too much in Odyseey and even worst in Bowser's Fury. More assets and less repetition please.
 
A new game using SM64 as a base for design. Something which has that amazing feeling of being dropped into a surreal, connected world packed with secrets in every direction, demanding exploration and experimentation.

I loved Odyssey and it kind of scratched the itch, and I'll gladly take a sequel, but there still really is nothing like SM64.
 
While I do think that Galaxy 1 and 2 are the best 3D platformers ever, I don't actually know if I want a third one. Maybe Nintendo should try other things. I think Odyssey went too far in the "Rare"-direction of being a collectathon. But most people speculate that Bowser's Fury is a concept demo for the next 3D Mario game.
 
While the Galaxy games are my favorite, I don't really think Nintendo should go back to them. I think they should do something fresh, either in the vain of Odyssey or the vain of Bowsers Fury maybe, but not necessarily a sequel to either.

Odyssey was pretty brilliant and it's been long enough that a sequel to that seems like the most obvious choice. It's also the game with potentially the most unexplored territory because it leans into such wild and diverse concepts.

The biggest challenge in a series like this is how to surprise, and while something entirely new would be the best way to do that, a new Odyssey probably has the most opportunity to surprise otherwise.
 
What I would LIKE is a really big swing, a big change to the gameworld (something like an open world would qualify) in which you can use a maximal Mario moveset. In other words, start with Mario 64 moveset and further expand on that, rather than weakening that moveset and augmenting it with gimmicky powerups or gameplay elements... which is the vast majority of the 3D mario games have done since Sunshine.

But unfortunately my prediction, as always, is we'll get a game with no major innovation in terms of the gameworld, no real complexities/variation restored in terms of movement, and it'll be a game in which the "newness" and appeal will be focused around a gimmicky (likely lame) powerup -- the cat's bell, putting a hat on a T-rex, stuff like that.

I consider Mario Galaxy fairly gimmicky and not a great Mario game (but a very good game) but even hoping for that feels like a bridge too far. That may not be a world that represents what's best about 3D Mario-style platforming in my eyes, but it IS at least a really interesting world. But considering 3D World & Odyssey, it seems clear they aren't that interested in giving me what I want.

I hope I'm wrong. I'd love nothing more than to see a Mario that looks really intriguing to me. And for me, that would look more like 64 than anything else that has been released in the last 30 years -- simpler (but big) worlds, and a more complex and varied moveset that doesn't lean so heavily on powerups to be "interesting".
 
Something as fresh as Galaxy but please go back to the Mario 64 hub-world style with levels containing 6 or 7 'stars' to complete, and not the never-ending-collect-a-thon like Odyssey was.
Some of the worlds in Odyssey are the worst and most boring in 3D Mario history.
 
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I think we're going to get a 3d Donkey Kong game first, then a 3d Mario soon after.

For DK, they can really experiment with open world 3d platforming becausee there are fewer conventions of how DK should play in 3D, apart from climbing and swinging, which fits open world quite well. Mario however, could pull a lot of people in with a proper Galaxy sequel.
 
Miyamoto directed, Donkey Kong 94 style (the gameboy game - which was an expansion of the OG arcade game of course) - in 3D.
All the way back to his roots to ride out in style.
 
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I'd be happy with a direct Mario 64 sequel, same concept, themed worlds where you collect stars, add Yoshi, add Luigi, but no gimmicks other than the classic power-ups. Get the old band back together for the music and controls (Kondo / Miyamoto), maybe embrace the speed running community by adding a time trial for some common runs with ghost data online, get the levels tight as fuck and ship a 1.0 with no major bugs.

Instead we'll get some clown shoes shit
 
Odyssey & Galaxy sequel. Call it Universe or something and have both the open almost sandboxy areas and the more linear platforming (and all kinds of other inclusions like most 3D Marios have side scrolling or top down or whatever segments) without making it too linear and limited like World.

Definitely needs hub worlds though, I disliked Galaxy 2 going for the 2D style map approach even if it improved in other areas.
 
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It needs to be an open world 3d mario game basically a bigger version of bowsers fury. That game design has so much promise.
 
EruditeHobo said:
What I would LIKE is a really big swing, a big change to the gameworld (something like an open world would qualify) in which you can use a maximal Mario moveset. In other words, start with Mario 64 moveset and further expand on that, rather than weakening that moveset and augmenting it with gimmicky powerups or gameplay elements... which is the vast majority of the 3D mario games have done since Sunshine.
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An open world game that gates some Stars/Sprites/Moons behind new moves is what I've been thinking about for the next game. Kind of like Banjo Tooie.
 
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