#Funky barn wii u trailer free

I seriously can’t wait for my next chance to try to this game out, which should come when the game is released on September 11.Having garnered much attention following Giant Bomb’s efforts in putting the game through its paces, Funky Barn was already able to achieve cult status among gamers prior to launch. Super Mario Maker is remarkably robust and intelligently designed to make it easy for fans of all skill levels to become creators and do things Shigeru Miyamoto and his fellow game designers could only have dreamed of when they introduced the world to a pudgy little plumber with a jumping addiction. So, basically, what Nintendo has done is made it so they never need to make another Mario game ever again (not that they’re actually considering doing that… I hope). Pretty much any stage idea can be realized, and as long as they can actually beat their creations themselves (a smart restriction on Nintendo’s part), creators can share their works with the rest of the world and partake of the thousands, if not millions, of stages the community has to offer. U and populated by enemies stacked one on top of the other? Why not? A lava-filled castle obstacle course built around the wall-jump feature exclusive to stages based off the modern-day New Super Mario Bros. A stage inspired by 16-bit classic Super Mario World where the only obstacles are giant Bowsers riding around in giant clown cars? It can be made. covered in cannons that spew everything from goombas to coins? That’s possible. An 8-bit airship styled like the original Super Mario Bros.

#Funky barn wii u trailer free

One need only look to images (read: LOOK AT OUR SMM IMAGE GALLERY!) and/or videos (like the ones Nintendo aired during E3) to really get an idea of the possibilities within Mario Maker.Įssentially, the game throws nearly every item, enemy and stage feature from across Super Mario’s history into a Wii U-shaped toybox from which fans have free reign to create whatever kind of stage they want with them.

And in this case, it is also remarkably versatile. The whole thing is clean, easy to understand yet deep despite the accessibility, something the best Nintendo games pull off all the time. Best of all, one can instantly go from editing a stage to playing it and then back again, so there is absolutely no waiting time standing between coming up with an idea, testing it out, making adjustments and repeating the process if necessary. SMM gets a lot of mileage out of basic inputs that are smartly implemented to make modifying, rearranging and duplicating pieces a snap. What was immediately apparent to me was the smoothness of the stage-maker interface, wherein placing and removing blocks, platforms, enemies and other obstacles (all of which are quickly accessible from a pull-down menu) is as simple as dragging them onto a grid on the GamePad screen. Yet, during that small temporal window, I actually got to take a good stab at doing what Nintendo has done wonderfully these last 30 years, creating a 2D Mario stage and actually playing around in it. Of all the games I played at E3, this was the one I had the least amount of time with, about 10 minutes total.

Then I threw in some Bullet Bill-firing cannons to make proceeding even more precarious, because I was running out of time and wanted to get a taste of how crazy things can get.Īnd believe you me, Super Mario Maker can get super crazy. And when I found that two were too far apart, I simply paused the action and moved them within a closer yet still-challenging distance of one another. I began to jump, using each trampo-tower to get the height I needed to reach the next one. Atop sporadically-placed blocks, I stacked several trampolines, creating columns of bouncing platforms that extended and contracted at irregular speeds. With a massive pit of lava standing between me and the flagpole, I decided to get creative.