Super Mario Bros. Wonder (Lonely As A Cloud)

Can confirm that they were. I completely forgot about online, otherwise I would've turned it on for those and had a much better time... or just been stubborn and plugged away at them on my lonesome regardless.

I had a couple of nice moments of camaraderie with the online feature too! There were a couple of the late levels where me and another player kept dying, for example, and they managed to get to the next bit before I did - and a few deaths later, once I eventually got to that next bit, the other player was there waiting and they did a happy emote and then we went to the flagpole together. Cute!

So far I've only got through the first couple of worlds, but I really do like the way the online stuff works, for that reason you said there Rum. I've had a couple of smiley face team moments so far! To paraphrase another recent post of the End Of Year Awards, this is the true Strand game Kojima wanted!

Big Strand game vibes from the multiplayer, absolutely spot on.

I've only got the big hard final level to do in this. I've not played it in a while as Tekken 8 distracted me, but the urge to go back and remember how to play isn't exactly high. Maybe I'll squeeze it in before Rebirth.

I played my first session of actual multiplayer with Mercy's brother and it was hilarious chaos, especially as we were deep into endgame content.

I'm not sure how I'd feel about the actual multiplayer in this - multiplayer Mario is manic enough without adding in things like Wonder Flowers.

Characters no longer bounce off eachother, so it was a little less chaotic than NSMB

Is there still collision or is it sort of like interacting with the ghost players in the online connectivity mode?

JayMoyles wrote:

Is there still collision or is it sort of like interacting with the ghost players in the online connectivity mode?

As I recall, no collision.

Ah, nice, I think that change would make it work pretty smoothly then, although I'd reckon losing the total carnage of Mario multiplayer would be a little sad.