There’s no way to see clearance rates, creator profiles or the likes, and there’s no way to comment on a stage. The community aspects of the game have been shredded in this version, though. The 100 Mario Challenge is just as much fun as on the Wii U. Thankfully, the courses download quickly so I was able to pull in a large number of courses to play in a row. Although the difficulty is selectable, that’s the only option for searching. There is an online element to the game, even if the course sharing is locked out, but it’s tied to Recommended Courses. The StreetPass memory is quite large – 100 levels in all – and local play can be used to team up on levels in progress. The only options here are StreetPass and local wireless and these do work well. The biggest omissions are the inability to share the levels online, or even with the Wii U version. This is because of the sharing options, which I found pretty underwhelming. Sadly, I never went out of my way to build courses in Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS. It gave me some strong ideas for new stages, which I will surely be working on (even if it is on Wii U). In the end, I found it to be very useful information. Every lesson has two parts: A teaching section which explains things like course structure or enemy behavior, and a practice level that emphasizes the lesson material. The witty banter between the two characters makes this feel way less a tutorial and it caused the instructions to just fly by. Yamamura and Mashiko/Mary-O explain the process of level creation and give handy tips along the way. The biggest improvement in the level creation process is the addition of lessons. It took me a bit of time to master moving the screen just enough to make sure the level looked right on the top screen. There’s good optimizing tools and sound effects to complement the basic Mario series icons, but the smaller bottom screen of the 3DS doesn’t compare to the Wii U GamePad’s widescreen view. The creation tools are almost all carried over from the Wii U version, with only the Mystery Mushroom being left out of the toolkit. The Nintendo 3DS version boots into a familiar menu: Create and Play are the two basic options. With the Nintendo 3DS version, the built-in game is stronger, but there’s not as many reasons to try and create something classic. I would put hours into discovering levels, saving the ones I enjoyed and dissecting every single piece of it. While the content on the shipping game felt a bit lackluster, it was a joy to share or play levels. Super Mario Maker was a game I thoroughly enjoyed playing on the Wii U.

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