D Mario games needn’t be reinvented, but giving fans official creative tools has already made a positive impact ...

Some of the best Mario games have an extremely unified theme or setting – think the island paradise of Delfino in Super Mario ...

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I don't believe ideas are anywhere near as important as execution, but with Super Mario Maker the ideas got Nintendo a good chunk of the way there. Further than most games, arguably. All the ...

That’s seen in how Mario moves his 2D frame in a three-dimensional world. The developers deftly created a papercraft environment and filled it with puzzles with different themes. The Great Sea ...