Turn Up The Heat With ‘Super Mario Maker’s New Update!

Nintendo’s highly anticipated Super Mario Maker December update is now live!  The update adds some never-before-seen items, as well as the launch of Super Mario Maker Bookmark!

The new items, directly from Nintendo’s website, include:

-Fire Koopa Clown Car: This volcanic vessel is capable of shooting fireballs as well as a powerful charged shot that can even destroy Blocks. It’s perfect for creating shoot-’em-up-style courses.

-P Warp Doors: Unlike regular Warp Doors, these are only visible while a P Switch is active—perfect for creating truly devious Ghost House courses.

-Bumper: This bouncy donut-shaped object sends Mario bounding away when touched.

-World Records: Now pages will display the World Record for each course uploaded, displaying the fastest clear time.

-Super Mario Maker Bookmark: Levels that players have bookmarked to play later using the Web portal will be accessible from the Course World tab.

Super Mario Bookmark is a web based tool to help you find Super Mario Maker courses to play when you’re not at home.  It also includes many filters to find courses, such as difficulty, and even incorporates search tags, such as “automatic”, so you can even look for a style of level!  We have seen similar endeavors, such as with Sony’s LittleBigPlanet series.  These options make it wonderful to search for courses while you’re at work, or busy outdoors, so when you get home, you can just concentrate on playing!  The tool is available right now, right here.

Super Mario Maker is a platform where you can build your own Mario levels, using many tools provided by Nintendo, such as enemies, music, and blocks.  We at Geekscape recommend Mario Maker levels weekly, our latest article details an unreal Metroid-vania style user-created level.

Source: Nintendo