Super Mario Maker 2 Reviews

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IGN
Top Critic
9.5 / 10.0
Jun 26, 2019

Super Mario Maker 2 does nearly everything better than its already excellent predecessor, keeping the charm of a Mario game while introducing some incredible new ideas.

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Recommended
Jun 26, 2019

A quirky and powerful construction toy that's fun to play with even if you aren't trying to make anything.

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Jun 26, 2019

Super Mario Maker 2 is an almost perfect package, putting equal emphasis on discovery, creation, story mode, and outright brilliant gameplay.

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Metro GameCentral
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jun 26, 2019

Not just one of the most versatile 2D game creation tools on consoles but the best collection of new Super Mario courses since the 90s.

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8.8 / 10.0
Jun 26, 2019

Building your own Mario levels isn't as exciting as it was in 2015 on Wii U, but the story mode is a lot of fun and the new tools lead to some novel experiences

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Unscored
Jun 26, 2019

Nintendo’s level creator isn’t just for the creative among us

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GameSpot
Top Critic
8 / 10
Jul 3, 2019

Super Mario Maker 2 brings the course creator to Nintendo Switch with a bevy of new tricks to delight creators and players alike.

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Kotaku
Top Critic
Unscored
Jun 26, 2019

Nintendo has delivered a much more robust and feature-rich Mario maker, and hope players will use it well.

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Jun 26, 2019

Players now have the chance to make their own hellish, evil Mario levels on Nintendo Switch. Super Mario Maker 2 starts with the foundation established in the first game, and adds new themes, new game styles, and new items. It falters due to the loss of the second screen of the Wii U and 3DS iterations, and the lack of Amiibo costumes hurt, but this is still a fantastic package for a Mario fan or budding lever designer.

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Jul 4, 2019

Despite recurring technical problems that have become synonymous with Nintendo games, Super Mario Maker 2 is still an essential Switch purchase, building upon the groundwork laid by its predecessor and adding so much more.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 12, 2019

But that toolkit is only half of the equation. The other half is a platform game with no quality control, no impetus for putting legitimate effort into your original designs, and no way to weed out poor content creators other than trusting that players will be able to discern the difference between a bad level and good level and rate them accordingly. Given how many positive messages I've seen attached to genuinely bad stages, I don't have much faith in the Mario Maker community right now and I question whether it'll get better down the line.

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Areajugones
Top Critic
9.5 / 10.0
Jun 26, 2019

Super Mario Maker 2 has given birth to one of those proposals that will become as big as your community wants them to be. In short, a work whose content feeds itself for its possibilities and which is deployed as a video game that meets all that could be demanded.

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8 / 10
Jun 26, 2019

Super Mario Maker 2 is all that the original was and more. The Story Mode feels like a proper campaign, demoing all of the old and new feature and barmy possibilities found in the intuitive level creator. It's a shame that it features some typical Nintendo online stumbles, but it shouldn't be long before that's forgotten in the face of the boundless creativity of the Super Mario Maker community.

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89 / 100
Jun 26, 2019

SMM2 it's more fun and full of content than its precursor, but at the same time it's a step back, because it put walls around some content (World Levels, created by players), forcing you to subscribe to Nintendo Switch Online to play that part of the game. And it's an important chunk, because after completing the Story mode, it's the place to go.

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Shacknews
Top Critic
9 / 10
Jun 26, 2019

Super Mario Maker 2 is a worthy successor to the original game.

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9 / 10.0
Jun 26, 2019

Well crafted, feature rich and with all the class Nintendo can wield. An excellent editor that will keep creators and players busy for years.

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Alex Donaldson
Top Critic
Unscored
Jun 26, 2019

It probably comes as no surprise to learn that Super Mario Maker 2 is good. Just how good it is exceeds expectations, however.

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8.5 / 10.0
Jun 26, 2019

Nintendo brings to Switch one of its most successful games of Wii U, although it comes already without that surprise. Multiplayer modes, new styles and tools, more intelligence in the puzzle levels ... This second Super Mario Maker is essential if you didn't have the original, and if you are excited with the challenges created by others. This game is a tribute to 35 years of jumping and Goombas.

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Unscored
Jun 26, 2019

Course creators can look forward to an amazing game-making tool set whose depth is matched by its accessibility, while players have a functionally endless set of Mario courses to dig through over the course of years.

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9 / 10.0
Jun 26, 2019

Despite the multiplayer being slightly underwhelming, the new creation tools, single player story, and addition of Super Mario 3D World make Super Mario Maker 2 a fantastic overall package.

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