Such an absolute joy - manages to be so consistently creative and fun and so fast paced throughout it's runtime. If a game like 3D World takes the elements of 2D Mario and expands it upon the 3rd dimension - Wonder feels like it takes the creative joy of 3D Mario games (especially Galaxy 2) and flattens it down into a super fast, accessible 2D format.
The animations really sell the whole game for me - it looks so stylistically adorable and provides so much flavour to every character and enemy. Mario seems like he's actually... having fun? And has a personality? He feels so dynamic when he's moving and they did an excellent job in making the 3D models fit seamlessly in a 2D perspective (which is an issue I feel like some other 2D platformers - especially the New Super Mario series, really struggle with). Also the backgrounds are gorgeous! Just a stellar and fun game all around that I had a blast breezing through.
The animations really sell the whole game for me - it looks so stylistically adorable and provides so much flavour to every character and enemy. Mario seems like he's actually... having fun? And has a personality? He feels so dynamic when he's moving and they did an excellent job in making the 3D models fit seamlessly in a 2D perspective (which is an issue I feel like some other 2D platformers - especially the New Super Mario series, really struggle with). Also the backgrounds are gorgeous! Just a stellar and fun game all around that I had a blast breezing through.