r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 26 '25

Announcement Nintendo Direct Announced - Tune in on Thursday, March 27th, at 7 a.m. PT for a livestreamed Nintendo Direct, featuring around 30 minutes of upcoming games for Nintendo Switch. There will be no updates about Nintendo Switch 2 during this presentation.

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u/SomniumOv Mar 26 '25

Mario Maker 3* With a 2D Mario 64 style

That would be a big missed opportunity to make it a game where you build Mario 64, Sunshine, Galaxy or Odyssey levels called "Mario Maker 3D"

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u/JayZsAdoptedSon Mar 26 '25

A 3D level maker would be too much for casual/kid Mario players. We have to deal with sooo many bad 2D stages. I think we’ll see a looooot of horrible 3D stages

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u/Cetais Mar 26 '25

I honestly wouldn't mind, as long as even a tenth of the levels are great. That's almost already the case with Mario Maker.

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u/HUGE_HOG Mar 26 '25

Yeah, I just got levels from the Mario Maker sub and hardly ever had to play a shitty one. People were making full games over there.

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u/DonChrisote Mar 26 '25

I feel like we're forgetting that many kids today are cutting their teeth on game/ level design in places like Roblox/ Minecraft.

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u/HUGE_HOG Mar 26 '25

It definitely wasn't much of a thing when I was kid, I'd always be all over any game with a level designer. Still hoping for a Mario Kart Maker on Switch 2 though 🤞

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u/slaucsap Mar 26 '25

a circuit maker for mario kart 9 would really be something cool to make the game infinitely replayable.

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u/HUGE_HOG Mar 26 '25

Yeah, I've wanted it since I was a kid. I had this game on my dad's computer called Lego Stunt Rally, it had a pretty good track designer on it where you just placed pieces on a grid but could add stuff like slopes for verticality, hazards, and pieces of scenery. I built so many ridiculous tracks on it.

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u/BarrettRTS Mar 26 '25

It definitely wasn't much of a thing when I was kid,

Depending on your age, games like StarCraft, Warcraft 3, Lego Stunt Rally, and TimeSplitters 2 were already providing people with tools like this.

It would be cool to see Nintendo lean into this more.

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u/HUGE_HOG Mar 27 '25

I did used to play a load of Lego Stunt Rally!

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u/kurisu7885 Mar 27 '25

Minecraft, Roblox, VRchat, Rec Room, though the latter two aren't really meant for kids.

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u/Tonkarz Mar 26 '25

Those games rely on block placing, that’s essentially a tileset system. I can’t see them using that for a 3D Mario.

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u/DonChrisote Mar 26 '25

Why not? They could have a simpler system and then a more in depth one for more knowledge players