Super Mario Maker (スーパーマリオメーカー, Super Mario Maker) is a downloadable stage that appears in both versions of Super Smash Bros. 4. It was officially revealed on September 14th, 2015, and was released on September 30th, 2015.
Stage layout
The stage is based on the game of the same name. The main gimmick of this stage is at the start of a match, a random cursor from Super Mario Maker customizes the stage's layout, which is different every time the stage is played. The four different styles that are available are Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, or New Super Mario Bros. U. These themes will occasionally switch between each other mid-match, with the next theme being randomly chosen. Notably, the non-Omega variant of the stage cycles through two of the four themes in the Nintendo 3DS version, but all four themes in the Wii U version; both Omega forms cycle through all four themes. The cursor also repairs blocks that break on the stage. Fighters start on pink temporary platforms that vanish when jumped off of, rolled on, or walked off of.
The randomly-generated stage may be a floating island or a walk-off stage with bottomless pits, and may feature slopes. Elements that can appear on the stage include:
- Stationary floating soft platforms (sometimes tilted)
- Platforms that move along rails
- Mushroom platforms
- Bridges protruding from walls
- Donut Lifts that fall when stood on
- Breakable brick blocks (in the Super Mario World style they become rotating blocks, which spin when hit and become intangible until stopped by the cursor)
- Unbreakable blocks
- ? Blocks that yield items when hit (often items from Mario games; the cursor will refill these blocks periodically)
- Warp Pipes
- Blocks of slippery ice
- Conveyor belts
- Pools of lava
In the Wii U version, various Mario objects and enemies can fly by in the background, including Bullet Bills; a Hammer Bro, a Koopa Troopa, a Lakitu flying by in clouds, and a Goomba riding a Koopa Clown Car.
Ω Form
The Ω form of the stage features a single platform that extends downward slightly using inverse slopes. Thus the layout of the stage will always be the same, but the four themes will still change randomly, making this one of two Ω form stages to appear differently between playthroughs.
Ω form (Super Mario Bros. theme) in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
Ω form (Super Mario Bros. theme) in Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.
Tournament Legality
Super Mario Maker's unpredictable stage layout has lead it to be universally banned from tournaments, as it can range from being fairly neutral to being cramped, featuring caves of life, camping spots or stage hazards such as lava, disrupting the fight. Also, the hand that repairs the blocks can come in at the wrong time and stop recoveries.
Origin
In the game Super Mario Maker, players can create their own 2D Mario levels to play and share using the four themes found on this stage. While editing a level by tapping the Gamepad screen, a cursor appears on the TV screen, shaped like either a hand holding a stylus, a cat's arm, Mario's arm, or the hand cursor from Mario Paint. There are only four game styles to use such as Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World and New Super Mario Bros. U. If a player tests their level with Mario placed above a bottomless pit, he will spawn on a small pink platform.
Most of the playable characters of Super Smash Bros. 4 (the exceptions being Mii Fighters, Roy, Ryu, Corrin, Bayonetta and Cloud) are available in Super Mario Maker as costumes for Costume Mario, unlocked via amiibo or by playing through the 100 Mario challenge, which tasks the player to beat a certain number of levels with only 100 (replenishable) lives.
Gallery
The Super Mario Bros. style.
The Super Mario Bros. 3 style.
The Super Mario World style.
The New Super Mario Bros. U style.
Ice blocks in the Super Mario Bros. 3 style.
Lava in the Super Mario Bros. style, along with a tilted platform.
The stage transitioning from Super Mario Bros. 3 style to New Super Mario Bros. U style in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS.
Trivia
- In Japan, Super Mario Maker is the most recent game represented in Super Smash Bros. 4, released about three weeks before the stage was added, but in Europe and North America it is beaten by Fire Emblem Fates.
- Certain structures in this stage such as slopes, tilted platforms, and pools of lava cannot be replicated in the actual Super Mario Maker game.
- One of the possible random layouts for this stage is a single platform akin its Omega form, but thinner. [1]
- Super Mario Maker is the first Super Smash Bros. stage with a design based on Super Mario Bros. 3.
- Super Mario Maker is the only stage in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS based on a game debuting on Wii U.
- Super Mario Maker is one of three stages to share music with other stages, the others being Pirate Ship and Big Battlefield. Castle Siege and Coliseum also share two tracks if Corrin is downloaded.
- At 27 tracks, Super Mario Maker has by far the largest music selection of any Super Smash Bros. stage. In Super Smash Bros. for 3DS, it is one of two stages to have more than two music tracks, having five possible tracks. Dream Land has six possible musical selections.
- Super Mario Maker and Duck Hunt are the only stages where Star KOs and Screen KOs only occur in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS.
- The music on this stage changes for Sudden Death.
- Super Mario Maker is the only stage in Super Smash Bros. for 3DS and Super Smash Bros. for Wii U to not appear in All-Star Mode, Event mode or the title screen attract mode.
- Super Mario Maker is the only paid downloadable stage that is neither a past stage nor bundled with a fighter.
