Super Mario Pixelverse

Enter the Pixelverse!
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Super Mario Pixelverse is a 2D Side-scrolling Platform Game in the Super Mario (series) which acts a celebration of the 35th anniversary. Set After Super Mario Forces, the Game follows Mario, Luigi & Princess Peach in a race against time to escape the Pixelverse, a new Game system created by Bowser, which is based on their own adventures. The Game also has an alternate story with Wario, Waluigi & Captain Syrup in the Pixelverse to find treasure and save Princess Shokora, which is also based on Wario’s Adventures.
Super Mario Pixelverse is a collaborative project, headlined by Retro Studios & Intelligent systems and having support by GameFreak & Next Level Games, also being composed by David Wise & Grant Kirkhope in a 8-bit Soundchip, remixing old Mario Songs. The Game emulates the Classic Mario Games ,particularly Super Mario World, serving as a spiritual successor to Super Mario World, it also has a new 8-bit artstyle closer to Modern Mario. The Game also serves as a Continuation to Super Mario Forces & the conclusion to The Super Grand Star Saga.
Super Mario Pixleverse received critical acclaim for it’s gameplay, level design and artstyle but was criticised of being too safe, Pixelverse by the end of 2022 sold over 15 Million Units.
==Development==
===History===
After Super Mario Maker 2, Nintendo wanted to push 2D Mario to the next level wanting to evolve it in the same way as 3D Mario, also wanting to be a new fresh take on 2D Mario. Nintendo saw the success of Sonic Mania, a Indie Game published by Sega, and decided to make a game with Retro Graphics with new Gameplay. This would keep Fans at bay for the New 2D Mario Game.
Nintendo decided to get Intelligent systems & Retro Studios headlining the game, with GameFreak & Next Level Games providing extra support on the game. It was decided to be modelled by Super Mario World as it was seen as “The Peak of 2D Mario”. Originally the Game was going to have a a gimmick swapping different playstyles, specifically Super Mario Bros 1, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros 3 and Super Mario World. But it was seen as to difficult implement and was seen as pointless and was booted away, instead focusing on the legacy aspect of Mario and having new and interesting gimmicks throughout the game.
Nintendo, following the newfound success/cult following of Warioware Gold, wanted to have a bigger focus on Wario, wanting the return of Wario Land and decided to add a Wario Mode in the game as a “fitting tribute” to the Wario Land series marking the end of Wario land and to start a new Wario Series, Super Wario Bros. Intelligent systems would mainly work on the Wario Part of the game, while Retro Studios would headline the Mario Part.
The Art in the Cutscenes outside of the Pixelverse where done by the crew of Super Mario Adventures!. Using the Modern 2D Mario Artstyle. It would be worked on the new engine, the 1-up engine, which would specialise in 2D Games and Ports.
===Promotional===
The Game was announced on a Mario Direct Mini along with Super Mario Forces, Paper Mario the Origami King & a teaser of Super Mario Adventures!. The Game got a full trailer, showing Mario, Luigi and Peach in the Pixelverse, revealing the game would be a through-back to the whole Super Mario (series). It was planned for a Holiday 2020 release but was delayed due to COVID-19 around the release of Super Mario Forces to an indefinite date of 2021. News of the game wasn’t heard for a while until Nintendo issued a statement, saying the game will be released in the first Quarter of 2021 and is focused on getting the game out the best it can be.
In January, a new trailer released, showing off more worlds that would appear in the game, announced that Wario would be a playable character and showed off some off the Power-Up roster. The final release date for March 5th 2021.
==Story==
===Mario’s Story===
After an unspecified amount of time after Super Mario Forces, Bowser is wondering how he can defeat Mario and rule the world once and for all (not wanting to rule the Mushroom Kingdom now) he then orders the Elite Trio to clean out the Castle. They then find from the rubbish the Super Grand Star from when Bowser ruled the world. They show the star to Bowser, he then looks surprised and forgot he has that. Suddenly Bowser Jr enters the room with a Nintendo Switch made by E.gadd with his symbol on it. Bowser Jr shouts a new high score, Bowser then gets an idea and laughs menacingly.
A Week later, People in the Mushroom Kingdom receive a present from Bowser, a Shelltendo Switch with Bowser’s Emblem on it and a message reading:
”Dear [INSERT NAME HERE], I apologise for my actions for ruling the entire world and stuff I feel very sorry for my actions and stuff. Out of my remorse and definitely not a evil scheme have this cool game system made by me and my Slav- I mean unpaied interns”
Hate from Bowser
Princess Peach eventually get’s one of these, Toadsworth seems excited at the fact of Bowser’s Reformation while Peach seems more on edge. They connect the console to the TV and supposedly turn it on, before her & Toadsworth scream. The people of the Mushroom Kingdom are seeing this as proof should play this game system.
Mario & Luigi wake up and go to the mail and see the same game system and plug it into the TV. Before long they see that there is no game and instead see a portal that sucks them in, Mario tries to save Luigi but fails and gets sucked in too.
Eventually, Mario falls down to the sky and see he’s changed physically, he also sees the place he”s in looks very familiar, he then wanders around to see where he is. After completing the level Mario get’s startled by Bowser who is in the sky. It’s revealed that Mario has been trapped instead Bowser’s Game system and will rule the world when everyone is inside the Pixleverse, saying if he doesn’t escape in 5 days, the game will automatically shut down and they’ll be teleported to Bowser’s Prison. Bowser also says that everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom has been captured and out into the Pixelverse, including Luigi & Peach.
Mario finds Peach & Toadsworth being ganged up by a bunch of Goombas, Mario saves Peach and decides to talk to her. She says that she was sucked into the game system too and say Luigi is being kept in the castle nearby, they decide to go to the castle to save Luigi. 
After they go to the castle, beating king Goomboss, they save Luigi and try to plan what do next. The group find Peach’s Castle and Toad Town, they walk through the Town and find no-one in it. They go into the castle and find a giant TV inside, it shortly turns on and has Professor E.gadd’s Face on it. E.gadd tells the trio that Everyone in the Mushroom Kingdom and other people in the world have been teleported into the Pixelverse and that they have to save everyone. E.gadd says he was forced to make the Pixelverse with the Super Grand Star, saying that Bowser wanting to be based in his previous defeats so that he can see what went wrong. E.gadd teleports the Goo Versions of the trio into the Pixelverse if they need help.
After a trip to Subcon, They then go to the 3rd World of the Game, Sarasaland, after exploring the world for a bit they find that Daisy and her inhabitants have been sucked into the Pixelverse too. They talk to her with her replying that Tatanga is back and is kidnapping her people. The Trio decide to go save them in the nearby pryamid. They go into the deadly pryamid and find that no-one is in there, they see that Tantanga trapped them with Eyerok and kidnapped Daisy to space.
After they defeat Eyerok, they explore a Icy Area and then go to DK Jungle and see that DK & Diddy are also in the Pixleverse, they explain that their banana hoard was taken by King K.rool and that they have to get it back, the trio team up with them to get their banana hoard back. They continue on their journey through The Spooky Forests with Mansion from Luigi’s Mansion, Isle Delfino, Yoshi’s Island, New Donk City and more, sorting out all the issues of the people their.
They then have a opportunity to save Princess Daisy by heading to Bowser’s Space collection (which are Bowser’s favourite Galaxies he went to from the 2 Galaxy Games) with the help of Rosalina. They then find Daisy after defeating a bunch of Bosses from those games in his moon base, they defeat and return Princess Daisy back to Sarasaland.
They then arrive at Bowser’s Kingdom, a mix of everything Bowser related from all these years. After they go through his menacing castle, Bowser enters the Pixelverse and fights the Trio in one last Battle. The Trio win and demand that they’re sent back to the real world, Bowser nearly accepts defeat when Suddenly the game glitches out and kills everyone.
Mario wakes up and sees he’s in a weird Void, similar to that of the -1 Worlds he was sent in Super Mario Forces. He meets up Luigi and Peach, seeing many of the friends they helped throughout the Pixelverse. Mario demands Bowser that he should set them free but he says that this is out of his control and that he didn’t plan this, it’s then revealed that this is a Virus that’s been in the game and traps everyone in the -1 Worlds, it then takes Mario’s Friends and Bowser, making them evil. Mario now has to save his friends in one final gauntlet.
Mario saves all his friends and takes on a Virus Fused Bowser as the Final Boss, he eventually wins and manages to knockout the Virus temporally so that everyone can escape, they all escape the Pixelverse, but then realise that a few Toads and inhabitants and still inside the Pixelverse and need to save them if the player hasn’t saved all of the Hostages at this point.
If they have, the good ending will play, Having everyone return to the real world rejoicing in their return, Bowser now actually feeling sorry for his actions creates a real game system for the people to enjoy, ending the Mario Story of Super Mario Pixelverse.
===Wario’s Story===
Set a few weeks after Mario’s story. Wario resides in his house with Waluigi in Diamond City when suddenly their windows is smashed from a object thrown. Wario doesn’t care about it and goes to sleep while Waluigi looks at the object and sees it’s a Shelltendo, he plays it and gets sucked in. Wario wakes up from his nap and sees Waluigi is gone but sees the Shelltendo, he plays it and gets sucked into the Pixelverse.
He then wakes up in Rice Beach, the first area of Wario Land 1 and decides to explore it. After fighting the first boss, the Giga Spike Koopa. He then is teleported to the Awazon caverns and meets Captain Syrup, Wario seems angry at her due to her stealing the bottomless coin sack.
==Gameplay==
===Mario===
The Mario Gameplay in Pixelverse is relatively the same as Super Mario World emulating and refining the formula set from these games, it has Mario, Luigi and Peach as playable characters, which can be switched by a button press. Moves like the Groundpound, Wall-Jump and Spin Jump are present in the game along with Special Moves and attributes to each character. Each Stage ends with the Box from Super Mario Bros 3 as using the flag pole was seen as overused and that they didn’t want players to rack up lives easily. There’s also a World Map system akin to 3D World, allowing the player to freely move around in a open pixelated state that is also interconnected like Super Mario World.
Like Super Mario Bros 2, characters also use health meters. Each character has 3 hit points with items that can increase the Character’s Heath point unlocked from special stages. When a character is at one hit point, they transform into their small form. While this game does have lives, there is a option to turn them of as they’re seen as outdated at this point. The game mostly has some returning power-ups and enemies from the older games, also returning are Time Limits and Points but those can also be removed like lives.
===Wario===
The Wario Gameplay in Pixelverse is more of the same as Wario Land 4, including a health system and status effects, it includes Wario, Waluigi and Captain Syrup as playable characters. It also features the mechanic of every stage having you rush to the start of the stage on a strict time limit when you’ve rang a bell, like Wario Land 4 and Shake it. There are less levels than Mario portion but allows you to revisit previous levels for more treasure and can even lead you to alternate worlds.
Another change from the Mario Portion is that characters have over 10 Health Points, there is no time limit in levels and there is no live system, but as a trade off, it is noticeable harder than the Mario Portion, the game also reuses the world map system from the Mario portion, but redone for the Wario Levels.
==Worlds==
===Mario===
There is 12 Worlds in this portion of the game, much more than your average Mario Game, Every World in the Game is based on an existing world from any Mario Game, there’s also Airships inbetween most worlds where you fight Boom Boom, Pom Pom, Bowser Jr and the Koopalings.
World 12 is a special world, where apart from the 2 levels you play in the story, most of the levels are locked, To Unlocked them, you need to collect every star coin and beat every stage in the game. 
World Number	Name 	Description 	Amount of Levels 	Difficulty 	Origin
1 	Mushroom Plains 	This safe and green area is a great way too start out in this pixelated adventure 	8 Levels (1 Castle, 1 Tower and 2 Secret Stages) 	Very Easy 	
2 	Subcon Valley 	This Wild and out of rule World has returned! 	12 Levels (1 Castle, 1 Tower and 3 Secret Stages) 	Easy 	
3 	Sarasaland 	Daisy’s Sandy Kingdom is underattack by the evil Tatanga 	15 Levels (1 Pryamid, 1 Fortress and 5 Secret Stages	Normal 	
4 	Frosted Glaciers 	The Icy Frosted Tundras from NSMBU are back and pixelated 	8 Levels (1 Castle and 1 Fortress) 	Normal 	
5 	Kongo Jungle 	The DK Jungles is underattack by the Kritters and have stolen the Famous Banana Hoard	15 Levels (1 Pirate Ship, 4 Secret Levels) 	Above Normal	
6 	Isle Delfino 	The Sunshine Paradise is now in chaos due to Petey’s Gang 	16 Levels (1 Castle, 5 Secret Levels) 	Above Normal	
7 	The Forest Maze 	The Spooky Forest leading to the Infamous Mansion 	6 Levels (1 Castle, 1 Secret Level) 	Above Normal	
7.5 	Luigi’s Mansion 	King Boo’s Original Mansion is back and scarier than ever 	5 Levels 	Hard 	
8 	Yoshi’s Island 	This Island with adorable Dinosaurs is under attack by Kamek 	16 Levels (1 Castle, 1 Fortress and 4 Secret Levels)	Normal 	
9 	New Donk City 	This Famous Urban City has been expanded upon in the Pixelverse 	10 Levels (1 Tower, 2 Secret Levels) 	Hard 	
10 	The Shroomniverse	The Fan Favourite Galaxies from the 2 Galaxies games are back and 2D 	25 Levels (5 Secret Stages) 	Normal-Hard 	
11 	Bowser’s Kingdom 	The Final World of the Game Will Challenge your true Mario Skills 	13 Levels (A Tower, A Fortress and 1 Castle) 	Very Hard 	
12 	-1 Worlds 	When the Game is Over, you go into here, a glitched Wasteland 	14 Levels (12 Secret Levels, 1 Castle Level) 	Very Hard 	
==Power-ups==
Every Power-up featured in this game are returing, there's ??? Power-ups
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