Super Mario Origins

Super Mario Origins is a collection of 8 2D Mario games (Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels, Super Mario Bros 2, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario Land, Super Mario Land 2, Super Mario World and Yoshi's Island) remastered in 16:9, 1080p, 60fps for the Switch, released in January 7th 2022.
==Development==
After Super Mario 3D All-stars' negative to mixed reception from a year ago, Nintendo cited the negative reception & wanted to redeem themselves in eyes of the fans and decided to remaster 2 games, a remaster of Super Mario Galaxy 2 on it's own called Super Mario Galaxy 2: Ultimate and a full a remastered collection of 2D Mario games, the collection was made to also help newer fans get into the Mario Series as there was a influx from The TV Series. The Animations of the Games where inengine while the Opening of the entire collection was done by the same animation company as Super Mario Adventures.
===Promotional===
On the Nintendo Direct of September 2022, Super Mario Origins was announced, revealing all the games in the collection, with new features including 16:9 aspect ratio, New Animated Cutscenes and New Content. The Response of the collection was mixed as many felt like they were repricing very old games for a high price of $19.99, fans also cited the lack of the New Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Land games. The game was announced for an early January release.
==Games Included==
The Games included in Super Mario Origins are:
*Super Mario Bros
*Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels
*Super Mario Bros 2
*Super Mario Bros 3
*Super Mario World
*Yoshi's Island
*Super Mario Land (DLC)
*Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins (DLC)
===Bonus Games===
These Games can only be unlocked via doing something special in a game, however unlike the main games, some of them are emulated from the arcade versions & not natively ported with the exception of Mario Bros (which is a completely new version of the game), Dr Mario and Wrecking Crew. However the games that weren’t updated got and update along with Donkey Kong 94.
*Donkey Kong 
**Unlocked after beating World 1 of Super Mario Bros
*Donkey Kong Jr
**Unlocked after beating World 1 of Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels or Super Mario Bros 2
*Donkey Kong III
**Unlocked after using the Warp Whistle in Super Mario Bros 3
*Super Mario Bros Special
**Unlocked after beating Super Mario Bros and Super Mario Bros: Lost Levels without warps
*NEW Mario Bros
**Unlocked after beating Super Mario Bros 1 without Warps
*Dr Mario
**Unlocked after eating 20 enemies in Super Mario World
*Wrecking Crew
**Unlocked after destorying over 100 Bricks in all games
==Remaster Features==
As said before, the game has been remastered for 1080p/720p to 60fps & Widescreen to modernize the games. Since the games are being ported instead of running via emulation, they can alter levels for a widescreen experience and add new modes, for a few games they also revamped some of the glitches & Physics. There are also new modes that are either easier or harder. In addition, the Game has new online Multiplayer offerings from their original games.
===Differences===
====All Games====
* All Games are in 60fps & are natively 16:9 now
* All Games reuse their old sprite-style in HD
*Super Mario Bros 1/Lost Levels & Super Mario Bros 3 have redone Sprites for Luigi
**Super Mario World reuses the All-Stars Sprite Style
*All Games (With the exception of Yoshi's Island) have all new opening & closing cutscenes
**In the Case of Super Mario Bros 3 & Super Mario World, they have new cutscenes for each world
*Sound effects & Music are Higher Quality
*Some Games have new enemies from later games to replace some other enemies overused in the game
*Most changes (with the exception of the graphical/Musical Changes) from the All-Star pack, Deluxe & Advance games are present including Level Design, Luigi, ACE coins and more.
**Despite there being no graphical changes, some sprites have been redone like the later versions
*You can save in every level
*SMB1, SMB3 and World all have Luigi using his trademark powers, Higher Jump, and Fasting Swimming (but increased slipperiness)
*All games have somewhat revamped Physics and controls, big or small
*The HUD of SMB1, SMB2, SMB3 and Yoshi's Island have been revised, looking more like The New Super Mario Bros HUD
*5 Ace Coins are added to every game, apart from Super Mario World and Yoshi’s Island, are in each level
*There are achievements in each game
*SMB1, SMB2, SMB3 and Lost Levels have the Ground-Pound, Wall Jump and Spin-Jump
**Super Mario World also has the former 2.
*All Multiplayer Options for the Original games have been removed: Instead having a Co-op & Vs options
====Super Mario Bros====
*In the Opening Cutscene, Mario & Luigi after the events of Mario Bros come out of a pipe and into the Mushroom Kingdom and find out that Princess Peach has been Kidnaped from the Bowser, they talk to a Toad to find this out and go to 8 worlds to save Peach, while saving countless of Toads.
*The Ending cutscene has Mario or Luigi & Peach escape the castle which is crumbling down, and end up in Peach's Castle, She kisses Mario or Luigi, with Toads celebrating and Fireworks, ending the game
*The Worlds after World 1 have new backgrounds, tileset & Music. Some of which is ripped from Super Mario Maker 2. Many sprites were also reused for Super Mario Maker 3.
**World 2 is a Desert World
**World 3 is a Ice World
**World 4 is a Forest World
**World 5 is an Underground World
**World 6 is the same World
**World 7 is a Sky World
**World 8 is a Volcano World
*You can scroll back in levels
*The World Map from Super Mario Bros 1 Deluxe has been reused with the new themes
**Also, the music for World 1-3 is changed to be the edited version of the Sky theme from Super Mario Maker 2.
*There is Toadhouses in each world, allowing the player to purchase Power-ups with Coins
*There are a few new Power-ups exclusive to Shops, this includes:
**Ice Flower
**Wing Cap
**Frog Suit
*Bosses from 1-7 are completely new, using the fake Bowser enemy and making them Bigger, taking 3-5 hits to defeat
*The Final Boss reuses the first phase of the Boss, but there is a new phase, involving hitting Switches to drop Spike Balls to Bowser's Head
====Super Mario Bros: The Lost Levels====
*The Game starts out with Mario & Luigi getting a Message from Bowser that he has kidnapped the Princess once again, but in the -1 Worlds
*The Game ends with the exact same ending from SMB1
*All of the Game's branding with the 2 has been removed, now being simply called The Lost Levels
*Levels have been altered to be easier while still having some of the original challenge
*Unlike the SMB1 remake all the levels have their original Background/tileset style
*The Game also has the Bosses from SMB1
*You can now scroll back in levels
*Lives appear more often in the game
*You only have to beat the game without warps once to unlock it's extra worlds
*The World Map from Super Mario Bros 1 Deluxe have been reused
*Negative Warp Zones are gone, instead have random Warp Zones which can warp you 1-3 worlds ahead
====Super Mario Bros 2====
*The Game’s new opening cutscene starts out with Mario Sleeping in a dream and finding a yellow door, when he opens it, he sees a overweight frog ruling over a kingdom. Mario wakes up and remembers he has a picnic with Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach. When they finish eating, they go on a walk in a cave and find the same yellow door in Mario’s Dream they enter it and see a fairy, who tells them that a frog named wart and his evil gang are taking over Subcon. Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Peach team up to save subcon
*The Game’s ending cutscene has the team defeating wart and throwing him out of the Castle, killing him, The Team exits the Castle and is rewarded. Depending on the character you’ve played the most they’ll be rewarded with a medal. The Team jump out of subcon and go home
*There’s a World Map akin to Super Mario Bros 3, including enemy battles, Fairy Houses and minigames
*Fairy Houses include new Power-ups that can be bought via points, These include 
**Point Multiplier
***This will Increase your point count by 2x, but if you die you cannot obtain it in that World again, you can also increase the points up to 12x by using coins
**Superstar
**Fire Flower
**Ice Flower
**Pow Block
**Ostro Whistle
***This will spawn an Ostro in a stage, allowing you to ride them like a Yoshi
*The Yoshi Mode, A Coins, Giant Items/Characters and more return from Super Mario Advance
*Robirdo is a Boss (returning from Advance), another new Boss is Bowser, replacing the 2nd Mouser Boss
*There’s a few Quality of life changes in the stages
====Super Mario Bros 3====
*The Opening cutscene is straight from Super Mario Advance 4
*The Ending cutscene is straight from the original
*Each World Intro cutscene has Mario & Luigi using the Power-Up that Peach gave them or a gimmick in that world you’re going to play 
*Each World ending will have Mario & Luigi destroying the Airship in Multiple ways like Super Mario World and returning back to the Kings castle
*Each time you enter the Castle, the hidden cutscene from Super Mario Advance 4 plays where you see the Koopaling in the castle, stealing the wand and turning the king to a random animal
*You can revisit levels when you beat them
**When you do, they’ll become gold
*There’s now a World Select when you press the minus button 
*Storing Items is now more akin to New Super Mario Bros Wii
*Most Worlds have a new Backgrounds and Music, remixing the Main/ground theme of the game
*Some of the Koopalings have new patterns 
*Some levels have been altered to be more easier
*Some Levels have been swamped around to have a more balanced difficulty
*You Have a spare item Box like Super Mario World
*If you complete every level in a World, you’ll be rewarded a 3-Up
*There’s a few new Power-ups in the Toadhouse and even the levels these include
**Ice Flower
**Gold Flower
**Cloud Flower
====Super Mario World====
*The Opening cutscene is ripped from Super Mario Advance 2, but expanded upon to add Yellow Toad, Blue Toad, normal Toad, Toadsworth and Toadette.
*The Ending Cutscene is the same as the original
*Each World entrance Cutscene has Mario & Luigi using a gimmick in that World
*There are Dino Houses and Battles in the Overworld now
*The Ice Flower returns in this game along with 2 other new Power-ups
**The Charging Chuck Suit allows you to shoulder dash and throw Baseballs or Rugby Balls
**The Rip Van Fish Suit allows you to swim faster and throw bubbles which will trap enemies in them
*More dinosaur types appear in the Levels
*The Backgrounds for a few worlds and Music has been revised
*The Koopalings that reuse another Koopalings pattern has been changed 
====Yoshi’s Island====
*Not much has been changed in this game that wasn’t present in the advance games
*When you collect an Item, It’ll appear in the HUD with the Total in that Level
*You can view your Total completion percentage in a Level or World now
*Some New Music has been added, remixing the Main Theme
*You can Choose your coloured Yoshi instead of automatically switching
*You can Turn off Baby Mario’s Crying
*You can now select a World in a World Map
*The Minigames can be played with another player when you first played them in a menu
*Unlike any other game in the collection, it includes Voice Acting for the Yoshi’s
*All of the Branding with “Super Mario World 2” has been removed, the game is simply called Yoshi's Island
====Super Mario Land====
*The Opening Cutscene shows Mario getting a message from Princess Daisy, saying that she needs his help after hearing his plights in the mushroom kingdom. Mario travels to Sarasaland to save Daisy
*The Ending Cutscene shows Mario beating Tatanga and saving Daisy, Mario leaves Sarasaland in the Plane, ending the game
*The Game’s Artstyle has been completely remade in colour
*The Fire Flower and Super Carrot have been added
*The Physics have been completely changed to be more akin to Super Mario Bros 3
*There’s now a 4th Level in each world
*There’s a level select after beating the game once
*The Hard Mode is not included since there’s already a Hard Mode in the collection
*Luigi is playable and gives an alternate Ending where Daisy and Luigi get together.
====Super Mario Land 2: The Six Golden Coins====
TBA
===New Modes===
There are Multiple new Modes in the Game, some of which alter the difficulty
*Normal Mode, This is the Normal Mode of the game with all the added features
*Casual Mode, This Removes Lives, adds save states, Rewinds and More to the game making it an easier way to play for new fans
*Hardcore Mode, Unlocked Once beaten any game on normal, this will include features like going to small Mario even if you have a Power-up, having no 1-up when you collect 100 Coins and even altered level design
*Retro Mode, Emulated versions of the original game, with the 4:3 Aspect Ratio, lower resolution and with none of a new features, there is save states featured in this version as well
*Improvement Mode, The same versions in the collection, without the added features apart from 60fps, 16:9 and the higher resolutions
*Custom Mode, Allows you to choose what New Features you want and don’t want
==Multiplayer==
As Said Before this game has new Multiplayer modes that are Online and Offline, these include
*Co-op, Each Game now has fully playable Co-op akin to New Super Mario Bros up to 4 players for every game besides Yoshi Island, Which is now 2 Players
*Vs, Each Game has a certain amount of levels which can be raced through, or ones that have a coin Battle, Enemy battle or Point Battle
All of these can be played Offline and Online with friends of Match-Making, in the case of Co-op for match-making you’d connect with a certain group of people to complete a World or Level, for Vs it would work the same as Super Mario Maker 2, with a ranking system to S-F for the type of players you’ll face.
==Challenges==
There is a new Challenge Mode which adds a few new challenges to each game along with Daily, Weekly and monthly Challenges. Most of these include the Categories from New Super Mario Bros U however there are a few new challenge types
*Time Attack Mode, You have 100 seconds on the time limit, which you can increase via defeating enemies, collecting coins, or collecting the green and blue clocks from the recent games
*Coin Runners, You have to collect a certain amount of coins in a time limit or collect coins to pay a pay wall by wario at the end of the stage
*Romps, This has you beating a certain amount of enemies or a Pacifist Run 
*Special, Like New Super Mario Bros U, these a random challenges that don’t fit into any categories 
*Daredevil Mode, You can only beat the Level in One-hit
*You Vs Boo, the return of the classic mode from Super Mario Bros Deluxe, now in the other games
*Cosmic Chaos, Includes the Cosmic Mario’s from Galaxy, either having 1-5 of them in a stage
*Ninjj Speedrun, The Mode from Mario Maker 2 with a few new changes, Nintendo plans to have every game to have this mode
*Mash-up, in this mode there is a random clear condition with another one, each playthrough of this is completely random
==New Mario Bros==
This Mode is a new version of Mario Bros, mainly based on the GBA Version of the game which was included in many Mario games on that console there are a various of changes to the game including
*The Controls, Physics and Graphics have been completely redone
*There are now over 60 Enemies across the series included in the Game
*There are more than 20 Themes from across the Series which you can play in
*There are now Bosses which are bigger versions of Enemies in the Base game which need 5 hits to beat
*There’s now Various Power-ups from the games included in the pack
*You can switch between a Super Mario Clash Mode, which adds another layer to the background like the Virtual Boy Version.
This can be played with Friends offline and online with matchmaking settings, there’s also a endless mode, a Singleplayer Mode having you play the 20 themed levels from the Game with up to 10-20 rounds and a Arcade, NES and Advance Mode which gives you the Arcade, NES and GBA Version.
==Extras==
Super Mario Origins also have some extra features in the Game
*The Menu allows you when choosing a game to fully view a 3D version of the Box-Art, Manual and Cartridge before playing a Game
*The Game includes Concept Art, Promo-Art, Music, Character Bios, Sprite Art and some behind the scene features
**You can Also View the Super Mario (IDW comic series) Covers from 1-10
**If You 100% Every Game in this collection and play every hard mode Version of each games, You can watch all episodes of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Super Mario World, and the first season of Super Mario Adventures.
*Each Game has unlock-able Skins for you too use, including a Multitude of Characters from Mario’s History
==DLC==
Throughout the Year the game got DLC
*All-Stars Pack: This allows you to choose the All-Star graphics and Music of Super Mario Bros 1-Super Mario Bros 3, with some altered Graphics from the Advance Games, it allows you to emulate the GBA and SNES Versions of these games. This was packaged at £4.99/$3.99
*Super Mario Land Duology: The Super Mario Land Games with all of the features in the pack and was also remastered in Colour, similar to the colour Hacks fans made. This was released for £6.99/$5.99.
*E-Reader Levels: These allows you to play all of the E-Reader levels from Super Mario Advance 4 but remade in the original NES style. This was released for £4.99/$3.99
*Arcade Classics: These allow you to play Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr, Donkey Kong 3 and Donkey Kong 94 in widescreen, 60fps and with a few new features. This was released for £6.99/$5.99 
==Rereleases==
The Games released in the package got rereleased digitally on the Eshop on there own, each game priced at £4.99/$3.99. They also were released on Mobile for the same Price.
And also on Nintendo’s New Console, the Nintendo Nexus, along with a new 3D Mario game called "Super Mario Universe", was released with a digital code on the Physical Version.
==Reception==
The Collection got mixed to Positive Reviews, Some Critics liked the New Features,the legacy content they added and the faithfulness of the Collection however some of them cited the poor emulation/port job of some of the games, the price of the games and the lack of no Super Mario Land Games at launch.
==Trivia==
*This is the second time the original Yoshi's Island has been rereleased on a Nintendo Console that isn’t the SNES Classic, with the first being the Nintendo Switch Online.
*The Menu Music is a remixed Melody of the game’s Main theme you select it these include
**Super Mario Bros 1 Ground theme
**Super Mario Bros 2 Ground Theme
**Super Mario Bros 3 Ground theme
**Super Mario Land Ground theme
**Super Mario Land 2 Ground theme
**Super Mario World Main Theme
**Yoshi’s Island Main Theme
*The Extras Menu is a remixed version of the Credits Theme of Super Mario Bros 3, being a Jazz remixed version of it.
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