Venture: Super Mario Edition

**Venture: Super Mario Edition** is a version of Venture that includes the Super Mario Mashup Map and a new campaign that combines the mechanics of the *Super Mario* series and Venture. This version of the game is exclusive to the Nintendo Switch.

## Synopsis

Using genetic manipulation technology, Robert Jacob is able to create the Nintendo Sapiens, a species that highly resembles the famous video game character, Mario. Robert teleports this creature to a planet that is not unlike Mario's past adventures...

## Gameplay

The game plays like a typical 3D *Super Mario* entry, but with elements from Venture, including the option to play the entire game from a first-person perspective.

## Characters

* Robert Jacob
* Robyn Jacob
* Mario
	+ Super Mario
	+ Fire Mario
	+ Propeller Mario
	+ Cat Mario
	+ Builder Mario
	+ Invincible Mario
	+ Tanooki Mario
	+ Ice Mario
	+ Penguin Mario
	+ Gold Mario
	+ Boomerang Mario
	+ Frog Mario
	+ F.L.U.U.D. Mario
	+ Cappy Mario

* Luigi
	+ Poltergust Luigi
	+ Kitsune Luigi
* Wario
* Waluigi
* Princess Peach
* Yoshi
	+ Green Yoshi
	+ Purple Yoshi
	+ Red Yoshi
	+ Orange Yoshi
	+ Cyan Yoshi
* Toad
	+ Blue Toad
* Toadette
* Professor E. Gadd
* Hat Ghosts

## Enemies

* Goomba
	+ Bone Goomba
	+ Paragoomba
* Koopa Troopa
	+ Dry Bones
	+ Parakoopa
* Piranha Plant
	+ Fire Piranha Plant
* Blooper
* Shy Guy
	+ Fly Guy
	+ Gas Mask Shy Guy
* Monty Mole
* Lava Bubble
* Boo
* Bob-omb
* Banzai Bill
* Pokey
* Whomp
* Thwomp
* Peepa
* Bullet Bill
	+ Heat-Seeking Bullet Bill
* Fuzzy
* Urchin
* Paragoomba
* Spiny
	+ Winged Spiny
* Buzzy Beetle
* Swoop
* Cheep Cheep
	+ Eep Cheep
	+ Spiny Cheep Cheep
* Foo
* Amp
* Huckit Crab
* Ninji
* Thwimp
* Poison Mushroom
* Wiggler
* Golden Ghost
* Bramball
* Chain Chomp
* Burrbos

### Bosses

* King Bob-Omb
* King Boo
* Koopalings
	+ Lemmy
	+ Roy
	+ Wendy
	+ Morton
	+ Iggy
	+ Larry
	+ Ludwig
* Bowser Jr.
* Bowser
	+ Meowser

## Objects

* Warp Pipe
* ? Block
* Brick Block
* Goal Pole
* Water
* Lava
* Super Mushroom
* Fire Flower
* Propeller Mushroom
* Super Bell
* Super Hammer
* F.L.U.U.D.
* Cappy
* Frog Suit
* Boomerang Flower
* Ice Flower
* Gold Flower
* Penguin Suit
* Tanooki Suit
* Kart
* POW Block
* Stone-Eye
* Toad House
* Bowser's Car
* Clown Car
* Poltergust 5000
* The Odyssey

## Settings

* Princess Peach's Castle
* Toad Town
* Mario Bros.' House
* Grassland
* Desert
* Water Land
* Soda Jungle
* Lava Land
* Bowser's Castle
* Ghost House
* Luigi's Mansion
* Hat Kingdom
* Cascade Kingdom

## Development

Talks between 1001 Spears and Nintendo began in Summer 2018, where the upper management of Nintendo asked to collaborate with the company. This led to a discussion that generated many ideas before both companies voted on what approach to use. The plan that was the most popular was the concept of a game where both teams collaborated. The team had little to work with, with their only mantra being "do something that only Nintendo and 1001 Spears could do together. It's a Venture game, but also a Nintendo game". Director Brendan Payne took inspiration from Venture's mashup maps but going a step further by bringing the gameplay of Mario to life with the basic coding of Venture. The team was also inspired by Super Mario Maker, using the concept of players building Mario levels and incorporating it into the Venture construction system. The game itself took influence from several mainline Mario games, with the result being described as "Super Mario Bros. meets 3D World, with the realistic nature of Venture."

The concept of implementing Mario in the world of Venture took over a year. Payne and his development teams brainstormed a broad number of designs that took advantage of the existing code from Venture. Payne then came up with the idea of applying all the logic of the Super Mario series to Venture and utilizing the game's first-person perspective, something the team hadn't envisioned, and decided to settle on. The designs went through in-depth analysis, resulting in Nintendo dropping thousands of concepts to make sure they were true to the series. Nintendo's creative leader Takashi Tezuka provided insight and constructive criticism during these analyze. These interviews happened often before they stopped because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Mario voice actor Charles Martinet performed entirely new lines and composer Koji Kondo did the game's entire score.

Venture: Super Mario Edition received a teaser trailer on March 10, 2020, also known as MAR10 / National Mario Day on both the official Nintendo and Venture Twitter accounts, depicting Mario's Venture design. The game itself was formally revealed two days later when Nintendo released a trailer that provided an overview of the game. 1001 Spears released a demo for the game on the Nintendo eShop soon after, allowing players to test the game before it's release. The news of a playable Nintendo Entertainment System being added to Jacob Chateau in Venture: Nintendo Switch Edition was first leaked by Chinese website VJGamer, along with the game's release date. On July 13, 2020, the Venture Twitter account posted a silhouette of the system in-game before it was officially revealed the next day. Both Venture: Super Mario Edition and Venture: Nintendo Switch Edition were released on December 17, 2021.

## Trivia

* It is the first *Super Mario* entry to receive the Teen rating by the ESRB and the only game with Mario in it to receive the PEGI 16 and CERO 17 ratings.