Hot dang. Honestly, I was only really picturing a Deluxe addition of the original at most..... but nope, they're going ALL IN on this *bleep*. I was absolutely *bleep*ing blown away by the trailer. Super Mario Maker's gonna be hella dead when SMM2 drops (at least in my house). This game, just in this one trailer, has ridiculously more stuff than Mario Maker 1 could dream of having. I could go on for an entire forum page about everything I'm excited about, but I'll leave it at this: As a Super Mario Maker boy, I absolutely can't wait for this one to come out.
Really, I would have been sold if they just said "Super Mario Maker.... with Luigi!" So you can imagine how much I love this. And I guess Toadette and Blue Toad probably being playable is cool too.
Side note: What I loved most was probably the Super Mario 3D World mode. I never knew how much I wanted it. I'm glad they took a risk by converting a 3D game into a 2D mode instead of going the easy route and adding a Super Mario Bros 2 route.
So, uh, sorry for my tangent. As an aspiring modder with way too many ideas for his own good, I natrually loved the idea of making custom Mario levels probably more than most people in the world, and I tend to get really passionate talking about *bleep* I love.
Anyhow, I've got some other predictions/personal hopes for future content. After all, that was just one trailer, there's no chance in hell that's everything in the game. I'll keep it at what I think has a reasonable chance of getting into the game.
- Super Mario All Stars Skins for the Super Mario Bros 1 and 3 styles
- Blue and Yellow Koopas. We have differently colored pipes and Yoshis now, so I really hope we get this too, and there's actually a chance I'll get this at long last. Mayyybe we could get the "Disco Shell" too? That seems like more of a long shot, though.
- Ice Flower. Seems like simple enough fanservice to me, and since they could use the Fire Flower as a base, seems like it'd be easy to add, and I don't think anybody would object to having it in every mode. Side note: The inclusion of the Fire Bro hints that MAYBE you can drag Fire Flowers onto certian enemies now. Sooo..... maybe if we get the Ice Flower... we could mayyybe drag it on Hammer Bros to get.... Ice Bros, the best bros? (I'm not getting my hopes up for that.)
- Other enemy hopes: Boomerang Bro, Rex, and Charging Chuck.
- A World Map, maybe even an entire game ala SMBX. This one, on the other hand, is probably delusional, even with the fact that the theme of this game is fanservice. But goddang it, A MAN CAN DREAM!
Now, some predictions on future bosses. We know already that Bowser, Bowser Jr and Boom Boom will be present. So, here's some other predictions I've brainstormed. Within reason, again, based on what we've seen so far and the fact Nintendo loves to throw curveballs.
- Pom Pom: Mostly for simplicity reasons, she does have plenty of similarites with Boom Boom and is around as prominent as he is in the Super Mario 3D games, so I can see the dev team just going "Sure, why not?" If she's in, I think she'll be included as a Boom Boom variant
- The Koopalings: Okay, even with their popularity and all the new content added, I'd still tread on the side of caution. But I'm sticking to my gut here. Making all 7 of them work in the different modes would be quite an undertaking. But you know what? I think it'd be worth the time spent. And I think they can (and probably will) pull it off. They've got enough unique things that you could justify not making them completely 1-1 with their boss fights in each respective game mode. And I think that's the best way to include them; just give them each a general boss fight that embodies their personalities and quirks. I'm still not fully sure Nintendo will give us all 7 of them... but let's be real, we also didn't think Nintendo would add nearly as much things as we saw in the intro trailer alone.
- Meowser: The most out there of all my predictions, lol. But please, just hear me out. My friend pointed out the idea just a few days ago after seeing the Super Bell, and it.... it works. We already know we can drag the Super Bell onto enemies to change them into their Cat forms, and I'm honestly doubt that they wouldn't at least consider letting Bowser transform into Meowser, especially considering how the Super Bell played a big part in the final boss fight and how well recived it was. The more I think about it, the more I think this is going to be one of the big suprises they've got left. It's just a very Nintendo thing to do.
Regardless of what happens, though, I can't wait to see what else they've got in the tank. It's already a day one purchase for me.