I rated this summer’s biggest gaming showcases. Wonder launches on October 20 for Nintendo Switch. A Super Mario RPG remake is coming later in November, and a Princess Peach-focused game is currently in development. That’s just one of many Mario projects Nintendo has in the works right now. The trailer ends with a brand new item that looks like a mix of an apple and an elephant head that turns Mario into a large elephant himself. This will be a co-op game as well, with Mario, Luigi, Peach, Toad, Yoshi, and even Daisy shown as playable. We see the environments shift in strange ways after collecting them, such as pipes crawling like worms and background elements stretching and contracting with Mario in silhouette form.
The Wonder Flowers are the main mechanic on display, and they will tend to be very unpredictable. This new entry has all the staples you’d expect from a modern 2D Mario entry, however, it will also have some interesting twists. Wonder will take a slightly different art direction than the New series 2D games had previously used.
