This new mode is called Super Mario Challenge. But if playing a scattershot collection of stages from an international cadre of amateur designers does not fill you with confidence, the veterans at Nintendo have made sure to buttress their fans’ random enthusiasms with a more streamlined sequence of levels from the pros. Even with a cork in the geyser, there are more levels in this game than you could ever play. Instead you get a curated array of stages already built in the Wii U game, selected for your portable gaming pleasure. You don’t get the ocean of content from players like you. The 3DS game narrows that hose considerably. For thirsty platformer fans, the original Super Mario Maker is a veritable firehose of Mario. Voila: Dozens of levels await your next boot-up. Log in with your Nintendo Network ID and the queue even syncs up with the game itself. You can also search by User or Friend, and eventually a fairly robust companion site launched allowing players to fine-tune their search even more and then save these courses for future play. On the console version, there is an ever-replenishing reservoir of user-created levels players can give levels stars and feedback, the accumulation of which help single out courses that the software then suggests. After an initial burst of stage creation I found myself playing more often than making. Last year I played Super Mario Maker on Wii U for dozens of hours. Let this serve, then, as an endorsement I hope you never have to heed: If you are hours from death, lying on the hot sands of some unnamed island nation hundreds of miles from civilization, you could do much worse than sinking that time into Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS. Yet for some reason, we love to consider the occasion, if only to list what facile entertainments would most distract us from our inevitable demise. If you were ever stuck on a deserted island, you’d likely die a torturous death by heat stroke or starvation.
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