New Super Mario Bros. 2 Trailer Highlights Mega, Mini Mario

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by Neal Ronaghan - July 13, 2012, 11:27 am EDT
Total comments: 8

See Mario get freaking huge and very tiny in the latest trailer for the August release.

Nintendo released a new New Super Mario Bros. 2 trailer that shows off the Mega and Mini Mushroom power-ups and White Tanooki Suit, in addition to more gold-tinged action.

The Mega and Mini Mushrooms both made their debut in New Super Mario Bros. on DS. The Mega Mushroom temporarily turns Mario into the size of the screen, demolishing nearly everything in his path. The Mini Mushroom makes Mario tiny, allowing him to fit into smaller areas and walk on water. The trailer shows off no new uses of the power-ups, though.

The White Raccoon power appears when you die in the same spot five times in a row, making you invincible for the rest of the stage. The power-up works like the White Tanooki Suit in last year's Super Mario 3D Land. (The earlier Andriasang-Famitsu report of the White Tanooki Suit appearing in the game may have been mistaken as both are considered tanuki powers in Japan).

The new trailer also shows off a new monochrome world and a colorful rainbow-looking level with tons of coins. It also shows off Golden Bullet Bills and Boos.

New Super Mario Bros. 2 is out in Japan on July 28, and is coming out in North America and Europe on August 19 and August 17 respectively.

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AVJuly 13, 2012

its looking better than before especially that night area but I'm still not sold.

Manthony ChopkinsJuly 13, 2012

The mini mushroom was a lot of fun. The big one, not so much.

nickmitchJuly 13, 2012

*yawn*

PodingsJuly 14, 2012

The most important thing revealed in this trailer (for me at least) is that levels now scroll vertically as well as horizontally.
In NSMB they only did one or the other, obvisouly in an attempt to simplify the game and bring in new players and bring back those for whom it got too difficult. This new development will allow for considerably more complex and interesting level design, like we got back in the Mario Bros 3 and Mario World days.

Bman87301July 14, 2012

CORRECTION! Take a closer look: That's NOT the white Tanooki Suit from SM3DL-- it's the new golden variation of the Raccoon ability previously revealed by Famitsu. If the actual white Tanooki Suit is indeed in the game as well (as you guys previously reported), it's not featured in this trailer.

DEDwyer64July 14, 2012

IT'S ALL ABOUT THE GOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;D

Bman87301July 15, 2012

Seeing how this trailer demonstrates the gold Raccoon ability being the game's 'Assist Block', which you previously reported would be the role of the white Tanooki Suit, and the fact that the same Golden Leaf grants the ability, I'm under the strong impression that you guys just misinterpreted the Famitsu report and the golden Raccoon ability will in fact be appearing instead of the Tanooki Suit, rather than along side.

Chocobo_RiderJuly 15, 2012

wow. cool. I'm surprised and glad that this seems to philosophically actually be "NSMB2." This is shaping up nicely.

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