LogFAQs > #977405991

Oh yeah, Mario Wonder is nuts. They really did do a major overhaul on the scenery, animation, and expressiveness.

The playable cast consists of the Mario bros., two toads, Toadette, Peach, Daisy, four Yoshis, and Nabbit. The humans and toads play normally, but the yoshis and Nabbit are invulnerable to hazards at the cost of being unable to use powerups, making them a safe yet kinda boring option. I'm hoping that with Daisy and Toadette added, there'll be more secondary characters making appearances in mainline games.

There's badges you can equip that provide various abilities or passive effects, but there's really not much reason to wear anything but the parachute badge. It lets you glide, slows your fall, and you can climb walls by doing a wall jump, gliding back to the wall, and kicking off it again.

The Wonder effects are where things really shine. I'm glad I avoided prerelease videos and articles so I could really go in blind. They do so much crazy shit! One makes these invisible paths that get covered in glowing lights when you're close, one makes you walk on the walls in the background (essentially turning it into a top-down game), and one swaps around the water and air, causing the fish to flop around helplessly and the urchins to fall and become rolling hazards. And that's just scratching the surface! It's exciting every time I come across a wonder flower, because I truly don't know what will happen.

As for the note block rumble thing, walking on them while using the joy-cons makes the joy-cons let out the same noises as the note blocks. These things don't have speakers, so they're somehow doing this with clever use of the rumble function!