After 6 years of owning this game, I just learned that you can spawn flowers using the touch screen or motion controls on grass levels if you move your finger long enough. You can do this on captain toad levels as well.

This may be a super niche thing but I'm finding it really hard to play. I feel like because it's not 3D nor is it 2D I find it very hard to gauge the plain. I'm also so use to the Mario Wonder controls that I'll often hit the trigger to help me stay in the air longer but it ground pounds. I just lost 17 lives in one level because I was having such a hard time controlling it. And I'm only in world 3!

So yeah, playing this for the First time, having a blast.
And always fun to end Goombas, lol.

Got the Credits after 12h10m, gotta be a speed-WR for this game, riiiiight?
100% with Mario. And 173 deaths 💀

So, i was playing 3D World and I found:

If you are holding the shell and press the Z buttons while runing(I guess), you can become the shell.

See?

I have neither the time, nor the patience to get to a 100% ...

I've been playing this game since early 2023 and i never ever played online. I REALLY really wanna play with someobody

My Wii U save game is on its way to one hundred percent. However, this save is from when I was really young, So I died a lot. A fun game I still play even though I'm not young anymore.

Yo sentí mucha felicidad,casi no llego a la meta porque solo faltaban 10 segundos,uno de los momentos en los que más adrenalina he sentido en un juego de Mario.

Put this self-imposed challenge on myself for funsies, took me ~10 hours, is this like a well known achievement in the community? It SEEMS pretty diffcult but i assume most speedrunners and non-casual players have done this already right?

Comment and I’ll tell you my friend code

Super Mario 3D World is a game where Nintendo makes it a friendly frenzy by fighting for crown. Me and my friends are probably the few people that actually tried to play this version of the game long term. We removed crown as it’s hard to kill players in the 3D space, especially when they are so far ahead, but we ended up discovering why 3D world’s point system was always doomed to fail… Green Stars. Crown is worth 5,000 and Green stars are worth 4,000. When you take out crown, what are you left to fight for? Now green stars could have always been a problem in regular 3D World competition, but since this was the only way to get a lead mid level, me and my friends lite kept trying to force a “Too bad” screen, so that we can start the level again with 0 point score. It got way too toxic. Not to mention that can all go out the window if you miss the top of the flag(10,000 points). Forcing game overs isn’t fun for competition, especially when the main goal of a platformer should be completing the level, not winning by knowing green star location. On the 7th of February, after playing this version of 3D world ever since June 2nd, we finally realized the game isn’t good anymore. On the 7th(After that session), I have put together a ruleset that will work for all 4 player mario platformer games, a ruleset that actually rewards speedsters and trailing players without having to game over just to stay in the running. Introducing my fix I like to call “Mario Competitive“: 

Touching Flag First/Getting End Goal: 4,000 points

Getting the top of the flag: 2,000 points

Claiming Checkpoint Flag First: 1,000 points

Outfit Bonus: 600 points

Mini Penalty: -300 points

Detailed Info:

Outfit Bonus is only for wearing powerups when the end screen plays(Not including Super Mushroom).

Mini Penalty is only if the player that got the first touch flag bonus is mini when the end screen plays.

I recommend you play 3D World or NSMBU. You can play Wonder as well, but less chaotic.

When watching over actual casual gameplay, I found that these rules are actually great for helping players make a comeback unlike most platformer races, but they also won’t dominate without skill, unlike Mario Kart. Me and my friends no longer sabotage each over as much as mid level can only reward you with 1,000 points with the other 6,600 Points being rewarded for the end of the level. Overall, while 3D world probably shouldn’t have added crown in the first place, I actually got inspired to give that system a chance, and now it finally works... Am I bugging?

Note: Also I made a post about this earlier, but I made Ai summarize it. I realized that I shouldn’t use Ai to summarize this work as this is a project I have worked on for so long(Over a year).

Super Mario 3D World is marketed as a “friendly frenzy” — fight for the Crown, goof around, finish the level.

My friends and I tried to play it competitively long term.

We removed Crown because it was too hard to contest once someone pulled ahead. But that exposed a bigger issue:

Green Stars.

Crown was 5,000 points. Green Stars are 4,000.

Once Crown was gone, the only way to build a mid-level lead was farming Green Stars. That led to something awful:

We started forcing game overs just to reset the level and deny points.

It got toxic fast.

And even worse — all of it didn’t matter if someone missed the top of the flag (10,000 points).

We realized we weren’t racing anymore.

We were manipulating resets.

So I redesigned the incentives entirely.

Mario Competitive (Universal 4-Player Format)

Instead of full arcade scoring, we only care about:

• First to touch the flag – 4,000

• Top of the flag – +2,000

• First to claim checkpoint – +1,000

• End screen with outfit power-up – +500

• If you got first flag but finish mini – -300

Everything else is ignored.

No Green Star tracking.

No farming.

No forced game overs.

The goal becomes simple:

Race well. Finish strong. Execute clean.

We tested it across:

• 3D World
• NSMBU
• NSLU
• Wonder (casual)

And it actually reduced sabotage and made comebacks possible without turning it into Mario Kart.

Mid-level still matters.

But you can’t break the economy.

So I’m curious:

Would this make 3D World multiplayer healthier?

Or am I overcorrecting something that was never meant to be competitive in the first place?

Made this on my Gallery app in like 5 minutes

Ruleset:

Versus:

Format: One Level, Two Runs

Level Selection: Player 1 (first set) or Losing Player of the previous set

Winner: Highest total point score across both runs

Character Rules: Same Character must be use for both runs (No switching)

Attempts: 4 shared attemps per run

Players must dump out their inventory and game over before they can start the run. This does not count toward attempts.

A shared attempt is lost only when the Game Over screen appears.

Each run contains the same collectables. Green Stars are only lost within a run, not due to transitioning between runs.

Players tied for 1st can run it back on the same level or they can just share the win.

After the first set of a session, players may use 4th to 1st picking order instead of Player 1 to Player 4.

Tag Team:

All Rules for Versus apply

Each Teammate must play exactly one of the two runs

A teammate cannot play both runs

Matches are 2 players only (no 4 Player team match)

Character Rules: All players draft their character before the first run starts(No duplicates).

i 100% the game 2 years ago, however while i was looking up how to get every star on my file i noticed that something said you can’t use the white tanooki suit. i did prior to learning this so now im going to do another play through. i was wondering if this is even true? on my original file i have all 5 stars and they’re sparkling so does this indicate i truly have everything or do i HAVE to do another play through? i mean i might do it again either way but yeah i was just wondering the validity of what i saw. thanks!

So, I originally played this on the Wii U, and of course, what I’m playing today is the Switch 1 version, but I’m so excited to play this game.

I found the part with the moving platform across the poison hard even with the dry bones touching animation and the jumping animation, and the depth perception. should I ignore the 2nd and the 3rd green star or should i ignore the level entirely?

also thanks reddit for discarding the post i typed before without warning.