Basics

Learn the essential basics of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, including character abilities, power-ups, enemy types, and core gameplay mechanics to enhance your adventure.

This guide covers the fundamental aspects of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury, including character differences, available power-ups, enemy behaviors, and basic controls.

Characters

Each character in Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury offers unique advantages and disadvantages:

• Mario: An all-round character with easy controls but no special abilities.
• Princess Peach: Can hover in midair for a short time and sprint earlier, but runs significantly slower.
• Luigi: Has the ability to jump higher than any other character but sprints slowly and has low traction.
• Toad: The fastest character in the game but suffers a terrible jump due to his small stature.
• Rosalina: Has a spin attack and a high jump but runs slow and loses her spin attack when she acquires a power-up.

Power-Ups

Power-ups transform Mario and friends, granting new abilities:

• Super Mushroom: Makes the character larger. If hit, they revert to their small form.
• Fire Flower: Grants the ability to shoot fireballs, useful for defeating enemies at a range.
• Super Bell: Allows the user to don a Cat Suit with abilities to claw at foes and climb walls for a limited time. A mid-air pounce is also possible.
• Double Cherry: Creates an additional clone of the character, useful for puzzles requiring multiple characters.
• Super Leaf: Grants the Tanooki Suit, allowing the character to hover in the air for a length of time.
• Mega Mushroom: Makes characters huge and virtually invincible, with the ability to smash trees and large blocks without taking damage.
• Super Star: Makes the character invincible and unable to die from enemy hits (falling still results in death).
• Gold Leaf: Grants a White Tanooki suit, which is an infinite Super Star and Tanooki Suit combination. This power-up appears if you fail a level several times consecutively, and using it renders level completion null.
• Propeller Box: Allows the character to fly through the air for short stints.
• Lucky Bell: Similar to the Cat Suit, but a Ground Pound turns the character into an invincible golden statue that produces coins.
• Kuribo's Skate: Allows a character to use a skate for better movement, especially on icy surfaces.
• Goomba Suit: Lets the wearer go incognito, avoiding enemies as long as it's worn.

Enemies

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury features a variety of enemies, some new and some returning:

• New Enemies: Ant Trooper, Big Ant Trooper, Big Galoomba, Blockstepper, Blurker, Brolder, Cat Banzai Bill, Cat Bullet Bill, Cat Goomba, Charvaargh, Conkdor, Flopter, Fuzzler, Grumblump, Hop-Chop, Horned Ant Trooper, Ka-Thunk, Madpole, Parabones, Piranha Creeper, Rammerhead, Ring Burner, Skipsqueak, Snow Pokey, Spiny Skipsqueak, Splorch, Splounder, Ty-Foo, Walleye.
• Returning Enemies: Baddie Boxes, Banzai Bill, Banzai Bill Blaster, Beach Koopa, Biddybud, Big Boo, Bill Blast, Blooper, Blue Lava Bubble, Bob-omb, Boo, Boomerang Bro, Bullet Bill, Bully, Cannon, Cannonball, Chargin' Chuck, Cheep-Cheep, Coin Coffer, Firebar, Fire Bro, Fire Piranha Plant, Fizzlit, Fuzzy, Galoomba, Goomba, Goomba Tower, Hammer Bro, Koopa Troopa, Lava Bubble, Magikoopa, Micro-Goomba, Octoomba, Para-Biddybud, Peepa, Piranha Plant, Big Piranha Plant, Porcupuffer, Raining Debris, Spike, Spiny, Stingby, Thwomp.
• Bosses: Bowser, Boom Boom, Pom Pom, Hisstocrat, Boss Brolder, King Ka-Thunk, Prince Bully, Motley Bossblob.

Most enemies can be defeated by jumping on them, but some require specific power-ups. The Cat or Tanooki Power-Up allows for swipes, the Fire Power-Up shoots fireballs, and the Boomerang Power-Up can clear multiple enemies. The Super Star makes the character invincible, defeating all enemies on touch.

Character Control

Here are the basic controls for Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury:

Movement & Actions

• Spin Jump: Rotate the analog stick in either direction to begin spinning, then jump to reach maximum height from a standing position.
• Long Jump: While running, crouch then jump for a low height but long distance leap.
• Crouch Jump: Crouch for a few seconds until Mario shakes, then jump to perform a backflip with considerable height.
• Ground Pound: While in mid-air, press the crouch button to quickly smash enemies, blocks, and other objects.
• Ground Pound Jump: Jump again the moment you land from a Ground Pound to maintain momentum.
• Somersault: Crouch down then dash to perform a somersault, which can break blocks that cannot be ground pounded.
• Side Somersault: Dash in one direction, then simultaneously reverse direction and jump to tumble away.

Button Mappings (Wii U GamePad)