Some of Nintendo s best efforts released during the Wii U generation and many people missed out on those games, because there were a lot of people who didn t own the ill-fated console. It s been great to see some of that system s best games release on the Nintendo Switch and now Switch owners have received arguably the Wii U s best title: Super Mario 3D World.
There s a lot to say about Super Mario 3D World. A lot of it will sound familiar to anybody who read Shacknews at the end of 2013. That s because this was our 2013 Game of the Year and everything that was said then still applies today. The more interesting conversation surrounds Bowser s Fury, the new side story. It s one of the most interesting Mario experiences in a long time, just because it feels both familiar and refreshingly different.
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Sunshine looms large over Bowser s Fury, the expansion that s being bundled into next month s re-release of Super Mario 3D World. It s there from the second you boot it up - which you can do at any point, as this is a standalone experience - though I can t go into specifics just yet. Rather, I can give you a small taste of this most curious of offshoots.
It could be described as something of an off-cut, as Bowser s Fury is built from repurposed assets from Super Mario 3D World - the eight way movement has been opened out a bit here but it s still paired with a sprint button and the same lack of triple jump, as well as the same suite of excellent power-ups including the Cat Suit which once again takes top-billing - but Mario s often been not so much about the building blocks but what Nintendo s designers do with them, and that s certainly the case here.
osaka is who we should be talking about. she played better. she won. she is a champion. we should be talking about her. the reason we are talking about this, serena has changed some things when it comes to tennis. she has been, as you said, there have been issues when it comes to serena and her being a woman. i want you guys to look at this cartoon drawn in australia s herald sun. it shows a cartoonist version of serena breaking her racquet and appearing to cry after spitting out a pacifier. she carries the weight of women, black women, young girls on her shoulders. what messaging does a cartoon like that send? it s a terrible message. serena has crossed over from the court to our culture in a big way especially this year giving birth almost exactly a year ago. the cat suit, for example, that was much more than just an outfit. it was important for her
serena has crossed over from the court to our culture in a big way especially this year giving birth almost exactly a year ago. the cat suit, for example, that was much more than just an outfit. it was important for her medically for the blood clots for the compression on her legs. and as a message to new mothers everywhere. she is reaching out to people saying it s tough. i m struggling. i understand your struggles, too. i think you can make a case this has been the most important year in serena s life. not just because she gave birth. serena has branched out in amazing ways. of course, the greatest of all time in tennis, i think the greatest female athlete in any sport ever, but much more important i think in terms of our culture. here she is in the middle of this. terrible cartoon. everyone focussed on serena. serena is going to take us to another conversation about equality that we should
of women s tennis and she had to know where she was after she broke that racquet and she didn t and she seemed shocked that the guy took a game away from her when she called him a liar and a thief. that said, i think she was justified i think you re right as an elite athlete she had to get herself together in order to play the game, but i understand exactly her emotion, her anger and i think she s absolutely right, mike, to point out the very gendered way in which she was responded to. i think we need to be mindful of that, and moving forward as young women play sport, as they encounter the gendered way in which they re treated, how they re supposed to comport themselves, whether it s with a cat suit, whether how she s dressed, how she plays, her physical stature, she needs to defend herself and she took it upon herself at that moment,