The recent free Zelda DLC for Super Mario Maker 2 makes one of the Nintendo Switch’s best games of 2019 even better. This is a game about creative expression, about letting you make your own games. It can’t grant your totally unrestricted freedom, and that wouldn’t be ideal. But the more interesting scenarios the game allows you to dream up the better. And one of the best ways for opening up possibilities is expanding the different options players can choose from in their moveset. Running and jumping as Mario is great and versatile and straightforward. But with Link players can attack with the Master Sword, block with their shield, shoot arrows, and toss bombs.
So in just the few days this DLC has been available, we’ve played Zelda-themed Super Mario Maker 2 levels that might as well be from an entirely brand new game. Mario Maker has had plenty of puzzle levels in the past. Some of our favorite levels are more about testing your brain more than your reflexes. But Link’s upgraded arsenal (and nostalgic sound effects) allows for stages that truly feel like 2D sidescrolling takes on classic Zelda dungeons, and will have you desperately wishing there wasn’t a stage timer.
Our favorite Zelda-themed levels for Super Mario Maker 2 come in all sorts of shapes and sizes. Reimaginings of Ocarina levels. A level where you swap between Mario and Link. A series of rooms locked inside the word “ZELDA” in blocks. Levels that push the utility of bombs and bows to the limit by blocking up blocks and arcing arrows. But just don’t read about them. Play them for yourself.
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