Nabbit is invincible in Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise — to my shock

Once I began my playthrough of Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise as Nabbit, I didn’t know what I used to be stepping into. I picked him purely on vibes. He jogged my memory of Ravio from The Legend of Zelda: A Hyperlink Between Worlds, and he appeared like an unlikely hero for the brand new sport. He isn’t a mannequin hero like Mario; he appears like a pesky little thief. I appreciated that about him — that’s, till I spotted he cheated me out of the standard Mario expertise.

I jumped into the sport with excessive hopes. I couldn’t wait to discover these trippy and cartoony worlds with hidden delights like full-on musical numbers with piranha vegetation. And whereas the sport definitely delivered its fair proportion of awe-inspiring moments within the early ranges, one thing felt… off. Nabbit merely collected all of the power-ups and by no means grew bigger. He didn’t remodel into an elephant after consuming the Elephant Fruit. I’d inflate the power-up into its balloon type, just for me to leap and have it return into my stock.

Moreover, Nabbit appeared eerily unresponsive to the enemies round him. In an earlier degree full of working bulls, he obtained pummeled by a whole herd of them and took it like a champ. He simply stood there as his character blinked a bit. Nonetheless, I attempted to not overthink it. I hadn’t encountered enemies like this in one other Mario sport, so I believed possibly they existed to be an impediment and never one thing that broken characters. Ideas just like the badges didn’t seem till a number of ranges in, so I figured I simply wanted to get to the best tutorial. However after a sure level, I couldn’t assist however surprise… was there one thing off about Nabbit?

Effectively, because it seems, Nabbit is particular. I didn’t know this at first, however Nabbit is one in every of two characters who doesn’t take harm and might’t use power-ups in Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise. (The opposite character is Yoshi, whom you possibly can experience in co-op). General, he’s an amazing addition to the sport. He serves as a means for individuals to tweak gameplay, permitting for a better talent vary of gamers to benefit from the sport. On the flip aspect of that, it means Nabbit won’t be the perfect selection if you wish to expertise Mario with the standard harm system and power-ups.

For my first time taking part in this sport, I didn’t get to expertise the thrilling highs of reworking right into a chunky elephant and saying, “Wowie zowie!” or the bottom lows of being a full-on punching bag for a herd of bulls. Tremendous Mario Bros. Surprise isn’t probably the most troublesome sport, so I need to play as a personality who faces the added problem of the chaos that comes with dodging and leaping over enemies — particularly within the chaotic Surprise Flower scenes. So, though I’m now opting to choose different characters from right here on out, it looks as if this little Nabbit pulled a quick one on me.