 Today everyone, we have some really sweet news about Super Mario Bros. Wonder. Now I do think we are on the cusp of some floodgates opening up with a likely Nintendo Direct happening in September. Remember Jeff Grubb already threw out there that he knows it's happening, although is that really much of a story in that of itself because look, during the Nintendo Switch generation, every September we've had a Direct. Now someone's gonna go out there and be like, whoa, Nate, what about 2020? Oh, I'm sorry. The year they didn't have any general Nintendo Directs, they only had the Super Mario Anniversary event and other announcements happen anyways in September. So much so, you might as well call it a Direct. So yeah, Nintendo does Directs every single September and this one's probably gonna happen shortly after Nintendo Live impacts West. So I'm actually just gonna throw it a prediction date. I think September 6th. But the thing is we gotta talk about Mario Wonder today because we do have some updated information for the game and this is probably the most anticipated Nintendo game coming out the rest of this year in terms of brand new games. Now, some of you guys might be more excited for Super Mario RPG and I know I'm excited for that game as well. But Super Mario Bros. Wonder is the next brand new game all new from Nintendo, at least as far as we're aware. Again, maybe we get some shadow drops or something crazy happening next month. Now before I dive into this news, however, I just wanna remind you we are on a road to 150,000 subscribers. So if you go ahead and drop that like, subscribe to the channel. Oh, I won't say it today, but can you just go ahead and hit that bell icon and get notified of all of our videos. So let's get into the first bit of news we have here and this one deals with an update that happened to one of the official websites. Now, this update might seem minor on its surface, but it could infer some little things about the game. So there are two little slides from this update to the website and the first slide here says Mario transforms into Elephant Mario and can use the trunk to defeat enemies. And this one isn't telling us anything new. We already saw this in the launch trailer, but I wanted to show you this one first because we're gonna come back to it because of another slide where it talks about power-up characters and items. And on this slide it says take on this adventure as familiar characters from the series like Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi and Toad and transform them with new power-up items. Now, maybe I'm reading too much into this, but it kinda sounds like Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Yoshi and Toad will all have their own unique transformations. Now, this doesn't 100% confirm it, but if you just look at the exact wording, it says Mario transforms, not transformed. So it's not necessarily referencing something that we've seen, it's just saying that this is just what Mario does. It's entirely possible that that specific power-up item is different depending on which person triggers it. Now, all of them could be Elephant Mario, all of them could be lots of various things, but it's of note that they just show Daisy pushing a pipe with another baddie and it just kinda looks like they're trying to suggest that there's going to be different power-ups for each character, different transformations. And I do find that to be really, really interesting and obviously would add a lot of unique flair to the game as you start to maybe come across your favorite characters, not just based on how floaty they are or how high they jump, these are sort of attributes we've been able to attribute to differences between characters and how they play in the past, but also what transformations they may have could impact your decision and actually end up making you choose somebody totally different. As an example, usually my favorite character to play with would be Yoshi or Luigi, but one of this time around, it's actually Daisy because her unique power-up and transformation ends up being something that I just can't get enough of. So we'll have to wait and see and I presume mostly transformations, if there are different ones from Elephant, are gonna end up being, how do I put this? Other animals, right? I don't know what those animals are gonna be, whether it's tigers and lions. Look, I'm stuck in the cat family right now, but you know what I mean. I have no idea what these different power-ups are gonna be, but I'm really excited to see what they are. Now that's not the only bit of news we have for you and this one you might, you might have seen some headlines for and I think the headlines all focused on the wrong thing because the ESRB rating dropped for this game. It does contain some brand new information and the one headline you've probably seen all over the internet is that Bowser is confirmed to be the baddie. What a shocker, it's a Mario game. Why is this even a headline? But this actually has some important detailed information about boss battles in the game and how they're going to be different from prior Mario games and I don't know why people aren't talking about this. So let's go ahead and read the ESRB rating. It says, this is a platformer game in which players control characters from the Mario universe as they try to stop the villain Bowser. Players traverse whimsical environments while jumping on enemies' heads, throwing shells slash objects at them or tossing fireballs to knock them off screen. Boss battles, this is the big one, contain more involved combat against giant enemies that breathe fire and smash parts of the scenery and I find this to be fascinating because I've played a lot of side scrolling 2D Mario games or is it really 2D anymore? Either way, side scrolling Mario games and the boss battles are all fairly simplified, right? Dodge attacks, jump on their heads. You know, there's not a lot of interactions with the scenery most of the time and they're definitely not super involved. I would argue side scrolling Mario game boss battles are often pretty basic and feel very samey. I mean, obviously coming off of the new Super Mario Bros. series where, yeah, the boss battles in my opinion all felt very, very samey but even going back to Mario Brothers 3 and Super Mario World, the boss battles are all sort of that same basic thing with not a lot of unique flavor to it and this is saying that it is gonna be much more involved combat. So this to me suggests this isn't gonna be always one of those simple run around and jump on their head like avoid attacks, jump on head, avoid attacks, jump on head, the classic stuff. Like that might be part of it but that doesn't sound like it's gonna be all of it because when I hear involved combat that suggests something to me that's gonna be much more complex and add a new level of creativity to the battles and not just all, giant enemies. So we're talking about boss battles that are going to be rather large and when I think of rather large boss battles it always harkens me over to games like even the recently released Metroid Dread where those boss battles were almost the size of your entire screen and did a lot of insane things and I don't know that every boss battle is necessarily going to be this gigantic crazy enemy but some of them will be and I feel like because of that it's gonna add a lot of unique flavor to those battles and they mentioned breathing fire yes, obviously Bowser could breathe fire and other enemies do that as well. So I'm gonna not focus on that so much outside of that. Hey, we probably gotta dodge fireballs and all of that but what about smashing parts of the scenery? This does suggest that the boss battles are going to end up being dynamic in a way that the scenery could actually change based on what that boss is doing. So let's say they're about to hit you with a giant club or something they might destroy the floor and suddenly you gotta find a way to just do wall jumps maybe without falling to your death or maybe if you do fall it opens up a new scene that you're now gonna be fighting in or maybe it just creates craters or maybe I don't know it could be so many different things. One thing I love about this piece of news is that it's vague enough to let our imaginations run wild but detailed enough to clearly suggest that there is a massive line drawn in the sand between what the prior side scrolling Mario games have done and what this side scrolling Mario game has done. And I think that is really, really exciting and maybe even something they start to show off at next month's Nintendo Directrix. Remember, once we get to next month we're not that far off from Mario Wonder. It drops in October. So they probably are gonna start the massive marketing campaign for this game off the back of that Nintendo Direct and we're gonna have a lot of news to talk about then sharing all the new power ups and all if there's more playable characters, stage information or whatever story information to do. Who knows, maybe there's a more involved story as well although you always figure if Bowser's involved it's probably a pretty simple story but we'll see, coming off the Mario movie maybe they wanted to go more complex. Also, what's up with all the voice acting? Like we have voice acting, we have talking flowers. What is up with that? Is there a reason? Are there other things that talk? I'm very, very curious how this game's gonna work and what some of the other crazy stage changing shenanigans are going to be with those wonder flowers. Anyways guys, thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nathan DeRoboJazz from Nintendo Prime. Just a man excited to play some more Mario and play something that feels and at least so far feels and looks fundamentally different from the sort of size growing Mario games we have had over the years. Enough that looks the same to be familiar but also enough that's different that makes you go I can't get enough of it. At least that's in my opinion. I obviously would love to see what you think about this news and just your excitement levels for Super Mario Bros. Wonder down below. I am Nathan DeRoboJazz from Nintendo Prime and as always folks, I'll catch you in the next video.