Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS sounds like the perfect marriage take the brilliant Wii U title and make it portable. The point is that these games have an educational element, which can help people appreciate games more, or even take the first steps of a career into them. The sharing element allows these games to have an unlimited replayability, and as a very, very light introduction to game design, these games can get people interested in taking the next step, to perhaps check out RPG Maker or Game Maker on their way to Unity, Unreal, and full game development. They encourage players to learn the basics of game design, and help players to understand why the best levels are constructed in the way that they are. Games that allow players to create and share their own levels are so incredibly valuable. Related reading: Brad's review of Super Mario Maker on the Nintendo Wii U - it's a genuine 5/5 game, right there.

Offering players a comprehensive toolset to create entire levels just as the good folks at Nintendo itself do, the game was perhaps the greatest example of a user-generated content game that we’ve ever seen. Nintendo realised the dreams of many of its fans when it released Super Mario Maker on the Nintendo Wii U last year.

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