Super Mario Bros. Wonder: 93 Metacritic / 92 Opencritic

[HyrulianScrolls]

haxxiy said:

HyrulianScrolls said:

Absolutely insane meta for a full priced 2D game in 2023. Even Dread which was basically a perfect 2D Metroid couldn’t crack the 90s. Wonder is going to end up as the 2nd best selling game lt on Switch, you can quote me on that. 2D Mario is a sales monster in its own right, the reviews + gigantic switch base is going to make this explode.

Yeah, it's just the fourth 2D platform game in the last ten years to score a 90+ on Meta. The others were Ori, Rayman Legends, and Celeste. (Hollow Knight and Dead Cells fell short by only one point.)

That being said, Metroid was done dirty to miss a higher score due to a mid soundtrack, because Wonder is guilty of that too. Most of the new tracks are safe and nothing really stands out.

Yeah we’ve had 2D games score this high this century, but they’ve pretty much all been indies which are graded on a different curve. I think the only full priced 2D game viewed as more “AAA” to get near this score would be Rayman as you mentioned.