Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

This article is about the Nintendo Switch port of Super Mario 3D World. For the digital soundtrack album on the Nintendo Music app, see Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury (Nintendo Music).

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury
North American box art For alternate box art, see the related gallery.
Developers	Nintendo EPD Tokyo Nintendo Software Technology Corporation 1-UP Studio Panic Button (Switch 2 enhancement)
Publisher	Nintendo
Platform	Nintendo Switch (enhanced for Nintendo Switch 2)
Release dates	February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021 February 12, 2021
Languages	English Japanese Chinese (Simplified) Chinese (Traditional) Dutch French (Canada) French (Europe) German Italian Korean Portuguese (Europe) Russian Spanish (Latin America) Spanish (Europe)
Genres	Platformer, action
Ratings	ESRB: - Everyone[?] CERO: - All ages[?] PEGI: - Seven years and older[?] USK: - Six years and older[?] RARS: - Six years and older[?] ClassInd: - General audience[?] SMECCV: - All ages[?] Gmedia: - Seven years and older[?] GRAC: - All ages[?] GSRR: - Six years and older[?] NMC: - Seven years and older[?] ACB: - General[?] FPB: - Ten to twelve years[?]
Format	Nintendo Switch: Game Card Digital download
Input	Nintendo Switch: Joy-Con Joy-Con (horizontal) Nintendo Switch Pro Controller
Serial code	HAC-AUZPA-USA

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is an expanded port of Super Mario 3D World for the Nintendo Switch, released on February 12, 2021, as part of the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. The Super Mario 3D World campaign now supports local wireless and online play with up to four players, both of which were absent from the original version. There is also a standalone campaign named Bowser's Fury, which takes place in an open-world area called Lake Lapcat. After Bowser Jr. paints Bowser with black goop, the latter turns into Fury Bowser. Mario must cooperate with Bowser Jr. to collect Cat Shines and use their power to activate lighthouses and Giga Bells, both of which enable them to gradually rid Fury Bowser and Lake Lapcat of goop. As of 2024, it is recognized as the twenty-sixth entry in the Super Mario series on Mario Portal.

This game was involved in two My Nintendo missions related to the Super Mario Bros. 35th Anniversary, both of which were necessary to complete to enter the My Nintendo Super Mario Bros. Sweepstakes: Wave 2; the first involved purchasing the game itself (physically or digitally), and the second involved finding five hidden stickers on the official website for the game. Four of these stickers were the main playable characters in Cat Suits, and the fifth was a Super Bell.

A free update for the game was released on June 5, 2025, improving image quality in both handheld and docked mode, improving the frame rate, adding HDR support for Bowser's Fury, and providing support for GameShare and GameChat when played on the Nintendo Switch 2.

Super Mario 3D World

Controls

Action	Dual Joy-Con or Pro Controller Controls	Single Joy-Con Controls
Stage controls
Move
Look around	Tilt	N/A
Dash	+ /	+
Jump	/	/
Crouch	/
Item storage
Open amiibo prompt	Hold	N/A
Snapshot Mode		N/A
Use touch cursor	; touch the screen in handheld mode	; touch the screen in handheld mode
Reset camera / touch cursor		N/A
Menu
World Screen controls
Move
Look around	Tilt	N/A
Dash	+ /	+
Jump	/	/
Menu
Open map		N/A
Menu controls
Select option
Confirm
Cancel

Footnotes

Action Guide

Action	Dual Joy-Con or Pro Controller Controls	Single Joy-Con Controls
Hold items	Press near an item	Press near an item
Throw items	While holding an item, press	While holding an item, press
Spin	Rotate	Rotate
Spin Jump	While spinning, press	While spinning, press
Crouch Jump	Hold , then press	Hold , then press
Ground Pound	While in midair, press	While in midair, press
Ground Pound Jump	Press in midair, then press when hitting the ground	Press in midair, then press when hitting the ground
Long Jump	While moving, press +	While moving, press +
Roll	+	+
Rolling long jump	During a roll, press	During a roll, press
Midair roll	While in midair, press +	While in midair, press +
Side Somersault	While running, tilt in the opposite direction and press	While running, tilt in the opposite direction and press
Wall Jump	While touching a wall in midair, press	While touching a wall in midair, press
Exclusive to the Super Bell
Claw
Pounce	+	+
Claw dive	While in midair, hold	While in midair, hold
Climb walls	While touching a wall in midair, tilt	While touching a wall in midair, tilt
Exclusive to the Fire Flower
Throw fireballs
Exclusive to the Boomerang Flower
Throw boomerang
Exclusive to the Super Leaf
Tail attack
Float downward	While in midair, hold	While in midair, hold
Exclusive to multiplayer mode
Enter a bubble	+	+
Pick up a character	Press next to a character	Press next to a character
Throw a character	While holding a character, press	While holding a character, press
Synchro Ground Pound	While in midair, press at the same time as other players	While in midair, press at the same time as other players

New playable characters

Characters

Description

Toad Brigade

When playing Captain Toad's Adventures levels in multiplayer, any additional players control members of the Toad Brigade, who all share the same attributes as Captain Toad (aside from lacking a flashlight, which affects Captain Toad Plays Peek-a-Boo). Before a stage starts, all players are assigned Captain Toad (P1), Hint Toad (P2), Banktoad (P3), and Yellow Toad (P4); unlike the main characters, they cannot be swapped.

New power-up

Item	Transformation	Description
Invincibility Bell	White Cat Mario	A white and yellow striped bell similar to the Invincibility Leaf that can only be obtained by scanning the Cat Mario or Cat Peach amiibo. It gives characters a white Cat Suit, giving them the same abilities as their normal Cat forms as well as permanent invincibility. This form is similar to White Tanooki Mario and White Raccoon Mario.

Changes

Gameplay

Several enhancements are made to the overall gameplay compared to the original Wii U release:

• All characters except Captain Toad move approximately 40% faster than in the original game, in both levels and the world map.
  • To accommodate for the change in character speed, some levels, such as Conkdor Canyon, have had minor alterations to the objects within them.
• Cutscenes that serve as the intermissions between gameplay are now able to be skipped.
• Various basic character movements and abilities have been enhanced: for example, characters bouncing off of an enemy while Long Jumping now automatically perform another Long Jump, rather than a standard jump, and characters jumping while facing a wall with no directional input now slide against the wall, enabling them to Wall Jump. Additionally, Side Somersaults are now able to be performed while walking.
• When carrying objects or other characters, players no longer are required to hold ; pressing the button again is instead required to throw the object or character.
  • Due to this change, Rosalina can no longer spin while holding an object or character. Throwing distance for objects and characters has also been increased.
• Performing handstands atop trees has varying distances with directional inputs. When handstanding, characters turn clockwise if the player holds right, and counterclockwise if they hold left, which is reversed compared to the original version.
• When crouched on a slope, characters remain crouched for about one second before beginning to slide down it, rather than sliding the moment they touch the slope. When jumping while crouched and sliding down a slope, characters now perform a Long Jump instead of a regular jump.
• Rosalina has some tweaks to her gameplay: her jump is slightly less floaty and she lands slightly faster.
• In the world map, the yellow path that connects levels is created more quickly when a new level is unlocked.
• After exiting a level, the player regains control of the characters quicker, as the game now saves in the background.
• Switching between the map, course list, and Stamp chart is now done by pressing the and buttons, rather than buttons on the screen.

Gameplay improvements inspired from Super Mario Odyssey are implemented in the game:

• In addition to four save files now being present instead of three, they are saved, loaded, and copied in the same manner as in Super Mario Odyssey.
• Characters can now roll in midair, similar to the dive, and they can perform a roll or Ground Pound Jump immediately after landing from a Ground Pound.
• Characters can also fall through upright Warp Pipes when performing a Ground Pound through the center from above. Similarly, characters now enter sideways Warp Pipes immediately when rolling through the center without their momentum being interrupted.
• The sped-up variant of the Warp Pipe sound effect from Super Mario Odyssey is reused upon entering Warp Pipes in either of these ways.

Some general improvements include changing behaviors and properties of various objects and camera controls:

• Rows of coins triggered to appear by collecting certain lone coins finish appearing faster than in the original game.
• The camera no longer zooms if the player remains idle in some areas, such as the beginning of Piranha Creeper Creek, and the idle zoom does not reset if the player presses as it does in the original release.
• If players lose a life after collecting a Green Star or a Stamp, they keep it instead of having to collect it again; this does not apply to Captain Toad's levels, however.
• The Goal Pole can no longer be jumped over, as characters now snap to the top if they attempt to pass it.

The Propeller Platforms from the Wii U version (top) have been replaced with standard Lifts in the Nintendo Switch version (bottom).

Power-ups have also received improvements and alterations to their functionality:

• Green Shells can no longer be occupied idly; the shell always slides in the direction the user is facing when entered, but it can be stopped by the touch cursor. They also move faster than in the original game.
• Fireballs move faster and cover a longer distance. They also have a slightly different angle when thrown.
• The Cat forms now allow characters to climb higher. Additionally, the form's claw dive continuously dives until the character touches the ground, similarly to Super Mario Maker 2, though it does stop eventually at extremely long distances.
• For characters in the Tanooki Suit, the window to perform a charge jump while crouched during a tail spin is now much smaller, and most attempts are canceled out by a normal charged jump instead. It is also more difficult to perform a Long Jump while using a tail spin, as it is usually canceled with a normal Long Jump.

Multiplayer mode now supports both local wireless and Nintendo Switch Online connections:

• Up to two players can play on a single system in local wireless mode. In these modes, entering a bubble to rendezvous with other players can now only be performed by pressing and together instead of either one alone.
• Captain Toad's Adventures can now be played with up to four players, unlike in the original release where these levels were single-player only. For these levels, additional players play as the Toad Brigade members, with all players being assigned one to play as before a level begins.
• Similarly to normal levels, the game ranks each player's points in multiplayer in the Captain Toad levels as well, though the winning player does not get a crown.

Improvements and alterations introduced in Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker and its Nintendo Switch port are retained in this game:

• Captain Toad's headlamp can now defeat Boos and Peepas, similarly to the Light Box.
• The pause menu now features the ability to retry a course, rather than having to return to the world map to do so.
• In TV mode, gyroscopic pointer controls replace the touchscreen controls of the Wii U version, which are activated by pressing (in a similar vein to the Star Pointer in the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario Galaxy), and an emblem of the character controlling the pointer is present.
• Due to the lack of a microphone on the Nintendo Switch console, Propeller Platforms have been replaced in every level where they appeared; they are replaced by Lifts in Captain Toad Goes Forth and Puffprod Peaks, invisible clouds in Blast Block Skyway, and Touchstones in Captain Toad's Fiery Finale.

Other changes and additions to the game:

• Luigi Bros. can now only be unlocked by defeating Meowser in The Great Tower of Bowser Land; having New Super Luigi U save data on the system through ownership of New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe no longer unlocks it from the beginning. There is also now an option to quickly exit to the title screen from Luigi Bros., as opposed to being forced to exit to the Home Menu.
• Functionality for amiibo has been added, accessed by pressing