Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is an upcoming 2D Super Mario game for the Nintendo Switch, announced during the June 21, 2023 Nintendo Direct, and is planned to be released on October 20, 2023. The game features a new art style and power-ups, including the Wonder Flower, with Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Princess Daisy, Yoshis of different colors, and Yellow Toad as playable characters. It is the first new full-fledged 2D Mario game since New Super Mario Bros. U released over 10 years prior. Not counting entries in the Super Mario Maker series and Super Mario Run, it is the first 2D Mario game to not use the New Super Mario Bros. label since Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins.

Playable characters

 * Mario
 * Luigi
 * Peach
 * Daisy
 * Yellow Toad
 * Yoshis (green, red, light-blue, and yellow)

Non-player characters

 * Talking flower
 * Flowers that propel the player and platforms upwards
 * A species of Toad-like people with swirly flower bud heads
 * A character that resembles a green caterpillar

Unspecified

 * A Goomba with Blue Toad's cap

Returning

 * Big Wigglers (skating)
 * Cheep Cheeps
 * Giant Spiked Balls (golden)
 * Goombas (including sleeping ones and long-necked ones)
 * Goombrats
 * Piranha Plants (capable of walking)
 * Koopa Paratroopas
 * Koopa Troopas (including pink skating ones)
 * Spinies

New

 * Cowardly shelled chipmunk-like enemies
 * Cloud-like bison enemies
 * Piped nudibranch-like creatures acting similar to underwater Piranha Plants
 * Spherical hippos that can be knocked into a roll
 * Long-diagonal Bullet Bill variants
 * Spiked snail creatures that leap upwards
 * Differently sized sinister thunderclouds
 * Sledge Bro-like creatures that can push pipes
 * Pipe climbing snails
 * Squat creatures with tall flat foreheads
 * Stacked bamboo creatures
 * Flying bloated fish-like creatures with different colors
 * Swarming magenta spiked creatures
 * White Goomba-like creatures with red-rimmed goggles
 * Round black creatures
 * A Koopa resembling both Dark Bowser and Bowser Jr.

Items

 * Coin
 * Purple flower-shaped coin
 * Purple flower-shaped large coin with a 10 written in it
 * Fire Flower
 * Super Mushroom
 * Unnamed elephant-like fruit (turns Mario into Elephant Mario)
 * Wonder Flower
 * Wonder Seed (also written as "Wonderseed" )

Forms

 * Small Mario
 * Super Mario
 * Fire Mario
 * Spiked ball Mario
 * Elephant Mario

References to other games

 * Super Mario World: Several of Mario's animations, as well as his cap physics, are similar to the ones in this game. . The "?" on ? Blocks scroll left like in this game.
 * Super Mario Maker 2: ON/OFF Switches return with a design similar to that of this game's Super Mario 3D World style.

Descriptions

 * Nintendo UK: Step into a world of wonder in Super Mario Bros. Wonder for Nintendo Switch! Classic Mario side-scrolling gameplay is turned on its head with the addition of Wonder Flowers! These game-changing items trigger spectacular moments you have to see to believe. Witness pipes coming alive, wreak havoc as a giant spiky ball, and see even more unexpected events called Wonder Effects.

Trivia

 * Although the full extent is currently unknown, Super Mario Bros. Wonder appears to include some references to the Japan-exclusive animated film Super Mario Bros.: Peach-hime Kyūshutsu Dai Sakusen!:
 * One of the levels is called "Welcome to the Flower Kingdom!" The Flower Kingdom was mentioned at the end of the film as the kingdom the Prince Haru ruled. Similarly to what the film claims, the Flower Kingdom appears to neighbor the Mushroom Kingdom, as it appears in the background of one of the levels.
 * The new Toad-like species has a somewhat similar appearance to how Toads appeared in the film.
 * The caterpillar-esque character has similar attributes to Kibidango, the transformed state of Prince Haru that he appears in for most of the film.