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 almost 11 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 flowers
 * 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

Items

 * Coin
 * Purple flower-shaped coin
 * Purple flower-shaped large coin with a 10 written in it
 * 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
 * Invincible Mario
 * Spiked ball Mario
 * Stretchy Mario
 * Elephant Mario

Blocks

 * ? Block
 * Long ? Block
 * Brick Block
 * Empty Block
 * Long Empty Block
 * Hard Block
 * Luigi Block
 * ON/OFF Switch

Transportation objects

 * Warp Pipe (green, red, yellow)

Platforms

 * Semisolid Platform
 * Mushroom Platform
 * Cloud Lift
 * Bridge

Other objects

 * Barrel
 * Checkpoint Flag
 * Goal Pole
 * Bubble containing any kind of item

Blocks

 * Purple ? Block
 * Colored sound-making block with two beamed eighth notes (♫) resembling the Note Block (red, green, blue, yellow)
 * Breakable pumpkin-like wide block

Transportation objects

 * Warp Pipe (dark grayish-green, turquoise with stars, some contain grass on them)
 * Moving Warp Pipe with eyes due to Wonder Effects
 * Pushable warp pipe

Platforms

 * Semisolid tree platform (different style in different themes)
 * Large angry-eyed top-flatted semisolid cloud platform that rains swimmable waterfall
 * Sloped semisolid platform
 * Dashing platform resembling a Dash Block

Other objects

 * Interactive purple tulip-like flower
 * Fountain with sculptured elephants
 * Goal Pole containing a blue flag with a blue four-petaled flower that is yellow in the middle
 * Toad House-like house with a swirly flower bud head replacing an end-of-level Fortress
 * Breakable sticks that spiked ball Mario rolls into
 * Flower-like sign with Mario’s cap indicating when to glide with Mario's cap

References to other games

 * Super Mario Bros. 3: A black-shelled mammalian enemy appears which resembles the original design of the Rocky Wrench from this game.
 * Super Mario World: Several of Mario's animations, as well as his cap physics, are similar to the ones in this game.
 * Super Mario Galaxy 2: Spiked ball Mario functions similarly to Rock Mario.
 * Super Mario Maker 2: ON/OFF Switches return with a design similar to that of this game's Super Mario 3D World style.
 * Mario Kart Tour: Daisy's artwork uses the same pointing pose as the from the London Tour.

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.