Super Mario Bros. Wonder

Mild overall intensity
Highest flag: Violence — cartoon/stylized
AdventureFantasyPlatformer

What's in it

Violence cartoon/stylized
Low

Stylized cartoon platforming action: players stomp on or knock out enemies like Goombas and Piranha Plants, who simply vanish or flip over, with no blood or injury shown.

Who can reach your kid

What it is

Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a colorful 2D side-scrolling platformer in which Mario and friends run and jump through levels of the Flower Kingdom to stop Bowser, who has fused with a castle and plans to take over. Play centers on hopping across platforms, collecting seeds, using transforming power-ups (like an elephant fruit or drill hat), and defeating cartoon enemies by jumping on them. The content is gentle throughout: no blood, no bad language, no sexual material, and no substances. Its optional online feature lets faint 'ghost' versions of other players appear alongside you in a level to help each other, but there is no built-in text or voice chat with strangers.

How it's framed

The game frames its conflict as lighthearted, good-natured adventure: heroes cooperate to rescue captured citizens and stop a comic villain, with challenges presented as playful obstacles rather than real peril, and no morally weighty or disturbing subject matter.

Details

Developer
Nintendo EPD
Publisher
Nintendo
Released
2023-10-20
Metacritic 92critic score (third-party) · out of 100

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