In some ways, the portable child out-wits its bigger, stronger sibling.

But the title addendum does spotlight an important distinction: Even if they share 95% of the same concept and content, these are not the exact same game. For a company known for whimsical worlds filled with magic mushrooms, time travel, tie-wearing apes, and power-sucking pink globs, it’s all a bit on the nose.Īnd so it is with Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS, a port of last fall’s Wii U game that calls out its host platform. Nintendo has always leaned towards literalism: Witness the many games on the Super Nintendo endorsed with the titular superlative, or the robust line-up of Nintendo 64 games with the requisite “64” suffix, or even their recent habit of labeling new versions of games or systems with the word “New” in the title. The industry has moved away from platform-specific versions of the same games, but it still happens on occasion when attempted, the title is the first evidence that something is amiss. Mortal Kombat for the Game Boy was just called Mortal Kombat, even if a more accurate name would have been Mortal Kombat for Game Boy: A Chunky Unplayable Mess of Stuttering Green. Once upon a time, portable versions of console games did not feel the need to have clarifying titles.

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