Feast Your Eyes Upon These 3DS Gameplay Demos

There are a couple new, and decently-long, gameplay demos of two yet to be-released Nintendo 3DS games. The first demo is for Mario Kart 3DS and is four minutes long, while the second is for Super Mario 3DS and is six minutes long.

The Super Mario demo has transposed the game’s audio over the video footage for superior audio quality, while, unfortunately, the Mario Kart demo is a straight up camera pointed at the screen with muffled audio. However, it’s always a treat to some of Retro Studios’ work.

There are a lot of similarities between the gameplay and look for the new Super Mario and Galaxy. It’s pretty self-evident that they’re using the same engine and gameplay style, while at the same time going back to Mario’s roots. I’m very happy that, out of what we’ve heard so far, that it harkens back specifically to Super Mario Brothers 3, which is, in my personal opinion, the best Mario game ever made (haters gonna hate). I’m not really a Mario fan (hence his absence from my list of most wanted Wii U games list), so I won’t be rushing out to get this game, but I’ll admit it does look nice.

As for Kart, it looks nice and slick, but I’m going to have to see more before I’m convinced of buying it any time soon. I already know that it’s one of those games I’ll buy after finding it in a used bin several years after its released. I say this as no discredit to Mario Kart. My love for the franchise is from the N64 era, and I never felt like any of the games that came afterwards we’re different enough to catch my interest. However, I do love that you can race your friend’s without seeing their screen. Yeah, I know that this was possible of on the DS, but I haven’t owned a handheld game since Game Boy Color (which still works by the way, except for the color part).

Readers, which of these games are you more excited for?

Source: Nintendo Fuse.