Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s talking flowers can be muted, but you can’t stop their hints
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s talkative flowers can be silenced, but you won’t be able to entirely escape their hints and comments, Nintendo has confirmed.
As has been shown in the game’s trailers, in the upcoming 2DMariogame, alongside the elephant power-up and zany moments of surprise triggered by the game’s mysterious ‘Wonder Flowers’, the colorful world is also populated by cheerful speaking flowers. It’s quite rare to seeMariocharacters speaking in full sentences (although it has happened on multiple occasions in the past), but these floral friends are fully fluent in their speech.
Based on the in-game footage that’s been revealed so far, the phrases the flowers say range from quick quips and funny comments to hints at how to proceed in levels. Now, Eurogamerreportsthat it’s been confirmed that players will be able to switch off either the text or audio dialogue for the flowers - but not both. So it’s not going to be possible to play without gettingsomehelp from them.
Typically, traditional 2DMariogames don’t tend to contain that many head-scratching situations, so it seems unlikely that the flowers’ presence will detract from players’ enjoymentthatmuch (unless playingUndertalemade them permanently distrustful of any flora or fauna that has a grasp of the human language). Hopefully, it could lead to some more meme-worthy moments when the game releases - the internet has already seen more than its fair share of one of the flowers saying “well then” in response to Elephant Mario sending a sleeping Goomba flying off the screen.
There’s not too much longer to wait forSuper Mario Bros. Wonder- it’s set to launch exclusively onNintendo Switchon October 20.
For moreupcoming games, be sure to check out our roundup ofupcoming Nintendo Switch gamesfor 2023 and beyond. But if you want something for the here and now, check out our picks of thebest Nintendo Switch gamesout now.
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Catherine is a News Writer for TechRadar Gaming. Armed with a journalism degree from The University of Sheffield, she was sucked into the games media industry after spending far too much time on her university newspaper writing about Pokémon and cool indie games, and realising that was a very cool job, actually. She previously spent 19 months working at GAMINGbible as a full-time journalist. She loves all things Nintendo, and will never stop talking about Xenoblade Chronicles.
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