Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury

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This article is about the Nintendo Switch port of the Super Mario 3D World game. For more information on the game's original Wii U version, see Super Mario 3D World.

Template:Infobox Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is an expanded port of Super Mario 3D World for the Nintendo Switch, released on February 12, 2021 as part of the 35th anniversary of Super Mario Bros. It features a standalone story known as Bowser's Fury, which takes place in an open-world-styled area called Lake Lapcat and involves Mario and Bowser Jr. cooperating to stop Fury Bowser. The Super Mario 3D World game also supports local wireless and online play, both of which were absent from the original version.

The game is subject to two 35th Anniversary-related My Nintendo missions, both of which are necessary to complete for the wave 2 prizes: The first involves buying the game itself (whether physically or digitally), and the second involves finding five hidden stickers on the official site, four of which are the cast in Cat outfits, and one of which is a Super Bell.

Super Mario 3D World

New playable characters

Characters	Description
Toad Brigade	When playing the Captain Toad's Adventures levels in multiplayer, the additional players will play as members of the Toad Brigade, who all share the same attributes as Captain Toad. Player 2 plays as Hint Toad, Player 3 plays as Banktoad, and Player 4 plays as Yellow Toad.

New power-up

Image	Transformation	Description
Invincibility Bell	White Cat Mario	If a Cat Mario amiibo is scanned, an Invincibility Bell spawns in front of Mario, transforming him into White Cat Mario. It has the same concept as White Tanooki Mario, granting him invincibility while in this form, but Mario can use the abilities of Cat Mario.

List of changes

The updated graphics

Gameplay

• amiibo functionality has been added.
• The players' movement speed has been increased.
  • Certain levels such as Conkdor Canyon have had some changes to their level objects to accommodate for this change.
• Players can climb higher when in their Cat forms.
• Players can now roll in midair.
• Players now fall through upright Warp Pipes when performing a Ground Pound above them, matching their behavior in Super Mario Odyssey.
  • Players can also roll into sideways Warp Pipes like in Super Mario Odyssey.
• Multiplayer mode now supports both local wireless and Nintendo Switch Online connections. Up to two players can play on a single system in local wireless mode.
• Captain Toad's Adventures can now be played with up to four players, unlike the original game where it was single-player only. For these levels, additional players play as the Toad Brigade members.
  • Similar to normal levels, the game also ranks the players' points in multiplayer in the Captain Toad levels as well, though the winning player does not get a crown.
  • If the final Green Star is collected as a small Toad, they will do the victory pose with their mouth opened instead of closed.
• As with the Nintendo Switch version of Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker:
  • Propeller Platforms are replaced with normal Lifts due to the lack of a microphone on the console.
  • Gyroscopic pointer controls replace the touchscreen controls of the Wii U version, which are activated by pressing . An icon of the character controlling the pointer is present.
• Due to the discontinuation of Miiverse, the stamps are now used in a new Snapshot Mode, similar to the one seen in Super Mario Odyssey.
  • The stamps' pictures are now colored instead of black and white, and are more spread out on the stamps page.

Aesthetic

• The game's graphics have been slightly updated.
• The UI for the Item Storage has been revamped with a dark translucent circle and new button icons.
• The UI for lives and coins lacks the "×" icon between the images and numbers.
• The interior shadows on the UI have been removed.
• The UI is smaller than in the original game.

Bowser's Fury

Story

Bowser's Fury is a new standalone adventure included in the game. In the intro to this mode, Mario is walking around a grassy field when a puddle of black goo is formed from a black graffiti of the logo of Shadow Mario, which then grows. Mario falls in, and lands in a rainy Lake Lapcat, falling head-first into a large footprint left by Bowser. After revealing the rest of Lake Lapcat by collecting a Cat Shine, he finds Bowser Jr. who tells him Bowser has been corrupted by black paint (similar to what happened in Paper Mario: Color Splash) causing him to transform into the gargantuan Fury Bowser. While it is never established how it happened, Bowser Jr.'s paintings in the end credits imply that he painted Bowser with black paint, which unintentionally caused his transformation. The towers on the island are covered in this paint, with the waters also covered in this substance as well as having large spiked pillars sticking out of it.

Gameplay

The game revolves around freeing every island from Fury Bowser by recovering Cat Shines from the paint-covered lighthouses. At random time intervals, Fury Bowser periodically emerges nearby from the Fury Sun. When this happens, the weather becomes stormy and he terrorizes the surroundings of the island through large beams of fire and meteors falling from the sky. The nearby cats also become black and start attacking Mario. Bowser will fall back into slumber either after a brief period of time or if a Cat Shine is collected. On three corners of Lake Lapcat, there are Giga Bells, also fallen into slumber by the dark goop, and can only be activated by collecting a certain amount of Cat Shines. When this happens, Mario can touch the bell to become Giga Cat Mario, who is then able to fight Fury Bowser and force him into slumber, allowing Mario access to more islands. Lake Lapcat appears to be a vast open-world setting that is gradually unlocked as more islands are freed from Fury Bowser, extending the sandbox concept of Super Mario Odyssey. Mario can run around the island, climb up the lighthouses, and go from one Giga Bell area to the others by riding Plessie. Every island makes usage of Mario's different power-ups and abilities.

Playable characters

Character	Description
Mario	The only character from the Super Mario 3D World cast who is playable in Bowser's Fury and acts as the central playable character in this mode. He controls identical to how he does in said game and can utilize the game's power-ups and stage gimmicks to collect Cat Shines.
Bowser Jr.	In single-player, Bowser Jr. acts as an AI-controlled partner but can be played with a second player as well. He cannot use power-ups, but he flies in his Junior Clown Car and can use his Magic Paintbrush to attack enemies or paint on walls with question marks to reveal items. He can also collect coins for Mario, and he produces items the player selects from the Item Storage. In single-player, the player can control and aim where Bowser Jr. goes to use his paintbrush, and the level of AI assistance can be altered or disabled entirely in the settings. By collecting all 100 Cat Shines, Bowser Jr. transforms into a cat variation of himself known as Meowser Jr., with his Junior Clown Car also gaining whiskers, though these are merely aesthetic changes.

Supporting cast

Character	Description
Cats	The residents of Lake Lapcat. During the day, Mario can pick them up and use them to scratch at various items, similar to Cat Mario. When Fury Bowser attacks, they become corrupted and attack Mario.
Mother calico cat	A larger cat who is a mother of younger calico cats, who constantly go missing. If Mario brings them back to the mother, he will be rewarded with a Cat Shine.
Plessie	Plessie from the Super Mario 3D World adventure reappears in this mode, where it has the ability to dive, which allows it to avoid low-hanging obstacles, or perform a high jump if it jumps right after diving. After collecting the three Giga Bells, Plessie becomes a giant Cat Plessie and permanently stays as Cat Plessie after the main story is completed.
Archivist Toadette	After completing the main story, Toadette will appear near Fur Step Island and ask Mario and Bowser Jr. to find Captain Toad, Hint Toad, Banktoad, and Yellow Toad around Lake Lapcat, who will each give a Cat Shine when found. It is currently unknown what happens with Toadette once all four Toad Brigade members are found.

Enemies

New

Image	Description
Dark variation of the cat species	Cats become dark when Fury Bowser attacks Lake Lapcat. They chase Mario upon sight.
Fury Shadows	Dark, goop-covered variations of Luigi that Mario must chase to get a Cat Shine, much like Shadow Mario in Super Mario Sunshine. They must be hit three times to defeat them, and every time they are hit, they transform into a spiky black goop ball and dash away.

Cat variations

While Bowser's Fury does not introduce many new enemies, the enemies that come from Super Mario 3D World are seen with cat-like features, such as cat ears, fur, paws, and a tail, though unlike the Cat Goombas in Super Mario 3D World, these cat appearances are only aesthetic changes, without gaining any differing abilities (the only exceptions to this are Cat Bullet Bills, which still home in on the player like their Super Mario 3D World counterpart). As such, the Cat Goombas in Bowser's Fury behave like regular Goombas, and have their standard brown coloring.

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  Cat Biddybuds

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  Cat Bob-ombs

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  Cat Boomerang Bros.

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  Cat Blocksteppers

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  Cat Bullet Bills

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  Cat Bullies

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  Cat Cheep Cheeps

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  Cat Coin Coffers

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  Cat Conkdors

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  Cat Fire Bros.

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  Cat Fire Piranha Plants

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  Cat Flopters

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  Cat Fuzzlers

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  Cat Fuzzies

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  Cat Goombas

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  Cat Goomba Towers

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  Cat Ice Skate Goombas

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  Cat Koopa Troopas

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  Cat Magikoopas

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  Cat Piranha Creepers

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  Cat Piranha Plants

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  Cat Rammerheads

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  Cat Skipsqueaks

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  Cat Snow Pokies

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  Cat Spikes

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  Cat Splounders

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  Cat Stingbies

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  Cat Swim Ring Goombas

Bosses

Fury Bowser	Cat Boom Boom	Cat Pom Pom	Cat Prince Bully	Unnamed final boss form of Bowser
Lake Lapcat	Clawswipe Colosseum	Clawswipe Colosseum	Mount Magmeow	Lake Lapcat

Locations

Lake Lapcat is split into three main areas represented by a Giga Bell. Each Giga Bell features four different islands, with each island containing a lighthouse that is covered in goop. By collecting the first Cat Shine of the island, the goop is removed and the lighthouse's light gets rid of the goop nearby, though after Fury Bowser attacks, they become covered in goop again.

There are a total of 100 Cat Shines in the game, some of which can only be collected after beating the final boss. 60 of them come from the 12 main islands which each contain five Cat Shines, with three being standard missions, one being earned by finding the five Cat Shine Shards hidden around the island, and another earned by having Fury Bowser break some Fury Blocks to reveal it. When all five Cat Shines of an island are collected, a cat variation of the Goal Pole will appear on top of the lighthouse, which comes with a spring object. 35 of them come from Lake Lapcat itself, which contains a multitude of Cat Shines that are separately counted from each other. The last five come from a special golden island called the Lucky Isle, which appears post-game during a Fury Bowser rampage, but disappears when one of its five Cat Shines is collected.

Fury Bowser must be fought a total of six times to complete the story. To do so, Mario will need to use one of the three available Giga Bells, though, after each fight with Fury Bowser, the number of Cat Shines needed to activate the Giga Bells increases, from 5, 15, 20, 40, and 50 Cat Shines. When the Giga Bell is used to defeat Fury Bowser, the next Giga Bell area will open up revealing new islands.

On a side note, while Fur Step Island is the first location visited in the game, only the first Cat Shine can be obtained while the other four and its Cat Shine Shards can only be obtained once the main story is completed.

Giga Bell	Locations	Island Cat Shines	Other Lake Lapcat Shines
Lakeside Giga Bell	File:Marioshipwreckarea.png Fur Step Island	Make the Lighthouse Shine Junior's Graffiti Gratitude! Fury Shadow on Deck Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks	Climb to the Shine Shoreside Rabbit Plays Tag Hurry! Dash and Dive! Lost Kitten by the Shore
	Scamper Shores	Make the Lighthouse Shine Fury Shadow by the Shore Key to the Cat Shine Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
	Pounce Bounce Isle	Make the Lighthouse Shine Hurry! Jump High, Jump Fast! Key to the Cat Shine Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
	Fort Flaptrap	Bully the Cat Bullies Blue Coin Bustle Show's Over, Cat Magikoopas Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
Ruins Giga Bell	Slipskate Slope	Make the Lighthouse Shine Blue Coin Bustle Key to the Cat Shine Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks	Ruins Rabbit Plays Tag Go with the Floe Hurry! Slide through the Sky! Dash and Smash in the Clouds Slippery Skirmish Gazing Down at the Islands Hurry! Swim and Slide! Cold Cove Combat Lost Kitten near the Ruins
	Clawswipe Colosseum	Clash with Cat Boom Boom Cat Pom Pom's Counterattack Final Bout with Cat Boom Boom Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
	Trickity Tower	So Close Yet So Far Blue Coin Bustle Hurry! Watch Your Step! Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
	Crisp Climb Castle	Make the Lighthouse Shine Hurry! Fly through the Frost! Fury Shadow on Ice Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
Wasteland Giga Bell	Risky Whisker Island	Fury Shadow Hops to It Feasting on Fuzzies Hurry! Hop behind the Wall! Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks	Footprint Free-for-all Spin, Scramble, Shine On the Floodgate's Edge Hurry! Climb the Falls! Gazing Over the Falls Surprise Prizefight Jump and Thump in the Clouds
	Pipe Path Tower	Make the Lighthouse Shine Blue Coin Bustle Key to the Cat Shine Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
	Roiling Roller Isle	Make the Lighthouse Shine Hurry! Hot Cross Run! Key to the Cat Shine Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
	Mount Magmeow	Back Off, Cat Prince Bully! Atop Mount Magmeow Hurry! Steer the Switchboards! Five Cat Shine Shards Blast the Fury Blocks
None	Lucky Isle	First Lucky Shine Second Lucky Shine Third Lucky Shine Fourth Lucky Shine Fifth Lucky Shine

Items

New power-up

Image	Transformation	Description
Giga Bell	Giga Cat Mario	Three Giga Bells, which are a giant variation of the Super Bell, are present around Lake Lapcat, and Mario uses them to transform into Giga Cat Mario, a giant version of Cat Mario that resembles a komainu. Mario transforms into this form to fight against Fury Bowser. They are initially covered in goop and require a certain amount of Cat Shines to free them and use them to fight Fury Bowser. When all 100 Cat Shines are collected, Cat Mario's appearance changes to resemble Giga Cat Mario, though this is merely aesthetic and does not change Cat Mario's abilities. This change also applies to Lucky Cat Mario (excluding the golden statue form) and does not appear in Super Mario 3D World.

Collectibles

Image	Description
Cat Shine	A sun-shaped object with a cat's face on it, similar to Power Stars, Shine Sprites, and Power Moons. They are used to activate the lighthouses around Lake Lapcat and the Giga Bells.
Cat Shine Shard	A medal that takes the shape of a cat's head. On each island, five of them must be collected to make a Cat Shine appear.
Plessie Medal	Medals with Plessie's head on them. They are found within the waters of Lake Lapcat, and when Plessie collects one, it will move to a different location, where it will stay for a short amount of time. Once the medal is collected a certain amount of times, a Cat Shine will be rewarded.

New objects

Image	Description
Trigger objects
Red Jump Panel	A giant, red variation of the Jump Panel. They launch Mario much higher than their orange counterparts.
Ground-Pound Switch	A switch that must be Ground Pounded by Mario to activate. When activated, the switch temporarily reveals a path leading to a Cat Shine, which must be collected before the time limit expires.
Key	Keys that have cat ears and can be carried by Mario and used to open the locks on caged Cat Shines.
Blocks and platforms
Fury Block	A block with Bowser's emblem on it. It can only be broken by Fury Bowser's attacks, and on each island, there are Fury Blocks that reveal a Cat Shine.
File:Furyplatform.png Unnamed Fury Bowser platform	Platforms made out of large pieces of wood that are produced by Fury Bowser and plunged into either the ground or walls. Mario call climb up these, and some of them have Mushroom Trampolines on them.
File:Goldrock.png Unnamed golden rock	A giant gold block that resembles a Moon Rock. Fury Bowser can break them with his fire powers to reveal several coins.
Transportation objects
Unnamed spring object	A spring-like stage gimmick that involves Mario performing a handstand on it, similar to Trees, before springing off into the distance.

Differences from Super Mario 3D World

• Bowser's Fury runs at a variable resolution in TV mode, which can drop to as low as 1280x720.
  • In handheld mode, the game runs at 30 frames per second.
• There are no lives in this mode. Instead, a random power-up is given for every 100 coins collected. The player loses 50 coins upon dying.
• The HUD for the coin count is placed in the bottom left corner of the screen rather than the top left.
• Instead of the Item Storage holding one item, Mario can store up to five Super Mushrooms, Super Bells, Fire Flowers, Super Leaves, and Boomerang Flowers each. In addition, Lucky Bells can be stored later in the game. Pressing up opens the menu allowing the player to choose a power-up.
• The game's camera is fully controllable by the player.
• The game is 1-2 players instead of 1-4 players and does not support online or local wireless play.
• Mario is the only playable character, with Bowser Jr. as a companion. Bowser Jr. only appears in the Bowser's Fury adventure.
• Mario has full 360-degree movement, instead of being restricted to eight directions.
• Plessie has the ability to dive underwater before jumping. There are also new visual effects for its high jump, and can also be performed in single player. In Super Mario 3D World, Plessie can only perform the high jump in multiplayer, and all players must jump at the same time to activate it.

amiibo

Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury features amiibo support for all amiibo figures, with Cat Mario and Cat Peach amiibo figures launching alongside the game. The player is granted an item depending on which amiibo is scanned:

• Scanning the Cat Mario amiibo produces an Invincibility Bell that turns Mario into White Cat Mario.
• Scanning the Cat Peach amiibo produces a random power-up.
• Scanning any Bowser amiibo produces a Super Star in Super Mario 3D World and makes Fury Bowser appear in Bowser's Fury.
• Scanning the Bowser Jr. amiibo produces a Super Star in Super Mario 3D World and makes a shockwave appear that knocks out blocks and enemies in Bowser's Fury.
• Scanning any other amiibo of characters in the Super Mario series produces a Super Star in both modes.
• Scanning any amiibo outside of the Super Mario series produces a 1-Up Mushroom in Super Mario 3D World and a Super Mushroom in Bowser's Fury.

Pre-release and unused content

The pre-release version of the North American boxart

Because Bowser Jr. and Fury Bowser had not yet been confirmed to appear in Bowser's Fury, the Bowser's Fury section of the box art initially only contained the logo, while the section also took up a smaller portion of the box. Because of that, Cat Luigi appears on the pre-release box, but not on the final box.

Update history

Version 1.1.0

Release date: February 11, 2021

• Fixed various issues to improve the overall gameplay experience.

Reception

Critical response

Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu rated Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury a score of 36/40 (two points lower than the original version's score of 38/40), praising the addition of online play and the Bowser's Fury mode for its added difficulty. Nintendo Life gave the game a positive review, praising both the amount of content in both modes and the additional features to the Super Mario 3D World mode. However, they were critical of the game's slower performance in handheld mode, as well as connection issues in online multiplayer. Despite these criticisms, Nintendo Life awarded Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury an "outstanding" 10/10.

Gallery

For this subject's image gallery, see Gallery:Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury.

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  Vertical English logo

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  Mario and Bowser Jr.

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  A Cat Shine

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  Fury Bowser

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  The calico cat character

References to other games

• Super Mario Bros. 2: A portion of the music of Scamper Shores references the start of this game's overworld theme.
• Super Mario World: The music that plays when Bowser emerges from the Fury Sun is an arrangement of Bowser's intro in this game's final battle. Plessie Medals resemble Dragon Coins.
• Super Mario 64: The mission "Bully the Cat Bullies" is a reference to the mission "Bully the Bullies" in both the title and the theme of knocking Bullies into lava. There are also missions where Mario must get baby calico cats back to their mothers, similar to the mission "Li'l Penguin Lost". Bowser laughs when Mario dies, just like in this game.
• Super Mario Sunshine: Bowser Jr. is seen wielding his Magic Paintbrush from this game. Mario encounters Shadow Mario's M graffiti on the ground during the intro cutscene. The way Mario chases the Fury Shadows to get a Cat Shine is similar to how he has to chase Shadow Mario to get a Shine Sprite in this game. Likewise, Cat Shines themselves seem to reference Shine Sprites in name and function.
• Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker: Hint Toad, Banktoad, and Yellow Toad are extra characters in the Captain Toad levels, wearing their outfits from this game. Additionally, their level clear animation is similar to their level clear animation from the Toad Brigade levels in the Bonus Episode. Instead of using touch controls, the player uses motion controls to control a cursor, similar to this game.
• Super Mario Odyssey: Snapshot Mode and the map feature return from this game, and characters can ground pound through upright pipes and roll into sideways pipes to enter them faster. Additionally, Mario's animation when he collects a Cat Shine resembles the animation when he collects a non-story-related Power Moon in this game. Toadette also reappears under her "Archivist Toadette" persona as seen in this game.

Names in other languages

Language	Name	Meaning	Notes
Japanese	スーパーマリオ ３Ｄワールド ＋ フューリーワールド[?] Sūpā Mario 3D Wārudo + Fyūrī Wārudo	Super Mario 3D World + Fury World
Chinese (simplified)	超级马力欧 ３Ｄ世界 ＋ 狂怒世界[?] Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu 3D Shìjiè + Kuángnù Shìjiè	Super Mario 3D World + Fury World
Chinese (traditional)	超級瑪利歐 ３Ｄ世界 ＋ 狂怒世界[?] Chāojí Mǎlì'ōu 3D Shìjiè + Kuángnù Shìjiè	Super Mario 3D World + Fury World
Korean	슈퍼 마리오 3D 월드 + 퓨리 월드[?] Syupeo Mario 3D Woldeu + Pyuri Woldeu	Super Mario 3D World + Fury World

Trivia

• Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is the first game that originated on the Wii U to have amiibo support exclusively for the Nintendo Switch port.

External links

• North American website
• North American game page
• Australian game page
• Japanese website
• Japanese game page
• European game page
• Korean website
• Chinese website