Super Mario Maker 3D Is Not Real, but It Should Be!

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I'm not going to lie - when I saw the Super Mario Maker 3D announcement trailer, I really thought it was real. And for exactly 1 minute and 22 glorious seconds, I was the happiest person on Earth. The Mario Maker series is pure genius, and I've spent more hours than I care to admit designing, tweaking, testing, and polishing my own levels—only to upload them, get three plays and one pity like, and then immediately go online to play someone else's mind-blowingly creative masterpiece that makes my levels look like I scribbled them in crayon.

Well, this fan-made trailer, which has been floating around the internet for over nine months, just popped up on my feed, and for a brief, blissful moment, I thought Nintendo had finally done it. The trailer is that good. It showcases a level editor that lets you build classic 2D Mario courses, but then, at the flip of a "3D" switch, the entire level jumps into the third dimension. Suddenly, what was once a classic side-scrolling Mario stage is now a fully 3D world, playable in styles reminiscent of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Galaxy, and Super Mario Odyssey. The ability to switch between different 3D Mario eras with the press of a button? That's the kind of innovation we can expect from Nintendo.

Of course, reality hit me like a Blue Shell—this isn't real. But it should be!. Nintendo, if you're reading this (and I know you're not, but let me dream), why is this not already a thing? If Super Mario Maker 3D was a Switch 2 launch title, I'd throw my wallet at the screen so hard it'd break the sound barrier.

Who am I kidding? I'm buying the Switch 2 no matter what. But if Nintendo ever decides to make this real, they might just create the greatest Mario game of all time. 

Watch the trailer below