History VideoGame / SuperMario3DWorld

* CameraScrew: When playing with multiple players, the camera can get a bit uncooperative at times when players are scattered about. Mostly averted in single-player, with many agreeing that the series finally managed to get its camera nailed here -- by the time of ''Galaxy 2'' the series had become somewhat notorious for excelling in every department ''except'' the camera controls -- with the worst complaint generally being the camera is zoomed out a little too far in some of the Captain Toad levels.

* RecycledSoundtrack: The game takes the [[spoiler:World Crown]] theme directly from "Rosalina in the Ovservatory" of ''VideoGame/SuperMarioGalaxy'' fame.

** "Backstreet Bustle" from World 4 is the shortest regular level in the game, with the Goal Pole already in sight from the start and easy to reach in a few seconds.

* TopDownView: Similar to its 3DS predecessor [[note]](done as a homage to ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda'''s 25th anniversary)[[/note]], Honeycomb Starway is an AutoScrollingLevel where you travel across hexagonal platforms using nothing but the Boomerang Flower. Switchblack Ruins also uses this view.

[[caption-width-right:350:"[[VideoGame/SyobonAction Cat Mario]]" [[HilariousInHindsight doesn't sound so stupid now, huh?]]]]

* PowerUpLetdown:

->''Mario's latest is the cat's pajamas!''

* SelfImposedChallenge: No-powerup runs and/or no-damage runs can add a bit of challenge to some of the levels,

* EverythingsBetterWithSpinning: Returning from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioSunshine'' is the spin jump - twirling the analog stick quickly causes your character to spin like a top, and pressing a jump button during this sequence has them do a spinning jump that allows them to reach heights that a normal jump normally can't. The same effect can also be achieved if a character standing underneath another jumps and hits whoever's above them.

* LethalLavaLand: The World Castle (World 7) map and the majority of its levels, including the second Brolder Blockade (where the second battle with Boss Brolder takes place). Also included are World 2's Big Galoomba Blockade, World 4's Brolder Blockade and the Lava Rock Lair (the first battle with Boss Brolder), World 5's Backstreet Bustle and Fire Bros. Hideout 2, World Bowser's Grumblump Inferno, World Mushroom's Broken Blue Bully Belt (a harder version of World Castle's Boiling Blue Bully Belt) and World Flower's Faster Fort Fire Bros. (a harder version of World Castle's Fort Fire Bros.) and Boss Blitz (during the final Boss Brolder fight). Notably, some levels have ''blue'' lava instead of red.

* LethalLavaLand: The World 7 map and the majority of its levels, including the second Brolder Blockade (where the second battle with Boss Brolder takes place), as well as the World 2's Big Galoomba Blockade, World 4's Brolder Blockade and the Lava Rock Lair (the first battle with Boss Brolder), World 5's Backstreet Bustle and Fire Bros. Hideout 2, World Bowser's Grumblump Inferno, World Mushroom's Broken Blue Bully Belt (a harder version of World Castle's Boiling Blue Bully Belt) and World Flower's Faster Fort Fire Bros. (a harder version of World Castle's Fort Fire Bros.) and the final Boss Brolder Fight in Boss Blitz. Notably, some levels have ''blue'' lava instead of red.

* LethalLavaLand: The World 7 map and the majority of its levels, including the second Big Brolder Blockade, as well as the Big Galoomba Blockade in World 2, the first Big Brolder Blockade and the Lava Rock Lair in World 4, Backstreet Bustle in World 5 and Grumblump Inferno in World Bowser. Notably, some levels have ''blue'' lava instead of red.

* LethalLavaLand: The World 7 map and several of its levels (such as Boiling Blue Bully Belt and Simmering Lava Lake), as well as Boss Brolder's Castle, Backstreet Bustle and Grumblump Inferno which are in other worlds. Notably, some levels have ''blue'' lava instead of red.

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[[caption-width-right:350:"[[VideoGame/SyobonAction Cat Mario]]" [[HilariousInHindsight doesn't sound so stupid now, huh?]]]]

* ArcSymbol: Cats and bells. Super Bell the game's main power-up, there are cat-themed enemies, many pieces of the level geometry are shaped like bells, and entire levels devoted to the Super Bell mechanic.