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How long is Super Mario Bros. Wonder and how many levels are there?


What’s it take to save the Flower Kingdom (and then do everything else)?




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Super Mario Bros. Wonder is a fever dream of a Mario game, with eight worlds — six main worlds, a hub world that doubles as the final boss fight world, and a special world made up of the hardest levels in the game. Beating the game’s main story is no small feat, and getting a 100% completion on it is kind of a monumental task.

Let’s talk about how long Super Mario Bros. Wonder takes to beat (including how long it takes to do everything the game has to offer) and how many levels there are.



How long is Super Mario Bros. Wonder?




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To progress through the main story worlds of Super Mario Bros. Wonder, you’ll need to collect a series of Wonder Seeds. You’ll need increasing numbers of them to unlock paths and levels in your quest to retrieve Royal Seeds and stop Bowser.

If you’re going for the minimum number and just mainlining the story, it’ll take you a little less than
10 hours
to finally beat Bowser and


See,

Super Mario 3D World

features a large world map (much like the map in the original

Super Mario World

) that’s broken down into smaller worlds that typically feature 5-8 courses (along with several different types of bonus levels such as Lucy, Toad, and Mystery houses) and boss arenas. The various worlds are connected through interdimensional clear pipes that send you to the next area. At the start of the game, you’ll progress through six initially available worlds.


World 1 – Grass World (Five Courses)

World 2 – Desert World (Five Courses)

World 3 – Snow World (Seven Courses)

World 4 – Mountain World (Five Courses)

World 5 – Beach World (Seven Courses)

World 6 – Cloud World (Seven Courses)


Admittedly, those names are ours and not Nintendo’s official descriptions, but you get the idea. When you beat those six worlds, you’ll unlock two final “Boss” worlds:


Castle World (Seven Courses)

Bowser World (Eight Courses)


While that’s quite a bit of content by

Super Mario

standards, the fun doesn’t end there. When you’ve completed Bowser World, you’ll unlock the abi

Super Mario Bros Has 256 Worlds, Not 8. Here's How To Play The Other 248


You may have heard of the infamous Minus World in
Super Mario Bros
, the glitched ninth world that can only be accessed by clipping into the 1-2 warp zone early. Well, what if I told you there were actually 247 
more 
glitched worlds in the game? Pretty cool, right? But I'll warn you. The way to reach them is even more ridiculous than the Minus World.

To give you an idea of what some of these glitched worlds look like, here's World 68-3:

Yes, that's Mario swimming through the sky and a flying headless Bowser. Levels like this are what you can come to expect from this glitch. You'll notice that it doesn't say "World 68-3", but instead "World
Blue Dotted Square
-3". This is because that dotted square is the 68th texture in the game, and that text box is simply programmed to display the texture corresponding to the world number. So how do you perform this glitch?

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To do so, it will require the Famicom console, a 
Super Mario Bros 
cartridge (obviously) and a 
Tennis
cartridge. Yes, 
Tennis
. Load up World 1-1 of 
Super Mario

Every World in Super Mario 3D World



Super Mario 3D World
follows the titular plumber, his brother Luigi, Princess Peach, and Toad as they travel to the Sprixie Kingdom to save the Sprixie Princesses from the clutches of the villainous Bowser. Like every other main
Mario
series game,
3D World
takes players through various worlds and levels, battling enemies and bosses with unique power-ups as they work to defeat Bowser. That's not all. Players are treated to four bonus levels after they take Bowser down.


Super Mario 3D World
was well-received by both critics and audiences, in part due to its energetic gameplay and sophisticated worldbuilding. It has also become one of the highest-selling Wii U games of all time. One song from
Super Mario 3D World
— "Attack! Fury Bowser" — even made it into
The Super Mario Bros. Movie
. All things considered, many gamers might wonder how many levels there are in
Super Mario 3D World
. That info is more pertinent than ever given the Nintendo Switch re-release and add-on for the title.



Updated by Timothy Blake Donohoo on February 20, 2024:
The success of the Nintendo Switch allowed titles for the Wii U to