Happily, Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury features a fantastic photo mode that I can't get enough of. It didn't take me long to fall completely in love with the level designs of Bowser's Fury. Sure, this place is dark and dreary and a giant antagonist is out to get me, but it's hard to focus on Bowser's mighty fury when you're in a magical land filled with cat-shaped features. A big goofy grin begins to spread across my face, and in spite of the perilous flame-ridden situation Mario is soon in, I keep stopping to appreciate these charming little details. Next to these flowers are some shrubs shaped like cat heads, and in the distance, a signpost indicating danger also features kitty ears and a feline skull. When Mario crash lands, you're immediately greeted with paw-shaped flowers bobbing to and fro under some trees with pointy ears… yes, pointy ears. In that instance, a Clear Pipe led Mario and crew to the Sprixie Kingdom.After landing in a giant footprint before this fiery inferno begins at the start of Bowser's Fury, my eyes are instantly drawn to some very adorable little details. According to that game’s plot, the Super Bells came into the Mushroom Kingdom via “Clear Pipes” that connect various worlds. That bell resembles the Super Bell item that grants players access to the Cat Suit in Super Mario 3D World. No, that honor belongs to the cat bell featured at the start of the trailer. Yet, the most interesting bit of cat imagery in the Bowser’s Fury trailer isn’t the Cat Suit, the cat ears, or even the bits of cat architecture. In recent years, Nintendo has gotten a lot of mileage out of the Cat Suit.
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Nintendo even released a video series called The Cat Mario Show which featured Cat Mario and Cat Peach sharing gameplay tips and random bits of Nintendo related information. Cat Mario, Cat Peach, and other feline formatted versions of popular Mario characters appear in Super Mario Maker, Super Mario Odyssey, Mario Kart 8, Super Mario Maker 2, and more. It’s also very much worth noting that Super Mario 3D World is hardly the only time that the Cat Suit appears in the Mario universe. The Cat Suit was even featured on the game’s cover. After all, Super Mario 3D World‘s defining image was the game’s Cat Suit which granted Mario and friends the ability to pounce on enemies, swipe at foes, and sprint at high speeds (which we assume are enhanced when the player utilizes that ability at 3 A.M. While Nintendo hasn’t formally explained the meaning of the cat imagery in Bowser’s Fury, it’s easy enough to make some reasonable guesses at what’s going on. The DLC may be called Bowser’s Fury, but the trailer suggests the real working name was Bowser’s Furry. That’s obviously awesome, but it sadly only raises more questions about the overwhelming amount of cat imagery featured in that trailer. While some of those designs are subtle, Nintendo eventually decides to treat subtlety with all of the respect afforded to the concept by a Zack Snyder script by ending the DLC’s trailer with a shot of Mario turning into a Super Saiyan cat in order to summon the power of a thousand felines batting a thousand balls of yarn.