Your Super Mario Maker 2 levels are a lot less cute in World Maker

Super Mario Maker 2’s latest update reveals that almost no one knows how to make a fun Mario stage. This was once easy to ignore, because that’s not actually what you should go to Super Mario Maker for. Instead, this series has always provided players with a familiar canvas upon which they could paint their silliest ideas. But that doesn’t work in the context of the game’s newest update.

Earlier this week, Nintendo introduced World Maker, which enables players to build a full, 40-level Mario game. You can design the map with shortcuts, bonus stages, and more. And then you need to populate these maps with your own courses. Once you string some worlds together, you can publish them as a Super World that acts basically like a new 2D Mario.