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New Super Luigi U (stylized as New Super Luigi Bros. U) is the fifth installment of the New Super Mario Bros. series released on the Wii U which was originally released as an expansion to New Super Mario Bros. U, and it was also sold as a standalone game from its release until March 2014. Both games later received got rereleased as a combined game for the Nintendo Switch titled New Super Mario Bros. U Deluxe. New Super Luigi U is dedicated to Luigi, who is the main character, due to the game being released during the Year of Luigi.
Plot[]
The title screen of New Super Luigi U
- The story is the same as in the original version New Super Mario Bros. U with a few cutscene changes like during teatime at Peach's Castle, Mario is replaced with his cap. As the heroes are in Acorn Plains, they see Bowser invating the castle without Mario pointing it. When Luigi, Yellow Toad and Blue Toad are on the run to reach Peach's Castle, Nabbit secretly follows them unnoticed whereas in the original, Nabbit is clearly absent. After the character defeats Bowser, only Luigi, Yellow Toad and Blue Toad are present as they saved Princess Peach, while Nabbit is never shown, likely no longer on their side. Although Nabbit can be seen in the background on top of the castle.
Characters[]
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Luigi | The game's protagonist. Luigi is flung from Peach's Castle by Bowser when sieges the castle. Unlike New Super Mario Bros. U, Luigi scuttles his legs when he jumps and has poor traction on the ground, similar to his appearance in some prior games. Unlike the prior game, his brother is not in this game. |
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Yellow Toad and Blue Toad | These Toads were having tea at Peach's Castle with Luigi when they were tossed. They have all the same moves and physiques as Luigi, and are only available to play as in multiplayer. |
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Nabbit | A masked rabbit-like thief. When the player is controlling Luigi in Story Mode, Nabbit appears in certain levels with stolen items and they are given to him when caught. If the player presses on a Wii U controller or on a Wii Remote while selecting a level, they play as Nabbit instead. In multiplayer, he is one of the four playable characters. Unlike Luigi and the Toads, he cannot use most power-ups, ride Yoshi, carry items, and carry other players. Further, other players cannot carry Nabbit. However, Nabbit is nearly invincible. He can walk through enemies and across spikes, though he receives knockback when he makes contact with tough enemies or bosses. He loses a life only when he falls down pits or environmental hazards like lava. He can use Super Stars. Up to eight non-Super Star power-ups he collects become 1-Ups at the end of each course |
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Mii | If the player attempts to play as Nabbit in Story Mode while selecting Flying Squirrel Ovation, they appear as a green-clad Mii instead. This is likely because the Flying Squirrel form is required to complete this level, which is unavailable to Nabbit. |
Gameplay[]
Luigi at the very start of the first level, Waddlewing Warning!, where the Luigi sighting is on a large billboard.
The gameplay is largely similar to its base game, except that the playable characters retain Luigi's higher jump and lower traction from Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels. The game has been designed to be more difficult, with each stage starting at only 100 seconds; due to this, however, the courses have also been made shorter than normal while also being packed with enemies and obstacles. Entering each door to a boss battle gives you an extra 100 seconds, except for the final battle, which gives 250 seconds. It has the same world map as in New Super Mario Bros. U, although the levels are different. Elements like items, power-ups, Star Coins, Toad Houses, Enemy Courses, and bosses are retained as such.
The multiplayer of New Super Luigi U is also retained from New Super Mario Bros. U. However, because Mario is not featured in this game, Nabbit is instead used as the fourth playable character, both in single-player and multiplaer. As Nabbit, the player cannot take damage from enemies, but cannot use items, although any items collected are converted to 1-Ups upon reaching the flagpole. Nabbit is invincible to nearly everything except for pits, lava, and Poisoned Water.
Players can earn power-ups from Toad depending on the time left upon completion of the level. At 088, a Starman is given; at 077, a Super Acorn; at 066, a Mini Mushroom; 055, an Ice Flower; 044, a Fire Flower; and 033, 022, and 011 a 1-Up Mushroom.
Every level features one Luigi image hidden somewhere within it, known as a Luigi sighting. There are 83 Luigi sightings in total, a reference to Luigi making his game debut in 1983. These images are depicted either after his Super Mario Bros. sprite or as artwork from his various game appearances. A Luigi sighting is either displayed in the open or as a background detail.
Characters[]
Playable[]
Yoshis[]
Non-Playable[]
- Bowser
- Bowser Jr.
- King Boo (Cameo appearance)
- Koopalings
- Mario (Cameo appearance)
- Mario's Cap (Cameo appearance)
- Princess Peach
- Toads
Enemies[]
- Blooper
- Bramball
- Broozer
- Bob-omb
- Boo
- Bullet Bill
- Buzzy Beetle
- Chain Chomp
- Cheep Cheep
- Cheep Chomp
- Cooligan
- Deep Cheep
- Dragoneel
- Dry Bones
- Eep Cheep
- Fish Bone
- Fliprus
- Foo
- Fuzzy
- Grrrol
- Goomba
- Goombrat
- Hammer Bro
- Huckit Crab
- Koopa Troopa
- Lakitu
- Lava Bubble
- Fire Snake
- Magmaw
- Magmaargh
- Mechakoopa
- Monty Mole
- Muncher
- Piranha Plant
- Pokey
- Porcupuffer
- Spike
- Spike Top
- Spiny
- Spiny Cheep Cheep
- Sumo Bro
- Thwomp
- Urchin
- Waddlewing
- Wiggler
Bosses[]
Worlds[]
- Acorn Plains
- Layer-Cake Desert
- Sparkling Waters
- Frosted Glacier
- Soda Jungle
- Rock-Candy Mines
- Meringue Clouds
- Peach's Castle
- Superstar Road
- Secret Island
Trivia[]
- This is one of five games so far where Luigi is the main character instead of Mario. The other four are Mario is Missing!, Luigi's Mansion, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, and Luigi's Mansion 3.
- You can play as Nabbit in single player by holding the ZL trigger in the GamePad or the B button on the Wii remote.
- For Flying Squirrel Ovation, the final level, the player can play as their Mii in single player by using the same mechanics above. This is because the level autoscrolls, and therefore requires the Super Acorn (unless you do complicated Ground Pound/Twirl combinations), and Nabbit can't use power-ups.
- This game was also released in a bundle, packaged with New Super Mario Bros. U, and a black Wii U.
- Even though Nabbit helps Luigi in multiplayer mode, Nabbit still steals items from the Toad Houses, and the players will have to catch him. It will not work when Nabbit is playing in co-op mode, and in single-player mode, if the player does the trick to play as Nabbit in the level where Nabbit went, the player will still continue playing as Luigi.
- Mario himself isn't seen, but he is referenced twice; in the intro, in which his hat is on the table, and in the level Broozers and Barrels, which features a Mario-based snowman at the beginning of the stage. This makes New Super Luigi U the only game so far where Luigi appears, but Mario doesn't.
- An in-game "second" in New Super Luigi U is actually 1 second, while in New Super Mario Bros. U, an in-game "second" lasts only 0.75 seconds.
- New Super Luigi U is green, in contrast to the blue of most Wii U game covers, similar to how Mario & Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games's Wii cover is yellow instead of white like most Wii game covers.
Gallery[]
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