Ranking EVERY Wonder Effect in Super Mario Bros Wonder 

Hope you all have a wonderful new years!!! (Get joke it’s like wonder like Mario wonder)

4:03 Disagree that the slow motion effect isn't creative, I thought it was a really clever reference to Super Mario Maker 2 online

Okay, guys, let’s hope for redemption! If the singing Piranha Plants aren’t in the top five, you know the drill!

As somebody who spent over a YEAR trying to program a “roll on walls” power-up for one of my games, the Wubba is everything I’ve ever wanted and more. I want an entire GAME where you play as that thing, the controls are buttery-smooth and the music is pure dopamine. Banger ending video for 2023, by the way. Thanks for the great year Odyssey!

#19 15:44 I also like how this one turns the talking flower things against you. Them saying stuff like "you'll never escape" was so funny.

So glad to see the metal mario effect as high as it is. It's nothing special in terms of gameplay but man it's brilliant to have metal mario in an electricity-based factory level. and the song is a banger too

Honestly I might like the Puffy Lift one the best. Being able to play as what is essentially just a level mechanic is so funny, and it's something you could only really do in a video game.

I actually like the ones that make you invincible, the star ones are super satisfying because of the invincibility and magnet you can rush and get a lot of stuff and killing enemy after enemy by running into them is a lot of satisfaction! and the lava one makes you play the game in a very different way while still maintaining the original movement, to me they are very much fun!

While I understand the thought process behind “invincibility removes the challenge”, I feel like looking at the abilities that way ignores the rest of their design elements. So, to counterpoint: “If this wasn’t invincible, would it be fun?” - Balloon: Not in the slightest. What really sells the balloon form is its fittingly-floaty controls. However, they’re also finicky and imprecise, which would ruin any attempt at ‘challenge’ that could be made. If you wanted to add challenge, you would need to remove most of the enemies, or scale back the floatiness, both of which arguably defeat the point. - Lavaproof: No, probably not. The dark-level mechanics make the fire a visual treat, but also obfuscate the platforming or enemy placement. More lighting would need to be added to make the challenge fair, but this would also take away from the contrast of the darkness and fire, and frankly that just wouldn’t be as interesting. - Freefalling: Maybe. The Special level is certainly good, but it also has the age-old problem of “enemies dropped on me from offscreen and I had no warning”, which I’ve seen 90% of players die to at least twice. I don’t think the first level would be ‘more fun’ without the stars, though - you’d either need to ditch the time-limit or make the whole segment longer. To me, the fun part is trying to hit all the enemies while you’re invincible. It’s like how that wall-jumping poison level in MM2 was a late-game stage; because that kind of challenge can be extremely frustrating to practice. I can tell that difficulty and obstacles are clearly something you value, but I feel like tagging the “fun invincible romp” powers as “terrible” is kind of harsh. We’ve all played Mario Maker 2 before, so I think we all understand how “difficult” and “interesting” are not exactly the same thing. :V

Aw come on! The Shooting Stars effect can’t be THAT bad! I think it looks pretty and it gives you a satisfying rush!

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the editing of the Jump Jump Jump section, as it beautifully cuts between the two levels while still staying accurate to the beat of the song.

Favorite Wonder Effects: Boat from Evade the Seeker Bullet Bills (this is my favorite period), Snowfall from Pokipede Pass, Dragon from Dragon Boneyard, Silhouette Stretching (Specifically in Fluff-Puff Peaks Palace because of the music), Airship Lasers from all Flying Battleships, Wacky Pipes (specifically from Swamp Pipe Crawl), Spikey Dance Number, Giant Conk, Wubba Form, and Rrumba Form.

Honestly the super star dash effects were some of my favorites in the game because it just feels satisfying to blaze through everything like a rocket and the feeling of invincibility is so fun

It's an excellent sign of the game's quality when I see a ranking of the Wonder Effects, think the bottom ones deserve to be higher, but then realize it's just because they're all great. The only other rankings to make me feel that way are for the galaxies in Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, my literal favorite games of all time. Also nice touch using the Tears of the Kingdom theme for the skydiving Wonder. 👀

"some are bound to be worse than others". the iconic voiceline

19:02 I do really like that when you hit the big pow block enough times, the mushrooms in the background will fall over. Its a cool touch

The "Top Down View" Wonder Effect reminds me of RPG Games for whatever reason and seeing it for the first time *in game* was a pleasantly amazing surprise to me. 😊 Thankfully I've also never watched any other trailers for the game outside the reveal one (for obvious reasons), as well as that entirely SMBW dedicated Direct, so that the surprise for this Wonder Effect (just like many others) wasn't ruined out of my personal experience with the game. Definitely in my Top 5 favorites for the concept alone, very fun and creative for a 2D Mario game.

The star effect is soo good

20:09 You're correct! That's NOT him! Once the Wonder Seed is collected, you see him turn into an ordinary boo (and the crown falls off screen). Insert your own “Luigi's Mansion King Boo is the true King Boo, the ones that appear in the main series are fakes” theories here-

Sad that they didn’t add an effect that turns you into Dry Bones

I feel like some of the super star complaints, such as the free fall or floating wonders aren't that big of a deal cause you can simply avoid the stars if you don't want to use them, unlike in the star rain wonders

I'm excited to watch this! I always enjoy your rankings. I haven't watched this yet, but I know it will be awesome!

Odyssey Central: Why can't they use the design of King Boo from Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon/3 in other Mario games? Mario Kart Tour: What am I, chopped liver? Chopped Liver: No, that what I am.

YES!! I've been asking for this video for so long. Can't wait to watch it.

I think that the pipes falling in Pipe-Rock Plateau Palace was the most innovative thing in gaming history and hate you for putting it so low. I was worried that my opinion could never be voiced, but thank god you said that I could let you know ow in the comments!

Cute detail that you did in editing: Making the Jump Jump Jump blocks actually match the beat of the song in the video Nicely done :) Edit: AND you did the same for the Ninji one? Good stuff!

The thing about the singing Piranha Plant wonder effect is that it's not the best, but it is peak, so it deserves to be higher

21:40 ,,its always halloween" - some pumpkin lorde from cirtuan game

I love the hoppy cat ones. The hoppy cats are kinda cute and it’s so fun to jump up high

The falling pipes in PRP Palace are really creative! The falling pipes not only serve as a dangerous obstacle that can crush you, but the also change the path of the level!

Ok you are the most underated youtuber ever. I have never enjoyed a ranking video so much. Mostly cause you actually are funny and its not just some dude doing a teir list for an hour and a half (although id watch that if it had entertaining elements. W vid no cap fr fr.

I’m glad you are doing a lot of wonder videos recently. It’s one of my favorite games and I would like to hear other peoples opinions about it.

Yo crazy u uploaded every time this year looking forward 2 200k special❤

The disrespect for Goomba is insane here

my dumbass thinking the elephant mario thing is a wonder flower:

16:11 Like how you made sure the music in the background matched up with the platforms, just like the levels

Happy new year odyssey ur definently one of the best content creator of the year for me :D

Nice detail playing Totk main theme for the free falling effect

Unrelated, it made me unreasonably happy to see you fit a Cool Bowser joke into your segment of Schaffrillas' video!

Mario wonder is peak gaming.

"the King Boo thing has never been done before." Boohemoth from NSMB2 World 2-Ghost House: am i a joke to you?

22:06 Wait... are you gonna make a video ranking EVERY LEVEL IN EVERY 2D MARIO GAME???

Personally i like the goomba transformation because it limits what you can do and opens up really fun puzzle opportunities but i respect your opinion either way

If you have an invisibility badge during the leaping smackerel level then the giant smackerel will target the cheep cheeps which I think is really funny

Odyssey, I have a cool video idea for you, I think the next Mario wonder video should be a ranking of all of the new enemies in the game since there are a ton of new ones

I feel like there's so many ideas I could be even better cannot wait to see a follow-up to this game

HAPPY NEWYEAR 🎉, Oddesey i hope you reach 200K this year

I like the speed wonder effects because... i dunno really, change is fun I guess

2:23 it would be funny if this effect made your Nintendo switch fan go into overdrive

There is no Video you upload i dont smile at. They alre always super funny and i look forward to them all, especilly the countless memes you use.

I love how the Bowser world is essentially Evil Cool Bowser

I'm doing a course of video game development, and one of our trimesters was 'Game a Week'. We basically had to make a prototype of a game inside of a week for 13 weeks straight. One of them I tried to recreate the number 1 effect here, the TopDown. There was just something so engaging about that effect that I just had to try and recreate it myself.

Hello odyssey. I've been watching you ever since you had 30k subs. Congrats and your so close to 200k!

The top down effect was always gonna be my top pick ever since the game got announced. It's just so good.

You also Forgot the fact that Metal Mario Jumps Slightly lower too, adding a tradeoff to the power!

Glad to see some Pumpkin Party love, this was one of my favorite effects from the game.

18:36 Actually, he's called Dark Mario 🤓

Hope you have a WONDERFULL new year (yes I stole the joke from you 'cause it is a 800 iq joke), thanks for another fantastic (wonderfull) video!

You can literally create so many levels in Mario maker, the star rain makes the level fun to blast through

This video is WONDERFUL stuff (the puns are not stopping)

18:36 I'm sorry to be THAT guy but his name is Dark Mario according to the files, sure he works the same as the Cosmic Clone in Super Mario Galaxy 2 and 3D Land but he's not really the same entity

This video makes me want you to do a "What if Mario Wonder in Mario Maker 3" kind of video. discusing the Wonder effects from the perspective of "Which onces would be the ones most fun to use in a level creator" sounds like an interesting concept, and the same goes for ithe various other Wonder things, like the badges and enemies

I actually like the balloon transformation, feel like it mimics the bloomps mechanics well, although I think you should've shrunk like they do upon contact with any non bloomp enemy since they bounce off of you, along with making stars less prominent.

I get that it is stumped that they used the boring design for King Boo but I think that the cool design represents him having more power in the haunted mentions in the Luigis Mantion games rather than the normal ghost houses found in the normal Mario games (I think).

You seem to be very very invested in the challenge of an effect, which makes my thoughts quite different from yours, since I find being invincible pretty fun

I mostly agree with this list it was put right really nicely.

I waited for this ever since the game came out

Hey oddessy! As a suggestion, I would love to see some Mario sunshine content in the future if that would be possible.

Great list! I just wish you ranked the wonder effects for the bosses like bowser junior, bowser junior, bowser junior...

Next week is the third year I am watching you. Yipiii

This is my 1st time seeing your channel

What a great video I hope you make an every item in Minecraft

I ADORED goomba! I thought it was fun!

Great tier list, but you technically forgot the end credits (you have to grab a wonder flower to activate them soooo)

Odyssey should make a funniest wonder effects ranking

Cool bowser timestamp (for those who’ve missed it) 2:43

I'd love if you did a mario kart character ranking. I know you practically only use dry bones but it would still be cool

2:48 This section took me an embarrassingly long time to figure out

wake up babe new odyssey central ranking dropped

Good to know pop quiz changes every time. Mine was super boring, the answer was in the middle every time and it made me think it was uninspired.

You should make a ranking of all the bosses in Mario Wonder. That would be such a unique and entertaining video concept.

17:10 I did this one wrong, I didn't think about the fact that you have to hit the spike ball from the side. I rolled it over the top of Mario making it harder, but I enjoyed it more when I did that.

Now that i think on it, all the wonder effects from Leaping Smackrel, The Hoppycat Trial Hop, Hop, and Awaaay, Here Come The Hoppos, Pipe Rock Plateau Special Bounce, Bounce, Bounce, and Flight of the Bloomphs can all be grouped as one effect; Mega Enemies. Also 16:03 technically the wonder effect is the Titular "Desert Mystery" Also 20:23 that's not really King boo as after the effect goes away in both cases it's shown that the boo returns to being a normal boo the whole time

I just noticed this, but on the outro screen, it looks like the background shade of red is very slightly different than the shade of red used in Odyssey's profile picture. Now I can't unsee it.

Just wonderful

the airships wonder effect actually doesn't shoot on a timer, it shoots when the redical (don't know how to spell it) aims at the character

The memes sprinkled in this video made it 400% better... The Shack-o lantern muahahahhha👻🎃🎃🎃

the leaping mackerel wonder effect reminds me alot of the pump works from bowser’s inside story and idk why

Not trying to question too much, but where else have music appearing platforms been in the 2D Mario series.

5:15-5:23 All of the enemies illuminate the area in some way, like the Piranha Plants spitting fire and the flame wheels... being flame wheels. I agree the invincibility is lame I'm just explaining why they're there

you put totk music on the freefalling wonder effect? ok now that's clever

You know in the falling mario, floating mario, and balloon mario effects you can just avoid the stars. There’s nothing forcing you to collect them and it’s not like the game’s making them hard to avoid, heck in my first playthrough I completely missed the fact there were stars in those effects until they were halfway over

My favorite Wonder Effect is the Goomba transformation. That's because I love Goombas

As someone who watched this entire video in 1 minute, i agree!

Bros the kinda guy who works out every second of every day not to get strong but because he enjoys pain and hates things that are easy to

I haven’t played the game yet, but my favorite level, both generally and in music level terms, is Ninji Disco!

imo you're a bit too harsh on the invincibility effects, this isn't meant to be the most difficult game in the world, and the wonder effects are just meant to be funky twists, not necessarily challenges.

perfect timing for my food :)

As someone who likes the Goomba transformation, I'd compare it less to the Odyssey Goomba stacking and more to Captain Toad gameplay in 3D World and Treasure Tracker. Clips your wings but forces you to be creative in your platforming strategy.

I like the totk theme in #30