Super Mario 3D World (Wii U)

Super Mario 3D World is a 3D platforming game for the Wii U. It is the seventeenth installment of the Super Mario and an indirect follow-up of the Nintendo 3DSgame Super Mario 3D Land, sharing the same naming convention as it. In 2021, the game was ported to the Nintendo Switch including an exclusive game titled Bowser’s Fury. Fully known as Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Fury.

Super Mario 3D World received its own prequel and spin-off titled Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker, an expansion of the game’s The Adventures of Captain Toad levels

Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad are watching a fireworks show until they find a slanted Clear Pipe. Mario and Luigi fix it using hammers and wrenches, then several items as well as the green Sprixie Princess appear from it. She informs the four characters that Bowser has kidnapped and trapped six other Sprixie Princesses in jars. Following this, Bowser arrives and captures the green Sprixie Princess before escaping through the Clear Pipe. Mario, Luigi, Peach, and Toad each enter the Clear Pipe to chase after Bowser. During their pursuit, the four characters find themselves in a realm named Sprixie Kingdom and set off to rescue the Sprixie Princesses, each one appearing in a different world.

After the characters rescue the Red Sprixie Princess in World Castle, they briefly celebrate, only for Bowser to return and capture all seven Sprixie Princesses in a large bottle. He uses the Sprixie Princesses’ combined power to create World Bowser and escapes to there.

The heroes encounter Bowser again at the end of World Bowser, in the level The Great Tower of Bowser Land. Here, Bowser uses a Super Bell to transform to Meowser, and the true final battle begins. The characters manage to ultimately defeat Meowser after climbing the tower and rescue every Sprixie Princess at once. The heroes are thanked by the Sprixie Princesses as they enter a Clear Pipe to return home.