More Super Mario 3D Land details, possible spoilers
After you complete the main adventure in Super Mario 3D Land, players can experience a bunch of additional content. What sort of content, you ask? You can find that information after the break… beware of potential spoilers!
– Secret Boxes: micro-challenges in which you collect as many items as possible
– Gather coins, power-ups, Star Medals in a 10 second time limit
– Earn more Secret Boxes through StreetPass
– Find Secret Boxes obtained through SpotPass on the map screen in a world where you used up your turn on the original Secret Box
– Eight new unlockable worlds after you save Peach
– Open these worlds with Star Medals
– These levels are almost new full-featured worlds with redux levels, time attacks, sometimes brand new content
– Propeller level gets filled with 8-bit sprites
– In the redux level, you’ll see new sprites and must shoot your way through cannons
– More enemy fire, with one platform filled with Bullet Bills and sometimes Tanooki tails
– Star Coins harder to obtain
– Cosmic Mario appears in another level; he follows you around and when you get hit by him, you lose your power-up
– Play these levels in any order you wish; skipping levels is possible
– Luigi confirmed once again; he jumps wider and runs faster; stopping his movements is slightly harder
– Find Luigi in the first bonus world
– Use the Tanooki Statue Mario in the late parts of the game