How to use the amazing photo mode of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser Fury

If you’ve read our review, you know it Super Mario 3D World + Bowser’s Wrath is one of the best games on the Nintendo Switch, a dual feature that brings together an underrated Wii U gem and an experimental open-world spin-off. But what you might have missed (unless you admired my screenshots) is the power of the game’s photo mode. The photography suite is not the most powerful option in modern video games, but it does offer more than enough ways to twist the Mario verse the way you want.

In both Super Mario 3D World and Bowser’s Fury, the photo mode can be activated by pressing the direction block. Photo mode freezes the action and allows the player to move, rotate, tilt and zoom the camera, along with the option to add filters, logos and stamps. In Super Mario 3D World, some areas restrict the photo mode camera, but Bowser’s Fury, with its larger open world, you can rotate the camera wherever you want, whenever you want.

What can you do in photo mode?

You can create pop art.

You can be a nature photographer.

You can shoot Mario like a swimsuit model.

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You can take the last breath of a plumber, unaware of his fragile mortality.

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