A couple of weeks back, Nintendo announced the Super Mario Bros. 35 World Count Challenge, celebrating the reveal of Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury by asking players to... kill Bowser. Like, a lot.
If players across the world have collectively beaten 3.5 million Bowsers by the 25th January, 11pm PT, then every participating player who has beaten at least one Bowser will receive 350 Platinum Points as a reward. The game will cease to exist on March 31st, of course, so what better way to celebrate its last days than by mercilessly dumping Bowser into a vat of lava over and over again? It's what he would have wanted.
The event started on the 19th January, so it's taken players 6 days to reach 1,498,560 Bowsers. By the way, that's not actually halfway - more like 42% of the way. The remaining 2 million slain Bowsers needs to be achieved in the next 13 hours. Unlikely? Well, we've seen nail-biting last-minute underdog victories before, haven't we?
[update: the figure in the tweet was actually achieved on the 20th January, so the 3.5 million Bowser goal is probably well within reach. That's much better news!]
What do you think, folks? Will we scrape a victory in the final hours, or is that 350 Platinum Points reward going to stay just out of our reach?
[source twitter.com]
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350 platinum points? yawn call me when u get gold.
350 platinum points.
Crazy how a wallpaper sounds like a better reward
The article is mistaken. The tweet announcing the 1.498.560 Bowser defeated says "As of 1/20...". So it took 1 day only to kill that many Bowser, not 6.
The tweet says "As of 1/20" so they were halfway in 1 day. they got this, if it's not already done
Is there a live countdown?
@1UP_MARIO If you stop and think about it, 350 Platinum gets you some physical rewards, and it's a good percentage of most.
They're essentially giving away things just for participating.
@PcTV And even the game itself was given away for free.
I killed one just to help, I don't care about the reward
350 platinum points would be pretty good for some physical rewards if Nintendo had more stock for the rewards. I was gonna get the Splatoon 2 keychains the second I saw the NL article, but BAM they were out of stock. They need to get more stock for the rewards as well as restocking them later.
@PcTV yeah your right. I got 11 physical rewards for free from my Nintendo and spent nearly £70 pounds in shipping.
I like free stuff the Nintendo way 😅
Yes. 350 platinum points to add to the 1000s of points I have that will expire. Just by visiting Nintendo.
Don't scoff at Platinum points when we're only about a month away from Zelda's 35th anniversary.
@1UP_MARIO What I did was, I waited to have like 5 or 6 things on my cart, and was charged a single shipping.
5 USD in my case.
I do that with other similar rewards system, not exactly new.
@Paulo that'll teach me to test my reading comprehension skills on a Monday. Thanks for the correction!
@PcTV Didnt realise this and just used 300 points on 3 mario 3d all star posters, thought to myself "great, this is awesome"
..Until it came up wanting £6.25 delivery cost
@PcTV that’s great and would’ve loved the same but here in the UK you can only use one voucher per order. Also rewards are gone by 2 months in some cases so you don’t have the time to stack.
Pasted from my Nintendo UK
“ Please note that you can redeem only one code per order. The code for this reward can't be combined with a My Nintendo Store voucher.”
I just logged in and killed one. You're welcome.
I bagged a few Bowsers before the weekend so that's my contribution.
I’m so bad at this game though. Battle royale is not my thing.
I’ll uh die a few times for the team!
Why would they post a tweet today talking about how many were killed 5 days ago?
i defeated 1 bowser
I defeated 5 bowser's I do ever wish we can get like ten dollers in gold point's, and its not like they are really giving there own money its digital money.
I wonder why nothing's been announced yet?
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