Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars (2015) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars

In this puzzle/platformer hybrid, players guide Mario Minis to the exit door using touch control. As with previous games in the series, players can create their own levels and share them with other players…

72 5 March 2015

What Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars is

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars is a platform game developed by Nintendo Software Technology and released in 2015. It was published by Nintendo. It is available on Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. It runs on Nintendo Web Framework.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars is a 2015 puzzle-platform game developed by Nintendo Software Technology and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U. It is the sixth game in the Mario vs. Donkey Kong series and the 200th video game featuring Mario. The game was released worldwide in March 2015 on the Nintendo eShop for all regions, and received a physical release in Japan. This is the first Nintendo-published title to support a cross-purchase concept; if players buy one version, they receive a free download code for the other version. The 3DS version is also the first Nintendo 3DS title to support Miiverse stamps.

Description from Wikipedia · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.

Where it sits in the Mario series

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars is the 525th of 668 entries we hold in the Mario series. The next entry was Mario Party 10 in 2015. Its critic score of 72 is 5 points below the series average of 77. The highest-rated entry is Super Mario World at 100.

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How it was received

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars holds a critic score of 72 out of 100. That places it above 42% of the 2,373 rated platform games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Mario vs. Donkey Kong: Tipping Stars launched on 5 March 2015, within three weeks of Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0 and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Bloodborne, Ori and the Blind Forest, Yakuza 0, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D.

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