New Super Mario Bros. U Hints on Wii U (WiiU)

Here are our Hints for New Super Mario Bros. U on Wii U. The most trustworthy items get the most 'thumbs up' from our users and appear nearer the top!

One of the great new innovations in New Super Mario Bros. U is the Help Blocks function, which can be utilizes through the Wii U game pad. Players can accomplish all sorts of things through the game pad to help their fellow players, such as touching the screen to distract enemies away from another player; placing blocks that can be used to stop falling players, or to block other items from falling on player; placing blocks to be used as stairs to reach higher up or otherwise inaccessible areas; and placing them at such intervals that they can be used to jump across entire levels.

When you are on a level and see some flowers that are spinning around in the background, stop.

Stand in front of the flower and shake your gamepad to wake them up. Once woken, the flower will give you a cold coin.

Once you clock Story Mode then you will be able to save your game whenever you want from the Overworld. Just look at the start menu there.

If you die a few times in a level, this block will appear, which will summon Luigi when struck to help you guide you through the level. As mentioned above, never use these blocks if you hope to have a 5 Star save file. Otherwise, these are handy ways to get through difficult and frustrating levels.

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