I detailed many of the failings of Super Mario Maker 2's co-op offerings in my review, but this patch has addressed some of those issues/concerns. Prior to this update, online play was always with strangers and it was always a randomly selected course from "Course World," and you could only do the four player couch co-op with courses you downloaded (or created yourself). These change make the game much more co-op friendly, although it still doesn't have a "co-op" tag for courses and uploading courses still requires them to be beaten single-player, so if you want to play something that needs cooperation to clear it, you'll just have to make it yourself and not upload it.

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